I really appreciate all the extremely important and helpful ways we can help "go wild."
As a city dweller, I can only plant so much. I have been know to do some urban guerrilla gardening with planting trees in open sidewalk pits, scattering seeds, etc. I want to learn more about mosquito control, as the city was pretty terrible the last couple summers. Philly was the historical ground zero of a really bad yellow fever outbreak in the 1700's, so I know that is coming back someday soon. Will try to do a post on this, and I'll start be learning more about this:
Pyrethrins, derived from chrysanthemums, are natural but can kill many insects. Mosquito fogging adversely affects insect diversity and is ineffective against adult mosquitoes. A more effective approach is:
Targeting mosquitoes in the larval stage.
Placing a bucket of water with straw in sunlight to attract egg-laying mosquitoes.
Using mosquito dunks in the bucket to kill larvae, which is targeted and cost-effective.
Please let me know if there are any other links about this sometime!
I really appreciate all the extremely important and helpful ways we can help "go wild."
As a city dweller, I can only plant so much. I have been know to do some urban guerrilla gardening with planting trees in open sidewalk pits, scattering seeds, etc. I want to learn more about mosquito control, as the city was pretty terrible the last couple summers. Philly was the historical ground zero of a really bad yellow fever outbreak in the 1700's, so I know that is coming back someday soon. Will try to do a post on this, and I'll start be learning more about this:
Pyrethrins, derived from chrysanthemums, are natural but can kill many insects. Mosquito fogging adversely affects insect diversity and is ineffective against adult mosquitoes. A more effective approach is:
Targeting mosquitoes in the larval stage.
Placing a bucket of water with straw in sunlight to attract egg-laying mosquitoes.
Using mosquito dunks in the bucket to kill larvae, which is targeted and cost-effective.
Please let me know if there are any other links about this sometime!
Excellent! I'd love to learn more about the health effects of pyrethrins both on humans and the environment. Looking forward to your post.