Green Space Nature Activity
Date(s) - 06/28/2026
12:30 pm Categories
Mosquito Bucket of Doom!
Mosquitoes will be out and about, looking for blood.
After a good meal, female mosquitoes find a place to lay eggs. They like still water, a little on the scuzzy side for this purpose. The larvae hatch and start eating algae and infusia in the water.
The larvae will grow, and metamorphosize to become more blood sucking adults. But no! That is where the “doom” part comes to play. The water will be treated with mosquito dunks that release BTI. BTI is an abbreviation for a long latin name. Anyway, BTI is a bacteria that kills mosquito larvae. No poison! BTI does not attack any other organism. It preys only on mosquito larvae. This solution is non-toxic, unless you are mosquito larvae and in that case you are probably not reading this.
Location
Treehouse