fwmosher said:Donald, you did not mention the product, but I am quite certain that it contains BTK, (bacillus thuringensis) sp? a natural product found in the soil, which when ingested by mosquito larvae, caterpillars, etc. literally eats out their stomachs. It is a great product for any standing water, and for a zillion other uses! And it is safe! Use away! Any dead mosquito is a good one! Cheers!
Well, actually I just heard about the product. Spartan is the brand name. I've just been searching out stuff on the net :). Best I can tell, the active ingredient is Boron or some sort of yeast. It attracts mosquitoes. They eat it. Then they swell up and burst and die, disrupting the reproduction cycle of a mosquito. You hang it in shade away from where people hang out. It's attractive to mosquitoes in lieu of warm blood, so it works by pulling them away from the area, then subsequently killing the mosquitoes. Some sites said it took 1-2 weeks for it to fully take effect and after that it needed to be replaced in prox 90 days.
Here's one of several I've read apart from their own webpage. This one was from 2017.
http://www.wdam.com/story/3541...
I sort of liked this one because it had the inventor as well as a third party talking about the product. I'm hoping this will be a wildly successful product like the Weedeater was
. Would sure be nice to have some safe outdoor control of mosquitoes. Everyone is always afraid of venomous snakes, sharks, big cats and alligators and the like, but mosquitoes kill far, far more people than all those fearsome creatures put together.
