fall down seven times, get up eight times
Maneesh Godbole wrote:If the old castles had moats, how did they handle the mosquito menace?
Maneesh Godbole wrote:If the old castles had moats, how did they handle the mosquito menace?
Are mosquitoes a problem in Europe? Or is the climate too cold for them?Maneesh Godbole wrote:If the old castles had moats, how did they handle the mosquito menace?
Frank Silbermann wrote:
Are mosquitoes a problem in Europe? Or is the climate too cold for them?Maneesh Godbole wrote:If the old castles had moats, how did they handle the mosquito menace?
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fred rosenberger wrote:couldn't you have fish in the moat that would eat the larvae? That is, assuming you knew enough about mosquitoes life cycle to realize the moat was a breeding ground...
Paul Clapham wrote:
fred rosenberger wrote:couldn't you have fish in the moat that would eat the larvae? That is, assuming you knew enough about mosquitoes life cycle to realize the moat was a breeding ground...
Or you could put a layer of oil on the surface, that's the other tactic they use against mosquitoes. They would have had oil on hand anyway, so they could boil it and dump it onto attackers.
Deepak Bala wrote:
fall down seven times, get up eight times
How is that even possible !
Paul Clapham wrote:Or perhaps they dressed in clothing from http://www.bugshirt.com/?
Saurabh Pillai wrote:In India, in villages, old people suggest to burn the Neem tree leaves inside house (in controller environment,of course!) to disinfect it. I am not sure if it is the smoke that kills the mosquitos by suffocating them or the smoke is special that kills them.
Deepak Bala wrote:Its a placebo actually. You suffocate from the smoke so much that you become oblivious to the mosquitos sucking your blood.
They could have used this in "Men in Black" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90rp5-58YGI&feature)Paul Clapham wrote:Or perhaps they dressed in clothing from http://www.bugshirt.com/?
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