permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@intrex.net>]

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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