BITING BACK: You don’t have to swim...

BITING BACK: You don’t have to swim to take advantage of your back yard swimming pool. County biologist Jim Webb suggests another use. . . . Warm weather’s return means mosquitoes are back. Webb says you can keep them under control--with fish you can get free. . . . They’re called the mosquito fish--from the guppy family--and you can pick them up at the county’s vector control office in Garden Grove. Webb recommends dumping them in your pool, or home ponds, or even horse troughs. The fish, he says, love to eat mosquito larvae: “They’re just voracious.”

MIGHTY EASY: With Disneyland as expensive as it is ($23 to $33), who would plunk down $50 per ticket to get in? That’s the ticket price for the Mighty Ducks Fanfair after-hours party at Disneyland on Thursday. . . . It’s a charity event for disadvantaged children. Other selling points: You get to meet the Mighty Ducks. The party is limited to 2,500. Says a spokesman: “That means no standing in line for the Indiana Jones ride. Right now the wait is what, three hours?” Tickets remain available.

SHORTER GAP: The Pacific Symphony’s Vietnam Oratorio “Fire Water Paper”--Wednesday and Thursday at the Orange County Performing Arts Center--was written by composer Elliot Goldenthal. But helping the project has been composer Khoa Le of Orange. . . . Le organized the Vietnamese children’s choir for the event and helped bring the orchestra closer to Vietnamese music and culture. Says Le: “Art is the way to bridge the gap.”

BEYOND SHOW BIZ: When an ABC-TV documentary team interviewed World War II German refugee Eva Krutein at her Irvine home last weekend, she says, the staff spent hours changing her house lighting. They even spritzed up the flowers in her garden, to give them a dewy look. . . . And the interview itself? Says Krutein, who barely escaped a war zone with a baby daughter: “It was very emotional because the interviewer knew how to get everything out of me.” The documentary on the 20th Century has no air date yet.