{"podcast":{"title":"LessWrong (Curated & Popular)","slug":"lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401","podcast_index_feed_id":5643401,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2037297.rss","website_url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/421877","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/xq8g0aka74ttwoa9xkxlmy5fn9oa?.jpg","author":"LessWrong","episode_count":914,"summary":"Audio narrations of LessWrong posts. Includes all curated posts and all posts with 125+ karma. If you'd like more, subscribe to the “Lesswrong (30+ karma)” feed.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T00:17:48.974965+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401"},"episode":{"title":"\"The mosquito bucket of doom works\" by dominicq","slug":"the-mosquito-bucket-of-doom-works-by-dominicq","published_at":"2026-07-15T06:15:34+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/the-mosquito-bucket-of-doom-works-by-dominicq","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037297/episodes/19496699-the-mosquito-bucket-of-doom-works-by-dominicq.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037297/episodes/19496699-the-mosquito-bucket-of-doom-works-by-dominicq.mp3","summary":"The mosquito bucket of doom is a population control mechanism where you dissolve some Bti (Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis) into a bucket and allow the mosquitoes to lay eggs in these buckets. The larvae then feed on Bti and die. I tried this method, and it has been unexpectedly effective. Background I live in a really wooded area. It's not swampy, but we have a lot of mosquitoes. I didn’t take the baseline measurements in the previous years, but on hot months like June, July, Aug...","meta_description":"The mosquito bucket of doom is a population control mechanism where you dissolve some Bti (Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis) into a bucket and allow the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":574,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/episodes/the-mosquito-bucket-of-doom-works-by-dominicq/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/the-mosquito-bucket-of-doom-works-by-dominicq.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}