From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Wed Oct 23 07:34:17 2002 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g9NETb1G025169 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 07:29:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from borg.inreach.com (mail.unlimited.net [209.142.2.67]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with SMTP id g9NET4hh025114 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 07:29:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 9527 invoked by uid 504); 23 Oct 2002 14:29:03 -0000 Received: from [[email protected]] by borg.inreach.com by uid 501 with qmail-scanner-1.14 (f-prot: 3.12. Clear:. Processed in 0.620719 secs); 23 Oct 2002 14:29:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?209.209.19.201?) (209.209.19.201) by borg.inreach.com with SMTP; 23 Oct 2002 14:29:03 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: [[email protected]] Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <002301c27a28$23882280$0301a8c0@Dick700s> References: <002301c27a28$23882280$0301a8c0@Dick700s> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 07:28:03 -0700 From: Ruth Troetschler <[[email protected]]> Subject: Re: [SBB] West Niles Virus Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b3+ Precedence: list Cc: South Bay Birding <[[email protected]]> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: [[email protected]] Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Dear Dick-- Mosquitoes will not breed in very small bird baths or plant saucers because they do not provide the right conditions. Add a Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis product such as Technar, Novar, or Nordrisk which is non-toxic to birds and other animals (except for mosquito larvae) to larger pools of water. Mosquito fish also help. No need to use other materials. Ruth Troetschler ------------- At 5:07 PM -0700 10/22/02, Dick Blaine wrote: >What is the current thinking about the use of oil or pesticides in bird >baths, plant saucers, and small ponds to kill mosquitoes? Can >neighborhood birds tolerate any amount of these? What other solutions >are there for killing or discouraging mosquitoes? >-------------------------------------------------- >Please let me know if you have problems reading email that I originate >(HTML). >AOL & Compuserve users, distribution lists and individuals who notify me >(will) receive plain text. > >Dick Blaine in Cupertino, California > >_______________________________________________ >Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >south-bay-birds mailing list ([[email protected]]) >Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/options/south-bay-birds/rebugging%40batnet.com > >This email sent to [[email protected]] -- _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list ([[email protected]]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/options/south-bay-birds/south-bay-birds-archive%40plaidworks.com This email sent to [[email protected]]