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The mosquito’s that will no doubt start to live in our pond will become food for the bats and birds, which is exactly why we dug the pond in the first place. Won’t be trying to kill them in other ways.
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It's cool, I live near a canal and loads of my neighbours have standing water, so there's plenty of places for my local mozzies to succeed in their quest to pass along their shitty little genes. But I am very allergic to them, so they can all fuck off from my immediate environs as much as possible, because sitting indoors with all the doors and windows shut all summer sucks all of the balls at once.
bothwell
Yeah, I've got two ponds, and one of them is like this. I've used a plastic trug for it with bricks in to make it shallower. Unfortunately all the plants died in mine thanks to last year's drought so it is just a bare container of water right now. It is absolutely PACKED with mosquitoes but I'm ok with that because they will all be dead soon, once the linked treatment kicks in (which is quickly).