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Mula
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Mosquito Magnets
Does anyone use a Mosquito Magnet in Baja?
With the Octenol or Lurex 3 attractant?
Are they worth it?
$340 with a season worth of accessories: CO2 cartridges, attractant and nets.
Can you buy them anywhere in BCS?
[Edited on 8-21-2012 by Mula]
To correct spelling!!??!
[Edited on 8-21-2012 by Mula]
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Bob and Susan
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are there mosqui-toes in loretoo
mulege doesnt have those 
we have nets over our beds...they REALLY work
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Mula
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We are at the summer place in Lopez Mateos.
I need a bug killer for the yard and the mules lot.
Have black fly traps and they work well with the fish bait, but am worried about the mosquitoes after all this rain last week.
Have the bed nets at the San Nicolas place, but they don't work too well for my husband and his chihuahua, Candy.
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msteve1014
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My wife is a mosquito magnet, bees too. If it flies, and stings or bites, it goes right to her. Does that count?
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Mula
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No. your wife doesn't count, but I am happy - because my husband is a bug magnet too so the bugs leave me pretty much alone when he is around.
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danaeb
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Hi Mula - I'm a mosquito magnet myself. My friends love me. I thought I'd do a little research, since I'm always looking for solutions, too.
This website has some information, but also several PDF links to Public Health studies on different methods of control:
http://www.consumersearch.com/mosquito-traps
[Edited on 8-22-2012 by danaeb]
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it.
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captkw
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CANDY====SWEETY !!
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Ateo
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DEET!!!
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bajamedic
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For what it is worth, I spent $300 for mine (NOB), I would have been money ahead to give the grandkids a fly swater and a $1 bounty for eace one they
killed, a total waste of money IMHO. JH
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BajaBruno
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There has been some encouraging research on using a boric acid and sugar solution spray on vegetation to control mosquitos. These chemicals are cheap,
available everywhere, and harmless to people and pets.
See here for an abstract of one study: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2987/8756-971X(2006)22%5B497:AOBABT%5D2.0.CO%3B2
You'll have to copy and paste that link, as it seems to be too long. Bottom line is you combine 1% boric acid and 5% sugar in a solution and spray it
around. Experiments show about 80% death rate for mosquitos within 48 hours, with the effects lasting about one week. Cheap and effective.
Christopher Bruno, Elk Grove, CA.
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Mulegena
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Cal from the ferreteria
How about spreading some calcium carbonate around the area-- right now, while the ground's still wet?
"Raise your words, not your voice. It's rain that grows flowers, not thunder." ~Rumi
"It's the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." ~ Aristotle
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bajaguy
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Garlic and Olive Oil
Eat plenty of both an you will not have a mosquito problem.
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durrelllrobert
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajamedic
For what it is worth, I spent $300 for mine (NOB), I would have been money ahead to give the grandkids a fly swater and a $1 bounty for eace one they
killed, a total waste of money IMHO. JH |
My son-inlaw lives in Edmonton Albert Canada where the have REAL misquitos. He bought that machine and placed it about 50 feet away from his patio. No
more misquito bites on anyone sitting on patio and when he repaces the liqui attraction fluid there are hundreds, if not thousands of dead misquites
in the bottom Pricey but well worth it IMHO.
Bob Durrell
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DavidE
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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When I read that mosquito swarms can cause Caribou to commit suicide (National Geographic), I realized that Canada and Alaska are the kings of
zancudos.
But a pabellón (as mosquito tents are called in México) cuts down air circulation and breezes too much for me.
Now jejénes, that's a driller of a different color! I purchased cans of open cell foam aerosol, fine mesh screening, and rubber floor scraper flappers
for door thresh holds and sealed the house up. Purchased some ultraviolet LED modules and shined them on sections of white wall so the geckos could
get at them.
DEET works, but PENNYROYAL OIL, a natural derivative works better. One single solitary drop rubbed all over the palms and then rubbed all over on
exposed skin will keep zancudos, jejenes, bobos, pulgas and garrapatas further away. Whereas a mosquito may buzz three inches away from my ear at
night and wake me up, with pennyroyal oil it is a lot further. And DEET scares me -- the chemical formula name is so long it reads like an industrial
accident!
EDIT: Mula's re: The WikiPedia description IMHO is right on the money. Pennyroyal oil like DEET and DRANO, must be used with respect. I've used it on
myself and so have my friends, for almost 40 years. I apply it myself to my grandkids*. I will not allow them to put it on their hands -- which is
probably being overly careful. I did not know Brenda used it throughout three pregnancies on her skin. All three children are in great shape. A person
would have to drink it YUCK to have a bad reaction to it. But it works better than and is safer than DEET. I have had a TABANO a biting fly LAND ON AN
OIL SLICK OF PURE 100% REPEL DEET on my knee and bite right through it. Tabanos hate pennyroyal oil and so do no-see-ums, fleas and ticks.
*Those two little girls will not suffer the effects of Dengue because the only Mexican repellents there, are white cream OFF® which is useless, and
AUTAN which impossible to believe is worse.
Pennyroyal oil, used unstupidly, has a long, long history of being absolutely safe. Then there are people who drink it, to wash down bath salts 
[Edited on 8-23-2012 by DavidE]
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Mula
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennyroyal
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Mula
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennyroyal
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Wally
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Does anyone use a Mosquito Magnet in Baja?
YES
With the Octenol or Lurex 3 attractant?
OCTENOL
Are they worth it?
ABSOLUTELY. We brought one down 6 years ago and it makes a huge difference. It's not working this year due to needing a part and not having it in the
backyard makes sitting out there unbearable without bug spray.
$340 with a season worth of accessories: CO2 cartridges, attractant and nets.
A single net will last 2 or 3 seasons. I just rinsed it out every month to clean out the bugs and dust.
Never used a CO2 cartridge in 6 years. Never needed it.
Replaced the attractant every month.
Can you buy them anywhere in BCS?
Not in Los Cabos.
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captkw
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mosquito's
I' ve seen them in alaska with #'s on the wings and also the state bird...LOL
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Cypress
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Have seen 'em so thick that slapping 'em is a waste of time, you just wipe 'em off.
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Timo1
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Up here a lot of people use the propane powered mozzy killer...good for a half er acre
sold out and got out !!!
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