Best Way To Kill Off The Mosquito Larva/Pupae Without Running Filter?
My parents pool was uncovered for the season the other day.
They aren't ready to run the filter yet (edit- needs new O-rings) but I noticed there are already 1000's of tiger mosquito larva and pupae tumbling around.
- To my understanding, a shock treatment only works if the filter is circulating the water.
- Dunks only work on the larva stage, and I saw plenty of pupae that will still mature into adults.
- Drops of dish detergent would likely cause a giant sudsy mess once the filter does start going.
- I have 4 mosquito buckets in the yard, but those won't do anything here.
- Clearly too late to get some koi or dragonfly larva to eat up the issue.
What can I do to get rid of as many of those things as possible before they mature into adults and get huge population leap early in the game? Can I convince them to dump in the shock now and just stir it around (assuming that even kills them outright?) Something else I'm missing. I'm seriously dreading the outcome if these things all reach maturity.
*Edit- forgot to mention that the filter system's pump needs new O-rings, which is the main hold up; not simply them being ignorant on how to clean a pool. They aren't getting to the O-ring replacement until the weekend. Pupae to adult takes 1-4 days. This is about mosquitos, not pool cleaning. They've cleaned it for nearly 20 years and know how to handle that.