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What do you know about larveacide?

I live near Nashville and as you may know, we had a nasty flood a few weeks ago.  Since then it's been really rainy.  So, it's mosquito central around here.  News channels are saying to of course remove any standing water you can.  I'm cool with that.  The two questions I have:

1. Are water features with moving water like a bird bath or fountain okay?

2. How does larveacide effect the environment?  The local news is recommending it, but I don't want to just be throwing chemicals around.

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Re: What do you know about larveacide?

  • Moving water is fine as is chlorinated water (like a swimming pool). Mosquitos use water to lay their eggs in, but they can't do that if the water is moving.

     I don't know anything about the larveacide. I would imagine it would depend on what kind you got.

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  • Ditto PP, moving water is fine.  Mosquitos lay their eggs in standing water, and very quickly.  We had an inch or so of water in our gardening bucket from a thunderstorm, and it has mosquito larvae in it, in like 2 days Tongue Tied  I've never used larveacide but it sounds toxic.
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