Review: Mosquito 86 Mosquito Prevention System
No, you’re not having deja vu. You probably recognize Mosquito 86 from yesterday’s September giveaway announcement. If you haven’t entered the contest yet, follow that link to enter. It’s quick, easy, and you just might win one valuable Mosquito prevention system.
Besides sponsoring a giveaway on OPC, the folks at Mosquito 86 also gave us one to review. What follows is our experience with the product. To catch you up (if you didn’t read through yesterday’s post thoroughly), Mosquito 86 is a mosquito prevention system that attaches to a standard leaf blower to spread permethrin (dubbed “Agent E” by the Mosquito 86 folks). Mosquito 86 promises to eliminate Mosquitos and other nasty pests from your yard with just a little effort on your part. Overall, our experience with the Mosquito 86 product was positive, but not perfect. See below for all the juicy details.
Mosquito 86 Setup Experience
Mosquito 86 sent us a complete gas blower kit containing: a gas blower, spreader attachment with backpack, Agent E, 2-cycle oil additive and all the instructions needed to get started. From the time we opened the box until we were ready to spread was about 15 minutes, and that included mixing the gas in a new can. Setup steps included:
- Unpacking the box and reading instructions.
- Mixing Agent E with water to fill the resevoir.
- Mixing 2-cycle oil additive with 1 gallon of gas.
- Starting the blower.
- Attaching the resevoir to the blower attachment via the quick-connect cord.
Mosquito 86 Application Experience
Once the blower is started and the resevoir connected, the Agent E & water mixture flows to the front of the blower attachment where it is atomized and then blown out about a dozen feet or so.
Spreading the mixture is quick and simple. Mosquito 86 claims a typical yard will require 15 minutes to treat. Larger yards may take as long as 30 minutes. Their estimate was correct. We covered our 1/4 acre in about 20 minutes, and spent some extra time underneath our deck where we’ve had a serious Mosquito problem for more than a year.
Overall, from start to finish took us about an hour. That accounted for time to snap a few pictures for this review.
Our only gripe in spreading the mixture is that the mixture flows from the resevoir to the front of the blower powered by gravity only. This means if you lift the blower up over the level of the resevoir (say, to spray a tree or up a hill), the mixture stops flowing.
Did Mosquito 86 Work?
The simple answer is yes. The more complicated answer is not completely. We saw a significant reduction in mosquitos in our yard, and even 8 feet up on our elevated deck.
We had a dinner party on the same day we applied Agent E under our deck. Most folks in our party who had experienced our back yard in the past noted an improvement.
We’ll continue to use Mosquito 86 throughout the Fall and into next year and post a long-term review sometime next Summer.
Want to Give it a Try for Yourself?
Mosquito 86 sponsored this month’s giveaway on One Project Closer. Visit the giveaway article and sign up to win a complete Mosquito 86 system. It’ll help prevent Mosquitos and other annoying pests, and you can use the gas blower to help with all those Fall leaves we’ll be experiencing soon.
Where to Buy Mosquito 86
If you aren’t the lucky winner of this month’s contest, you can still pickup the complete Mosquito 86 system on Amazon for only $199. You’ll get it just in time to use it to prevent Mosquitos and clean up the millions of falling leaves that are just a few months away. Mosquito 86 is also available at Target.
More configurations, including getting only the blower attachment and the Agent E are available directly from Mosquito 86 at www.mosquito86.com.
What do you think? If you’ve used this product, feel free to add your own thoughts below.
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June 5th, 2010 2:05 pm
Where to Buy Mosquito 86 ??? All the web sites seem Dead I like the Idea and WE have tearable Mosquitos around here I have used the Burgess type Propane Foggers and this looks better any Idia how we can get one????
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