Need help with neighbors accusation

A) Make sure you're taking necessary steps to prevent mosquito infestation
such as fish and even BT.

B) Tell your neighbors to pound salt.

There are thousands upon thousands upon thousands of ponds in residential
communities throughout the US. As long as you are caring for your pond
properly, there's no issue. They can complain all they want but it's no
different than complaining that you are responsible for the alien abductions
in the neighborhood. (It's not you, right?)

He is making a false and malicious complaint. Demand what evidence he
bases his allegation upon, perhaps remind him it is a felony to
trespass, slander and make false and malicious allegations aka 'mind
your own business'

You are under no obligation or owe him any reason or explanation for
his subnormal intelligence levels

Whether you WANT rats or mosquito's on your property, or not, it is
NONE of his business. for all you know, he is a thief intending to pry
upon your property with the intention of theft or some other ulterior
motive

If it's your property, or you rent it as such, you keep it private and
you tell him so. You could have a word with your local police to
discuss the situation, if you detect this malicious person could
escalate a neighbourly dispute.

Quite possibly the neighbour resents a 'nice feature' or maybe a few
frogs hopping around and just intends to be plain nasty to spoil your
enjoyment of your pond for spite

In reality, a well balanced pond reduces mosquito populations, that is
well known and have absolutely no influence on rat populations.

Regards, andy
http://www.members.aol.com/abdavisnc/swglist.html

"Bulldog" wrote in message ...
Our neighbors complained that my pond is breeding mosquitoes and rats. Does
anyone have articles saying this is a myth?

As far as larvae and eggs go, I don't see any. In fact, my theory is that
the pond is a trap. Mosquitoes might lay eggs but the fish eat them.

This is serious and I hope someone has some ready documentation.

He is making a false and malicious complaint. Demand what evidence he
bases his allegation upon, perhaps remind him it is a felony to
trespass, slander and make false and malicious allegations aka 'mind
your own business'

You are under no obligation or owe him any reason or explanation for
his subnormal intelligence levels

Whether you WANT rats or mosquito's on your property, or not, it is
NONE of his business. for all you know, he is a thief intending to pry
upon your property with the intention of theft or some other ulterior
motive

If it's your property, or you rent it as such, you keep it private and
you tell him so. You could have a word with your local police to
discuss the situation, if you detect this malicious person could
escalate a neighbourly dispute.

Quite possibly the neighbour resents a 'nice feature' or maybe a few
frogs hopping around and just intends to be plain nasty to spoil your
enjoyment of your pond for spite

In reality, a well balanced pond reduces mosquito populations, that is
well known and have absolutely no influence on rat populations.

Regards, andy
http://www.members.aol.com/abdavisnc/swglist.html

"Bulldog" wrote in message ...
Our neighbors complained that my pond is breeding mosquitoes and rats. Does
anyone have articles saying this is a myth?

As far as larvae and eggs go, I don't see any. In fact, my theory is that
the pond is a trap. Mosquitoes might lay eggs but the fish eat them.

This is serious and I hope someone has some ready documentation.

you need to read up on the idea of those gas powered mosquito machines. it takes
weeks because what they are doing is by removing 1 mosquito they are removing all the
later generation from that one. so they attract the mosquitoes to the machine to
start. same with a pond with fish in it. my friend the Pond Lady's land is low and
swampy anyway, but she has lots of ponds not to mention the ponds in the greenhouse
for water plants. and she has no mosquitoes. she got a gazillion frogs however.
Ingrid

"Bulldog" wrote:

Our neighbors complained that my pond is breeding mosquitoes and rats. Does
anyone have articles saying this is a myth?

As far as larvae and eggs go, I don't see any. In fact, my theory is that
the pond is a trap. Mosquitoes might lay eggs but the fish eat them.

This is serious and I hope someone has some ready documentation.












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I can verify the frog appetite account. Usually when I mess with my filter
I lift a lid and hundreds of midges fly out this time of year. Well 3 tree
frogs have decided crawling under the styrofoam cover and sitting at the
top edge of the media is prime dining, not a midge to see from that
chamber. ~ jan



On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 13:51:19 GMT, wrote:

you need to read up on the idea of those gas powered mosquito machines. it takes
weeks because what they are doing is by removing 1 mosquito they are removing all the
later generation from that one. so they attract the mosquitoes to the machine to
start. same with a pond with fish in it. my friend the Pond Lady's land is low and
swampy anyway, but she has lots of ponds not to mention the ponds in the greenhouse
for water plants. and she has no mosquitoes. she got a gazillion frogs however.
Ingrid

"Bulldog" wrote:

Our neighbors complained that my pond is breeding mosquitoes and rats. Does
anyone have articles saying this is a myth?

As far as larvae and eggs go, I don't see any. In fact, my theory is that
the pond is a trap. Mosquitoes might lay eggs but the fish eat them.

This is serious and I hope someone has some ready documentation.












~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~
List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List
http://puregold.aquaria.net/
www.drsolo.com
Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~
Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other
compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the
endorsements or recommendations I make.

~ jan (Do you know where your water quality is?)

Our neighbors complained that my pond is breeding mosquitoes and rats. Does
anyone have articles saying this is a myth?


Rats are not attracted to ponds for any reason. As for the mosquitos the fish
eat the larvae beofre they ever get the chance to fly much less bite anyone.
Your neigbors are wrong, call the city or county governement. They should back
you up.

Moon
I breed dwarf crayfish for planted aquariums and grow trees in aquariums.
My groups

I have fished two dead rats out of my small pond. But they do not
breed there, they live and breed in the honeysuckle on the neighbors
side of the back fence. The first time, i don't know why it was there
and the second i don't know if it was a coincidence or if the rat ate
the toadpoles, because they were gone. I don't care to kill anything
and refuse to kill small rats because they want to drink from the
pond, but if I ever catch them killing anything in it, i'll have to
think of something. (I wish the neighbors would take down the
honeysuckle....) If ponds breed rats then so are bird feeders, pet
bowls, grass seed, water hoses, etc.




On 25 Apr 2004 01:13:44 GMT, ospam (Moontanman)
wrote:

Our neighbors complained that my pond is breeding mosquitoes and
rats. Does
anyone have articles saying this is a myth?


Rats are not attracted to ponds for any reason. As for the mosquitos
the fish
eat the larvae beofre they ever get the chance to fly much less bite
anyone.
Your neigbors are wrong, call the city or county governement. They
should back
you up.

Moon
I breed dwarf crayfish for planted aquariums and grow trees in
aquariums.
My groups

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 20:25:21 -0500, jammer wrote:

If ponds breed rats then so DO bird feeders, pet
bowls, grass seed, water hoses, etc.

ANd i wus ann A stewdent inn inglish

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 20:25:21 -0500, jammer wrote:

If ponds breed rats then so DO bird feeders, pet
bowls, grass seed, water hoses, etc.

ANd i wus ann A stewdent inn inglish

jammer wrote:

I have fished two dead rats out of my small pond. But they do not
breed there, they live and breed in the honeysuckle on the neighbors
side of the back fence.

Rats don't live in honeysuckle. There is nothing on honeysuckle they
eat. They may hide there from you, but they live where people leave
food outside for them like around garbage cans, picnic areas, ponds
where fish food is spilled on the ground, etc.

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