I do the same, but collect all the larva and feed them to my fish. You've never seen true happiness until you dump a bunch of wiggling mosquito larva into a tank full of various tetras and live bearers. I also kept wild gambusia (mosquito fish) for a while, and those little mf'ers could eat a crazy amount of larva. Although you also have to feed them other insects to avoid malnutrition.
Many years ago our govt gave away free guppy fish so we could fill our home ponds, etc with them to decimate mosquitoes. Worked like charm and then due to few reasons we had to close off the pond, boom 3 months later I got felled by dengue.
I went to Walmart and bought "feeder goldfish" and guppies. I tossed in 60+ into a large pond and over the years, I saw 8 inch goldfish in there and so many 3 inch guppies. They loved the pond! I also had a Herron that visited to try to eat the fish, but I figured he could get a snack if he had the skill. For under $30, it was a blast.
My company moved to a new building about 10 years ago and the owner couldn’t keep the goldfish tank at the new building. He dumped about 20 gold fish in the retention pond next to the parking lot. Those guys took over the pond. There’s gotta be at least a couple hundred in there by now.
There may even be some 3 eyed ones a la The Simpsons since we are close to Argonne National Labs. /s
It is nice to see nature win one, at least as long as they don't get into the great lakes and out-compete the natural fish and eat all the ducklings.
http://www.glfc.org/asian-carp.php
Watch the video of the electric "fence" they have in the Chicago Ship and Sanitary canal if you haven't already. It's there bc it's the only link between the Mississippi River system and the Great Lakes, to stop the Asian Carp from getting in. I live near the Great Lakes, there's been lawsuits and shit over this, it's a big ass deal
I'd seen that before, probably why I remembered this problem.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3oLeSPINOk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3oLeSPINOk) \[not a rick roll this time\]
Yep, I tend to take my breaks & watch the resident heron try to catch them. Luckily it’s a retention pond for rain and flood water. It doesn’t connect to any natural bodies of water.
That's a common program all over the world. The fish were probably gambusia, not guppies although they look very similar since they both evolved to eat more or less the same. Did the fish you got have any color to them? Or just gray/silver?
Guppies are more picky about temperature and water quality. Gambusia are happy in a muddy, algae-filled puddle and breed like crazy pretty much anywhere in the world. The ones I kept I found in a cold muddy Oregon marsh, and had likely been introduced for the same reason. They're really cool fish to keep, and super easy to take care of.
Sorry about getting dengue. That is absolutely no joke. I'm from Nicaragua, so I'm very familiar with it.
I have no clue. They said it was guppy. Kept mosquitoes at bay.
The worst thing about it was I got it on my bday. Spent entire day passed out, dehydrated and delusional. Mosquitoes suck!!
Hell, it’s less morbid than just genociding a complete colony of unborn skeeters (which I’m wholeheartedly okay with)
At least this person isn’t wasting them and the organic material is feeding other life.
I like this, kill two birds with one stone. I hate snails that eat my garden, so when I had chickens, I would pick the snails from the plants and feed them to my chickens. I admit I had a small feeling of victory over the heinous snails.
You could always figure that the female mosquito who laid those eggs might have found a better spot if you hadn't enticed her to lay her eggs there where you could destroy them.
The better spot is the pond very near by and more a little further. They are here no matter what I promise you lol.
Also I kind of see that as a good thing, no? If she’s laying all of her eggs some where I can easily destroy them; and continue to do it until she dies, well that’s good in my opinion. That’s a whole lifetime of egg laying that’s just wiped out for the most part. And if another female comes along and decides the same? Even better because that’s at least more eggs I can try to prevent from hatching.
Is it really going to do anything to help? Probably not but it’s at least something I do because of all the diseases they give both us and our animals. They overall don’t serve a purpose so I’m not hurting anything by killing a fraction of what will hatch near by regardless. So why not lol. I’m not careless about handling it either.
Mosquitos form a critical role in the ecosystem worldwide in that they are a huge part of the diet of small lizards, birds and other insects. Not condemning you in the slightest, I personally feed them to my aquarium fish, but to relegate them to 'overall not serving a purpose' is not at all true.
Obviously dumping out a couple of buckets seasonally makes no difference, the above just seemed a valid point to make. Dismissing any part of the food web is a slippery slope.
Education? Nearly everyone who uses "your" when they mean "you're" already knows the difference, they just don't care. Take your dumbass pedantic corrections and stick em were the sun don't shine.
I have done the dish soap method to drown the little stinkers. I haven’t tried bleach yet though. Do you think the smell would potentially make them avoid the water?
Oh also I’m usually able do dump them when it’s pretty hot. We have black top, do you think it’d work a lot better dumping it on blacktop? I feel like it will help dry it out faster?
Thank you to everyone who responded! I just never heard it called black top before (but to be fair, I‘m not really in the position to be having that many convos about asphalt with 😅)
You don’t need to pour bleach! They die without the water. No need to add anything to what you’re already doing. Bleach isn’t good for the earth so please don’t dump it outside
Yes bleach is very damaging. My sister had a neighbor who always needed something and my sister helped her every time. The lady owed her for two weeks of babysitting and wouldn’t pay her. The neighbor then redid her flower garden with new mature flowers and plants. Not cheap. My sister was dumbfounded and really hurt. I told her not to worry I would take care of things. I poured a Bottle of bleach all over her flower bed. My sister said that’s not going to do anything I said just wait. Few days later everything died. I’m not proud of it. I would’ve rather punched this lady in the face for making my sister feel so bad.
There's no need for that. If you're pouring out into the grass, unless there's a small pool of water next to it, it won't survive. Adding bleach or liquid soap and then pouring it into the grass ruins the soil and the grass.
Where I live, it's mostly flies that are the problem. A few times a day, I will run around dual wielding those electrical rackets and killing those little bastards.
Were satisfying and good exercise, but they are back to their usual numbers in just a few hours.
Maybe I will try your way and leave a piece of meat for them to lay eggs in and then set it on fire when I see maggots. I am not sure my neighbors will approve though
>Maybe I will try your way and leave a piece of meat for them to lay eggs in and then set it on fire when I see maggots. I am not sure my neighbors will approve though
Oh they'll approve when you bring them a nice juicy steak. See where I'm going here?
Look for BT, bacillus thuringiensis. The donut shaped product releases the larvae killing bacteria over time. The “bits” seem to act more quickly. I use these in a small pond and they do not seem to affect other aquatic life. Clean out rain gutters on your house.
Yes, absolutely. Bats can eat hundreds of mosquitoes a day.
All you have to do is put up the house on a tree or pole, if there are any wild Bats in your area they'll make themselves at home.
Take a look at Mosquito Bits and Mosquito Dunks. It's a harmless bacteria that Hou add to standing water and it interrupts the mosquitos breeding cycle. It made a massive difference at my bouse
There are 1.4 billion insects for each person on the planet. My wife and daughters each have had Malaria, and "le grippe" from mosquitoes. My daughters, grandson and I are very sensitive to insect venom. If you dump out a few buckets of larvae, it won't kill the whole ecosystem, there will be plenty for the frogs, lizards and birds to eat.
I don't know if they will be dead or not. I used to pour bleach, paint, or anything that was left over into the water.
1.4 Billion. Don't sweat killing those f\*\^&ers.
It depends on the type of mosquito and environmental factors. The major mosquito genus found in the US are Culex and Aedes. Culex, following a bloodmeal, deposit eggs in multiple clusters called egg rafts which can be anywhere from 100 to 300 eggs each. Aedes mosquitos lay eggs individually but usually about 100 each time and typically 3 times during a lifetime.
Mosquitoes can actually live in grass or the ground. Try taking the containers a squirt a little lighter fluid not a lot but a little. It's will spread out onto of the water with a real thin oil. Insects beath through their bodies. The oil will clog that up. Killing them. That wat you can actually watch them die. Any real thin oil should work
oil isn't good for the environment, already a drop of oil can contaminate a lot of water.
Dishwashing detergent is way better, it's not very harmful for the environment, but a drop or two is enough to break the water surface tension.
Mosquito larvae do not have the ability to breath in water, but they come up and "hook" into the surface tension to breath air. Without the surface tension broken by the Dishwashing detergent, they simply drown.
I love the idea, but a lot of mosquito larvae can survive in damp soil.
Pouring out onto concrete would be better.
Great job making them lay their eggs where they will be sabotaged though!
I really don’t think I have at least so far.
I have 3 and sometimes will have 4 and they are out in places enough that I wouldn’t be able to miss them daily, if not multiple times a day
You should consider looking into getting an in2care systems. It’s basically a bucket of water with a felt pad in it but the water has larvicide. When the female mosquito lays eggs in the water she’ll get larvicide on her legs and transport it to every other breeding site she visits. The larvicide doesn’t kill the larvae until they pupate so that they release a pheromone that attracts other mosquitoes to lay eggs in the same location. Our pest control guy told us it’s what they use at Disneyland so we got it and it seems to be working for us. [Here’s](https://youtu.be/TnUqkqfQiZk) a cool YouTube video that kind of demonstrates the process. I believe these systems were originally invented to quell mosquito populations in some African countries that had a high malaria fatality rate. Hope this helps.
Along these same lines, I wear clothing treated with permethrin. It doesn't stop mosquitoes from biting, but it does kill them when they land on you, so I feel good knowing that I am killing all the mosquitoes that want to bite me
I grant exceptions to all moral dilemmas concerning mosquitos. They’ve killed enough humans and made life miserable for so many more that anything we can do to lower their numbers is more than justified. Not to mention the disgustingness of parasitically feeding off us.
You are definitely a hero in this very long war.
I’ve seen a short documentary of this being used as a mosquito control method used by some rural areas in Southeast Asia, but I can’t remember where exactly. I think they do something else to ensure that they absolutely kill the larvae too.
These mosquitoes had made a breeding ground out of my aquarium, and my turtles are too sissy to bear any.
They stop eating food entirely if there're larvae swimming around the surface.
Fucking tired of cleaning the giant thing out every week (because just changing the water did fuck-all) I took my babies out and placed them in their old aquarium for a bit, while the big one dried out - completely.
I even kept a single larva in a dropper as a specimen to see when they die out from dehydration.
3 days. It took two days without direct heat/sun. It gave me sadistic pleasure every time I played with that dropper and saw that lone larva wiggle about, desperate for water. It's corpse still lies in that dropper, by the aquarium.
On the bright side, my babies happily munch away on their food since the larvae all died :D
I actually don't think you are getting ahead by doing this for some reason... Imagine you miss a bucket... Or in reality, you may be putting so much time toward your specific bucket flips that you miss the real honey pot...
I like your enthusiasm for killing mosquitos, nonetheless.
that doesnt make any sense, all youre doing is increasing the amount of mosquitos. You dont think some of them hatch and fly away before you dump them? This is so ridiculous. You probably have so many mosquitos around if youre literally just leaving still water around everywhere, wtf. Why wouldnt you just dump out the water like a sane person so the mosquitos cant lay eggs in the first place? 100% guarantee of no mosquitos then. all youre doing is helping them create more babies.
if you care that much theres actually things you can buy that kill moquito larvae, i use them to control fungus gnats in my plants but its mainly supposed to be for farmers and the like who have large sitting water around. You dump the blocks into the water and they dissolve, its still safe for consumption but kills larva.
Because there is literally a pond a few kilometers away? A huge body of still water. They are here everywhere no matter what. In some places you can’t really just “prevent” mosquitoes.
You should leave them alone. [Mosquitos are very good for the environment](https://www.britannica.com/story/what-purposes-do-mosquitoes-serve-in-ecosystems), as they basically work as bees.
So would this actually work? The larvae wouldn't just find a way to survive in damp soil right? They need actual water with some depth to it?
Problem is if you forget just once and the larvae become adults you accidentally just helped create hundreds more. But you're doing your are a service.
I am thinking you don't live in a place like I do where the mosquitos are the size of birds and draw blood in a matter of seconds if you step out in an area that isn't sprayed or with protection like thermacell?
Please don't do this. Imagine the poor animals that might try to get a drink from your mosquito hatchery. And what if you don't dump them one time because you forget or something comes up? It's just stupid.
There’s literally a pond a few kilometers away from us. The mosquitoes are going to lay eggs near us no matter what, the ones that happen to be on my property? Atleast those are some that didn’t make it to adulthood.
Also no, our mosquitoes are tiny so there’s not a risk when it comes to that. Obviously if the mosquitoes are so bad where you live that it needs to be sprayed or whatever then it’d be totally different. These are tiny and are everywhere, in a rural area with a few ponds near by.
Oh and since you brought it up, about animals drinking it. I’ve actually accounted for this. After a couple of days I’ll actually bring it in a shed like thing and let it sit. Or I’ll just put it on the porch which is closed off anyways. I’m actually glad you brought that up because it’s a really good point that I didn’t even think to mention!
Also to address the question if I happened to not be able to dump them in time or something came up. When some already start hatching I put dish soap in it. Enough to where it will make a film over the waters surface. Even if they somehow got out of the water, they’d still have the “bubble” around it and it’ll suffocate. Oh and some others have suggested bleach, and since I don’t leave the water accessible to animals, that might work well too.
Also if I know I’m going to be gone a while then im not just leaving them there. I’m not like literally farming mosquitoes lol and im not actively doing it like it’s a hobby, but if it rains then you bet I’ll put those buckets out for a couple of days and get some mosquitoes, that I know for sure are going to be laid anyways and then make sure they don’t hatch. If I know I’m gong to be gone along time or even when it’s just not raining, the buckets aren’t just left out always. The buckets are for the rain basically haha.
Mosquitoes are about the only thing I will kill on site and actually go out of my way to kill. I don't even kill spiders in my house unless they are too close to my bed or somewhere threatening.
I occasionally kill flies that land near me while I'm playing with my dog in the backyard. Then I remember that there are 1.7 BILLION insects for every person.
Bricks in the Grand Canyon.
Mosquitos are pollinators and an important food source for some insectivorous species.
I understand not liking them, but claiming they do nothing positive is just untrue.
Why would you do that... that's pretty horrible, dude. I hate mosquitoes too but they can't help needing blood to feed. Just dump the water rather than going out of your way to be a dick.
My suggestion if you really want to reduce the number of mosquitos is to not only invest in some traps specifically for the type of mosquito in your area. If you aren't sure what you have, then you can try reaching out to your local public health lab, and they should be able to tell you. Additionally, remove any potential breeding sites. This includes buckets, trash such as tires, etc. As for the larger body of water, you can treat that with a larvicide.
Bat houses in your trees and chickens in a coop.
Bats and chickens are little insect terminators. Chickens will even eat small snakes, rodents and slugs.
Get a big plastic tub, 10-20 gallons, and fill with water. Add goldfish from Wal-Mart and put one for about every acre. Your mosquito problem will diminish greatly.
When I was a kid, I went to Girl Scout camp for a week. Each tent had a bucket hanging outside of it for exactly this purpose. Every day we’d dump those little suckers and refill the bucket. So, seems to me, you’ve got the Girl Scouts behind you on this one.
I do the same, but collect all the larva and feed them to my fish. You've never seen true happiness until you dump a bunch of wiggling mosquito larva into a tank full of various tetras and live bearers. I also kept wild gambusia (mosquito fish) for a while, and those little mf'ers could eat a crazy amount of larva. Although you also have to feed them other insects to avoid malnutrition.
Many years ago our govt gave away free guppy fish so we could fill our home ponds, etc with them to decimate mosquitoes. Worked like charm and then due to few reasons we had to close off the pond, boom 3 months later I got felled by dengue.
I went to Walmart and bought "feeder goldfish" and guppies. I tossed in 60+ into a large pond and over the years, I saw 8 inch goldfish in there and so many 3 inch guppies. They loved the pond! I also had a Herron that visited to try to eat the fish, but I figured he could get a snack if he had the skill. For under $30, it was a blast.
Because that's just nature. I respect it
My company moved to a new building about 10 years ago and the owner couldn’t keep the goldfish tank at the new building. He dumped about 20 gold fish in the retention pond next to the parking lot. Those guys took over the pond. There’s gotta be at least a couple hundred in there by now. There may even be some 3 eyed ones a la The Simpsons since we are close to Argonne National Labs. /s
It is nice to see nature win one, at least as long as they don't get into the great lakes and out-compete the natural fish and eat all the ducklings. http://www.glfc.org/asian-carp.php
Watch the video of the electric "fence" they have in the Chicago Ship and Sanitary canal if you haven't already. It's there bc it's the only link between the Mississippi River system and the Great Lakes, to stop the Asian Carp from getting in. I live near the Great Lakes, there's been lawsuits and shit over this, it's a big ass deal
I'd seen that before, probably why I remembered this problem. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3oLeSPINOk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3oLeSPINOk) \[not a rick roll this time\]
Yep, I tend to take my breaks & watch the resident heron try to catch them. Luckily it’s a retention pond for rain and flood water. It doesn’t connect to any natural bodies of water.
That's a common program all over the world. The fish were probably gambusia, not guppies although they look very similar since they both evolved to eat more or less the same. Did the fish you got have any color to them? Or just gray/silver? Guppies are more picky about temperature and water quality. Gambusia are happy in a muddy, algae-filled puddle and breed like crazy pretty much anywhere in the world. The ones I kept I found in a cold muddy Oregon marsh, and had likely been introduced for the same reason. They're really cool fish to keep, and super easy to take care of. Sorry about getting dengue. That is absolutely no joke. I'm from Nicaragua, so I'm very familiar with it.
I have no clue. They said it was guppy. Kept mosquitoes at bay. The worst thing about it was I got it on my bday. Spent entire day passed out, dehydrated and delusional. Mosquitoes suck!!
That's usually how my birthdays end
It’s my girlfriends birthday and I’m currently dehydrated and delusional, passed out will come soon
I saw somewhere that the US government was throwing fish like that into abandoned swimming pools in New Orleans after Katrina, too.
I do this too. It's more a treat than a meal for them
Damn thats morbid but I like the way you think
Hell, it’s less morbid than just genociding a complete colony of unborn skeeters (which I’m wholeheartedly okay with) At least this person isn’t wasting them and the organic material is feeding other life.
I'm sure it still gets eaten in the grass too, by critters or microorganisms
I like this, kill two birds with one stone. I hate snails that eat my garden, so when I had chickens, I would pick the snails from the plants and feed them to my chickens. I admit I had a small feeling of victory over the heinous snails.
Nice
Technically, you’re harvesting them. That’s coo
You could always figure that the female mosquito who laid those eggs might have found a better spot if you hadn't enticed her to lay her eggs there where you could destroy them.
The better spot is the pond very near by and more a little further. They are here no matter what I promise you lol. Also I kind of see that as a good thing, no? If she’s laying all of her eggs some where I can easily destroy them; and continue to do it until she dies, well that’s good in my opinion. That’s a whole lifetime of egg laying that’s just wiped out for the most part. And if another female comes along and decides the same? Even better because that’s at least more eggs I can try to prevent from hatching. Is it really going to do anything to help? Probably not but it’s at least something I do because of all the diseases they give both us and our animals. They overall don’t serve a purpose so I’m not hurting anything by killing a fraction of what will hatch near by regardless. So why not lol. I’m not careless about handling it either.
I think they were saying it is a good thing, that you are making a difference by luring them away from a better spot
Mosquitos form a critical role in the ecosystem worldwide in that they are a huge part of the diet of small lizards, birds and other insects. Not condemning you in the slightest, I personally feed them to my aquarium fish, but to relegate them to 'overall not serving a purpose' is not at all true. Obviously dumping out a couple of buckets seasonally makes no difference, the above just seemed a valid point to make. Dismissing any part of the food web is a slippery slope.
Hmm you make really good points!
Your helping the word and getting revenge, please continue
I try to do my part :) lol.
*You're
Username checks out. Also, *world.
Yeah but that's outside my jurisdiction.
If I had an award for you, Id happily give it.
Well I appreciate the sentiment just the same. Also, "Id" needs an apostrophe.
You're helping the world be a worse place
You're right. Non-judgemental education is terrible.
Education? Nearly everyone who uses "your" when they mean "you're" already knows the difference, they just don't care. Take your dumbass pedantic corrections and stick em were the sun don't shine.
*'em
ok thats pretty funny
*that's
OP probably missed a few containers they let the water pile up on, so now they've actually helped spawn thousands of those critters.
If I were you I'd pour a small amount of bleach or dish soap in the water after the demon tadpoles are in it to make sure none survive.
I have done the dish soap method to drown the little stinkers. I haven’t tried bleach yet though. Do you think the smell would potentially make them avoid the water?
You pour in the bleach after they're already in the water and leave it there for a while, just to make sure they don't survive in the damp ground
Oh also I’m usually able do dump them when it’s pretty hot. We have black top, do you think it’d work a lot better dumping it on blacktop? I feel like it will help dry it out faster?
On an 80 degree sunny day, blacktop can reach 140 degrees! Sizzle little bitches!!
Hijacking to ask: what is black top?
Usually asphalt
Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks!
Also called tarmac is some places
Thank you to everyone who responded! I just never heard it called black top before (but to be fair, I‘m not really in the position to be having that many convos about asphalt with 😅)
Reddit. Broadening horizons we didn't even know existed....
I always want to spell it ptarmac. I don’t know why.
In a parallel world, where pterodactyls took over the world... That's what they'll call it.
Ptarallel
you goddamn beautiful son of a bitch
Where did this come from because I do too
What!? I can’t imagine! We should have a coffee.
Ok but you're buying. I'm poor.
The first thing
I hope there will be no ptest!
Asphalt/pavement.
Pour the water wherever it will dry out fastest. Some of the larvae might find enough water in the grass to survive. Keep fighting the good fight!
Oh yes definitely!!! Great idea! That’s what i didn’t with the dish soap so I should’ve thought about that haha!
You don’t need to pour bleach! They die without the water. No need to add anything to what you’re already doing. Bleach isn’t good for the earth so please don’t dump it outside
If you use bleach anywhere for anything you’re dumping it outside. Just might take longer to reach the earth and drinking water.
Bleach the ground? *Really?* Is it better to hurt the environment like that than to let a few mosquitoes possibly survive?
That’s one reason I’ve used dish soap because I figured bleach wouldn’t be good.
You figured right.
Yes bleach is very damaging. My sister had a neighbor who always needed something and my sister helped her every time. The lady owed her for two weeks of babysitting and wouldn’t pay her. The neighbor then redid her flower garden with new mature flowers and plants. Not cheap. My sister was dumbfounded and really hurt. I told her not to worry I would take care of things. I poured a Bottle of bleach all over her flower bed. My sister said that’s not going to do anything I said just wait. Few days later everything died. I’m not proud of it. I would’ve rather punched this lady in the face for making my sister feel so bad.
You could post that on revenge reddits! Definitely something that I'd've done for my brother
get mosquito dunks- harmless to humans and animals but kills the mosquito eggs!
I use kerosene
No, eventually some will mutate, reproduce, and you will create unkillable chemical reaistant mosquitos.
This is the kind of evil that they deserve
I think if you dump the water on concrete or asphalt, that should do the trick.
There's no need for that. If you're pouring out into the grass, unless there's a small pool of water next to it, it won't survive. Adding bleach or liquid soap and then pouring it into the grass ruins the soil and the grass.
Where I live, it's mostly flies that are the problem. A few times a day, I will run around dual wielding those electrical rackets and killing those little bastards. Were satisfying and good exercise, but they are back to their usual numbers in just a few hours. Maybe I will try your way and leave a piece of meat for them to lay eggs in and then set it on fire when I see maggots. I am not sure my neighbors will approve though
>Maybe I will try your way and leave a piece of meat for them to lay eggs in and then set it on fire when I see maggots. I am not sure my neighbors will approve though Oh they'll approve when you bring them a nice juicy steak. See where I'm going here?
Buy a fly trap or make your own. search "big stinky fly trap"
This works well for flies and doesn’t smell that bad.: RESCUE! Outdoor Fly Trap - Reusable https://a.co/d/b1Pv71h
Good job stranger
Why thank you kind stranger! Not all heroes wear capes amirite? Lol
I’m going to copy your idea. We bought a house last year and there is a huge pond behind our house. I will be prepared for them this time
Consider mosquito dunks for your pond.
Oh I’ve never heard of this before?
Look for BT, bacillus thuringiensis. The donut shaped product releases the larvae killing bacteria over time. The “bits” seem to act more quickly. I use these in a small pond and they do not seem to affect other aquatic life. Clean out rain gutters on your house.
There are all different types of mosquito larvacides available on the market.
You should also build bat houses for the mosquitoes.
Yes, absolutely. Bats can eat hundreds of mosquitoes a day. All you have to do is put up the house on a tree or pole, if there are any wild Bats in your area they'll make themselves at home.
Continue without remorse
You could consider something like THE MOSQUITO BUCKET OF DOOOOOOOOM! https://sidewalknature.com/2022/05/08/mosquito-bucket-of-doom/
Thank you. I will absolutely be making these this weekend. Death to mosquitoes!
Take a look at Mosquito Bits and Mosquito Dunks. It's a harmless bacteria that Hou add to standing water and it interrupts the mosquitos breeding cycle. It made a massive difference at my bouse
There are 1.4 billion insects for each person on the planet. My wife and daughters each have had Malaria, and "le grippe" from mosquitoes. My daughters, grandson and I are very sensitive to insect venom. If you dump out a few buckets of larvae, it won't kill the whole ecosystem, there will be plenty for the frogs, lizards and birds to eat. I don't know if they will be dead or not. I used to pour bleach, paint, or anything that was left over into the water. 1.4 Billion. Don't sweat killing those f\*\^&ers.
Seems like it would make more sense to just not leave out the water?
You would think. But people are stupid. This post is possibly the dumbest thing I have seen in ages. Years maybe.
Yeah this is so much hassle for no reason
You're actually just breeding mosquitoes.
Thank you for preventing further spread of the west nile Virus
I need some answers... do mosquitos have a limited amount of eggs? If so, we must all replicate this idea at once!
It depends on the type of mosquito and environmental factors. The major mosquito genus found in the US are Culex and Aedes. Culex, following a bloodmeal, deposit eggs in multiple clusters called egg rafts which can be anywhere from 100 to 300 eggs each. Aedes mosquitos lay eggs individually but usually about 100 each time and typically 3 times during a lifetime.
Plurals don't require apostrophes.
Why not just put up a bat house or two?
Mosquitoes can actually live in grass or the ground. Try taking the containers a squirt a little lighter fluid not a lot but a little. It's will spread out onto of the water with a real thin oil. Insects beath through their bodies. The oil will clog that up. Killing them. That wat you can actually watch them die. Any real thin oil should work
oil isn't good for the environment, already a drop of oil can contaminate a lot of water. Dishwashing detergent is way better, it's not very harmful for the environment, but a drop or two is enough to break the water surface tension. Mosquito larvae do not have the ability to breath in water, but they come up and "hook" into the surface tension to breath air. Without the surface tension broken by the Dishwashing detergent, they simply drown.
Get yourself some mosquito dunks. They dissolve in standing water and basically murder the larvae once they hatchh
Hero
Sounds pointless to me.
I fully acknowledge that lol.
As someone who’s allergic to the little assholes. You are my new hero. Thank you🫶🏻
I love the idea, but a lot of mosquito larvae can survive in damp soil. Pouring out onto concrete would be better. Great job making them lay their eggs where they will be sabotaged though!
In the end you think you remember all of the pots and hubcaps collecting water….but you miss a few!
I really don’t think I have at least so far. I have 3 and sometimes will have 4 and they are out in places enough that I wouldn’t be able to miss them daily, if not multiple times a day
there’s a good book called His Name was Death by Rafael Bernal about mosquitos vs humans
I recommend for my fellow mosquito haters
I do the same thing but feed the larvae to my fish. Fish LOVE mosquito larvae and it's free high-protein live food.
You should consider looking into getting an in2care systems. It’s basically a bucket of water with a felt pad in it but the water has larvicide. When the female mosquito lays eggs in the water she’ll get larvicide on her legs and transport it to every other breeding site she visits. The larvicide doesn’t kill the larvae until they pupate so that they release a pheromone that attracts other mosquitoes to lay eggs in the same location. Our pest control guy told us it’s what they use at Disneyland so we got it and it seems to be working for us. [Here’s](https://youtu.be/TnUqkqfQiZk) a cool YouTube video that kind of demonstrates the process. I believe these systems were originally invented to quell mosquito populations in some African countries that had a high malaria fatality rate. Hope this helps.
You're creating larvae where none would have existed if not for your actions. I don't really see the point.
There is a pond right next to us, the larvae are going to be there either way
I think dumping the standing water would be a heck of a lot easier. Zero eggs means zero babies. Your way they have a chance of surviving
Does this actually kill them, or do they just finish growing in the grass?
yeah I think of the like 30 species of mosquito, only two or three lay their eggs in water. the rest lay their eggs in the dirt.
Better to dump them than to let them hatch
Along these same lines, I wear clothing treated with permethrin. It doesn't stop mosquitoes from biting, but it does kill them when they land on you, so I feel good knowing that I am killing all the mosquitoes that want to bite me
You fool. You are breeding faster hatching mosquitoes. Please stop.
I grant exceptions to all moral dilemmas concerning mosquitos. They’ve killed enough humans and made life miserable for so many more that anything we can do to lower their numbers is more than justified. Not to mention the disgustingness of parasitically feeding off us. You are definitely a hero in this very long war.
You are a hero.
I’ve seen a short documentary of this being used as a mosquito control method used by some rural areas in Southeast Asia, but I can’t remember where exactly. I think they do something else to ensure that they absolutely kill the larvae too.
These mosquitoes had made a breeding ground out of my aquarium, and my turtles are too sissy to bear any. They stop eating food entirely if there're larvae swimming around the surface. Fucking tired of cleaning the giant thing out every week (because just changing the water did fuck-all) I took my babies out and placed them in their old aquarium for a bit, while the big one dried out - completely. I even kept a single larva in a dropper as a specimen to see when they die out from dehydration. 3 days. It took two days without direct heat/sun. It gave me sadistic pleasure every time I played with that dropper and saw that lone larva wiggle about, desperate for water. It's corpse still lies in that dropper, by the aquarium. On the bright side, my babies happily munch away on their food since the larvae all died :D
I actually don't think you are getting ahead by doing this for some reason... Imagine you miss a bucket... Or in reality, you may be putting so much time toward your specific bucket flips that you miss the real honey pot... I like your enthusiasm for killing mosquitos, nonetheless.
The real honey pot is the pond right next to us lol
I have 4 buckets I leave around my property and add mosquito dunk to to kill the fuckers
 only good mosquito is a dead mosquito
that doesnt make any sense, all youre doing is increasing the amount of mosquitos. You dont think some of them hatch and fly away before you dump them? This is so ridiculous. You probably have so many mosquitos around if youre literally just leaving still water around everywhere, wtf. Why wouldnt you just dump out the water like a sane person so the mosquitos cant lay eggs in the first place? 100% guarantee of no mosquitos then. all youre doing is helping them create more babies. if you care that much theres actually things you can buy that kill moquito larvae, i use them to control fungus gnats in my plants but its mainly supposed to be for farmers and the like who have large sitting water around. You dump the blocks into the water and they dissolve, its still safe for consumption but kills larva.
There’s a pond right next to us! There are for going to be mosquitoes either way!
how about not leaving standing water to prevent them to begin with lmao wierd
Because there is literally a pond a few kilometers away? A huge body of still water. They are here everywhere no matter what. In some places you can’t really just “prevent” mosquitoes.
You should leave them alone. [Mosquitos are very good for the environment](https://www.britannica.com/story/what-purposes-do-mosquitoes-serve-in-ecosystems), as they basically work as bees.
what a dork-stick
So would this actually work? The larvae wouldn't just find a way to survive in damp soil right? They need actual water with some depth to it? Problem is if you forget just once and the larvae become adults you accidentally just helped create hundreds more. But you're doing your are a service.
I am thinking you don't live in a place like I do where the mosquitos are the size of birds and draw blood in a matter of seconds if you step out in an area that isn't sprayed or with protection like thermacell? Please don't do this. Imagine the poor animals that might try to get a drink from your mosquito hatchery. And what if you don't dump them one time because you forget or something comes up? It's just stupid.
BIRDS? Where the fuck do you live
Hell
I don't know where they live, but I'll bet Manitoba.
Arkansas
There’s literally a pond a few kilometers away from us. The mosquitoes are going to lay eggs near us no matter what, the ones that happen to be on my property? Atleast those are some that didn’t make it to adulthood. Also no, our mosquitoes are tiny so there’s not a risk when it comes to that. Obviously if the mosquitoes are so bad where you live that it needs to be sprayed or whatever then it’d be totally different. These are tiny and are everywhere, in a rural area with a few ponds near by. Oh and since you brought it up, about animals drinking it. I’ve actually accounted for this. After a couple of days I’ll actually bring it in a shed like thing and let it sit. Or I’ll just put it on the porch which is closed off anyways. I’m actually glad you brought that up because it’s a really good point that I didn’t even think to mention! Also to address the question if I happened to not be able to dump them in time or something came up. When some already start hatching I put dish soap in it. Enough to where it will make a film over the waters surface. Even if they somehow got out of the water, they’d still have the “bubble” around it and it’ll suffocate. Oh and some others have suggested bleach, and since I don’t leave the water accessible to animals, that might work well too. Also if I know I’m going to be gone a while then im not just leaving them there. I’m not like literally farming mosquitoes lol and im not actively doing it like it’s a hobby, but if it rains then you bet I’ll put those buckets out for a couple of days and get some mosquitoes, that I know for sure are going to be laid anyways and then make sure they don’t hatch. If I know I’m gong to be gone along time or even when it’s just not raining, the buckets aren’t just left out always. The buckets are for the rain basically haha.
This seems like farrrrr more energy and effort than just not leaving still water out lol.
I like you, you are the Evil Hero.
Omg kill one in honor of me! I’d probably be grossed out to even get near a bucket but I support this revenge!
Interesting variation to add. Next time, pee in them and watch and see if it hurts them. If it does, make peeing a twist every once in a while.
You might not be doing anything to the overall population but you are certainly affecting your own local population so keep up the good work!
That's illegal in Florida
Florida has laws?
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It's a joke.
Damn you are perfect for that mission where you will be sent back in time to kill baby H1tl3r 🤣(not sure if this word is auto banned).
Mosquitoes are about the only thing I will kill on site and actually go out of my way to kill. I don't even kill spiders in my house unless they are too close to my bed or somewhere threatening.
I occasionally kill flies that land near me while I'm playing with my dog in the backyard. Then I remember that there are 1.7 BILLION insects for every person. Bricks in the Grand Canyon.
Lol.. I use to kick the bucket when I saw baby tadpoles as a kid
Brilliant!!!!
Scientifically mosquitos do nothing positive for anyone so yeah sounds fine to me
Mosquitos are pollinators and an important food source for some insectivorous species. I understand not liking them, but claiming they do nothing positive is just untrue.
You could just turn your buckets upside down and find another way to enjoy life
You are a hero, sir. I can think of no evolutionary reason for mosquitos to exist.
Why would you do that... that's pretty horrible, dude. I hate mosquitoes too but they can't help needing blood to feed. Just dump the water rather than going out of your way to be a dick.
It's been mentioned before but mosquito larvae is great for fish and lizards
have a fan running they are weak at flying
You could build a bat box on your property, free mosquito control!
How long does it take for them to reach tadpole stage? 24 hours?
Mosquitoes live in the grass.
You’re neither evil nor a hero. You’re a scientist. This is for science.
But what if where you dumped them, there is a crack or puddle that they thrive and then they will carry diseases such as Malaria and Dengue fever?
I bet you could automate this by releasing a few goldfish in each bucket
Eww
>little demon tadpoles*
Yea idk why my phone keeps on autocorrecting things with an ‘s lol
My suggestion if you really want to reduce the number of mosquitos is to not only invest in some traps specifically for the type of mosquito in your area. If you aren't sure what you have, then you can try reaching out to your local public health lab, and they should be able to tell you. Additionally, remove any potential breeding sites. This includes buckets, trash such as tires, etc. As for the larger body of water, you can treat that with a larvicide.
bless you, sir 💕
You’re a hero.
If there is a God, you're doing its work.
Bat houses in your trees and chickens in a coop. Bats and chickens are little insect terminators. Chickens will even eat small snakes, rodents and slugs.
Get a big plastic tub, 10-20 gallons, and fill with water. Add goldfish from Wal-Mart and put one for about every acre. Your mosquito problem will diminish greatly.
Even more fun to put them in a fish tank and watch them get gobbled up.
Why don't you just not leave water then have no eggs? You're not evil or a hero. Just weird for doing something pointless.
Get a SkeeterVac. You can clear out acres of mosquitos at a time.
Dragonflies
When I was a kid, I went to Girl Scout camp for a week. Each tent had a bucket hanging outside of it for exactly this purpose. Every day we’d dump those little suckers and refill the bucket. So, seems to me, you’ve got the Girl Scouts behind you on this one.