How to Make a Mosquito Bucket of Doom

[ysabetwordsmith]

I found this article about making a Mosquito Bucket of Doom. 

1) Fill a bucket with water and put it outside.

2) Add a handful of grass to make carbon dioxide which will attract more mosquitoes.

3) There are two options to kill the resulting larvae.

-- Dump the bucket weekly and refresh the trap with new water and grass.

-- Add a mosquito dunk, which lasts about a month.  Replace whenever it sinks or dissolves.


Also, make sure there are no other pockets of still water to attract mosquitoes elsewhere in your yard.  Every bit that you can find and remove is one less mosquito nest. 

Comments

[moonhare]

Thank you for this! I dump standing water when I see it, but this looks like a good way to keep the nasty varmints away. We keep getting ads for local pest control folks who want to spray, and I would never consider that because of collateral damages to the beneficial bugs.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

Yeah, I don't spray either. We have insects out the wazoo. I've seen raspberry patches absolutely crawling with bugs, but all eating each other instead of the fruit.

This year I have a bee tree again! :D 3q3q3q!!! I just heard the lawnmower sound today when we were walking in the savanna, looked up and there were the girls to-ing and fro-ing overhead.