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New neighbor uncovered pool - lipskidder - 07-03-2010
So the mosquitos are multipying because the neighbor just set up a large pool and leaves it uncovered - right next to our fence. The kids are getting eaten up alive and West Nile is popping up here again.
Any ideas on what I can use on our side of the fence to either catch them or keep them away?
Re: New neighbor uncovered pool - spacescape - 07-03-2010
If they are breading it sounds like they need to get someone there to find out why... I'm not a pool expert though.
Re: New neighbor uncovered pool - lipskidder - 07-03-2010
I don't know if the didn't treat it or not but the bugs are definitely multiplying much more than previous years. They are even coming in the house now and we never had that problem before.
Re: New neighbor uncovered pool - freeradical - 07-03-2010
I've never heard of mosquitos breeding in a pool that's being maintained.
This does happen in pools that are collecting rainwater in homes that are not being lived in such as foreclosures etc.
Re: New neighbor uncovered pool - OWC Jamie - 07-03-2010
I don't know what the cover on the pool would do for mosquitos.
If they are using the pool and maintaining it chemically there shouldn't be any mosquitos larvae in it.
They need fairly stagnant water.
If the pool is essentially abandoned I'd go to home depot or the equivalent and get some donut dunks and toss one or two in there when they weren't looking. Storm drains in the street can be breeding pools, too.
I have to dump my bird baths every Saturday and start over with fresh water or they'd be breeding pools.
All they need is a coffee can with an inch of water for about a week to ten days.
It's usually all the small things in yards (including backed up gutters) collecting little pools of water that mosquitos find attractive.
Swamps and small ponds with no hungry fish are a pita, too.
Re: New neighbor uncovered pool - AlphaDog - 07-03-2010
They "set up" a large pool? So I assume that means an above ground. I'm thinking it may have a slow leak, and the mosquitoes are breeding somewhere on the ground around the pool rather than in it. Possible? Do you not have some kind of health authority in charge of the campaign against West Nile? I'd contact them, too, because keeping the skeets out of your house is important, but maybe of even more importance is cutting down on the spread of the disease.
Re: New neighbor uncovered pool - mattkime - 07-03-2010
having grown up in wisconsin, it strikes me as ridiculous that its possible to significantly control the mosquito population.
Re: New neighbor uncovered pool - Doc - 07-03-2010
If they covered the pool, rainwater would make puddles in the cover and then you'd have even more mosquitoes.
> Any ideas on what I can use on our side of the fence to either
> catch them or keep them away?
Try growing lemongrass around your windows and doors.
Re: New neighbor uncovered pool - Psurfer - 07-03-2010
Get some chlorine (tablets, or better liquid), and casually toss over property line into pool.
Re: New neighbor uncovered pool - Ombligo - 07-03-2010
A half gallon of chlorine dumped into the pool will solve the situation , alternatively a gallon of bleach will work too.