Mosquito larve

[adw99]

Hi this is my 1st post here,
We have a question regarding mosquitoes, we have currently 2 places that have water sitting a large larva stone bowl and a limestone bird bath both have plants etc growing and this is the 1st summer since they were bought.

We are also going to recycle our existing avocado plastic bath (fitted by the previous owner when it was all the rage!!!!) to use as a water feature.

So to our question both current water holders have mosquito larvae and we dont want them. Or at least we want to minimise their presence we have seen lots of American site selling larvae killing pesticides but we cant find anyone who sells them in the UK

Were not interested in fish my parents spent so much money getting all the paraphernalia to be able to look after them and we just dont want to pay that and were not that interested in fish. We want a water feature and no mosquitoes.

You expertise from you fab forum would be much appreciated
Thank you all for reading

cheers
Andy

[Hedge Witch]

Sorry, don't know about the pesticides.

There are other ways though, I think.

I have a particularly interesting species of leech in my pond that hoovers them up. This is just an example of how they can be controlled, although this might not be feasible for your situation.

[Dogghound]

They are fans of stagnant water so oxygenating plants are great. Running water features help. Attracting other wildlife that eats them is also good.

[adw99]

Thanks for the replies

The Americans call them Mosquito Dunks they look doughnuts they float and desolve very slowly but are safe for fish, pets plants etc they kill the larvea

If we want to go down the eco route how do we attract or introduce the dragonflies leeches etc?

cheers