Eliminate Annoying Mosquitoes for FREE! The Secret to a Mosquito Free Back Yard.

[@Barry-Watson]

An extra super big thank you to everyone who has tipped the talker with a super thanks heart at the bottom of this video! A couple more tips: - Black or dark colored buckets would probably be ideal. - Put some Beet peelings in your traps as lure, the skin of Beets contains a chemical compound called Geosmin that researchers use to attract and trap mosquitoes.

[@Jesse-f4e6s]

My next door neighbor has a inground pool that they haven't used in yrs. So after yrs of rain/snow now it's 5 ft of stagnet water breeding literally thousands of mosquitoes, I put 2 cap fulls of motor oil and haven't had a problem in weeks!

[@gavin2352]

Omg! Poor thing

[@mrBDeye]

Instead of trespassing on private property and dumping oil, just call the village hall and report the neighbor. It’s obvious the neighbors is violating ordinances and will be fined.

[@ronedee]

Unfortunately, most “villages” only require a fence around the swamp or moat.

[@jennytaylor3324]

Great tutorial. An old plastic washing up bowl, concealed under some bushes, was missed in a spring outdoor tidy-up. We've just had the wettest summer for a decade, and now the yard area, just outside the kitchen, is like a Thai jungle; air is thick with the little sods, and they're getting in to the house whenever a door or window opens! I'll be trying your trick with the containers, I think. All the best from Cheshire, England

[@WhatItBeLike123]

As a fellow Minnesotan.. I honestly didn't know this. Nice work, brother I found your channel through the audio bend, but heck, I almost enjoy your depth of wisdom better

[@Barry-Watson]

Hey, thanks!

[@marcussiterip6187]

Really enjoyed listening to this, thanks a lot 😊

[@jw6180]

Hello from North Carolina! Bats and dragonfly also help as they eat mosquitoes! Thank you for the new ideas.

[@Barry-Watson]

Welcome! I too lived just outside of Asheville NC for years.

[@aandd10]

Again, you is the greatest and your style is right on point professor...

[@Barry-Watson]

Glad you think so!

[@desmondehoppie4758]

Wonderful. Thank You for taking the time to make this video

[@Barry-Watson]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@andydriscoll1903]

I will certainly give this a try, I think mine come from the rain butts on the property so I will add a bit of dish soap to them and see what happens.

[@Barry-Watson]

Good luck! Hope that your soap/oil etc doesn't get washed away with rain.

[@Trinxlesky]

Thanks! Lots of good info on here.

[@Barry-Watson]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@sersou]

Thank you very much. Greetings from Algeria.

[@Barry-Watson]

Glad it helped

[@chrisdoyle3610]

Very informative thank you!!

[@Barry-Watson]

Glad it was helpful!

[@peterzinia3767]

Marigolds are something that mosquitoes don't like.

[@kvkcoils8011]

I wonder if a dark or black bucket would work even better ... (?)

[@Barry-Watson]

Yeah, I would use black buckets if I had them. Mosquitoes prefer dark places so that's a good suggestion. I used kitty litter buckets, just because I had them, and they seemed to work OK.

[@lrminer]

My wife read that they are attracted mostly to the orange color.

[@lrminer]

Home Depot has orange buckets

[@halrichard1969]

Liked and Subbed. THANK YOU!☺

[@Barry-Watson]

Awesome, thank you!

[@diverFPV]

What the oil does ? Does it kills the larvae ? Or the adult ones ? How does this works ?

[@mrBDeye]

The oil floats on top of the water creating a thin barrier preventing mosquito larvae from coming to the surface to breathe.

[@ashleyd9522]

We’ve had such an abundance of mosquitoes in our small back yard this year, we can’t even walk out for 2 mins before 3-4 find our legs…..problem is my husband has tons of potted plants around. There is no way he’s getting rid of all of them. How can we remedy this???? We want to enjoy our yard for the last bit of nice weather we have but we can’t even step outside. 😢

[@Barry-Watson]

I wouldn't think that potted plants would really be a problem, as long as you don't have a standing layer of water in the pot. I wouldn't expect mosquitoes to breed on the dirt, or moist dirt, in the bottom of a plant.

[@ashleyd9522]

@@Barry-Watson oh good! Yea I don’t think there’s any standing water in the pot either. I just don’t know where they are breeding. We’ve checked everywhere. The perimeters of our small backyard is lined with small trees and brush, plus all my husband berry bushes mostly in pots….it’s driving us crazy! The only thing I can think is to cut back down foliage and let more sun in the backyard…

[@Barry-Watson]

Mosquitoes breed in stagnant water, often dirty. They don't travel very far during their lifetime, so if you can remove all of the little pools of standing water in your area, or treat that water with a little piece of mosquito dunk to make it toxic for the larvae, you should be able to get on top of your mosquito problem. It may take a few weeks to really see the results as you disrupt the breeding cycle. Best wishes!

[@ashleyd9522]

@@Barry-Watson thanks so much!

[@user-xh4ip8kv2s]

@@ashleyd9522 Have you considered your house gutters, which can have have pools of water due to little dams made of leaves, etc., and also black corrugated pipes, if you have any of those on your property. A house in my town had a little tree sprout growing in its front gutter - I think there may have been a dam in the gutter there!