to kill or not to kill? that is the question.

[Diana]

Instead of killing Mosquitoes in a pond, just add fish and more frogs and instead of killing more life you are changing the problem into a solution, and thus creating more life while getting rid of excess nuisance. Do you think you have a roach problem? Nope, just a chicken deficiency. Lol study permaculture design and with that system of design its about creating more life, not killing.

People like to live apart from nature and that creates an imbalance in the system and nature wants to be integrated in evey aspect of our lives. Pests/pollution is a surplus of any thing, and aren't good or bad. It is what you do with it that makes it feel that way.

Anyways, I'm done with my permaculture philosophy rant.

A couple of posts ago I mentioned the pond in my backyard. The javelina started it by digging dirt out around the water dish, and we began calling it "Javie Hollow." After a while it got bigger. We have a great well, and I let the water drip into the water dish throughout the very hot summer for the animals (whose local watering hole was built over by some developers). So Javie Hollow became a tiny pond.

My partner was worried about mosquitoes around the pond, which we occasionally get in our area. But the opposite came true. Frogs were attracted to the water, and they spawned in the little pond. We heard them singing at night, and it was so beautiful, calling to a mate. I had the sensation that the frogs were "singing" their progeny alive. We have had NO mosquitoes at all. What we do have are the cutest tiny frogs hiding under rocks.