[permaculture] mosquito control
Lawrence F. London, Jr.
lflj at intrex.net
Sun Sep 2 20:50:59 EDT 2007
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.
Frogs, toads and birds, maybe dragonflies, do the job just fine, w/wo fish.
I have gotten the first mosquito bites of the season, probably becaus the severe drought
has made the frogs seek shelter and are not as active.
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Lawrence F. London, Jr.
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