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Re:Mosquitoes Changed Everything by i_feel_great on Sunday August 04, 2019 @07:57PM (#20610029)
I am thinking of planting more trees and bushes around the yard especially closer to the windows and doors to attract spiders and other predators to set up shop (and also because plants aromatic and pretty and good for the environment).

Has anyone else done this and noticed any difference in mozzie numbers? I live in Brisbane Australia.

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Re:Mosquitoes Changed Everything by hnick on Sunday August 04, 2019 @08:13PM (#20610078)
Mosquitoes live in trees too unfortunately.

We had a large number of mosquitoes hanging around our back screen door (which opens into a yard, under a covered concrete area).

We had a gardener trim the trees extensively along our back fence for unrelated reasons. We took a couple of metres from the top and branches from the side. The mosquito problem went away overnight. The level of shade/cooling near the door didn't change appreciably, so I assume they were just living in the lush trees and once that went away so did they.

One thing I was looking into before that was bat boxes, since they eat mosquitoes.

https://www.abc.net.au/gardening/factsheets/building-a-bat-b...

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