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Apr 12, 2018 10:07 AM CST
Name: Frank Mosher
Nova Scotia, Canada (Zone 6a)
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You certainly are entitled to your opinion! There are some serious inconsistencies however in your postings, and as someone who hates mosquitos as much as the next person, (and keeps quite current on new controls for same) I have some concerns with a couple of your comments: (a. "I just heard about the product" - but you claim you are already using it? (b. "I am using the doughnuts and pellets"- well if you check out Spartans site, they list one format, that being a long cylinder with Boron in it, that you hang from trees. Most major hardware chains do sell mosquito control "doughnuts" but they contain BTK not Boron and there are no "Spartan" mosquito product offerings through "the chains" that I can find. Boron, and one of it's relatives, Borax, is the prime ingredient in most "Ant Trap" items, and it works, because the ants carry it back to the colonies, and everyone feasts on it, and their stomachs expand and burst. To my knowledge, mosquitos do not have "colonies, "although sometimes I look down at my leg, and say "there's one now"!!) Further, Spartan's website is very unconvincing! No peer-reviewed papers, just a few "testimonials" from feed supply shops somewhere in the hinterland. Sorry, not convinced, that this is not indeed a "commercial"?

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