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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote in [community profile] crafty2025-05-24 04:00 pm

How to Make a Mosquito Bucket of Doom

I found this article about making a Mosquito Bucket of Doom

1) Fill a bucket with water and put it outside.

2) Add a handful of grass to make carbon dioxide which will attract more mosquitoes.

3) There are two options to kill the resulting larvae.

-- Dump the bucket weekly and refresh the trap with new water and grass.

-- Add a mosquito dunk, which lasts about a month.  Replace whenever it sinks or dissolves.


Also, make sure there are no other pockets of still water to attract mosquitoes elsewhere in your yard.  Every bit that you can find and remove is one less mosquito nest. 
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crafty_packrat ([personal profile] crafty_packrat) wrote2025-05-17 05:51 pm
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Farmer's Market -- 17 May 2025 (Bugloss Day, 28th of Flowering, Year 233)

Two nasturtium plants, a six-pack of marigolds, a flank steak, a quart of mango gelato, a half-pint of cherimoya gelato, bacon-gruyere wheel, fruit tart, Montaintop Moon cheese, dark walnut cookies, 2 pints of peas in the pods, 2 quarts of strawberries, dandelion greens, swiss chard, lovage, and mizumi greens.
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote in [community profile] crafty2025-05-15 09:32 pm

Photos: Cookie Jar Terrarium Part 2: Planting

Today I planted the cookie jar terrarium.  This fills "the green stuff" square in my 5-1-25 card for the Colors Fest bingo.  See Part 1: Setup.

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