I noticed this in the mcdonalds parking lot, so I poked around in it with a stick to try to clear the drainage path.

I came to the conclusion that it has no outlet at all, it’s a permanent stagnant pond. It stinks pretty bad.

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[–] 142 points 9 months ago (24 children)

Contact your local mosquito control agency and report it, I'm sure they'll be impressed and might even get the ball rolling towards making McDonalds do something to resolve the issue.

In the meantime, post a professional looking printed and laminated sign that says something like "MOSQUITO POND - Please protect the local mosquito population - Thanks, McSquitoes"

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago (19 children)

    Contact your local mosquito control agency

    Y’all have mosquito control agencies?!

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  • [–] [S] 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

    Sure do! They even have an open house every year and the kids get to sit in their helicopter.

    Edit:

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago* (6 children)

    Why do they need a helicopter? More importantly, do they call it "The Skeeter Beater?"

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  • [–] 41 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    It's to disrupt the mating cycle. When you fly around in The Skeeter Beater it sets an unobtainable standard for male mosquitos and the females lose interest.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Genuinely don't know if you're kidding or not. Movie idea: aliens do this to humanity.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Here in south Mississippi, absolutely!

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    We could certainly use one here in Coastal Carolina, but we’re just left to fend for ourselves…

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    What part? We have that here around Sacramento.

    Edit- I'm an idiot... I could've sworn you said coastal California.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I guess trying to control mosquitos is officially woke.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    I thought they said coastal California. It said Carolina. My bad.

    Also, controlling mosquitoes is def woke. They are the deadliest animal on the planet. Despite ICE thinking it would be anyone slightly off-white.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    It's common in the tropics where mosquitoes can carry deadly viruses

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    We have them in Minnesota too.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Oof, stay warm up there, and stay safe..

    Fuck ICE, except the kind of ice that freezes the mosquitoes...

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    except the kind of ice that freezes the mosquitoes.

    Even that kind of ice sucks. The mosquitoes that live in those frozen places thrive because all the ice melts into ponds and lakes all over, creating breeding grounds for the mosquitoes whose eggs can survive freezing.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    Oh? Well maybe my elders weren't as well educated, as that's what I was always taught, that hard freezes supposedly kill off the eggs. Fuck I dunno, if you go out of the city and into the sticks, the skeeters are hella crazy for blood!

    I dunno, but here in south Mississippi of all places, I've probably only been bitten by mosquitoes like 6 times in the past 10 years. But the retired mosquito control guy is covered in what's basically obvious skin issues and even skin cancer, likely from the chemicals...

    ☹️

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago

    I live in Texas, so any amount of water is an instant mosquito source. I legit made a "mosquito pond" for the little bastards to lay their eggs, which provides an excellent food source for the cheap ass minnows i stock the pond with ...

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    In the meantime, post a professional looking printed and laminated sign that says something like “MOSQUITO POND - Please protect the local mosquito population - Thanks, McSquitoes”

    Isn't that the entirety of e-arth?

    Source: Agent Wendy Pleakley

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