Texas Gardening: mosquito control????, 0 by rjuddharrison

rjuddharrison wrote:
Thanks! Your the second person I've talked to this week who uses it, and ironically have had a bottle sitting on the shelf for months...I was reading the label the other night and it also gets spider mites, mealy bugs, and a whole list of maligned insects, with instructions to spray on to the plants. Can you tell me you experience with that? I'm thinking I will aim towards the ground and lower branches at first.

Yesterday it rained 5 inches in an hour at the house, it's quite the talk about the neighborhood. So either the vitamin B1 I I took yesterday worked really well last night, or the heavy rain smashed the little buggars as I was pretty mosquito free. They were back with friends today, as a strange yellow object in the sky heated up the garden in to a lovely sauna. I was working on some projects and the mosquitos were relentless. I am going to use that bottle after I get home from work in an hour or so..!
Thanks BigBubbles for gambusias, I look forward to them. I want to put a couple in my outside aquarium too. This is where I grow the oxygenating plants for the pond. The pond is too shady now for them to grow well, and the gold fish eat them. Right now I have 4 dragonfly nymphs, several native leaches, snails ans tad poles topped off with a mosquito float successfuly keeping the larvae away.
This is the first time the drainage ditch has not drained..and outside of having the mosquito problems, here pops up this water plant I've never seen before. It grows up from the bottom, and the leave emerge from the water, and bloom these small star shaped purple flowers...anyone know what it is? The flowers have faded in the picture. I decided to relocate this one to the aquarium.