4:32 "Put Dawn in the misting sprayer first to avoid foaming. Then squirt in the Dawn." Uh...huh!🤔 Put Dawn in before you put Dawn in. Uh, maybe put water in first, right?✅
Dawn does kill mosquitoes and other insects I’ve sprayed on wasp and they died but I also learn it burns the hell outta your plants I found out dr bronner is safe for plants and kills pest I’ve tried it out I made some dr bronners soap and sprayed mealy bugs on my roses and 30 mins there dead and flaked off so I rather use dr bronners then dawn
Spraying Dawn on vegetation kills it. I had an issue with moth larvae and used a small amount of Dawn and water with a fine mist sprayer. It killed the larvae and the grass around my trees. The best way to get rid of mosquitoes is to get rid of the larvae. No larvae, no mosquitoes.
According to Readers Digest: How long do mosquitoes live? According to the American Mosquito Control Association, the lifespan of these insects really varies by species, with the majority of mature female mosquitoes living just two to three weeks. However, some female mosquitoes can live up to 100 days. And some types of mosquitoes are known to survive in places like garages and attics for up to six months. .
Made it easy for myself. I put up a sign that said, wash hands before meals outside my house. I then setup a small wash area with dawn saop. Mosquitoes washed their hands, and later drowned.
I see people are still comment I on this video. I learned this trick back in the early 1990s from P. Allen Smith on PBS station. 1 oz of Dawn and Tbl spoon of concentrated lemon juice in a hose attachment sprayer. The Dawn won't let them land on water, like you said, and the lemon juice let's the grass breath. Where I lived at the time, my neighborhood was next to a Creek. I would come home to a yard full of kid and they would say "your yard is the only one without mosquitoes". I would usually repeat the spraying after a rain to keep it mosquito free. I still practice this, to this day .
It doesn't have to be dawn, any dish detergent will work. and it works well. you can even put out a bucket of soapy water in the shade somewhere and mosquitoes will flock to it and drown.
The problem iis that it does get the job done but its the fact that to lay eggs the female still will come looking for it. Then it looks for the barrel with the Dawn. It means the mosquito has bitten .
spray dawn and water on a mosquito watch how fast they die. LOL anyone who says otherwise either hasnt tried it or is lying to you. It takes max 30 seconds. This guy semms like a smart guy and all but the fact he claims it doesnt kill mosquitos is very interesting. I suggest you try it tonight and update your video when you see how fast dawn kills a mosquito! other than that nice video!
I had this hypothesis for a while but (as Im about to impliment) it's neat to see it confirmed. My thinking was that since feuit flies are treated with a similar technique, it should work with mosquitos. I'll be adding a squirt of dawn to the rain sewer drains that wont drain and crossing my fingers
Ive never found a bug that dawn doesn't kill. They don't die immediately but they don't live long. I used it when my house was covered with thousands of stink bugs. I sprayed them all and when i came back a little while later they were all piled up around the house dead.
Mosquitos use standing water in ponds, marshes, puddles, tires, buckets, etc... to lay and hatch their eggs into nymphs that later turn into mosquitos. Spraying Dawn on your lawn will kill the grass, but putting a few drops in buckets of water around your property to encourage female mosquitos to lay eggs and drown in those buckets is the right approach. Spraying your lawn is the oddest suggestion I've come across.
Detergent won’t hurt lawns unless it is super concentrated. I’ve used dawn in my sprayer when I spray for weeds every year. The detergent acts as a surfactant and helps bind the chemical to the grass. Google it
For those of you who are interested. Soap breaks down water particles. In layman terms for example: it takes a drop of water and turns it into hundreds of finer water particles. Like crushing a grain of salt into finer granules. That's what soap does to water. The irony of soap is that it doesn't actually clean. It's the water that cleans because it has been broken down so small it can get under and through the crud that is there. You might say it's a water thinner, and that is how it works.
Soap DOES react with grime and grease to make something that is soluble in water. If your theory were correct, then we could have used the same soap again and again several times.
@@LowellAlb It's not a theory, it's fact. Years ago I watched a program that showed the molecular level of water before and after the implementation of soap, and they showed that soap doesn't actually clean as we have been lead to believe. But what it does is break water down enough that it can penetrate and go through and under objects like dirt and grime which allows the water to do the cleaning. I told my co workers about it the next day, and they suggested I "get a life" and not watch programs on soap and how it works. Yet here it is many years later, and I still haven't forgot. It's not a theory.
