On the problematic side, the cheap boric acid solution (pun!) will likely be the most used. And this will be bad.
1) Boric acid will kill any insect that ingests it.
2) If you leave rotting fruit out, every nectar lover will drink it. From experience, this will be at least 50% honeybees.
So yeah, it will crash native honeybee populations too. If you are curious and want to see how effective it would be, mix up some bait without the poison. After a few hours, enough for every bug to find it, sit next to it for ten minutes. Count bees vs mosquitoes, you'll probably be disappointed.
I thought about this as well. I am going to leave boric acid laced juice socks out at night. BTW this has worked as a solution for cockroaches terrifically well at my place for the last 20 years.
1) Boric acid will kill any insect that ingests it.
2) If you leave rotting fruit out, every nectar lover will drink it. From experience, this will be at least 50% honeybees.
So yeah, it will crash native honeybee populations too. If you are curious and want to see how effective it would be, mix up some bait without the poison. After a few hours, enough for every bug to find it, sit next to it for ten minutes. Count bees vs mosquitoes, you'll probably be disappointed.