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Keep mosquitoes from breeding in standing water.

If you have standing water in which mosquitoes are being hatched, and you want to stop the mosquitoes from hatching, add olive oil to the water. Add one tablespoon of olive oil for each square foot of surface area of the water.
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Added: on Jun 09, 2007 at 7:43 pm
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