permaculture

[Dieter Brand <diebrand@yahoo.com>]

Charles de Matas wrote:
> ... it would make 
> life much more comfortable for me here in the tropics.

  If you are in the tropics, you are bound to have plenty of mosquitoes
  anyway. Fish in a pond are not going to make those go away, they
  may, with a bit of luck, control the populations of additional insects 
  that would otherwise be generated by your pond. I don't have enough
  water to make a pond, but I have heard from neighbours that ducks
  are pretty efficient at controlling insects such as mosquitoes by eating
  their eggs. They are not limited to the water in the pond either, they 
  can roam about and get at the buggers wherever there is a little 
  humidity for them to proliferate.
   
  Did you look at insect repellent plants for planting around your dwellings?
  I don't remember any names, but there is bound to be a list, somewhere
  on the Internet, that will enumerate the insect repellent properties for
  various bushes and other plants.
   
  Dieter Brand,
  in dry and sun-scorched Portugal with hardly a mosquito to worry about.

       
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