elucidator, have you considered putting up a bat house? Bats are Nature’s way of telling mosquitoes not to get cocky. A single bat can eat thousands of mosquitos each week. Small bat houses have room for around a dozen bats and larger models can hold hundreds.
You can buy the houses at most gardening stores. There’s lots of places online too. I don’t know what kind of bats you have up in Minnesota. Brown bats, probably. A local gardening group or university would be able to tell you about attracting some bats to your yard.
Of course, then you have the problem of getting rid of the bats, for that I think you’ll find eagles usefull, now, to get rid of the eagles you’ll need…
It certainly sounds like elucidator’s mosquitoes are immediately available. Aside from that, bats don’t target mosquitoes but they certainly do eat them. There’s a few species (like the Big Brown Bat) that target larger insects, but not all of them, by any means. The Little Brown Bateats small flying nocturnal insects, including mosquitoes, and is comfortable flying in vegetation or around the edges of bodies of water. (Fruit bats and the rare vampire bat don’t show up in Minnesota.) Both the Little and Big brown bats are aerial hunters. They are common in Minnesota.
A healthy colony of mosquito predators won’t destroy all the mosquitoes in an area but it can make a difference in maintaining a balanced environment.
But, I digress. The bat idea is suitably organic, and therefore appealing. But first and foremost, I want them dead. If I could also hear shrill screams of mosquito agony, so much the better. But dead.
have you tried gasoline and styrene? maybe with the sound track to “apocalypse now” playing on the stereo or something to set the mood.
maybe have the fire dept. on speed dial just in case. no I am NOT advocating arson, just trying to help out and napalm was mentioned earlier…
Thanks. Now I’ll be singing this while treating my backyard with bug stuff. We’re building a fence next weekend and I’ll be using some sort of bug killing stuff beforehand. But I’ll be singing this.