One of the most important questions in history

TheRoarOfTheCrowd

I’m counting on you all to give me the perfect solution… I now live in a wooded paradise but need the Solution for bugs and flies… I’ve said this before but in this case price is no object; this is like offering 10,000 for escort service, hoping for a perfect outcome

So there are various combo solutions I have read about… coquettish solar panelled mini killer romance lights paired with Electrical chair delight pageantry

I’m guessing at least 16 of you folks have this dialed so that I can rely on your incredible solution and send you that Elite champagne in celebration of your advanced metrics analysis solution.

TheRoarOfTheCrowd

1to392831weretaken

Don't we have a mod here who works for Orkin?

TheRoarOfTheCrowd

hhahaha.. forgot about that... but even so, there are a lot of trick people in here that know the TRUTH about this solution... so let's hear it.

YellowSnow

We have pretty bad mosquitos here in white wakanda from June to September. I just run a few citronella tiki torches but they only seem to work ok. I’m sure there are better solutions but I’m not dialed in to what those are.

BleachedAnusDawg

Cut down all the trees and eliminate stagnant water.

TheRoarOfTheCrowd

BleachedAnusDawg said:

Cut down all the trees and eliminate stagnant water.

That is just like saying stay away from dangerously beautiful women... i don't think i'm listening to that...

DerekJohnson

Wish I had a solution but I don't beyond what Yella said

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

YellowSnow said:

We have pretty bad mosquitos here in white wakanda from June to September. I just run a few citronella tiki torches but they only seem to work ok. I’m sure there are better solutions but I’m not dialed in to what those are.

I have no trees but my yard is surrounded by them so I have no control over them. I have field turf and 2 dogs so there’s almost always a turd pile attracting flies.

Mrs Nacho makes some mix of lemon water or oil and some other stuff that she keeps in a large spray bottle. She sprays that during the summer every 1-2 weeks and it helps keep the yard smelling nice and reduces flies.

There are some plants or flowers that’ll keep mosquitoes and flies away. If you have any large standing water other than the pool, get mosquito bricks to kill the mosquitoes in there.

And finally, the citronella helps. I had torches lining my yard but they were a complete pain in my ass. I eventually bought jars that look like oversized candles. Easier to refill and change the wicks and portable.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

And I’ve never done this but you can try a bat box. Bats eat all kinds of insects and the bay box supposedly keeps them close to your property.

Fishpo31

We go heavy citronella, and a couple of years ago got a Black and Decker zapper, hung next to the door to our deck, that has worked (disgustingly) well in keeping them out of the house…

EDIT: I hear the mosquito bricks work well with pool situations, from a friend who has a pool…

BleachedAnusDawg

TheRoarOfTheCrowd said:

BleachedAnusDawg said:

Cut down all the trees and eliminate stagnant water.

That is just like saying stay away from dangerously beautiful women... i don't think i'm listening to that...

In all seriousness, I hate trees because they block out the sun and it's already grey and gloomy too much in the PNW, so don't listen to me on this one. I have seen citronella plants that you can buy from any nursery and they're supposed to help quite a bit.

TheRoarOfTheCrowd

ok so I have been doing research on this and it turns out that the bugs are attracted to the motion signature of people and animals exhaling CO2... so the maximum killing approach is apparently to get a machine which exhales CO2, emits UV and infrared light heat signatures, and which is scented in the ways they like best....

Besides using a beautifully scented woman as bait, there are machines out there that are setup to do that that can be combined with scented plugins to mimic what they like.

PurpleThrobber

Screened in porch.

Otherwise, you fucked.

GrundleStiltzkin

Not much to add, but I know a guym that has the big sized bug zapper. He got that one from a dairy farm that went under, but I'm sure livestock/co-ops sell them. It's big and bright. The amount out bug carnage coming out of that tray is triumphantly revolting. Combine with that with an attractant of some kind.

dflea

PurpleThrobber said:

Screened in porch.

Otherwise, you fucked.

No lies detected.

You can do all kinds of other things, but they aren't that effective. Unless you bust out the DEET - which nobody is crazy about unless you're in the woods and the mosquitoes are eating your ass alive. At my granny's house in Illinois, if you weren't in the screened-in porch, your ass was getting bit by a swarm of mosquitoes.

The bug zappers that emit CO2 work, and work pretty well, but seem like a lot of cost and effort. And bug zappers kill every flying thing that buzzes around, and really only the fucking mosquitoes are the enemy - and horse flies, but we don't have them around these parts. We have a bunch of citronella candles and torches and shit around the patio - but they're only marginally effective. Normally by mid July, it's dry enough outside that most of the mosquitoes have fucked off and died.

Get the electric tennis racket or salt shotgun to deal with flying creatures that have made their way inside. Anything inside and flying is a clear enemy and must be dealt with in a severe manner.

booker14

When necessary you might try insect repellent with Picaridin rather than DEET. It's just as effective, smells better, isn't as toxic and doesn't melt nylon and plastic like DEET does. I used the lotion version a lot last summer and it worked well for me. Gets good reviews at REI.

greenblood

Try planting lemon grass around the exterior of the house

RaceBannon

Move to the desert

YellowSnow

RaceBannon said:

Move to the desert

I did. There’s still lots of mosquitoes

PurpleThrobber

RaceBannon said:

Move to the desert

I remember my Gila monster phase.