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re: An alternative

Tom Brosz — 10/25/2004 9:09:36 PM (archived)

When I was a kid in Minnesota, city trucks would come by and spray the front lawns. My dad still sprays the lawn, and this seems to help a lot.

You are correct that eliminating breeding areas is a big help. This is a lot easier in dry climates like the one I live in now. In the Land of 10,000 Lakes, you can pretty much forget it.

We don't have a lot of mosquitoes. When I was back in Minnesota last summer, they settled on you in clouds. Went to a cemetery to visit departed relatives, and had to flee like rabbits in front of a forest fire.

Around here in California we watch for buckets, old tires, and other items that catch water. Stagnant water is what it's about for mosquitoes, and they can hatch in surprisingly little. My backyard pond is not stagnant, having filters and a waterfall, and it's filled with voracious little fish.

I also encourage spiders and other predators in the yard. Dragonflies are a great mosquito-eater, but they are more numerous in damp climates, too.

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Bug zappers and Iraq - LJ - 10/25/2004 7:52:43 PM
- Our lack of a post war Iraq policy is not attracting terrorists, it is creating them (n/t) - E.P. Grondine - 10/25/2004 11:48:20 PM
  - Attracting AND breeding (n/t) - LJ - 10/26/2004 12:08:42 AM
    - Still no evidence of the "breeding." Did somebody poll al Qaeda members? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/26/2004 1:52:08 AM
      - OK, Tom - try this one - LJ - 10/26/2004 5:24:59 AM
        
        re: try this one - Tom Brosz - 10/26/2004 6:03:28 AM
        
        re: try this one - Chris Vancil - 10/26/2004 7:50:55 AM
      - Didn't have to - as usual, bin Laden issued a press release - E.P. Grondine - 10/26/2004 3:01:46 AM
        
        And just for the record... - Tom Brosz - 10/26/2004 4:23:22 AM
        
        not that one - E.P. Grondine - 10/26/2004 2:16:14 PM
        
        I don't get your point. - Tom Brosz - 10/26/2004 3:37:16 PM
        
        "You break it, You buy it." - E.P. Grondine - 10/27/2004 2:48:35 PM
        
        And what were these "sacred warriors" doing before? - Tom Brosz - 10/26/2004 4:19:37 AM
        
        holed up on the afghanistan-pakistan border - E.P. Grondine - 10/26/2004 2:19:20 PM
- The analogy really doesn't hold up very well. - Tom Brosz - 10/25/2004 8:45:52 PM
  - It holds up VERY well. It's accuracy is what makes it objectionable to the right. - Bowser - 10/26/2004 12:13:11 AM
  - re: The analogy really doesn't hold up very well. - LJ - 10/25/2004 9:04:20 PM
    - I have as much evidence against it as you have for it. - Tom Brosz - 10/25/2004 9:20:14 PM
      - re: I have as much evidence against it as you have for it. - LJ - 10/25/2004 11:03:03 PM
- re: Bug zappers - et - 10/25/2004 8:37:53 PM
- Iraqi Camel Spiders - Eric - 10/25/2004 8:33:33 PM
- Since we're on this tangent - Gary - 10/25/2004 8:04:40 PM
  - An alternative - LJ - 10/25/2004 8:47:27 PM
    - re: An alternative - Tom Brosz - 10/25/2004 9:09:36 PM
  - Here's where you can get one - Gary - 10/25/2004 8:09:23 PM
- LOL good job!!! (n/t) - R.L. - 10/25/2004 7:57:41 PM

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