North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

[Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

At 10:08 AM 05/06/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> I can put a lid on the barrels, but is there something you can put in the
> water to prevent mosquito breeding in something large like a wading pool?

Tom,
How about getting some 'mosquito fish'?  There are North American native 
species of Gambusia minnows, which really are nothing more than a hardier 
variety of the ubiquitous pet shop guppies.  If you don't have a ready 
source of the native species, perhaps you could just go to the local pet 
store and purchase some guppies.
Gambusia minnows love to eat mosquito larvae, and you wouldn't have to 
worry about any potential toxins, etc. that might harm your plants - and 
the ammonia from fishes' wastes would be of perhaps a slight benefit for 
any plants you used the water on.

Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY

_______________________________________________
nafex mailing list
nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Most questions can be answered here:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/nafex
File attachments are accepted by this list; please do not send binary files, 
plain text ONLY!
Message archives are here:
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/nafex
To view your user options go to: 
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/options/nafex/XXXX@XXXX (where XXXX@XXXX is 
YOUR email address)
NAFEX web site:   http://www.nafex.org/