NOTE: standing water ATTRACTS mosquitoes, so if you create such a bucket/container in your garden/yard, you will attract mosquitoes (to kill their larvae). However, if you have standing water nearby that you can't access to use the dunks there, creating the standing water area will let you eliminate many mosquitoes that would otherwise hatch in the inaccessible standing water.
True. I had standing water and tossed mosquito dunk bits to kill the larvae. I would never set up a bucket as shown here. It's the same as a bug light. It will attract the pesky bugs.
@@marcostovar1094 They're not supposed to be harmful to birds but I have heard concerns about using it if bees of butterflies come for a drink since it kill insects, it may harm our beneficial bugs too.
My uncle used to go catch tadpoles in spring to release them into his rainwater tanks. They'd completely get rid of the mosquito larvae for the whole summer, then he'd have a ton of frogs running around his fields for a while but they'd eventually migrate to the woods nearby. I remember as a kid it was so fascinating to see
@@mister8765 When I raise tadpoles I feed them fish food. Frogs are carnivores. In the tadpole stage they tend to eat some algae but they prefer to eat small organisms.
Omg wow, you just answered a mystery for me. Just bought a property and next to an old well pump is a big white tub of stinking rotting leaf water just like this one. Could never figure out why the owner had left it there and what it was for. I think you just figured it out. Thank you ma’am!!!
it could also be just a tub left out, which filled with rain water, which over time will get green and or stinky if it's in the sun or leaves or other stuff gets inside. If there's a cork-looking rink floating in it though, it's the dunk then.
I can confirm this product does work. I’ve used it for about a year and have noticed a dramatic drop in mosquitoes around my porch. I have a 5 gallon bucket near my porch but nothing around the side or in my back yard. If I go out back I do get bitten more.
This really works. I hung four buckets at each corner of my yard, filled with water and I use the granular mosquito bits (not dunks), each week. Hardly any moquitos at all.
I do kiddy pool ponds every year. I control the mosquitios with fish. Mosquito fish to be exact. I just catch them when i empty it each year and keep them over winter inside with a 30 gal tank. Been net positive for my garden and fish each year.
Instead of a stick I put some hardware cloth over the bucket so that my cats won't drink it. That will keep anything but pests out of the muck. Thank you for the video, I just set mine up and appreciate the validation that it works.
This is how you get rid of mosquitoes But let me show you how to get rid of flies: 1. Grab an opened jar/bowl and fill it halfway with salt & vinegar liquid 2. Squirt a few drops of dish soap into the bowl/jar of water 3. Leave it on a table or some sort of surface. And wait for the flies to get trapped! (Includes fruit flies)
I conducted an old tire collection in the county to eliminate the standing water found in the inner tire . Grant came from the state, and organized for free. It has excellent outcome with farmers
@@GARDENING_foraging I think he's saying because farmers have lots of old tires from their equipment and so they would go pick them up at the farms to help get rid of mosquitos.
@@Decentralized_World1Why ask so many questions and wait for a response when you can simply Google it. They're sold at a lot of home goods stores in the United States, but I got mine on Amazon. They are literally called mosquito dunks
Obviously, you wouldn’t do this where there’s a chance toddlers or babies could fall in. Or if there’s a possibility of having house guests over who would bring their little one. I know of someone who was having a baby shower celebration at their house and someone brought their 2 year old. The older kids were playing with the little one and everyone was having a good time. People went in and out and suddenly the mother noticed the little one wasn’t near her or with the other kids. They said they brought him back to mom but mom was chatting and wasn’t notified they were bringing him back. They found him drowned in the backyard pool, which only takes a few minutes 😢 Please be careful with standing water.
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Is it in a container or standing water? Did you use a piece of dunk or whole? The amount of water per dunk matters. How long has it been since the dunk was put in water? I always use only a piece of a dunk but if i see some swimming still, i add another piece.
@@GARDENING_foragingi Used a 4gallon bucket of water, iUsed a whole dunk, And the dunk has been in the water for a little over a week now. ICan physically see little alive swimmys 😳 moving around
@@fonzymtv9317 was the dunk the brand or off-brand? If brand one, the only thing that i'd suspect is maybe they were stored improperly. Try adding another half and see what happens.
Using dunks in any standing water that exists on your property is the correct way to use this. Do not make an additional site to treat larvae that would not be there if you didn't introduce the site into the environment. Treat the standing water that is naturally there and control the population
@@marshallstarkey7875 true, however, if there's standing water very close by, but not accessible to use the dunk there, i think it's ok to use in a container then.
@@marshallstarkey7875It's much more effective to provide mosquitos an attractive place to lay their eggs that you can easily control. Obviously getting rid of or treating as much of the existing standing water is also important.
Just put the dunk where the mosquitoes are Don't create a new area they don't discriminate they will thrive anywhere they're standing water not just one you made
This is for those that have some standing water that's not accessible to put dunks to. As a result, some mosquitoes will lay eggs in the container with water with dunks instead of the inaccessible standing water without dunks.
According to many internet sources, the bacteria in the dunks is naturally occurring in the environment, won't affect plants, and can be used in water used to water vegetables.
Not everyone has fish though. And they can be very useful when used in standing water that becomes not accessible in the summer due to overgrowth/ticks.
Here's an idea.... dump out the standing water. In areas that cannot be dumped pour a little dirty cooking oil on top of the water. This produces an oil slick that prevents the mosquito larvae from being able to breathe. No need to buy mosquito dunks just use dirty cooking oil or clean cooking oil or a little dirty motor oil. Stop wasting money.
oil is harmful to soil microorganisms and as a result it has negative impact on the soil and surrounding plant growth. It can also potentially harm other wildlife. If one wants to save the money then dumping all standing water is the best solution. However, you can't dump standing water from an area that floods and keeps the water for long periods of time and pouring oil in such places is harmful for the environment and wildlife.
@@GARDENING_foraging Actually a little oil is good. Oil is used as fertilizer in some places. Fertilizers are actually made from oil. I'm not talking about dumping five gallons.. only a few teaspoons or tablespoons. A few drops per square foot... I work for Texas Parks and wildlife for half a decade and we used oil to cover the ditches near the property to control mosquitoes. Never affected the wildlife. But you go ahead and keep using your dunkers...
@@jasmoniqueware6398I don't doubt that the dunk works but technically there should be at least another container containing the same dunk but without the bacterium that the dunk contains. This would rule out any other possibility of the dunk killing the mosquitoes and not the bacteria. There's probably something else I'm missing but at a minimum yeah.
NOTE: standing water ATTRACTS mosquitoes, so if you create such a bucket/container in your garden/yard, you will attract mosquitoes (to kill their larvae). However, if you have standing water nearby that you can't access to use the dunks there, creating the standing water area will let you eliminate many mosquitoes that would otherwise hatch in the inaccessible standing water.
True. I had standing water and tossed mosquito dunk bits to kill the larvae. I would never set up a bucket as shown here. It's the same as a bug light. It will attract the pesky bugs.
Are these dunks harmful to birds?
@@marcostovar1094 They're not supposed to be harmful to birds but I have heard concerns about using it if bees of butterflies come for a drink since it kill insects, it may harm our beneficial bugs too.
@@marcostovar1094no
@@eleephant9726it kills mosquito larvae. safe for bees
My uncle used to go catch tadpoles in spring to release them into his rainwater tanks. They'd completely get rid of the mosquito larvae for the whole summer, then he'd have a ton of frogs running around his fields for a while but they'd eventually migrate to the woods nearby. I remember as a kid it was so fascinating to see
That's a great idea!
😂
I didn’t think tadpoles eat mosquito larvae - they eat vegetation
@@mister8765 some do.
@@mister8765 When I raise tadpoles I feed them fish food. Frogs are carnivores. In the tadpole stage they tend to eat some algae but they prefer to eat small organisms.
Omg wow, you just answered a mystery for me. Just bought a property and next to an old well pump is a big white tub of stinking rotting leaf water just like this one. Could never figure out why the owner had left it there and what it was for. I think you just figured it out. Thank you ma’am!!!
it could also be just a tub left out, which filled with rain water, which over time will get green and or stinky if it's in the sun or leaves or other stuff gets inside. If there's a cork-looking rink floating in it though, it's the dunk then.
Smart about the sticks
Sadly and surprisingly, even frogs can drown...
I agree, it was a great thoughtful touch
Love the addition of the stick to help any small animals that may get trapped
I can confirm this product does work. I’ve used it for about a year and have noticed a dramatic drop in mosquitoes around my porch. I have a 5 gallon bucket near my porch but nothing around the side or in my back yard. If I go out back I do get bitten more.
This really works. I hung four buckets at each corner of my yard, filled with water and I use the granular mosquito bits (not dunks), each week. Hardly any moquitos at all.
Best tutorial and simple. Great job!
Thank you!
When you touch all bases 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 thank you for the information 😊
Thank you for watching :)
Thank you for doing the research and posting.
So glad it's useful!
Never heard of a dunk I will have to look that up thank you so much for the information that helps A lot
more info on it: ua-cam.com/video/DLe6eBB7stU/v-deo.htmlsi=I6a_EWyetijA1d72
I do kiddy pool ponds every year. I control the mosquitios with fish. Mosquito fish to be exact. I just catch them when i empty it each year and keep them over winter inside with a 30 gal tank. Been net positive for my garden and fish each year.
Instead of a stick I put some hardware cloth over the bucket so that my cats won't drink it. That will keep anything but pests out of the muck. Thank you for the video, I just set mine up and appreciate the validation that it works.
Can the mosquitoes get through the cloth to lay the eggs? Im going to try this.
only if the cloth is loosely woven, like cheese cloth
This is how you get rid of mosquitoes
But let me show you how to get rid of flies:
1. Grab an opened jar/bowl and fill it halfway with salt & vinegar liquid
2. Squirt a few drops of dish soap into the bowl/jar of water
3. Leave it on a table or some sort of surface.
And wait for the flies to get trapped! (Includes fruit flies)
Does this actually work?
@@alexkt3400 great question & measurements would be helpful
Thank you for the most
welcome information.❤
There's another video on mosquitoes you may be interested in: ua-cam.com/video/kyiUsPVk7ik/v-deo.html
News you can use. I’ve been using these dunks for years because they work.
Where do you buy them, or do you make them?
you can buy them in stores that sell gardening stuff, or online. More info on them: ua-cam.com/video/DLe6eBB7stU/v-deo.htmlsi=I6a_EWyetijA1d72
I conducted an old tire collection in the county to eliminate the standing water found in the inner tire . Grant came from the state, and organized for free. It has excellent outcome with farmers
Are you saying farmers used the tires? Hope it wasn't for growing food in them.
@@GARDENING_foraging I think he's saying because farmers have lots of old tires from their equipment and so they would go pick them up at the farms to help get rid of mosquitos.
I must have been really tired reading the comment lol...
that's a great program!
I love the stick idea ❤
Good information. Thank you.
Great info
Hope it helps those in need of mosquito relief :)
I use the stick method in my yard to save the lives of anole (small 🦎 lizards).
Mosquito planned parenthood
What's a mosquito dunk???
Never heard of it.
They contain naturally occuring bacteria that kills mosquito larvae.
@@GARDENING_foraging is it mass produced? does it have packaging? do you know the contents? is it home made? can you help us out here?
@@Decentralized_World1 It is sold on Amazon.
I meant to say the same company sells PELLETS, not packets.
@@Decentralized_World1Why ask so many questions and wait for a response when you can simply Google it. They're sold at a lot of home goods stores in the United States, but I got mine on Amazon. They are literally called mosquito dunks
Do I add more donks when they dissolve? Or how often will I have to add more donks? Thanks. P.S I hate mosquitoes. I’ve been fighting them for years😢
They last for about 30 days. So after 30 days you can check on the water if you see any live larvae. If you do, add another one.
@@GARDENING_foraging do you dump the water after 30 days or do you just add another mosquito dunk tab?
just add more dunks
Great tip. I will subscribed now.
Thank you. There's another video on mosquitoes you may be interested in: ua-cam.com/video/kyiUsPVk7ik/v-deo.html
Obviously, you wouldn’t do this where there’s a chance toddlers or babies could fall in. Or if there’s a possibility of having house guests over who would bring their little one. I know of someone who was having a baby shower celebration at their house and someone brought their 2 year old. The older kids were playing with the little one and everyone was having a good time. People went in and out and suddenly the mother noticed the little one wasn’t near her or with the other kids. They said they brought him back to mom but mom was chatting and wasn’t notified they were bringing him back. They found him drowned in the backyard pool, which only takes a few minutes 😢 Please be careful with standing water.
But a mosquito will have to have a blood meal before laying larva, meaning they've already bitten someone or something.
The dunks prevent NEW mosquitoes from hatching.
Love it
Great test,thank you 👏🏾 👍🏾 👌🏾Should i use a whole dunk for a 5 gallon container???
You can use half of it. If after about an hour the larvae are still moving around, add another quarter or half.
@@GARDENING_foraging Much appreciated 🙏🏾
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So glad it was helpful :)
❤❤❤
Thank you.
thank you :)
Great idea ❤
I wonder if it works for the new genetically modified mosquitoes they are supposedly releasing now...
I hope it does...
Except they arent releasing anything, they die before theyre able to be genetically changed
It shouldn't work because the new mosquitoes are supposed to be infertile, right? So if they're infertile then there can't be any larvae.
@@taylore6971 true. Unless sth goes wrong...
Nature always finds a way. ❤
awesome super smart
Great idea
Thank you :)
WHAT IS a Mosquito Dunk??? Did You make it & How? Or, Where does 1 purchase it??? Please 😊
you can buy it online or in store, if you are in the USA in Lowes, Home Depot or Ace
thanks!
If you use thing like this just put a freshwater fish, then all your prob is solve
Whats a mosquito dunk ? Can you make them or is it an actual product?
It's a product that you buy.
Yep. The stick will keep the neighbors dog from drinking it.
Not sure about that, but the stick will save a frog, a lizard or another small animal that may jump/fall into it.
Use hardware cloth and bend the metal screen bend around a 5 gallon bucket. I’ll probably use 1/2 x 1 inch screen
What if I used a dunk but iCan see the mosquito larvae swimming around alive?
Is it in a container or standing water? Did you use a piece of dunk or whole? The amount of water per dunk matters.
How long has it been since the dunk was put in water?
I always use only a piece of a dunk but if i see some swimming still, i add another piece.
@@GARDENING_foragingi Used a 4gallon bucket of water, iUsed a whole dunk, And the dunk has been in the water for a little over a week now. ICan physically see little alive swimmys 😳 moving around
@@fonzymtv9317 was the dunk the brand or off-brand? If brand one, the only thing that i'd suspect is maybe they were stored improperly.
Try adding another half and see what happens.
Where do I get them?
@@jamettethrash4387 iGet them at homedepot
We need to keep mosquitoes alive now, climate change has done a too good job of mitigating their prolific existence.
What is a Dunk???
Where do i find dunks?
You can buy them online, for sure on Amazon. You can google mosquito dunks under shopping and it'll show you all options.
Using dunks in any standing water that exists on your property is the correct way to use this. Do not make an additional site to treat larvae that would not be there if you didn't introduce the site into the environment. Treat the standing water that is naturally there and control the population
@@marshallstarkey7875 true, however, if there's standing water very close by, but not accessible to use the dunk there, i think it's ok to use in a container then.
Home improvement stores like Home Depot and Lowe's
@@marshallstarkey7875It's much more effective to provide mosquitos an attractive place to lay their eggs that you can easily control. Obviously getting rid of or treating as much of the existing standing water is also important.
Is it better to just use pieces of the dunk? I used whole dunks I’ve used eight of them and I still have 1 million mosquitoes in my backyard!!
Using a piece is just more economical. Maybe you have some standing water that you dont know about, where they are breeding?
Just put the dunk where the mosquitoes are Don't create a new area they don't discriminate they will thrive anywhere they're standing water not just one you made
This is for those that have some standing water that's not accessible to put dunks to. As a result, some mosquitoes will lay eggs in the container with water with dunks instead of the inaccessible standing water without dunks.
If I put a dunk in my rain barrel would it be safe to use that water on my plants/vegetables?
According to many internet sources, the bacteria in the dunks is naturally occurring in the environment, won't affect plants, and can be used in water used to water vegetables.
Yes. You can even use the dunks in houseplants to get rid of fungus gnats. Break it up lrt sit in a cup of water and then water your plants
What is mosquito dunk?
More info here: ua-cam.com/video/DLe6eBB7stU/v-deo.htmlsi=I6a_EWyetijA1d72
What is dunk? 🤔
it's a product sold in stores. It contains naturally occurring bacteria that kills mosquito larvae.
You forgot to mention how awful they smell
The dunks or the mosquitoes? ;)
Where's the Genocide part? With Mosquito Repellent Gas Chamber?
Can I ask how you feed the larva? Loved this vid btw ❤
You dont feed the larva. They hatch from eggs but bacteria in the dunks kill them.
anyway mosquito larve eat dirt rotting stuff etc...
plus some microorganisms
@@gabrielchiu2650 true, they feed themselves.
Why would I try to attract mosquitoes in my yard just to kill them?
This method is useful if one has standing water nearby thats breeding mosquitoes. It'll control their population.
Better feed them to fish
Not everyone has fish though. And they can be very useful when used in standing water that becomes not accessible in the summer due to overgrowth/ticks.
how do you empty that huge pail of nasty water? you don't just keep adding a donk once a month without emptyiing do you?
Don't empty it, just add a dunk. Mosquitos are attracted to long-standing water.
Poster: Could you pin a comment linking to the 'dunk'?
Do you mean where you can buy it?
I hate mosquitoes so bad
I hate ticks even more...
@@GARDENING_foraging definitely
Is it safe if a cat drinks the water it by mistake??
According to several internet sources, it won't affect mammals even if digested.
@@GARDENING_foraging Thank you.
You can also use a smaller container and hung up also cover with chicken wire
Actually it is toxic for animals.
😮😮😮😮😮
Here's an idea.... dump out the standing water. In areas that cannot be dumped pour a little dirty cooking oil on top of the water. This produces an oil slick that prevents the mosquito larvae from being able to breathe. No need to buy mosquito dunks just use dirty cooking oil or clean cooking oil or a little dirty motor oil. Stop wasting money.
oil is harmful to soil microorganisms and as a result it has negative impact on the soil and surrounding plant growth. It can also potentially harm other wildlife.
If one wants to save the money then dumping all standing water is the best solution. However, you can't dump standing water from an area that floods and keeps the water for long periods of time and pouring oil in such places is harmful for the environment and wildlife.
@@GARDENING_foraging Actually a little oil is good. Oil is used as fertilizer in some places. Fertilizers are actually made from oil. I'm not talking about dumping five gallons.. only a few teaspoons or tablespoons. A few drops per square foot... I work for Texas Parks and wildlife for half a decade and we used oil to cover the ditches near the property to control mosquitoes. Never affected the wildlife. But you go ahead and keep using your dunkers...
Put her in prison
Put 1 cheap gold fish to eat the larva
Dunks don't work
I proved in the video that they do.
Maybe yours did, but I've used them and they didn't work@@GARDENING_foraging
Noo!!!!!!!
What's wrong?
@@GARDENING_foragingyeah what's wrong with you!
Yikes, sounds like Melania😮
Yikes, this comment sounds judgmental...
Fhhffuf
I dont support u
why not?
@@GARDENING_foraging cuz like i used to be in the usa if u wanna like travel u gonna get tired right every time i got to bed mosquito be bugging me
Lol you don't understand the scientific method. You need a control to prove anything.
The control part was the larvae in water without the dunks.
Did you not see the two different containers????? loL. 🥴
@@jasmoniqueware6398I don't doubt that the dunk works but technically there should be at least another container containing the same dunk but without the bacterium that the dunk contains. This would rule out any other possibility of the dunk killing the mosquitoes and not the bacteria.
There's probably something else I'm missing but at a minimum yeah.
So do your test and post it,smh...
@@oopalonga the dunks are made WITH the bacteria as their only purpose is to kill the larvae so you cant get the same dunk without the bacteria.