I have a bee hive in my back yard which contains Italian honeybees. Is there a mosquito eradication product that will not harm my bees? Perhaps a fogger product?
As explained in our MOSQUITO CONTROL ARTICLE, mosquitoes commonly rest on plants and other vegetation. Though they don't commonly land on flowering plants, there is no practical way to treat everything but the parts of a plant where your honeybees will land (generally that would be the flower). And though removing your bee hives from the treatment area would work, I don't expect this to be a practical solution either. Fogs, sprays and dusts will all leave a residual over the entire plant so in the end, I'm afraid the only truly safe method of keeping the mosquitoes in check will be to use repellents. Fortuanately we have 2-3 that work quite well.
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