We are still eagerly awaiting the onset of our rainy season here along the gulf coast of Florida. The ground has long since dried out from the few storms that surprised us in mid-May (typically part of our dry season).
Notably, the rain quit right after I finished putting a new roof on my shed (Mother Nature has a sense of humor). If the rains don’t start back up soon I might consider removing the roof…
This time of year my bird baths are far more popular than my feeders. And no, one doesn’t have to be a bird to partake. 🦝
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What do you do with the bird baths to keep mosquitoes from breeding and getting the water fouled? We have finished putting one in our yard just today and not sure what to do. It filled with an inch of rain during Wednesday’s monsoon! Lori & Tori loritori@cs.com
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That’s an excellent question! Mosquitoes are a big pain out here (we have so many different species of them).
Two things really help me and I presume they will translate well to Tucson. The first thing is that I clean and refill my bird baths every other morning, so far that’s been too fast for mosquitoes to take hold.
The second thing is I created a perfect mosquito environment nearby. I put some leaves and yard debris in an old bucket and filled it halfway with water (the carbon dioxide released by the rotting vegetation attracts female mosquitoes), the trick is to drop in a chunk of a mosquito dunk. Mosquito dunks are a non-toxic larvacide that prevent the eggs from hatching. That way, I trick females into laying all their eggs but no mosquitoes will be born.
Your birds will love you for their new bird baths! 💖
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