[permaculture] mosquito control
Katey
newtribe at hughes.net
Sun Sep 2 18:43:36 EDT 2007
I got rid of my fish (they weren't for eating) because, although they
ate the mosquito eggs, they ate the frog eggs. The frogs were more
important to my ecosystem. I have sweet flag (Calamus) in my ponds for
mosquito control as well as the frogs.
Katey Culver
Charles de Matas wrote:
> All of the permaculturists I visited since I took the PDC earlier this year
> have ponds (large and small) and they've told me that the fish they keep
> help to control mosquitoes. I am thinking of putting in a few tub ponds
> around my house to keep guppies. Before I do this I want to check with my
> learned friends on this list if they have had good results at controlling
> mosquitoes with fish like guppies, or mosquito fish (gambusia, which are
> more common in the southern US)? If this is really effective it would make
> life much more comfortable for me here in the tropics.
>
> Charles
> Trinidad
>
>
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