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By: Zimbler0 in POPE 5 | Recommend this post (2)
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Cutters Insect repellant.

Next, eliminate all sources of standing water.

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Dump or flush out any stagnant water sources in your yard. Mosquitoes are often attracted to water, especially standing water. Examples of mosquito breeding grounds include old tires, driveway puddles, clogged gutters, unfiltered fish ponds, empty flowerpots, and any item that can hold water for more than a few days at a time.
Use a push broom to distribute the water for small puddles on hard surfaces. Use a siphon pump for larger puddles.
If you're inundated by mosquitoes due to standing water from street curbs, drainage ditches or other pools you cannot control, call the responsible public authority to explain that you believe the water has become a mosquito breeding source.
If it is not possible to remove particular water source, place some Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (BTI) dunks/granules into the water. BTI is a species of bacteria that functions as a larvicide and will kill mosquito larvae for as long as a month, in addition to being safe and non-toxic to children/pets.[10]

http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Mosquitoes
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The front yard.
By: Decomposed in POPE 5
Wed, 22 Aug 18 5:19 AM 		Msg. 06376 of 62138

You know that line about no good deed going unpunished? Well...

I just went outside to turn on the garden sprinkler. Since the sprinkler is already in place and I knew I would only be out there for a minute, I didn't bother changing from shorts to pants. I also wore zorries (a Japanese word for those rubber thongs that are also called flip-flops. Since I grew up in military housing and those sandals originated in Japan, that's the name I've always used), not shoes. These 2 decisions proved to be costly.

Once I turned on the faucet, I noticed that I still had a wheelbarrow full of wood scraps left over from my wood delivery. I thought it would be a good idea to add them to the wall of firewood I've built so that they too could dry and eventually be burned. Another storm is coming tomorrow. It makes no sense to let them sit in what will be a wheelbarrow full of water.

So I started stacking the wood scraps and was at it for no more than 2 minutes when I looked down and saw six mosquitoes chomping on my left leg. It was like one of those ads you see for mosquito repellent, where you always wonder how they managed to find a schmuck stupid enough to go along with putting his arm into a hive of bloodsuckers.

I swatted most of them and decided to hell with the rest of the wood scraps. I headed indoors with my left leg already starting to itch.

The net damage? As many as 16 mosquito bites on the left leg (some are so close together that I'm not sure if they're really two bites) and 2 on the right.

Yikes. A lot of damage for less than 5 minutes outside.

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