I tried your method , and it works!!! I was blown away by how well it worked…. Like other people have said, it reduced my infestation by 90% ….. thank you….
@@juanitajones1994 I don’t see why not,,,, just too be extra cautious you should do smaller ones inside and then still add the ones outside. It couldn’t hurt.
I found your video before my last mosquito season. I used the mosquito dunks. In my back yard I used two 3 gallon buckets and in each placed one ring and 3/4 filled with water and some grass clippings and a few leaves. Each mosquito dunk ring lasts about a month. I have lived at this house for 30 years and this is the first time I could go outside on the 4th of July and not get bit/stung by any mosquitoes. Years ago I had to keep my mouth shut going outside because they would fly right in. WOW what a difference Thanks Kilted Guy.
@@RikiMartinee 3 gallons is about 11L of water and for that I've used 1/2 mosquito dunk every month. I did not break the dunk in smaller than in half and it worked just fine.
I liked this comment when it had 69 likes, so I unliked it, so it would stay there. Just know that I liked the comment, though. Lol. I’m not going to be the one that rolls it to 70, though. 😂
A friend would put a large barrel under the downspout from his gutter. Put some small bait fish in it and hang a light above it. Mosquitoes would land on the water to lay eggs. Fish would then eat the mosquitoes and grow to bait size. The rain would keep the barrel filled.
@@macauleywhite9407 I don't think that the mosquitoes can't still bite. This method as he said in the beginning "breaks the cycle" the adult mosquito doesn't live that long and therefore the breaking of the cycle kills them off. Placing the buckets around the area you want to protect helps in the reduction you are killing them before they can bite and by doing that you just knocked the protected area down a heck of a lot for each female doesn't just multiply she MULTIPLIES X100 SO KILLING those eggs from one mosquito let alone all those other biting itches you made your area idk 90% less than what you would have done by not killing the eggs. Understand it better now? I'm going to try this and heck if it takes setting up a fence of buckets I'm down! I hate mosquitoes they always bite me the most matter what I do or where I go :(
When I was a kid we used a plastic kiddie pool with soapy water and a mesh cover to keep birds and stuff from getting in. Mosquitoes would try to land on the water, but the Dawn disrupted the surface tension so they'd drown. Then every so often dump it out, rinse with the hose, refill. You don't even need much either, just like an inch of water.
@@williamlee7782 Enough that you could wash something with it basically. If it cuts grease, it drowns skeeters. Edit: If it makes bubbles when you agitate it, you're golden.
@@JjClark-wz7eh LMAO I can't tell you how amused I am with your palpable frustration. I've never seen FFS used but knew exactly what it was. I'm gonna be chuckling all day. Peppermint oil or lavender oil work well.
Congratulations on the video. Here, where I live in Brazil, we are having problems with the mosquitoes that cause DENGUE. Official guidelines say to eliminate all pots, buckets and containers where mosquitoes could breed. Your orientation is just the opposite of that and certainly more correct. There is no point in trying to eliminate the containers, but rather leave them for the mosquitoes to lay their eggs, so that the reproductive cycle is interrupted. Perfect!! Thanks!!
Brilliant. I'm TOTALLY doing this. I'm the one who gets bit a million times when other people say, "What mosquitos?" I'm like, WHAT???? scratching like a lunatic.
Me too, 3, and four b4 everybody!! Plus OFF is too expensive now and doesn't last as long as it used to. I think they're cheating on their fill line so..
Alot of people don't realize that their home guttering is a great place to breed mosquitos,If you go up on a ladder and look ,there is usually wet rotting leaves and water in them. A great place for mosquitos to breed and live..
A guy I used to play golf with got a bug zapper. He said, though it did kill lots of bugs, it attracted even more of them to his yard. So, he got rid of his and got each of his neighbors one for Christmas.😻
😂😂😂 Maybe some good cell will start to grow!!! They must stop allowing conflict of interest between govt agencies accepting money by dark sponsors! Same sponsor that announced viruses years ago...than we are at the point where, a CDC iscommissioning a crazy "study" a to a foreign country...and the other is ready with his OGM stoff...God only know what will happen to us longterm!!!
I live in north central Wisconsin. In the last 10 years we have all of these mosquito spraying businesses that have been spraying everywhere.....they are killing off birds,bees,dragon flies and butterflies and making people sick.Your ideas need to be presented to these businesses poisoning the area.I am amzed that the Dept. of natural resources allow this spraying. Thanks for your info. Cheers
Thanks, just never thought about providing them a "spot" to lay eggs. The perfect way to control them. From an Army Vet to an Air Force Vet, thank you for your service.
I’ve used the mosquito dunks in the past with great success however it was in a situation where I knew the source of standing water for the larvae. With my current mosquito problem, I was uncertain of where they were laying eggs. I never thought of providing a source so thanks for sharing your idea.
Eerily timely video… Sometimes I really wonder if there’s tech that can read our thoughts. Just bought a house in Florida and went out to water my plants for the very 1st time and just about got eaten alive out there! Going to Home Depot tmrw to try to find this and some buckets.
@@KosmicKaren the dunks really do help. Florida can be so humid that moisture will hang around in places providing them an alternative place to lay eggs instead of in your buckets but I think with you providing a consistent source, they should still be enticed. If you mix a light surfactant solution (dawn and water) and use a pump sprayer to spray a very light coating across your yard and property between rains, it will activate when it rains and will help prevent the mosquitoes from landing on the surface of any other source of standing water preventing them from laying their eggs elsewhere besides in your buckets. I hope you get to enjoy your garden.
@@KosmicKaren also, I highly recommended a product called Thermocell. I keep one on my patio and I have a personal unit I carry around when working in the woods. It 100% works!!!
You can also build a bat house and grow a colony of bats! According to the forest service, one bat can eat 1,000 mosquito sized insects in one hour! The easiest way to build a bat house is just nail a sheet of plywood onto the side of a barn or the back of a billboard using some spacers. There are plenty of tips online, some are pretty fancy.
I just want to say thank you very much for this information. I came across this video early this year or late last year I can't remember but I did this method all summer this year and wow, just wow, what a difference it made in my life. It worked so well that I honestly could not believe it. I had mosquitos so bad for so many years and wasted so much money on half ass methods that barely did anything and then this. I saw over a 90 percent reduction in misquotes on my property of 1.5 acres. I can actually enjoy my yard and my garage now. Thank you again, if your having an issue do this asap.
Yes I think the copper with the water make copper sulfate that kills the larvae. I live in Australia and we have a big problem with fly's and mosquitoes, so I also use this method.
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I'm originally from SoCal-southern California, I moved to South Carolina and OMG I hate everything and yes the state bird is a mosquito... lol and the bastards are smart and will attack you from behind our of your view 😳😳😳 but here it's not just mosquitos, it's every bug, ants, hornets, stink bugs, ticks, palmetto, it's endless, but every bug out here is on human growth hormone, good lord. I've battled them for years but this year I got a concentrate from tractor supply and pump sprayer, and I must say, major results. I respray after rain and I haven't seen one anything which is good. I have plans for ponds with mosquito fish, now that will be more natural but for now, I nuke em like the worthless US elected using defense budgets for war ..
Mosquitoes can also lay their eggs in wet grass and in you flower beds. Something I've learn from my parents is coffee grounds can actual stop the mosquito larvae from gestation. Every morning they'll sift the use coffee grounds either in the flower beds or lawn. The coffee grounds are also good for the soil. I will have to remember this trick to I have learned in this video.
Thanks for the amazing information....there are guys on the internet talking for a half hour (which is ridiculous) about how nice their yard is or ten minutes talking about their hose (wtf?). Then they all get down to the information which is buying $200 to $300 sprayers and showing you how to do it ! The simple person with a simple budget just wants the information for something simple and reasonable cost ! Thank you much ! P.S. I liked and subscribed !
I've been doing this for years. I have 6 to 8 buckets for my 3/4 acre property. I put 1/4 of one mosquito dunk in each bucket. I throw some soil and grass or a few leaves in the bucket as well to "age" the water as well. It seems the mosquitos like the "dirty" water better then the clean water. And again, the more buckets, the better, as I want them to breed in my buckets, and not a clogged rain gutter or tire swing... I typically add another piece of the dunk to each bucket approximately every 30 days during the breeding season.
I've been doing something like that for decades. I purposely leave standing water for the mosquitoes to lay eggs in. Once a week we drain the water and kill all the larva. I also used to keep a 50-gallon aquarium in the shade beside my house. We filled it with mosquitofish we'd catch in a pond. The fish breed like crazy. That worked great! Thank you for putting out good information for people😊
Mosquitofish?!? TIL Mosquitofish are a thing! Can you add these to a semi private lake? Or is it a tank only kinda thing because invasive species & all that?
In California, many counties give them out free to anyone with ponds or even long-lasting mud holes. They really do a great job keeping the mosquitos down. They are very similar to guppies just not as colorful. I hand a small pond that I added them to and they survived all seasons. I am in the USDA zone 9.
@@LaceyR_FreeEricBrandt thanks I’ll propose it to my lake association. I’m sure if it’s allowed everyone on the lake would love & appreciate the reduced mosquitos!
The skeeters will be more attracted to dark colored water buckets. A black bucket with plain water is an ideal larva trap. Mosquitos that are landing on water are there to lay eggs. If there are already some larva in the water they are more likely to drop their eggs there. I keep smaller buckets about for the mosquitoes. Then when I see larva activity in the water I just dump the water out in the garden. I have large rain barrels too. When I see larva activity in those I apply some "mosquito bits" on the water surface. 6 hours later I can only find larva corpses. I've been doing this for years and it has almost eliminated the mosquito population. Can't completely eliminate them because non-local skeeters ride in on the wind. I used to go door to door reminding my neighbors to overturn all water vessels. But now I hang out a welcome sign for the skeeters with my water buckets, enticing them to lay eggs here, instead of wandering off to neighbors, where I have no control. It's easier to see the larva at night with an underwater flashlight. Warning: this can backfire if you don't check on the water buckets/barrels at least twice a week.
could always just put some dish soap on the surface of the water, so instead of them laying eggs, they just drown. And since their not that smart, others will still take a dip even if they see that others have died.
I use a mosquito magnet as well as a few 5 gallons cans with just a couple of gallons of dirty water then drop a mosquito dunk in them. Works great and I hardly have any trouble with mosquitos. Thanks for the info. FLY NAVY!!!
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it is said that a dark colored bucket will attract the skeetos which look for dark areas to hide in and to lay eggs in- old tires have tons of skeetos in them if there is some old water in them too- -
I use the buckets the same way, but i don't use nothing. i just dump the water out every other day works like a charm and its free. Water soaks into ground and the larve dry up and die.
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I came to this realization this spring when I saw hundreds of skeeter larvae in a bucket... I put 4 white buckets with water/dunks in them in the shade around my property. I've been using dunks for my outdoor sump pump for a couple years. The traps seem to work!!! Skeeters are way fewer!!! The dunks work a long time.... I used white buckets so I could see any life in there and check them a couple times a week. Now going on the third month and still NO skeeters in the water!! Kudos on a great idea that works!!!!
Though you can see them easier in a white bucket, mosquitos are much more attracted to black buckets. Use a bright flashlight to see into the water to check for larvae.
Thank you so much I live in deep south Alabama mosquitos are super thick have tried everything over the years putting out the 5 gal buckets in the shade hidden in bushes around the edges of the property, I think there are 12. I put a quarter of a dunk in each one once a month and this has been the best outdoor season as long as I have lived here. This works so good and only like 3 bucks a month, it rains so much here don't really have to top off the buckets with water.
I used the mosquitoes dunk product when I had a pool at my house, it did it’s job and like you said it would kill the lava before they could hatch. Boy I got tired cleaning my pool everyday it was a job, it also killed other bugs that landed in the pool. After 5 years of having the pool I finally took it down. What a relief this was. We enjoyed the pool while my grandkids were young but as they got older the pool was not interesting to them anymore. Thank God, I do still have problems with mosquitoes I live not far from the delta, I like the bucket ideal and will start using this technic , I’ll let you know the results of this as soon as I get my buckets in place, Thanks for the ideal….😎
I suppose you didn't know that you're supposed to chlorinate a pool. Stop mosquitoes all day long like magic put chlorine in the pool no mosquitoes, BAM!!!
Kirk Schoolfield: Thanks 🙏 for that explanation of chlorine in the pool, I don't have a pool but I am happy to KNOW!! 💐 Also, the buckets & dunk probably still a good idea to get rid of them outside of the pool area...
@Kurt M. when I turn my compost, I pitch in some diatomaceous earth. Great for killing bugs and their life stages but doesn't harm earthworms. I actually use it all over the place, it's fantastic for just about everything!
When I use to raise aquarium fish I would put barrels of water out for mosquitoes to lay eggs in the go out and scoop all the larvae up to feed my fish they made a good treat for them
Right! I have been looking for a way to control mosquitos and other pests that WONT be detrimental to the rest of my micro ecosystem bc I don't want to kill my newts salamanders frogs etc on my property. I don't think people understand how much all these chemicals effects everything else
@@johngatsby1473 its a nightmare ... especially if you bought the REALLY wrong one which is the running AND clumping variety, they are everywhere, I have another that's just clumping so those just get a bigger and bigger clump but stay in place. Stay away everyone from the running AND clumping. It sure is beautiful though.
@@ooohlaa13 we planted the clumping ONLY bamboo (39th° parallel ks). One type lives thru the winter. The other 4 that are 'supposed' to get 20 ft high, died back the past 2 winters. They are coming back, but almost June 1st and there are only a few shoots coming up.
@@digimom82 here in North Central FL they NEVER die back. My sister in law in Northern NJ has huge canes that are also a nuisance but just clumping variety so she's lucky it doesn't travel like mine. I also have invasive elderberry plants that are taking over and shampoo ginger very invasive. Its a lotta lotta work LOL!
I live in rural Northeastern Ontario, Canada (in a densely forested part of the Boreal forest). For years now I've been doing a similar thing. I put several wooden barrels at the edges of my property that I fill with water in May (the snow usually doesn't melt until early May around here so that's when I fill my barrels). Then I go to the pet store and buy some feeder fish (goldfish work the best). For about a week or two I'll sprinkle a bit of fish food or even a slice of bread will do the trick, just until the mosquitoes are active. Once the mosquitoes are out they will always lay their eggs on the surface of the water in the barrels. The fish will eat all of their eggs. I go the entire summer and fall without feeding the fish yet they grow large and survive just fine on the eggs. I even scoop out some of the water occasionally and I use it in my gardens as the fish excrement is a great substitute for all natural miracle grow/plant food. Just add new water afterwards to keep the water level in the barrels high. I noticed a huge difference in the amount of mosquitoes on my property after doing this and I've been doing it every year ever since. Once winter rolls around dump out the barrels and let the fish die (never release gold fish into a lake, river or stream). I dump mine into the woods and the fish usually get eaten by other animals within 24 hours.
Love it, love it perfect solution for Mosquitos and garden . Thank you for sharing. Have you had problem with bears pay you a visit because of those traps?
@@bobblinka8997 no, there's endless forest around here so there's lots for the bears to eat elsewhere. In autumn I usually dump the fish about a 1/2 kilometer into the woods from my property because that would be the only time of year they might get close but I haven't had any issues with bears. One time I caught a raccoon on one of the barrels but I scared him off and he never came back.
@@jizzaymz Thank you for reply and perfect idea to deal with inconvients around yard. It's best solution to have little crechers in control all summer long.. Have a good day.
Thanks for the tips. I’m a licensed exterminator in Southern California and we have a product called In2care that uses similar buckets. Placing one bucket at each corner of the property. Seems like a great method. I’ve only been placing one and haven’t been getting much results. I’ll also have to try that product and compare it. Thanks again and God bless.
I'm so thankful! We just sprayed 15 big mosquitos after dinner tonight. I saw your video & just ordered the "mosquito dunks " on Amazon! They'll be here tomorrow 😃
The BTI bacteria in the MOSSIE DUNKS can be replicated in large numbers by pouring some of the pellets into a COCONUT then sealing it up. Two weeks later the BTI in the dunks have multiplied multiple fold - The dunks are very expensive and using coconuts to multiply them saves a lot of money
Do you mean pellets for heating or something else? Thank you for info. I love to make home stuff instead buying commercially made products. Have a great day.
A fresh coconut 🥥 ? With or without the milk ? Seal it up with ....? Coconut 🥥 📼 tape ? Duct tape ? Two weeks @ 82 °F ? Ironically ( syncronisticly.... serendipitously ?????? ) I just opened a fresh coconut 🥥 for the 1st time in months & am chewing the meat as I read this..... unfortunately though its' husk was smashed into 17 pieces..... oh well ....THANKS 👍 FOR THE TIPS !!!
@@sarahturps1384 What truly is a coconut ? It bares no comparison to cocoa , cocaine , covid , corn , comedy ( ok it's a funny word ) cockatoos , chock-fullanuts , coffee , etc ... So .... WHERE DID the enigmatic 🥥 come from ? ( I ABSOLUTELY have to try innoculating one just to see......)
I’m retired & live in Bangkok, Thailand. We turn on the outside strip light throughout the night, initially for security but we noticed that it attracted mosquitoes & also lots of tiny gecko’s feasting on them. There is a lot of water here & it’s tropical so lots of mosquitoes. I like how you deal with them so I will be looking out for mosquito dunks the next time I’m in town.
Saw the same thing in Orlando Florida. Hundreds of anoles clinging to the outside of the motel's brick walls under the soffit lights that attract the bugs during the night. I was amazed at how many of the little lizards there were and how many bugs they eating!
The BTI bacteria in the MOSSIE DUNKS can be replicated in large numbers by pouring some of the pellets into a COCONUT then sealing it up. Two weeks later the BTI in the dunks have multiplied multiple fold - The dunks are very expensive and using coconuts to multiply them saves a lot of money
i'd recommend to add some dish soap on the surface of the water, this means if the mosquitos try to land to lay eggs, they drown. I don't think their smart enough to stop to think if they see one drown. Currently i got a black bucket setup with yeast in it to create co2 put in a dark corner, it's currently raining every day so i need something to entice them, yeast is a good option.
I have 15 - 55gal buckets of standing water I use to water my plants and i put a little bit of mosquito bits in each of them and I have TONS of mosquitoes -- I"ve been checking them for over a week and NOT ONE OF THEM HAVE LARVAE in them - Not a 1 -- Awesome feed!!!!!!
Great to see you Kilted Guy! Love this solution, I tried the dunks but never thought of putting them in buckets 🤯 can’t wait to try this and enjoy my outdoor space 😏
Just a warning don’t be surprised if mosquito bits stop working in some areas. In Humboldt county the mosquitos and fungus gnats adapted to the bits and have pretty big survival rates
I live in Houston. Mosquitoes are everywhere here. Those bits work really well. I throw those around my yard where it floods. Under the house. Around the plants
I usually don't have time to do much around my house because of close neighbors. This seems to be a real good idea. I will try it. As for working outside mosquitos swarm me. So I put peppermint oil on exposed skin areas, a little on my hair and around my ankles to discourage chiggers. I'm in Texas. The other neat thing about doing this is if it's say 95° or 100° it makes it feel like only 70° for about 20 or 30 minutes once it takes effect which is only a few minutes. Try it regardless of the pests and it smells wonderful.
You don't have to cover a bucket or anything else because if you read on the bottle it says can be applied to areas or in contact with humans, animals, horses, livestock, pets, birds, or wildlife. Do not apply to finished, treated drinking water sources. Otherwise covering a bucket up would have been a very good idea.
In the UK those dunks cost a fortune, cheaper to buy a load of guppies from my local tropical fish shop. They love mosquito larva. You'll need to bring them indoors autumn time.
I find the bucket technique will only work with dark color buckets. (The Blue Box Store buckets get 100x the mosquitoes than the Orange Box Store , or white, buckets do.)
Citronella plants and Marigolds are all over my deck every year . Also a 3 foot border of Marigolds all around the house . Very pretty and maintenance free . Rarely ever get bit while enjoying my deck even during peak season .
For years I have been doing this. First time I see someone else is now doing it. Rain water is best to use, if chlorinated , it takes a while for the water to clear and be appetizing for the mosquito. I throw a hand full of yard debris plus dirt in mine. I am also working on a theory of mine...if the evening is a few degrees COOLER then the last, there will be no mosquitos out. Anyone else discover this?
I read that mosquittoes can lay their eggs on greenery (leaves of bushes & trees). I live in a desert environment where there is no standing water, and we still have them.
Mosquitoes are like many creatures and they look for the easiest way to get the job done. If there’s a big wide-open bucket of water, that’s going to attract them more than a tiny little drop of water on leaves and that’s why this works well.
Mosquitos prefer to land in and breed in dark water. Use or make the buckets black or dark green. Line it with a black trash bag even. (Like a pond or swamp would be)
Thank you for your service Sir! My son just got out of the Air Force. I so appreciate this information greatly! I have a farm where I grow food and mosquitoes are everywhere they showed up a week ago it’s so hard to garden due to the mosquitoes. I will go pick these dunks up and some new buckets and try this! Thank you so much! Have a blessed day! Again Thank you very much for your service! Wendy🌺🌸🐞🦋🌷
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There is a great product. It uses a Propane canister, like a 20 pounder. The small flame provides the carbon dioxide that they follow back to their prey. They get to the source, and a vacuum pulls them into a net. It clears like a half acre.
I have open rain barrels to water my organic garden. I attached screens on top to keep frogs out and I put FEEDER FISH inside them to eat any larvae before it hatches. The fish byproducts also provide nutrient benefits to the garden. You're welcome.
The worst mosquito areas I've see are in damp areas in woods with no standing water. In water the lava are easy prey for fish and frogs. In open areas swallows eat the adults along with bats at night. I agree - the dunks work.
There must be some standing water somewhere around the area, or they couldn't breed. They can't lay their eggs in the trees, LOL! They have to have the water. You just must not be aware of whare the water is, is all.
A couple of years ago when I had a broken down mower, I seen some thing that I never knew before, my grass in my backyard was probably at least 8 to 12 inches tall, there were thousands and thousands of big mosquitoes in the grass flying everywhere. When I seen this in my backyard it was early in the morning when the grass was all wet with the morning dew, it had not rained the night before, but my backyard had probably became a breeding ground for mosquitoes, Thankfully this has never happened again!
I place egg shells in a bucket, which attracts the laying of mosquito larva, and when I see them swimming around, I just dump the entire bucket out onto the hot pavement at noon and they all die. I use 3 buckets around the 1/2 acre, and check them every few days. Works great!
I retired in the Philippines I have a resort on the beach and my God there is mosquitoes but there never seems to be standing water just rains a lot I’m gonna try this 🇺🇸🇵🇭
First, thank you for your service, Sir. Second, thanks for this info, it is about to be mosquito season for me here in the northwest. They like to live in the long grass and the rocks where it is moist. If I give them an easy answer and remove them, hey it's a win.
Hi Mr. Kilted. Just want to thank you so much for your informative videos! I’m 68 & taking a stab at drywall tape. And frankly…I have no more shits to give when it comes to mosquitos!
Hi I already watched the video. Just came back to say it works so far. Thanks for sharing. There are so many dead mosquitoes in my buckets 🦟 I am able to go outside without seeing any of them flying around
@@ThatKiltedGuyDIY think about it-in nature, there is no reason for them to test the water, so there is no reason for suspicious action to have evolved with the species.
I have a zapper, dynatrap, 2 spartan mosquito eliminators, and 2 of the traps he describes here. I also now spray my tard monthly with cutter backyard bug control. I still have mosquitoes, but now it's bearable to go outside. I live in rural Florida so it's rare to get that much mosquito relief. I'm also looking at investing in a skeeter vac or the equivalent.
the In2Care trap is much better, because it coats the mosquito with a larvicide that it spreads to other egg laying sites in your yard, and a few days later kills the same mosquito. This way it stops the mosquitos breeding in puddles elsewhere in your yard, not just the traps you set up.
The fish method is good. I have 2, 50 cent “feeder” fish in a patio pond. 2 happy fish and dead mosquitos. I would say that’s two birds with one stone.
I would use black buckets. If you can put the bucket in a large box with the top of the box partially open much better. Mosquitos prefer dark objects and dark places . I used the white buckets at first and didn’t work very well .
Also, I read that 1 Bat eats thousands of insects a night, including mosquitos, so if you can, put up Bat Houses on your land and try to get a colony on your land.
It could be dangerous having bats around in colonies because when they bite humans you can’t even feel it, I have a friend that she found a bat in her house so they had to give her rabies shots because they don’t know if she got bit by the bat
I learned years ago to take vitamin B2 before mosquito season or if I was going to go any place that had a lot of mosquitoes, and it reduced the experience of being eaten up by mosquitoes by quite a bit. I actually heard it from a friend of mine because he knew I was going into South Africa to do some work. It did work quite well.
I use a few drops of dishwashing liquid in buckets full of water to catch the mosquitoes . Soapy water traps all flying bugs and insects and kills them.
One thing he didn't mention keep the grass mowed. Tall grass is ideally a great place for the female mosquito to lay eggs that lay dormant until Just Add Water (rain) .Them little leaf bowls where grass leaf fork off the stalk hold water after a rain.
I use 5-gallon buckets to collect rainwater. I tied mosquito netting across the mouth. This didn't prevent me from being fined by City Hall Health department after a Dengue outbreak. I reasoned with the person-in-charge that I was actually layimg a trap for the mosquitoes which will never escape and waste their reproductive efforts. this only got me a reduction in the fine. After listening to your idea, Let me propose a better one. Get a black bucket. Drill a hole in the bottom and attach a length of plastic tubing there. A piece of stiff wire will shape the tubing into a Bell Siphon. Pour candle wax until it covers the top of the opening in the tubing. Dig a short tunnel to the opening of the tubing. Suspend the bucket so that the bottom remains level and the opening to the tubing is the lowest point for water to flow to. Add enough water to cover the wax. Every 3 days, come along with a watering can and pour enough water to activate the siphon. Everything should drain away including the wrigglers. The ants will take care of them. Go around again and repeat this. 2 rounds of emptying should clear the bucket. One last round to add enough water as bait. No chemicals are required. I would suspend these buckets in shady areas like under a banana tree. Drain, set, repeat.
Good advice here. I'm one that mosquitoes love but, I don't believe that scientist should be messing around with their DNA. They've screwed up so many things that we now have to live and deal with. Besides, birds and fish eat a lot of mosquitoes. I do like this guy's approach better. Take care of the ones that are an imminent threat to you.
Jdelbrid: They are not a good food source. There are much better foods for birds and frogs. Also, is good for science to get rid of them, they carry diseases and cause serious harm.
I tried your method , and it works!!! I was blown away by how well it worked…. Like other people have said, it reduced my infestation by 90% ….. thank you….
Thanks, I’m always glad to hear that.
Did it really work???
Why would you ask such a thing? Are you suggesting he’s lying?
Can you do this inside of your home? I have a lot of plants and mosquitoes are really bad in my home.
@@juanitajones1994 I don’t see why not,,,, just too be extra cautious you should do smaller ones inside and then still add the ones outside. It couldn’t hurt.
I found your video before my last mosquito season. I used the mosquito dunks. In my back yard I used two 3 gallon buckets and in each placed one ring and 3/4 filled with water and some grass clippings and a few leaves. Each mosquito dunk ring lasts about a month. I have lived at this house for 30 years and this is the first time I could go outside on the 4th of July and not get bit/stung by any mosquitoes. Years ago I had to keep my mouth shut going outside because they would fly right in. WOW what a difference Thanks Kilted Guy.
Sting? Mosquitoes don't sting😂
Isn't one tablet for 50L of water? Why not break a tablet to many pieces?
@@RikiMartinee 3 gallons is about 11L of water and for that I've used 1/2 mosquito dunk every month. I did not break the dunk in smaller than in half and it worked just fine.
@@rickhall517930 The mosquitoes by my house don't have teeth and they don't bite.
I liked this comment when it had 69 likes, so I unliked it, so it would stay there. Just know that I liked the comment, though. Lol. I’m not going to be the one that rolls it to 70, though. 😂
A friend would put a large barrel under the downspout from his gutter. Put some small bait fish in it and hang a light above it. Mosquitoes would land on the water to lay eggs. Fish would then eat the mosquitoes and grow to bait size. The rain would keep the barrel filled.
Yew!! Nice one mate 😄
how would he prevent the mosquitos from biting him? i love this idea of working with nature
Cool bro
@@macauleywhite9407 I don't think that the mosquitoes can't still bite. This method as he said in the beginning "breaks the cycle" the adult mosquito doesn't live that long and therefore the breaking of the cycle kills them off. Placing the buckets around the area you want to protect helps in the reduction you are killing them before they can bite and by doing that you just knocked the protected area down a heck of a lot for each female doesn't just multiply she MULTIPLIES X100 SO KILLING those eggs from one mosquito let alone all those other biting itches you made your area idk 90% less than what you would have done by not killing the eggs. Understand it better now? I'm going to try this and heck if it takes setting up a fence of buckets I'm down! I hate mosquitoes they always bite me the most matter what I do or where I go :(
@@simplyraw1369How it working???
When I was a kid we used a plastic kiddie pool with soapy water and a mesh cover to keep birds and stuff from getting in. Mosquitoes would try to land on the water, but the Dawn disrupted the surface tension so they'd drown. Then every so often dump it out, rinse with the hose, refill. You don't even need much either, just like an inch of water.
@Kurt M. essential oil, could you please be more vague? Ffs!
Sounds like free fishing chum to me
I'm gonna try this! How much dawn soap do you use to ensure the water surface tension is affected? I plan to use a contractor's bucket 🪣
@@williamlee7782 Enough that you could wash something with it basically. If it cuts grease, it drowns skeeters. Edit: If it makes bubbles when you agitate it, you're golden.
@@JjClark-wz7eh LMAO
I can't tell you how amused I am with your palpable frustration. I've never seen FFS used but knew exactly what it was. I'm gonna be chuckling all day.
Peppermint oil or lavender oil work well.
Congratulations on the video. Here, where I live in Brazil, we are having problems with the mosquitoes that cause DENGUE. Official guidelines say to eliminate all pots, buckets and containers where mosquitoes could breed. Your orientation is just the opposite of that and certainly more correct. There is no point in trying to eliminate the containers, but rather leave them for the mosquitoes to lay their eggs, so that the reproductive cycle is interrupted. Perfect!! Thanks!!
Talk to Bill Gates... He weaponizes them constantly. Delivered by helicopter in 2023.
Amigo, qual larvicida você usou? Estou precisando muito! Valeu.
It makes perfect sense to not provide untreated incubators.
It does work!!! I just learned that black buckets work much much better!!!!! Thanks a million!
Brilliant. I'm TOTALLY doing this. I'm the one who gets bit a million times when other people say, "What mosquitos?" I'm like, WHAT???? scratching like a lunatic.
Me too, 3, and four b4 everybody!! Plus OFF is too expensive now and doesn't last as long as it used to. I think they're cheating on their fill line so..
Same here. They love my blood. I hate them.
I hope it works for you! My Type 1 diabetic son (now 48) is like that.
I hope it works for you! My Type 1 diabetic son (now 48) is like that.
they found mosquitos prefer a certain gene
Alot of people don't realize that their home guttering is a great place to breed mosquitos,If you go up on a ladder and look ,there is usually wet rotting leaves and water in them. A great place for mosquitos to breed and live..
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Wow! Never thought of that!
Thanks! 😃⚘🌞
Thanks. Now I have to clean my gutters..
Soooo, my neighbors gutters that have small trees growing in them 🫠👍
I plan to try this soon. Once minor modification would be to use a black bucket instead of a white one, mosquitoes prefer darker colored areas
@@trutwijd hmmm so it’s best to wear light colored clothes or white
A guy I used to play golf with got a bug zapper. He said, though it did kill lots of bugs, it attracted even more of them to his yard. So, he got rid of his and got each of his neighbors one for Christmas.😻
Funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣
BRILLIANT!
Not cool, lol.
LMAO! 😂
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Brakes the life cycle, brilliant!
Now if we could just put some of this in Congresses drinking water.
😂😂😂 Maybe some good cell will start to grow!!! They must stop allowing conflict of interest between govt agencies accepting money by dark sponsors! Same sponsor that announced viruses years ago...than we are at the point where, a CDC iscommissioning a crazy "study" a to a foreign country...and the other is ready with his OGM stoff...God only know what will happen to us longterm!!!
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I live in north central Wisconsin.
In the last 10 years we have all of these mosquito spraying businesses that have been spraying everywhere.....they are killing off birds,bees,dragon flies and butterflies and making people sick.Your ideas need to be presented to these businesses poisoning the area.I am amzed that the Dept. of natural resources allow this spraying.
Thanks for your info.
Cheers
Thanks, just never thought about providing them a "spot" to lay eggs. The perfect way to control them. From an Army Vet to an Air Force Vet, thank you for your service.
Thank you for your service as well.
I’ve used the mosquito dunks in the past with great success however it was in a situation where I knew the source of standing water for the larvae. With my current mosquito problem, I was uncertain of where they were laying eggs. I never thought of providing a source so thanks for sharing your idea.
Its just like providing food in a mouse trap if you have mice. Glad it works! I'll try it.
Eerily timely video… Sometimes I really wonder if there’s tech that can read our thoughts. Just bought a house in Florida and went out to water my plants for the very 1st time and just about got eaten alive out there! Going to Home Depot tmrw to try to find this and some buckets.
@@KosmicKaren the dunks really do help. Florida can be so humid that moisture will hang around in places providing them an alternative place to lay eggs instead of in your buckets but I think with you providing a consistent source, they should still be enticed. If you mix a light surfactant solution (dawn and water) and use a pump sprayer to spray a very light coating across your yard and property between rains, it will activate when it rains and will help prevent the mosquitoes from landing on the surface of any other source of standing water preventing them from laying their eggs elsewhere besides in your buckets. I hope you get to enjoy your garden.
@@KosmicKaren also, I highly recommended a product called Thermocell. I keep one on my patio and I have a personal unit I carry around when working in the woods. It 100% works!!!
@@b4uc2far95 thank you very much. I’ll look that up now. I definitely need something for sure!
You can also build a bat house and grow a colony of bats! According to the forest service, one bat can eat 1,000 mosquito sized insects in one hour!
The easiest way to build a bat house is just nail a sheet of plywood onto the side of a barn or the back of a billboard using some spacers. There are plenty of tips online, some are pretty fancy.
This is definitely the best way.
Bat shit is toxic to humans and can kill you
@@douglaswdb1335 But then you’d have bats. 🦇 Are they safe?
I just want to say thank you very much for this information. I came across this video early this year or late last year I can't remember but I did this method all summer this year and wow, just wow, what a difference it made in my life. It worked so well that I honestly could not believe it. I had mosquitos so bad for so many years and wasted so much money on half ass methods that barely did anything and then this. I saw over a 90 percent reduction in misquotes on my property of 1.5 acres. I can actually enjoy my yard and my garage now. Thank you again, if your having an issue do this asap.
Thanks, glad I could help you out 😎. And thanks for subscribing!
Yes I think the copper with the water make copper sulfate that kills the larvae. I live in Australia and we have a big problem with fly's and mosquitoes, so I also use this method.
How many buckets did you use for 1.5 acres?
@@balto7648 5
@@MrSpanishfly wait I didn't hear the part about copper where is that idea from?
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Question: Is it necessary to use 5 gal bucket & do you fill it with water (put a screen over it to protect other critters)?
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Anything that holds water works. Screens are a real good idea
I'm originally from SoCal-southern California, I moved to South Carolina and OMG I hate everything and yes the state bird is a mosquito... lol
and the bastards are smart and will attack you from behind our of your view 😳😳😳
but here it's not just mosquitos, it's every bug, ants, hornets, stink bugs, ticks, palmetto, it's endless, but every bug out here is on human growth hormone, good lord.
I've battled them for years but this year I got a concentrate from tractor supply and pump sprayer, and I must say, major results. I respray after rain and I haven't seen one anything which is good.
I have plans for ponds with mosquito fish, now that will be more natural but for now, I nuke em like the worthless US elected using defense budgets for war ..
You seemingly didn't know about barley Straw bundles soaked into your pond
Mosquitoes can also lay their eggs in wet grass and in you flower beds. Something I've learn from my parents is coffee grounds can actual stop the mosquito larvae from gestation. Every morning they'll sift the use coffee grounds either in the flower beds or lawn. The coffee grounds are also good for the soil. I will have to remember this trick to I have learned in this video.
Thanks!
Thanks for the amazing information....there are guys on the internet talking for a half hour (which is ridiculous) about how nice their yard is or ten minutes talking about their hose (wtf?). Then they all get down to the information which is buying $200 to $300 sprayers and showing you how to do it ! The simple person with a simple budget just wants the information for something simple and reasonable cost !
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I've been doing this for years. I have 6 to 8 buckets for my 3/4 acre property. I put 1/4 of one mosquito dunk in each bucket. I throw some soil and grass or a few leaves in the bucket as well to "age" the water as well. It seems the mosquitos like the "dirty" water better then the clean water. And again, the more buckets, the better, as I want them to breed in my buckets, and not a clogged rain gutter or tire swing...
I typically add another piece of the dunk to each bucket approximately every 30 days during the breeding season.
Great tip about the dirty water 👍
Drill a hole in the tire swing - you could even drill a tiny hole where water pools in your rain gutter.
Great news I'm going to try this. How much water do you put in the 5 gallon bucket?
@@aaajimmyb7472 About half full so there's calm air inside the bucket.
Don't use "tap" water to start.
Don't the mosquitoes you are attracting check in for a quick "bite" to eat?
I've been doing something like that for decades. I purposely leave standing water for the mosquitoes to lay eggs in. Once a week we drain the water and kill all the larva. I also used to keep a 50-gallon aquarium in the shade beside my house. We filled it with mosquitofish we'd catch in a pond. The fish breed like crazy. That worked great!
Thank you for putting out good information for people😊
Mosquitofish?!? TIL Mosquitofish are a thing! Can you add these to a semi private lake? Or is it a tank only kinda thing because invasive species & all that?
In California, many counties give them out free to anyone with ponds or even long-lasting mud holes. They really do a great job keeping the mosquitos down. They are very similar to guppies just not as colorful. I hand a small pond that I added them to and they survived all seasons. I am in the USDA zone 9.
@@LaceyR_FreeEricBrandt thanks I’ll propose it to my lake association. I’m sure if it’s allowed everyone on the lake would love & appreciate the reduced mosquitos!
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The skeeters will be more attracted to dark colored water buckets.
A black bucket with plain water is an ideal larva trap. Mosquitos that are landing on water are there to lay eggs. If there are already some larva in the water they are more likely to drop their eggs there. I keep smaller buckets about for the mosquitoes. Then when I see larva activity in the water I just dump the water out in the garden. I have large rain barrels too. When I see larva activity in those I apply some "mosquito bits" on the water surface. 6 hours later I can only find larva corpses.
I've been doing this for years and it has almost eliminated the mosquito population. Can't completely eliminate them because non-local skeeters ride in on the wind.
I used to go door to door reminding my neighbors to overturn all water vessels. But now I hang out a welcome sign for the skeeters with my water buckets, enticing them to lay eggs here, instead of wandering off to neighbors, where I have no control.
It's easier to see the larva at night with an underwater flashlight.
Warning: this can backfire if you don't check on the water buckets/barrels at least twice a week.
Agreed, the bucket needs to be black.
Would you suggest to not put the grass clippings on the water?
@@lucianodibiase1265 My comment said nothing about grass clippings
could always just put some dish soap on the surface of the water, so instead of them laying eggs, they just drown. And since their not that smart, others will still take a dip even if they see that others have died.
I'm gonna use a bit of dawn and a dunk that should do the trick quick
I use a mosquito magnet as well as a few 5 gallons cans with just a couple of gallons of dirty water then drop a mosquito dunk in them. Works great and I hardly have any trouble with mosquitos. Thanks for the info. FLY NAVY!!!
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it is said that a dark colored bucket will attract the skeetos which look for dark areas to hide in and to lay eggs in- old tires have tons of skeetos in them if there is some old water in them too- -
I use the buckets the same way, but i don't use nothing. i just dump the water out every other day works like a charm and its free. Water soaks into ground and the larve dry up and die.
Guiness
Now some needs to invent a bucket that dumps every other day
@@garybrown9719 Maybe convert/upscale automatic rain gauge.
And probably don't need much water in the buckets.
@@garybrown9719 Sounds like a job for an Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Propeller, etc.; motor; limit switches; digitally controlled water valve; and some miscellaneous hardware to put it all together.
@@TheKuptis or just a really slow drip into a bucket setup to tilt at a certain fill level then returns upright after dumping.
I've been using mosquito bits for years along with dunks, had never thought of using it as traps! Setting this up this weekend! Thanks!
Same here! Daaaaaa
I came to this realization this spring when I saw hundreds of skeeter larvae in a bucket... I put 4 white buckets with water/dunks in them in the shade around my property. I've been using dunks for my outdoor sump pump for a couple years. The traps seem to work!!! Skeeters are way fewer!!! The dunks work a long time.... I used white buckets so I could see any life in there and check them a couple times a week. Now going on the third month and still NO skeeters in the water!!
Kudos on a great idea that works!!!!
Though you can see them easier in a white bucket, mosquitos are much more attracted to black buckets. Use a bright flashlight to see into the water to check for larvae.
This is a great example of rethinking an old problem and coming up with a excellent solution. Thank you.
Thank you, we have been doing this for years.
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Thank you so much I live in deep south Alabama mosquitos are super thick have tried everything over the years putting out the 5 gal buckets in the shade hidden in bushes around the edges of the property, I think there are 12. I put a quarter of a dunk in each one once a month and this has been the best outdoor season as long as I have lived here. This works so good and only like 3 bucks a month, it rains so much here don't really have to top off the buckets with water.
Awesome!
@@ThatKiltedGuyDIY folks can even go to places where they are building houses and get the 5gal buckets for free used 5gal paint buckets
I used the mosquitoes dunk product when I had a pool at my house, it did it’s job and like you said it would kill the lava before they could hatch. Boy I got tired cleaning my pool everyday it was a job, it also killed other bugs that landed in the pool. After 5 years of having the pool I finally took it down. What a relief this was. We enjoyed the pool while my grandkids were young but as they got older the pool was not interesting to them anymore. Thank God, I do still have problems with mosquitoes I live not far from the delta, I like the bucket ideal and will start using this technic , I’ll let you know the results of this as soon as I get my buckets in place, Thanks for the ideal….😎
I suppose you didn't know that you're supposed to chlorinate a pool. Stop mosquitoes all day long like magic put chlorine in the pool no mosquitoes, BAM!!!
Kirk Schoolfield: Thanks 🙏 for that explanation of chlorine in the pool, I don't have a pool but I am happy to KNOW!! 💐 Also, the buckets & dunk probably still a good idea to get rid of them outside of the pool area...
Great tips!! Imagine if everyone on earth put out 4 buckets each like you do. We could greatly reduce their numbers.
And then all the animals that eat mosquitoes will starve.
@@sandpquan no. Those animals have many other options.
Great idea using those dunks in a “bait” bucket. I’ve been using them in the woods in low areas that hold water.
Does it work on gnats no see umns?
You can spread some in plants with gnats
@Kurt M. when I turn my compost, I pitch in some diatomaceous earth.
Great for killing bugs and their life stages but doesn't harm earthworms.
I actually use it all over the place, it's fantastic for just about everything!
When I use to raise aquarium fish I would put barrels of water out for mosquitoes to lay eggs in the go out and scoop all the larvae up to feed my fish they made a good treat for them
Very helpful, and thank you for discouraging chemicals!!
Right! I have been looking for a way to control mosquitos and other pests that WONT be detrimental to the rest of my micro ecosystem bc I don't want to kill my newts salamanders frogs etc on my property. I don't think people understand how much all these chemicals effects everything else
Need to put these in mosquitoe state park in Pennsylvania
uhm mosquito dunks ARE chemicals? what about that?
Worth a shot. I’m surrounded by trees and can’t step outside without beings surrounded by a cloud of blood suckers.
me too they love to hang out in my forest of bamboo which are too invasive to ever get rid of ... i can be outside 5 seconds and get bit.
@@ooohlaa13 I had tenant plant some bamboo at one of my rentals.....Good lord.....you can't get rid of them
@@johngatsby1473 its a nightmare ... especially if you bought the REALLY wrong one which is the running AND clumping variety, they are everywhere, I have another that's just clumping so those just get a bigger and bigger clump but stay in place. Stay away everyone from the running AND clumping. It sure is beautiful though.
@@ooohlaa13 we planted the clumping ONLY bamboo (39th° parallel ks). One type lives thru the winter. The other 4 that are 'supposed' to get 20 ft high, died back the past 2 winters. They are coming back, but almost June 1st and there are only a few shoots coming up.
@@digimom82 here in North Central FL they NEVER die back. My sister in law in Northern NJ has huge canes that are also a nuisance but just clumping variety so she's lucky it doesn't travel like mine. I also have invasive elderberry plants that are taking over and shampoo ginger very invasive. Its a lotta lotta work LOL!
I live in rural Northeastern Ontario, Canada (in a densely forested part of the Boreal forest). For years now I've been doing a similar thing. I put several wooden barrels at the edges of my property that I fill with water in May (the snow usually doesn't melt until early May around here so that's when I fill my barrels). Then I go to the pet store and buy some feeder fish (goldfish work the best). For about a week or two I'll sprinkle a bit of fish food or even a slice of bread will do the trick, just until the mosquitoes are active. Once the mosquitoes are out they will always lay their eggs on the surface of the water in the barrels. The fish will eat all of their eggs. I go the entire summer and fall without feeding the fish yet they grow large and survive just fine on the eggs. I even scoop out some of the water occasionally and I use it in my gardens as the fish excrement is a great substitute for all natural miracle grow/plant food. Just add new water afterwards to keep the water level in the barrels high. I noticed a huge difference in the amount of mosquitoes on my property after doing this and I've been doing it every year ever since. Once winter rolls around dump out the barrels and let the fish die (never release gold fish into a lake, river or stream). I dump mine into the woods and the fish usually get eaten by other animals within 24 hours.
i dont have access to goldfish. but maybe i can find cat fish. then i can either eat them, or if they die i can bury them in my garden.
I've been wanting to make something similar (using guppies/platties instead) but I can't let them die at winter 😩
Nice job!
Love it, love it perfect solution for Mosquitos and garden . Thank you for sharing.
Have you had problem with bears pay you a visit because of those traps?
@@bobblinka8997 no, there's endless forest around here so there's lots for the bears to eat elsewhere. In autumn I usually dump the fish about a 1/2 kilometer into the woods from my property because that would be the only time of year they might get close but I haven't had any issues with bears. One time I caught a raccoon on one of the barrels but I scared him off and he never came back.
@@jizzaymz Thank you for reply and perfect idea to deal with inconvients around yard. It's best solution to have little crechers in control all summer long.. Have a good day.
Thanks for the tips. I’m a licensed exterminator in Southern California and we have a product called In2care that uses similar buckets. Placing one bucket at each corner of the property. Seems like a great method. I’ve only been placing one and haven’t been getting much results. I’ll also have to try that product and compare it. Thanks again and God bless.
I enjoyed watching this video because I imagined myself already getting rid of my mosquitoe problem. Thank you very much!
I'm so thankful! We just sprayed 15 big mosquitos after dinner tonight. I saw your video & just ordered the "mosquito dunks " on Amazon! They'll be here tomorrow 😃
I have minnows in our ponds. They have done well to keep mosquitos from hatching.
They also eat the larvae after they hatch, just in case they missed any of the eggs.
I bought some carnivorous plants for inside the house so that has helped. Now I gotta do this for the outside. Thank you
I have been using this for several years since I found it, it really works.
Yes, makes perfect sense! Great tutorial. Thank you. I am going to do this! And, from one Air Force Veteran to another, thank you for your service.
Thank you for your service as well.
The BTI bacteria in the MOSSIE DUNKS can be replicated in large numbers by pouring some of the pellets into
a COCONUT then sealing it up. Two weeks later the BTI in the dunks have multiplied multiple fold - The dunks are very expensive
and using coconuts to multiply them saves a lot of money
What's a coconut and where can I find it?
Do you mean pellets for heating or something else?
Thank you for info. I love to make home stuff instead buying commercially made products. Have a great day.
@@Asiansxsymbol are you seriously asking what a coconut is?
A fresh coconut 🥥 ? With or without the milk ? Seal it up with ....? Coconut 🥥 📼
tape ? Duct tape ? Two weeks @ 82 °F ?
Ironically ( syncronisticly.... serendipitously
?????? ) I just opened a fresh coconut 🥥 for the 1st time in months & am chewing the meat as I read this..... unfortunately though
its' husk was smashed into 17 pieces.....
oh well ....THANKS 👍 FOR THE TIPS !!!
@@sarahturps1384 What truly is a coconut ?
It bares no comparison to cocoa , cocaine ,
covid , corn , comedy ( ok it's a funny word )
cockatoos , chock-fullanuts , coffee , etc ...
So .... WHERE DID the enigmatic 🥥 come from ? ( I ABSOLUTELY have to try innoculating one just to see......)
Wisdom from an old timer I never take lightly!!!!!!!
I’m retired & live in Bangkok, Thailand. We turn on the outside strip light throughout the night, initially for security but we noticed that it attracted mosquitoes & also lots of tiny gecko’s feasting on them. There is a lot of water here & it’s tropical so lots of mosquitoes. I like how you deal with them so I will be looking out for mosquito dunks the next time I’m in town.
Saw the same thing in Orlando Florida. Hundreds of anoles clinging to the outside of the motel's brick walls under the soffit lights that attract the bugs during the night. I was amazed at how many of the little lizards there were and how many bugs they eating!
Gecko lifehack😂
The BTI bacteria in the MOSSIE DUNKS can be replicated in large numbers by pouring some of the pellets into
a COCONUT then sealing it up. Two weeks later the BTI in the dunks have multiplied multiple fold - The dunks are very expensive
and using coconuts to multiply them saves a lot of money
@@MrEagleeye58 do you have a video or article about this? Do I use a fresh coconut or old coconut?
@@johnnylee187 Fresh coconut, you can check youtube plenty of videos from Kerela
i'd recommend to add some dish soap on the surface of the water, this means if the mosquitos try to land to lay eggs, they drown. I don't think their smart enough to stop to think if they see one drown. Currently i got a black bucket setup with yeast in it to create co2 put in a dark corner, it's currently raining every day so i need something to entice them, yeast is a good option.
I have 15 - 55gal buckets of standing water I use to water my plants and i put a little bit of mosquito bits in each of them and I have TONS of mosquitoes -- I"ve been checking them for over a week and NOT ONE OF THEM HAVE LARVAE in them - Not a 1 -- Awesome feed!!!!!!
Probably the most innovative video this year. Sweet and simple just the way I like it. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this info!!! I have resorted to a mosquito service that I actually cannot afford each month! This gives me another option!!!!
Great to see you Kilted Guy! Love this solution, I tried the dunks but never thought of putting them in buckets 🤯 can’t wait to try this and enjoy my outdoor space 😏
THANK YOU! I hate the chemical sprays and I've being blood let by the huge amount of mosquitoes this year from all our rain. Bless You!
Just a warning don’t be surprised if mosquito bits stop working in some areas. In Humboldt county the mosquitos and fungus gnats adapted to the bits and have pretty big survival rates
The dunks sound like the way to go - we're getting some tomorrow!
Thanks! Yes, mosquitos are always a problem and I'm always looking for safe and better ways to get rid of them.
Glad to help
Thanks so much!!!!!
I live in Houston. Mosquitoes are everywhere here. Those bits work really well.
I throw those around my yard where it floods. Under the house. Around the plants
How large of yard does this cover? I have 10 acres but I would like to cover at least an acre
I usually don't have time to do much around my house because of close neighbors. This seems to be a real good idea. I will try it.
As for working outside mosquitos swarm me. So I put peppermint oil on exposed skin areas, a little on my hair and around my ankles to discourage chiggers. I'm in Texas. The other neat thing about doing this is if it's say 95° or 100° it makes it feel like only 70° for about 20 or 30 minutes once it takes effect which is only a few minutes. Try it regardless of the pests and it smells wonderful.
Cannot tell you how excited I am to try this!! Buckets are out and loaded with mosquito dunk!
Never heard of mosquito dunks but I'll try my garden centre thank you for the information, all the best to you and your loved ones
I have been using this product for years on the farm in the animal water tanks. Works great
place a coarse, mesh "lid" over that bucket, to keep small animals, birds, and large animals out of the bucket!!!
Genius 🥰
Great. I was just asking that question. My problem is the unsightly buckets...
Paint them or camouflage them.
@@noeldeal8087 paint them before hand
You don't have to cover a bucket or anything else because if you read on the bottle it says can be applied to areas or in contact with humans, animals, horses, livestock, pets, birds, or wildlife. Do not apply to finished, treated drinking water sources. Otherwise covering a bucket up would have been a very good idea.
In the UK those dunks cost a fortune, cheaper to buy a load of guppies from my local tropical fish shop. They love mosquito larva. You'll need to bring them indoors autumn time.
I live in a tropical jungle and this is one of the best way to control them.
I find the bucket technique will only work with dark color buckets. (The Blue Box Store buckets get 100x the mosquitoes than the Orange Box Store , or white, buckets do.)
Citronella plants and Marigolds are all over my deck every year . Also a 3 foot border of Marigolds all around the house . Very pretty and maintenance free . Rarely ever get bit while enjoying my deck even during peak season .
For years I have been doing this. First time I see someone else is now doing it.
Rain water is best to use, if chlorinated , it takes a while for the water to clear and be appetizing for the mosquito. I throw a hand full of yard debris plus dirt in mine. I am also working on a theory of mine...if the evening is a few degrees COOLER then the last, there will be no mosquitos out. Anyone else discover this?
I read that mosquittoes can lay their eggs on greenery (leaves of bushes & trees). I live in a desert environment where there is no standing water, and we still have them.
Mosquitoes are like many creatures and they look for the easiest way to get the job done. If there’s a big wide-open bucket of water, that’s going to attract them more than a tiny little drop of water on leaves and that’s why this works well.
Mosquitos prefer to land in and breed in dark water. Use or make the buckets black or dark green. Line it with a black trash bag even. (Like a pond or swamp would be)
Tractor supply has larger containers of this product about $15 for 32oz shaker containers. 9-4-2020
Thank you for your service Sir! My son just got out of the Air Force. I so appreciate this information greatly! I have a farm where I grow food and mosquitoes are everywhere they showed up a week ago it’s so hard to garden due to the mosquitoes. I will go pick these dunks up and some new buckets and try this! Thank you so much! Have a blessed day! Again Thank you very much for your service! Wendy🌺🌸🐞🦋🌷
I love this ‘ thank you 🙏 for your service ‘ we can all learn Graciousness from
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@@estatebrokervirtualtours5778 Agriculture is destroying the planet. It is very frustrating how much misinformation there is on this topic. Grazing can actually sequester far more carbon than forests at a much, much faster rate. If we grazed animals on a large enough scale, we could actually mitigate all human emissions. Growing plants can not do this. Plant agriculture uses massive amounts of fossil fuels and unlike grazing cattle, it doesn't mitigate its own emissions. The soil microbiome is killed with chemicals and that dead soil is lost rapidly, causing complete land infertility and desertification. Grazing animals is the fastest way to replenish these lands, bring the microbes back, give nutrients back, rehydrate, break up impaction, and build soil faster than any other process. It would take nature decades to build the amount of soil made in a couple of yrs of Grazing.
How did it work out?
@@LBizKid04 I haven’t been able to find the mosquito dunks so I have not tried this yet. Seems supplies aren’t hard to get. I want to.
@@hardnackfarms1736 I see there's some at our local menards. Where do you live?
Thanks so very much! Years ago I used those in my pond but it never occurred to me to use them this way. Best wishes to you and yours❣️
There is a great product. It uses a Propane canister, like a 20 pounder. The small flame provides the carbon dioxide that they follow back to their prey. They get to the source, and a vacuum pulls them into a net. It clears like a half acre.
Had one. Broke in 2 months and didn’t rid them all as the others still laid their eggs. And it’s VERY expensive, My method isn’t
@@ThatKiltedGuyDIY Thanks.
I have open rain barrels to water my organic garden. I attached screens on top to keep frogs out and I put FEEDER FISH inside them to eat any larvae before it hatches. The fish byproducts also provide nutrient benefits to the garden. You're welcome.
The worst mosquito areas I've see are in damp areas in woods with no standing water. In water the lava are easy prey for fish and frogs. In open areas swallows eat the adults along with bats at night. I agree - the dunks work.
There must be some standing water somewhere around the area, or they couldn't breed. They can't lay their eggs in the trees, LOL! They have to have the water. You just must not be aware of whare the water is, is all.
A couple of years ago when I had a broken down mower, I seen some thing that I never knew before, my grass in my backyard was probably at least 8 to 12 inches tall, there were thousands and thousands of big mosquitoes in the grass flying everywhere. When I seen this in my backyard it was early in the morning when the grass was all wet with the morning dew, it had not rained the night before, but my backyard had probably became a breeding ground for mosquitoes, Thankfully this has never happened again!
@@MaryAnnNytowl they can use water captured on leaves in a damp area
@@pamelav.5699 that's fucking terrifying
Fr one species will lay its eggs in dips and divets in the soil where the eggs remain dorment til the next rain.
This is the first year in over 10 years that I am getting bit by mosquitos. Thank you for the video.
They waited for you to cure first.
I'm confused... you mean not bit lol
@@steffersnation442 Sorry I have not been bitten by mosquito in the last 10 years, this past year they have been tearing me up.
I place egg shells in a bucket, which attracts the laying of mosquito larva, and when I see them swimming around, I just dump the entire bucket out onto the hot pavement at noon and they all die. I use 3 buckets around the 1/2 acre, and check them every few days. Works great!
On a program I saw, the cemetery caretaker used stripped copper wire pieces in the flower vases to control mosquito larvae.
Thank you! It can be just one in my yard and it will bite me. Great info. I’m gonna try it!
Thanks man appreciate your advice... very useful tip, I'm gonna go to home depot and buy me some buckets now.
I retired in the Philippines I have a resort on the beach and my God there is mosquitoes but there never seems to be standing water just rains a lot I’m gonna try this 🇺🇸🇵🇭
I used baking soda with water in a five gallon bucket, it works great 1/4 cup per Five gallons.
will this work with the no-see-ums ? they are so small you can't even see them; and yet they pack a bad bite.
First, thank you for your service, Sir.
Second, thanks for this info, it is about to be mosquito season for me here in the northwest. They like to live in the long grass and the rocks where it is moist. If I give them an easy answer and remove them, hey it's a win.
Hi Mr. Kilted. Just want to thank you so much for your informative videos! I’m 68 & taking a stab at drywall tape. And frankly…I have no more shits to give when it comes to mosquitos!
Thanks, I appreciate that 😎, & Thanks for subscribing!
Hi I already watched the video. Just came back to say it works so far. Thanks for sharing. There are so many dead mosquitoes in my buckets 🦟 I am able to go outside without seeing any of them flying around
Works good I also put a teaspoon in a gallon of plant water every couple months stops gnats great !
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A little bit of soap in the water has the same effect. The mosquitos land on the water, but can’t stand on it, and they drown.
I would think that they would test the water surface and if there’s no water tension that they would just fly away.
@@ThatKiltedGuyDIY think about it-in nature, there is no reason for them to test the water, so there is no reason for suspicious action to have evolved with the species.
Thank you in June 2023 from North Texas! I will try this om my mosquito ingested property and get back to you.
Thank you for your service.
I have a zapper, dynatrap, 2 spartan mosquito eliminators, and 2 of the traps he describes here. I also now spray my tard monthly with cutter backyard bug control. I still have mosquitoes, but now it's bearable to go outside. I live in rural Florida so it's rare to get that much mosquito relief. I'm also looking at investing in a skeeter vac or the equivalent.
the In2Care trap is much better, because it coats the mosquito with a larvicide that it spreads to other egg laying sites in your yard, and a few days later kills the same mosquito. This way it stops the mosquitos breeding in puddles elsewhere in your yard, not just the traps you set up.
Where can I buy this?
The fish method is good. I have 2, 50 cent “feeder” fish in a patio pond. 2 happy fish and dead mosquitos. I would say that’s two birds with one stone.
I would use black buckets.
If you can put the bucket in a large box with the top of the box partially open much better.
Mosquitos prefer dark objects and dark places . I used the white buckets at first and didn’t work very well .
Also, I read that 1 Bat eats thousands of insects a night, including mosquitos, so if you can, put up Bat Houses on your land and try to get a colony on your land.
Skeeter are like flying rattlesnakes 1 bite.
It could be dangerous having bats around in colonies because when they bite humans you can’t even feel it, I have a friend that she found a bat in her house so they had to give her rabies shots because they don’t know if she got bit by the bat
@@mr.robinson1982
That was started by Hillary and Nancy Pelosi...
*Survival of their Species !*
@@pamelav.5699
I agree!!!
Rats eat snails , opposum eat snails 😁
I learned years ago to take vitamin B2 before mosquito season or if I was going to go any place that had a lot of mosquitoes, and it reduced the experience of being eaten up by mosquitoes by quite a bit. I actually heard it from a friend of mine because he knew I was going into South Africa to do some work. It did work quite well.
I have heard that...and I take loads of vitamin B complex...and mosquitos don't bother me near as much as they do everyone else.
In Australia we eat Vegemite.....vitamin B salty spread.
I use a few drops of dishwashing liquid in buckets full of water to catch the mosquitoes . Soapy water traps all flying bugs and insects and kills them.
My body oozes B vitamins because I take a B50 every day. The mosquitoes still swarm and bite when I go outside.
@@chloemartel9927 not enough B2!
One thing he didn't mention keep the grass mowed. Tall grass is ideally a great place for the female mosquito to lay eggs that lay dormant until Just Add Water (rain) .Them little leaf bowls where grass leaf fork off the stalk hold water after a rain.
Im going to try this thank you
After the Camp Fire in Paradise CA, there were many swimming pools intact....used a lot of dunks.
I use 5-gallon buckets to collect rainwater. I tied mosquito netting across the mouth. This didn't prevent me from being fined by City Hall Health department after a Dengue outbreak. I reasoned with the person-in-charge that I was actually layimg a trap for the mosquitoes which will never escape and waste their reproductive efforts. this only got me a reduction in the fine. After listening to your idea, Let me propose a better one. Get a black bucket. Drill a hole in the bottom and attach a length of plastic tubing there. A piece of stiff wire will shape the tubing into a Bell Siphon. Pour candle wax until it covers the top of the opening in the tubing. Dig a short tunnel to the opening of the tubing. Suspend the bucket so that the bottom remains level and the opening to the tubing is the lowest point for water to flow to. Add enough water to cover the wax. Every 3 days, come along with a watering can and pour enough water to activate the siphon. Everything should drain away including the wrigglers. The ants will take care of them. Go around again and repeat this. 2 rounds of emptying should clear the bucket. One last round to add enough water as bait. No chemicals are required. I would suspend these buckets in shady areas like under a banana tree. Drain, set, repeat.
@Kurt M. Someone along the road was treated for Dengue. The doctor reported it. They sent a squad around to check.
Good advice here. I'm one that mosquitoes love but, I don't believe that scientist should be messing around with their DNA. They've screwed up so many things that we now have to live and deal with. Besides, birds and fish eat a lot of mosquitoes. I do like this guy's approach better. Take care of the ones that are an imminent threat to you.
@@NoNORADon911 Exactly. Who know what species would be negatively impacted if that food source were gone?
@@ottovonbismarck6310 No, they are not a good food source, they carry diseases. Birds cam eat better things; so can frogs.
Jdelbrid: They are not a good food source. There are much better foods for birds and frogs. Also, is good for science to get rid of them, they carry diseases and cause serious harm.
@@karenoogjenbiserni1201 I was taught each species has valuable contributions to the ecosystem.
@@ottovonbismarck6310 where do you live?