Good morning,

Have you had success with blue light zappers or other plug-in devices inside house?

Outside - mosquito coils or other?

Looking for mosquito management ideas:

Inside house bedroom and bathroom.

Outside kitchen area and bathroom.

We do insure there is no standing water around house for breeding, however tis the season.....

Thanks for your input.

Mosquito blinds on windows, doors etc

I bought a 40cm ultraviolet bug zapper similar to what you describe in around 2016. It worked very, very well.
Unfortunately, the dead flies, mosquitoes in the tray at the bottom attracted the small skinks (chinchok) which then electrocuted themselves trying to get to them.

This, obviously, lead to them being barbecued on the grillwork covering the blue fluoro strips, necessitating scraping crusty reptile off the machine each morning.
I tried various ways to "free"-hang the zapper from chains, string, and rope but those skinks are agile blighters and nothing worked.
After a few weeks or so, I gave up and it's been gathering dust and cobwebs in the back shed since then.

28 minutes ago, roman50 said:

Good morning,

Have you had success with blue light zappers or other plug-in devices inside house?

Outside - mosquito coils or other?

Looking for mosquito management ideas:

Inside house bedroom and bathroom.

Outside kitchen area and bathroom.

We do insure there is no standing water around house for breeding, however tis the season.....

Thanks for your input.

None of the gimmicks work. Only thing that keeps them out and does it well are walls, windows and screens.

Screens are cheap here and work great in for your outdoor kitchen. You can buy the screen material for almost nothing on Lazada and then hire someone to mount or just get out some scissors and cut yourself. Mount with strong double sided tape and attach section with skinny zip ties. I decided wall and windows are even better but the screens worked for years.

Thanks for the responses.

Inside house, bedroom has good screens and door has "sweep" on bottom. However, each time the bedroom door is opened - in they come. Will try a zapper in the bedroom and bathroom.

Outside kitchen is still very "open", will keep a mosquito coil going.

5 minutes ago, roman50 said:

However, each time the bedroom door is opened - in they come

Can't you keep the door shut?

1 hour ago, roman50 said:

Good morning,

Have you had success with blue light zappers or other plug-in devices inside house?

Outside - mosquito coils or other?

Looking for mosquito management ideas:

Inside house bedroom and bathroom.

Outside kitchen area and bathroom.

We do insure there is no standing water around house for breeding, however tis the season.....

Thanks for your input.

We just have magnetic mosquito curtains on the front and back doors and fly screens on the windows.......hand on heart, never had a mosquito in the house that I've seen or heard in four years.

Perhaps the question to ask is, 'Why' are there so many mosquitoes inside your house?
That might make it easier to find a solution.

2 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Can't you keep the door shut?

How will he get in or out of his bedroom if the door is shut?

Thanks for the new responses.

Currently staying "happily" at the "family house" - except for the mosquitos. Not clouds but constant.

Will be staying until Mom, now 93 passes. A big old style house with plenty of openings for critters to get in.

Bedrooms have AC, doors stay closed except for many visits for relief from heat.

Will get bug zappers in bathrooms and bedroom.

Mosquito coils for outdoor kitchen.

And a strong fan under my desk!

Edited June 15Jun 15 by roman50

Encourage a few Skinks ( Cinchok ) to live in the house there fast when they spot a mossy and keep them down you don't see them very often but when they hear them there out hunting them down.

9 minutes ago, roman50 said:

Thanks for the new responses.

Currently staying "happily" at the "family house" - except for the mosquitos. Not clouds but constant.

Will be staying until Mom, now 93 passes. A big old style house with plenty of openings for critters to get in.

Bedrooms have AC, doors stay closed except for many visits for relief from heat.

*Will get magnetic curtain for inside of bedroom door, thanks for idea.

Bug zapper in bathrooms and under my desk.

Mosquito coils for outdoor kitchen.

Worth a try but the bug zappers will be a waste IMO. The coils work to some extent but aren't the healthiest solution. Terrible for the lungs if used long term.

14 minutes ago, ColeBOzbourne said:

How will he get in or out of his bedroom if the door is shut?

I assume he is leaving the door open.

Mosquitoes just don't wait for the door to open and shut to enter. Unless he has a plague of mosquitoes in his house.

29 minutes ago, ColeBOzbourne said:

How will he get in or out of his bedroom if the door is shut?

He'd have to do it in the road!

20 minutes ago, BarraMarra said:

Encourage a few Skinks ( Cinchok ) to live in the house there fast when they spot a mossy and keep them down you don't see them very often but when they hear them there out hunting them down.

Jingjoks are not skinks. They're geckos. Skink are long and slender with shiny brown skin, very pretty. They never come into your house.

However, once you have geckos, they breed like crazy and s*it down your walls. I have no idea what they eat or drink but they make no difference to the mosquito plague.

Well i have laid down watching them hunting and taking mozzys and small insects that fly around and decide to land.

Edited June 15Jun 15 by BarraMarra

1 hour ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

I assume he is leaving the door open.

Mosquitoes just don't wait for the door to open and shut to enter. Unless he has a plague of mosquitoes in his house.

Not a "plague", but it is the season. Door is keep closed except for enter and exit. Often a few mosquitos nearby that get in while door is being used.....

never have a fly or mosquito problem .. we keep the screens shut !

only time we get a fly or whatever is when the wifes family comes for a visit..

they have the open barn door mentality .. which of course gets a strong reation from me which starts with the kicking of the sandlas from infront of the door and slaming the screen door shut .. then comes the verbal .. "don't do this *** here.. do it at your house ! "

For some reason in our part of Thailand (rural north ) the mosquitoes have been horrendous this year.Not only the large dawn and dusk ones but this new ( to us)variety of tiny wee ones that seem to be around when the others aren't and are much more aggressive in trying to bite.I hope it's just this year.We have an open plan house with only bedrooms ,bathrooms and office closed up .Am really thinking about having to screen off everything.

A Black Hole works well — that kind of things are well known for sucking stuff into itself — and it's also the trade name of a mosquito trap...👍

At my office they installed the ultraviolet traps. I noticed quite a few mosquitos in them. But it was hard to tell if they were the dangerous daytime species, or just the evening types, because they were just a small mass in the bottom tray. I noticed despite these, the big dengue carying ones would be flying around in my office midday. I've had dengue once.

As others said, make sure all windows and doors are screened. Keep them closed. Kill the mosquitos with the wands/zappers you can buy at any hardware joint for cheap.

Consider getting the Qdenga vaccine (the newer Japanese one) - a course of 2 shots - for all members of your family.

Mozzie electric tennis racket zapper works ok, but you can't beat flyscreens on all windows and external doors.

Use everything suggested. The rackets are good while you're sitting watching TV or talking to friends. The zappers work but will attract the lizards unless you keep them empty. Coils work also, as they're my girlfriends go to and I see the results while visiting her. Mosquitoes , gnats and other flies are attracted to carbon dioxide, heat, lactic acid, sweat and certain people's scent, including myself, so you have to keep them at bay. It only takes one carrying dengue to ruin your day.

The standing hand zappers that can stay on when in charger work very well for a few years, then its time for replacement.

Buy good quality which cost a bit more but last longer.

Thanks for all the input.

the tiny mosquitos are fast and aggressive.....

With your suggestions we are putting together a plan for our situation.

Cheers

For outside on the padio I place the coil behind the floorstanding fan. Works well and keeps the bloodsuckers away. ANd the smoke is distributed nice in all directions and not depending where a breeze comes from. Here and then you have to clean the blades of the vent as the get quicker filthy.

Inside (my wife is loved by mosquitos) we have one plugin device wich seems to work well. Refillers in Thaiwatsadu.