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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@intrex.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] mosquito control
  • Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:50:59 -0400

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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