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Monday, August 06, 2007


What is it about the several feet of rain we've received since July that would cause a mosquito problem?
After an unusually wet and humid July, many Houstonians are engaged in battles with bugs. Weapons range from the top-dollar misters found in ritzy neighborhoods, to garlic oil and apple cider vinegar sprays used at one Heights nursery school, to mosquito-larvae-eating fish in a backyard pond in Montrose.

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You can spend thousands of dollars on mosquito control, but you're likely to do more harm than good with misters, zappers and other contraptions. Concoctions involving grocery store items aren't effective, either.

What does work are the tried and true mosquito-fighting techniques that have been repeated so often people tend to disregard them.
I think I've already got malaria.



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