What is a green tit? Did you mean a greenfinch? We get a lot of house martins and swallows at the allotment and these need to eat mosquitoes to survive. As for biting, it is only the female mosquito that bites and they do not like testosterone so generally it is females and boys that get plagued more than men although they will be bitten too. I have heard vitamin B helps and my wife eats Marmite to assist in her fight against the bites.
try Avon skin so soft its what everybody in Scotland uses on the islands where the midges are buggers. Like the idea of the fish is it possible to use something else. Not a gold fish as herons get em really fast due to the lack of camouflage and it might be good to be able to eat it eventually?
I'm very interested in all your replies - I live by a fast flowing river, and always blamed it for all the bites I get. But - I do have some containers with standing water in them, and those I use to stand plants in are shallow - they are cat litter trays which are just the size for my purpose, and are frequently topped up by rain water. However, perhaps I should treat them - any advice would be very gratefully received - thank you.
Mosquitoes won't breed in fast flowing rivers - they need still water, ponds, butts, buckets, cat litter trays
I go around my gardening emptying such things frequently - and the butts are kept tightly covered, and I'm relying on the Diving Beetle larvae to eat the mosquito larvae in the wildlife pond.
If you have mosquito larvae in your water butts you can float a thin film of cooking oil on the top - that stops them Empty any other containers of standing water frequently.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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"Green Finch", I saw this as soon as i posted it (what a twit, heehee)
try Avon skin so soft its what everybody in Scotland uses on the islands where the midges are buggers. Like the idea of the fish is it possible to use something else. Not a gold fish as herons get em really fast due to the lack of camouflage and it might be good to be able to eat it eventually?
Dread to think what Avon 'Skin So Soft' has in it!!
perhaps it just stops them smelling you? or makes em slip off when they land? who knows but i defo works for me
I'm very interested in all your replies - I live by a fast flowing river, and always blamed it for all the bites I get. But - I do have some containers with standing water in them, and those I use to stand plants in are shallow - they are cat litter trays which are just the size for my purpose, and are frequently topped up by rain water. However, perhaps I should treat them - any advice would be very gratefully received - thank you.
Mosquitoes won't breed in fast flowing rivers - they need still water, ponds, butts, buckets, cat litter trays
I go around my gardening emptying such things frequently - and the butts are kept tightly covered, and I'm relying on the Diving Beetle larvae to eat the mosquito larvae in the wildlife pond.
If you have mosquito larvae in your water butts you can float a thin film of cooking oil on the top - that stops them
Empty any other containers of standing water frequently.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Shallow containers give hours of fun when we have kids visiting. All those wriggly things can be caught and watched and IDd
In the sticks near Peterborough
I use either washing up liquid or Jeyes fluid and never appear to have any larvae,
I use a bamboo cane to stir up the surface to make it foam, which does the trick!
prevention is better than cure!