Bird Baths (11)
ooby_dooby: Bird Baths are cool. They are fun to watch birds frolicking in the water. Birds of course don't need humans to provide them with a place to bathe, they can handle that job on their own, they've been doing it for a million years before mankind climbed down from a tree. No, the only benefit from a bird bath, is to entertain people.
Like everything else on earth that's cool, there's almost always a downside. The downside with Bird Baths is, they are like little maternity wards for Mosquitoes. After a Mosquito stings you or some other warm blooded mammal, she looks for a nice reliable source of standing water on which she can construct a raft of usually about 35 eggs more or less. These eggs hatch out into Larvae (those cute little wiggly things you sometimes see in a rain barrel?). Look at one with a powerful magnifying glass and they look anything but cute. They look like something from a horror movie.
It's ok to have a Bird Bath but they carry a responsibility. The water must be dumped out and refilled at least every 10 days during warm weather. This will guaranty that no Mosquito Larvae will be there long enough to mature and fly off to sting and breed again. By doing that, you will not only be preventing an increase of the Mosquito population, you will actually be effectively lowering the Mosquito population by luring egg carrying breeders to their doom. I don't have a bird bath but I do maintain a bucket of water outside which about every week & a half I screen out at least 75 to 100 Mosquito Larvae. In the couple of years I've been doing this I've detected a noticeable drop in the number of Mosquitoes in the area that attack me when I'm outside.
BTW, the same logic applies to dog watering bowls. You wouldn't want your pet to get a disease like Zika, Dengue or chikungunya virus from infected Mosquito Larvae they lap up from their water bowl right?
Like everything else on earth that's cool, there's almost always a downside. The downside with Bird Baths is, they are like little maternity wards for Mosquitoes. After a Mosquito stings you or some other warm blooded mammal, she looks for a nice reliable source of standing water on which she can construct a raft of usually about 35 eggs more or less. These eggs hatch out into Larvae (those cute little wiggly things you sometimes see in a rain barrel?). Look at one with a powerful magnifying glass and they look anything but cute. They look like something from a horror movie.
It's ok to have a Bird Bath but they carry a responsibility. The water must be dumped out and refilled at least every 10 days during warm weather. This will guaranty that no Mosquito Larvae will be there long enough to mature and fly off to sting and breed again. By doing that, you will not only be preventing an increase of the Mosquito population, you will actually be effectively lowering the Mosquito population by luring egg carrying breeders to their doom. I don't have a bird bath but I do maintain a bucket of water outside which about every week & a half I screen out at least 75 to 100 Mosquito Larvae. In the couple of years I've been doing this I've detected a noticeable drop in the number of Mosquitoes in the area that attack me when I'm outside.
BTW, the same logic applies to dog watering bowls. You wouldn't want your pet to get a disease like Zika, Dengue or chikungunya virus from infected Mosquito Larvae they lap up from their water bowl right?
O.K. but where does the politics enter into this??
Just kidding! Carry on!
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Luckily we don't have mosquitoes, zika, Dengue or chikungunya here 
I always put out food and water for the birds though
I always put out food and water for the birds though
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sergio09: O.K. but where does the politics enter into this??
Just kidding! Carry on!
Just kidding! Carry on!
He's changed from politician to "supervet ".
Whatever will he think of next, dating perhaps !
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I saw on telly, they're winding up the program, releasing mozzies with walbachia to prevent denguie fever. It seems to be working, apparently the same mozzies can carry zika.
But yeah, one of lifes simple pleasures, watching a sunbird frollicking in a birdbath.
But yeah, one of lifes simple pleasures, watching a sunbird frollicking in a birdbath.
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I supply my birds with soap, towels and the finest shampoo, a plate of hors d'oeuvres and selection of the finest cheese grace my birdbath decking area, repaying nature Is my ultimate goal.
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Mapmaker: I supply my birds with soap, towels and the finest shampoo, a plate of hors d'oeuvres and selection of the finest cheese grace my birdbath decking area, repaying nature Is my ultimate goal.
Shower?
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One2note: He's changed from politician to "supervet ".
Whatever will he think of next, dating perhaps !
Whatever will he think of next, dating perhaps !
actually Ooby is right on this one!
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Conrad73: actually Ooby is right on this one!
Thanks.
The history of the building of the Panama Canal hinged on eradicating the Mosquito from the area which carried Yellow Fever. The workers were falling like fly's. They thought the sickness was caused by some unknown bacteria and to isolate the hospital beds from contamination they placed a saucer of water under each bed leg. This was a welcome place for mosquito's to lay their eggs.
This level of ignorance always boggles my mind.
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Like everything else on earth that's cool, there's almost always a downside. The downside with Bird Baths is, they are like little maternity wards for Mosquitoes. After a Mosquito stings you or some other warm blooded mammal, she looks for a nice reliable source of standing water on which she can construct a raft of usually about 35 eggs more or less. These eggs hatch out into Larvae (those cute little wiggly things you sometimes see in a rain barrel?). Look at one with a powerful magnifying glass and they look anything but cute. They look like something from a horror movie.
It's ok to have a Bird Bath but they carry a responsibility. The water must be dumped out and refilled at least every 10 days during warm weather. This will guaranty that no Mosquito Larvae will be there long enough to mature and fly off to sting and breed again. By doing that, you will not only be preventing an increase of the Mosquito population, you will actually be effectively lowering the Mosquito population by luring egg carrying breeders to their doom. I don't have a bird bath but I do maintain a bucket of water outside which about every week & a half I screen out at least 75 to 100 Mosquito Larvae. In the couple of years I've been doing this I've detected a noticeable drop in the number of Mosquitoes in the area that attack me when I'm outside.
BTW, the same logic applies to dog watering bowls. You wouldn't want your pet to get a disease like Zika, Dengue or chikungunya virus from infected Mosquito Larvae they lap up from their water bowl right?