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Simpler solution: stick a tiny bit of soap in the water. Not much at all. Doesn't hurt aquatic life but breaks the surface tension which kills the mosquito raft
by pling 12y ago
Simpler solution: stick a tiny bit of soap in the water. Not much at all. Doesn't hurt aquatic life but breaks the surface tension which kills the mosquito rafts dead as they sink straight away.
Source: I live next to a sewage farm.
- swombat 12y agoThat's not simpler, because the soap will disperse eventually so it would need to be continually replenished. The apparent attraction of this device is you set it up once and it keeps working for years without further maintenance.
- pling 12y agoUntil it doesn't and you don't know.
- jmpe 12y agoAlso kills water striders.
- pling 12y agoThey're hardly innocent or desirable either. They devour everything in sight right up to the size of bees including things that eat mosquitoes and they bring parasites when they migrate between bodies of water which kill things that eat mosquitoes. Plus they can swim fine under the surface.
- thaumasiotes 12y agoI thought the traditional simple solution (e.g., while building the panama canal) was to put a thin layer of oil over your stagnant water.
- pling 12y agoYes - they put kerosene on it which suffocates them. Unfortunately it's quite toxic to anything which enters and exists the water plus there is some indication (after the whole BP Deepwater Horizon fuck up + Corexit that used deodorised kerosene) that it is toxic if absorbed.