Reddit reviews Summit Responsible Solutions Mosquito Bits - Quick Kill, 30 Ounce

Mosquito Bits. Sprinkle them on the top of the soil or add them to the water you use to water your plants. By far the easiest way to deal with fungus gnats and a 30z container could last for years.

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Buy mosquito dunks/pellets.

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Place in sitting water around house (including gutters that hold sitting water).

Kill those fuckers.

Get some of this stuff You would need a really tiny amount for just some houseplants.

Two simple solutions.

1. A one inch layer of sand. They don't do well when sand is the top layer.
   
2. BTI granules (aka mosquito bits). BTI is a naturally occurring bacteria that kill the larvae of the gnat/squito family of flies. Add them to the water when watering and bye bye problem.
   
   https://www.amazon.com/Mosquito-Dunks-117-6-Bits-30-Ounce/dp/B0001AUF8G/

Granules with BT. Its a bacteria that only affects mosquito larvae. https://smile.amazon.com/Mosquito-Dunks-117-6-Bits-30-Ounce/dp/B0001AUF8G/ref=sr_1_1?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1491356372&sr=1-1&keywords=BT+granules

My mosquito problem isn't so bad that I have to go to extremes, but I have read up. I cannot vouch for the effectiveness of these strategies from personal experience. These are to two that I felt was most likely to work and reasonably cost effective to run.

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Give the mosquitoes some place to lay eggs. It might sound counter-productive, but I've read that mosquitoes like to hedge their bets (which makes sense) seeking out 5-7 suitable bodies of stagnant water to lay eggs in.

But if you provide the suitable water, then you can poison the water. What you want are mosquito dunks (little donut looking things) or similar -- https://www.amazon.com/Mosquito-Dunks-117-6-Bits-30-Ounce/dp/B0001AUF8G/

They're bacteria (or other microorganisms or something) that flourish in the water and kill the mosquito larvae.

So making your own pools of stagnant water won't stop the mosquito immediately, but it will drastically reduce the generation sizes as times goes on because the mosquitoes won't successfully grow up. You'll only have to deal with the ones that hatch off-premises or from a body of water that you haven't found.

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Next, you can suck up the mosquitoes. They are terrible flyers. Get a box fan rated for outdoor use (or that will always be under cover in case of sudden rain), secure a fine mesh (with pore size small enough to stop mosquitoes) to the source side of the fan (if the fan has a metal frame, a couple of magnets will work great). Put the fan in place and let it run. After a day or so, there should be a ton of mosquitoes trapped against the mesh. Lightly spray with a dilute bleach solution to kill them, take the mesh off to shake the dead mosquitoes off, and replace. You'll kill a ton of mosquitoes and only mosquitoes. All the other insects will be be strong enough fliers to not get caught, or strong enough crawlers to get off the mesh.

No, I got the bits instead of the larger dunks so I could use just a little at a time. I got this one because from amazon, and it has lasted a long time and isn't even 10% gone: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001AUF8G

I live near a tidal wetland in southern NH. There's all kinds of rules about what I can and cannot do within 100ft. Might want to see if the wetlands you're looking at have any similar restrictions.

The bugs the first summer I lived here were terrible. This last summer I started spreading mosquito bits every couple weeks in any standing water and it helped a ton. There were still some bugs, but bearable. We had plenty of campfires.
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If I suspect something, I employ the help of my trusty magnifying glass! Yeah, my friends laugh at me. Anyway, I just comb through the entire plant and the top of the potting media for anything that looks suspicious, some small dot moving around is suspect, for instance, or white powdery stuff, or some bumps on the plant, etc.

If those flying insects are fungus gnats, that means you're keeping some plant's soil wet enough for their larvae to hatch and multiply. Since they lay eggs at the top layer, it might be because you're misting the plant and the top remains moist? For fungus gnats, if they are indeed fungus gnats, then mosquito dunks on top of the soil works very well. It only works when it's wet. Diatomaceous earth food grade on top of the soil also works great but it only works when it's dry. So when I had fungus gnat problem with peace lilies, I covered the top of the soil with mosquito dunks and watered them. After a few days when the top of the soil is dry, I dusted diatomaceous earth on the soil. After 3 weeks of this, I stopped seeing them.

I do keep a systemic at hand just in case, but yet to use it since I haven't had an infestation yet, knock on wood. I'm pretty paranoid about pests, so I tended to find just one or few of them on one plant a few times, and I dealt with them with alcohol and/or diatomaceous earth (dusted the crap out of the plant). Now I use neem oil concoction (I just follow the instruction on the bottle) and drench the whole plant and the top of the potting media when I get a new plant for prevention.

What do they look like? Are they fungus gnats? If they are the quickest and easiest way to get rid of them is a product called Mosquito Bits.

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This may work on other pests too, but unsure.

If they are fungus gnats, use mosquito bits: http://www.amazon.com/Mosquito-Dunks-117-6-Bits-30-ounce/dp/B0001AUF8G
That's what we had and a couple of shakes of those bits in the dirts and they were gone after a couple of days; never came back.

What kind of apartment? Do you have a yard? What floor do you live on?

Here's what you should do. Go around during the day and look near your house/apartment for places that have standing water or poor drainage. Get some mosquito bits or similar product and toss this stuff on it. It'll kill the larvae in the water before they develop into biting adults.

Next, build a birdhouse and to attract birds near your property to eat the pests. Then, plant some bushes and grasses to attract dragonflies and other predator insects by providing a habitat.

If all else fails, get an air conditioner and pop it in the window instead.

I sprinkle "Mosquito Bits" in the top layer of soil of my plants. (It works on fungus gnats as well as mosquitos; I also sprinkle this in the drip pans of all my outdoor plants in summer.) The larvae of fungus gnats (or mosquitos) feed on the Mosquito bits, which contain a bacteria that prevents them from reproducing. The live gnats aren't affected by the stuff, so they hang around until they die off; it's the next generation that starts dying out -- so I have (gasp) resorted to spraying the gnats to kill them until the bacteria in the Mosquito Bits start to work.

Forget data, bring mosquito bits.

The Chinese government is still going off of pre-1970s guidance to apply BTI every five years but all seven of the manufacturers bred sinking spores out of the strains so now they only last three to six weeks. They sell more, but that brought dengue fever back to North America. If I could only get the right people to understand this they could completely eradicate them.

Seriously. I have the peer reviewed papers to prove all this on request.

No tips on the yellowing but, as far as the fungus gnats go, I bought mosquito bits, let it sit in my watering can (with water, of course, overnight) and then used it to top water my plants and they went away. mosquito bits

Water with this pesticide to kill the larvae: Summit Responsible Solutions Mosquito Bits - Quick Kill, 30 Ounce https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0001AUF8G

Put up sticky traps to kill the adults: HOME-OUTDOOR Safer Brand 5025 Houseplant Sticky Stakes Insect Trap, (14 Traps) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LFA076K

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Use as directed. I mixed it with my top soil every two weeks in each container. Zero fungus gnats in 4 to 6 weeks.

I use a combo of mosquito bits and sticky traps

The sticky traps catch the adults and the bits kill the larvae. You can either mix the bits into the soil when potting the plants or sprinkle some bits on top of the soil and it will kill the larvae the next time you water the plant. A while back I combed through this sub for advice on fungus gnats and this seemed like the most effective treatment.

Actually DE only works on things with exoskeletons. It actually works as a desiccant by microscopically scratching the exoskeletons and the bugs dehydrate. For fungus gnats you really need to kill the larvae. That breaks the life cycle and they do the damage anyways. I use this. It’s basically a organic biological control. Just corn bits coated in BT bacteria. Like the stuff they use for caterpillars but this targets mosquito larvae and by relation house fly and fungus gnat larvae so its a bonus you can use it for both. Add some into a water container. Shake. Let’s sit for a few hours for the bacteria coating to dissolve. Top water so the bacteria laced water soaks the media. Larvae eat the bacteria. They die. Easy peasy. You can sprinkle on the top of the soil and water through but I’ve found this less effective though time saving if u have lots of plants. Summit Responsible Solutions Mosquito Bits - Quick Kill, 30 Ounce https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0001AUF8G/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_10-7CbMTSJ675

Mosquito Bits are little pieces of corn cob that are coated with the bacteria Bti, which is ultimately lethal to gnats and mosquitos but safe for humans, plants, and animals. Soak the pieces in water to extract the Bti into the water, then use that to water your plants.

These are the only ones I've tried: https://www.amazon.com/Summit-Responsible-Solutions-Mosquito-Bits/dp/B0001AUF8G/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1538435832&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=mosquito+bits&psc=1

You really do have to saturate the soil with them to be effective.

why not just periodically put some Bt Bits in the fountain, that way you don't have to worry about keeping the fountain running all the time.

Last summer my SO and I were making jokes about the mosquitoes carrying us away over the trees.

This summer we ordered mosquito bits online and they actually really work, like, above and beyond what we expected. I've only been bitten once at home all summer so far.

They have started coming back since we had a lot of heavy rain but we're going to treat the yard with it again.

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I've read that pebble trays have been proven mostly ineffective at raising relative humidity, but I know some folks swear by them, too. If you do use pebble trays, treating the standing water with BTI bits or BTI dunks will eliminate any potential mosquito and fungus gnat breeding ground. 🙂

order online if you can, they last forever:

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Here you go.

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I would recommend this in combination with the yellow sticky paper. The granules inoculate the soil with bacteria that will kill the eggs/larva.

put a tblespoon under your soil where it's moist in a few places of BTi (mosquito products, bacillus thuriengensis israelensis (bt-kurstaki is for caterpillars)). https://www.amazon.com/Summit-Responsible-Solutions-Mosquito-Bits/dp/B0001AUF8G/

that stuff is granules and easy to use. should clear you up in a week. you can crush up mosquito dunks too. haven't had a worry in years with this stuff. it'll kill them in larval stage so if any flyers somehow show up they won't get under and start a new infestation. sometimes a single treatment, i usually add a little after 4 weeks tho.

Bt is very dependent on how well it was stored by the distributor. I've had the best luck with this.

Here is a link to a 20-pack of Mosquito Dunks by Summit Responsible Solutions. Here's another link to Mosquito Bits.

Mosquito Bits. Put it in the soil and water. Kills the wormy offspring.

I cover my yard in Mosquito Bits. Seems to help.