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Recommended housepets to rid one's house of mosquitoes
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.. the spiders don't seem to be able to cut the mustard.
Maybe a bat or something?
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My sig is 1 pixel too big.
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"You rise," he said, "like Aurora."
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A cat will take care of it.
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Originally Posted by Stradlater
Screens?
No no, that would keep them from escaping.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Pitcher plants and venus fly traps?
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Maybe some frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their frickin' heads?
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"Hello, what have we here?
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Why don't you quit letting them in the house?
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Originally Posted by TETENAL
A cat will take care of it.
Very true. Our cat loves to catch and eat moths.
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Moths aren't the problem.
( btw )
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Try closing the door more quickly.
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Cats will eat mosquitos too. They'll eat any kind of bug in my experience.
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Originally Posted by itai195
Cats will eat mosquitos too. They'll eat any kind of bug in my experience.
Yeah. Moths are just the only ones we have in our apartment thankfully.
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Join Date: Sep 2000
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Get some sticky tape from Home depot.
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(
Last edited by paul w; Sep 18, 2006 at 04:22 PM.
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2nd vote on dragonflies. Just the sound of their wings is enough to scare them away.
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The obvious issue is that if you bring in something new you'll have to get rid of it.
Eventually you have to figure out how to get rid of the alligator in your bed.
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-"I don't believe in God. "
"That doesn't matter. He believes in you."
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Originally Posted by invisibleX
Eventually you have to figure out how to get rid of the alligator in your bed.
That's easy, when winter comes it will freeze to death. Duh
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Ok, you saw it coming: GET A FREAKIN TURTLE !!!1111!!!!1oneoneeleventybillion
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Second on the Venus' flytraps. Last year my wife and I tried this when we had a fruit-fly problem. It worked great.
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You are in Soviet Russia. It is dark. Grue is likely to be eaten by YOU!
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I had native gecko-like lizards in my house in Panama and never saw any bugs except ants (I guess the lizards didn't like ants). They didn't ever even catch the cats' attention, just hung out on the ceiling and apparently ate well.
The problem with the Venus flytrap is that they're slow and have a very small coverage range. You'd need eleventybillion of 'em all over the house to eventually rid yourself of mosquitos.
And stickytape is built for flys; it has bait for flys, not mosquitos.
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Plant a Neem tree in a pot in the house, close to where they gate crash. Better still outside the front door, it will stop them queuing up to get in.
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do you have a pond in your house?
where are the mozzys coming from?
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if you are in the northeast, you'll know about skin so soft
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dragonflies are a great idea, although a mosquito hawk would be your best bet.
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Originally Posted by ironknee
if you are in the northeast, you'll know about skin so soft
that stuff hasn't worked in years. to ward off mosquitos, I mean. I suppose it still moisturizes skin.
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Originally Posted by what_the_heck
Ok, you saw it coming: GET A FREAKIN TURTLE !!!1111!!!!1oneoneeleventybillion
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Calm down...
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i know..but 10 years ago i believed the myth and it worked!!
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Originally Posted by alligator
How about an alligator?
YES! I was clicking on this thread thinking, "Wouldn't it be funny if alligator recommended an alligator?"
My day has been made early, my friends.
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You could always buy one of those nifty mosquito traps all the scientists use, for like $10K.
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Get a "Skeeter-Vac" ! Venus Flytraps really aren't supposed to trap Mosquitos because they are too small. A trap is only supposed to close and re-open about 6-7 times before dying. They realy like large flies, daddy longlegs(Harvester's actually) and the more fat juicy bugs. They get their nutriants from the bugs because they naturally live in crappy soil. I used to raise these for commercial use in the mid 1970's. Perhaps Droseria's and sundews would be a better trapper. Droseria's were great trapping gnats.
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Preying Mantis's... you can order a couple hundred (or thousand) babies that are frozen, for not much cash at all. Once they "recover" you'll have plenty that survive to kill / eat bugs.
I actually know a woman at work who did this.
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yep.
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Geckos take care of most bugs and mozzies.
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