permaculture

["Kevin Topek" <ktopek@houston.rr.com>]

Charles,

Dragonfly nymphs eat anything that does not escape them. When you first
build a pond they are one of the initial colonizers. I have observed them
cramming small snails into their jaws that were twice the size of their
heads! They also eat tadpoles and mosquito larvae. If you build it (a pond)
they will come.

Kevin Topek

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles de Matas" <cdematas@hotmail.com>
To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 4:08 PM
Subject: [permaculture] mosquito control


> Thanks for the responses on mosquito control.  Very interesting to hear of
> the experiences with gambusia in the southern US.  I'll use guppies
instead
> because they are native to Trinidad.
>    Sometime in the future I want to try creating a habitat for dragonfiles
> also, although I don't know enough about their life cycle right now.  I
> think they will eat mosquitoes in both the adult and larva stages.
>
> Charles.
>
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