I noticed this in the mcdonalds parking lot, so I poked around in it with a stick to try to clear the drainage path.
I came to the conclusion that it has no outlet at all, it’s a permanent stagnant pond. It stinks pretty bad.
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Contact your local mosquito control agency and report it, I'm sure they'll be impressed and might even get the ball rolling towards making McDonalds do something to resolve the issue.
In the meantime, post a professional looking printed and laminated sign that says something like "MOSQUITO POND - Please protect the local mosquito population - Thanks, McSquitoes"
I think I will do all of this
Awesome, let us know how it goes in the long run, and make sure to post a photo of whatever sign you come up with.. 👍
Y’all have mosquito control agencies?!
Sure do! They even have an open house every year and the kids get to sit in their helicopter.
Edit:
Why do they need a helicopter? More importantly, do they call it "The Skeeter Beater?"
It's to disrupt the mating cycle. When you fly around in The Skeeter Beater it sets an unobtainable standard for male mosquitos and the females lose interest.
Genuinely don't know if you're kidding or not. Movie idea: aliens do this to humanity.
Here's a local agency https://mmcd.org/
Plot twist: they already create unobtainable standards with celebrities.
Ryan Gosling is actually a fish alien
The drop pellets into ponds, marshes, etc that disrupts the mating cycle. They may also release sterile males.
It's common in the tropics where mosquitoes can carry deadly viruses
We have them in Minnesota too.
Oof, stay warm up there, and stay safe..
Fuck ICE, except the kind of ice that freezes the mosquitoes...
Even that kind of ice sucks. The mosquitoes that live in those frozen places thrive because all the ice melts into ponds and lakes all over, creating breeding grounds for the mosquitoes whose eggs can survive freezing.
Oh? Well maybe my elders weren't as well educated, as that's what I was always taught, that hard freezes supposedly kill off the eggs. Fuck I dunno, if you go out of the city and into the sticks, the skeeters are hella crazy for blood!
I dunno, but here in south Mississippi of all places, I've probably only been bitten by mosquitoes like 6 times in the past 10 years. But the retired mosquito control guy is covered in what's basically obvious skin issues and even skin cancer, likely from the chemicals...
☹️
Here in south Mississippi, absolutely!
We could certainly use one here in Coastal Carolina, but we’re just left to fend for ourselves…
What part? We have that here around Sacramento.
Edit- I'm an idiot... I could've sworn you said coastal California.
I guess trying to control mosquitos is officially woke.
I thought they said coastal California. It said Carolina. My bad.
Also, controlling mosquitoes is def woke. They are the deadliest animal on the planet. Despite ICE thinking it would be anyone slightly off-white.
Dry ice is definitely white...
https://www.doityourself.com/stry/how-to-keep-mosquitoes-at-bay-with-dry-ice
This is how our skeeter control works.
I live in Texas, so any amount of water is an instant mosquito source. I legit made a "mosquito pond" for the little bastards to lay their eggs, which provides an excellent food source for the cheap ass minnows i stock the pond with ...
Isn't that the entirety of e-arth?
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