does blowing smoke around kill the mozzies?

[opalred]

last year a person got dengue next door the govt come around and burnt kerosene to blow smoke around

yesterday another person near got dengue

within 1hr after she went to hospital again govt workers around blowing smoke

looks good for the people but does sweet fn all

the mozzies move away for a few hrs then return with more friends

[ukrules]

Where abouts in Thailand are you ?

[h90]

[Sayonarax]

Hay at least they're trying.. Lol

[pgrahmm]

Here - they fogged and the mozzies were just about gone for almost a month....Mentioned to the wife how nice it was and she said don't forget that they had fogged....

No standing water within 300-400m of us so that has to help.....

Except the wife's watering can....The roses and orchids et.al can't be denied.....

[impulse]

Does the govt believe blowing smoke around kills the mozzies?

Nah. But if you irritate them enough, they'll get all huffy and take their hard earned 'skeeter money and spend it in Cambodia, Myanmar, or Vietnam....

Edited September 1, 2015 by impulse

[Thongkorn]

When i stay in the Jungle or village, I burn coconut husks that keeps mozzies away .

[worgeordie]

I don't think its only smoke they are blowing about,I think it will include

some kind of pesticide.

regards Worgeordie

[Crazy chef 1]

Don't think so...I smoke like a chimney but the dam'n bastards are still around...

[Thongkorn]

Don't think so...I smoke like a chimney but the dam'n bastards are still around...

But now they have lung cancer.

[Crazy chef 1]

Don't think so...I smoke like a chimney but the dam'n bastards are still around...

But now they have lung cancer.

Hope this will kill ' em...

[crazygreg44]

mozzies don't fly away and bring back their friends. Mosqitoes don't wander around much. They stay inside a 50 meters perimeter from the place where they were born. If you succeed in smoking up all the area and still water locations within a range of 50-60 meters around your house, you might as well spend the next month in a total mozzie free environment. With the occasional Mozzie World Traveller zooming by, that is . . .

[NanLaew]

Mozzies are attracted to carbon dioxide in our exhaled breath. I found out ages ago that quitting breathing solves a whole lot of other problems too.

[shaggy1969]

One of the smokers from a couple of weeks ago,helped only for a few days

[Sutty]

Always used smoke to clear the things don't need a lot try keeping a little fire going whilst outside and throw the odd soaked pice of wood on it does work. I use a used tin bean can little twigs and a supply of well soaked twigs for smoke and sit it close to us whilst sitting out.

[BudRight]

Don't think so...I smoke like a chimney but the dam'n bastards are still around...

But now they have lung cancer.

Mosquitoes do not have lungs. Like all arthropods, they breath through their skin.

[NanLaew]

Here's a trick that I was told about a while back and it worked great at our mozzie infested rental in Udon.

Get one of those large square cookie tins with the large round lid in the top and stick some dark cloth material inside.

Place it on the porch or in the room where the mozzies are the most troublesome. They are attacted to the dark space and 'roost' inside. Every morning, just blast a quick spray of Baygon in the top and bung the lid on quick as they try to escape. Kills loads of them.

[NanLaew]

Don't think so...I smoke like a chimney but the dam'n bastards are still around...

But now they have lung cancer.

Mosquitoes do not have lungs. Like all arthropods, they breath through their skin.

Fair enough, then they get skin cancer.

[55Jay]

The local gov sent a sprayer guy around year before last. That evening, the mozzies were particularly viscous but by the next day, we were virtually mozzie free, and it lasted for quite a long time as well.

I was told the spray/fog stuff also kills the eggs, causing a gap in the the reproductive cycle.

[Pacificperson]

When I was in high school, I worked on a golf course. We used a "fogger", it partially burnt kerosene laced with an insecticide to kill the mozzies. It was good for a few days. I think that I remember doing it every couple of weeks or so in the season.

[slapout]

We need these pests and similar irratents just to remind us to be pleasent /nice to our neighbors and the rest of the family.

[opalred]

i think the govt just found out how to fool the people

the old smoke and mirrow trick

[mmh8]

nah, but they prefer healthy hosts with potenitally longer life span so will choose a non smoker over a smoker given the choice. none the less, life is short particulalry for the mosquito, so a meal is a meal

[bdenner]

One of the smokers from a couple of weeks ago,helped only for a few days

Same here in the rice paddies of Udon, each household is charged 20 Baht to enjoy the Fog (a mixture of Diesel and Insecterside). They are told NOT to spray anywhere near our boundries. Blind Freddy can see how futile it is!

This is not a new thing and not isolated to Thailand. When I was doing my RAAF recruit training in Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia - in the mid 60's - they had these things mounted on pick up (utes) trucks, it was out of control. I would have taken the mossies anyday!

EDIT: Typo

Edited September 2, 2015 by bdenner