Best Mosquito Control

The first step in any mosquito control effort is to find and eliminate the mosquito breeding sites from your backyard. Mosquitoes breed in standing water, especially if it stands for at least 7 days. Adult mosquitoes lay their eggs near the standing water, and their young (larvae) develop in the water before emerging to bite. Because these mosquito larvae feed on bacteria and other microorganisms, the water must be stagnant and contain some organic matter such as leaves, soil, bird droppings, or grass clippings. You can destroy many breeding sites by draining, dumping, or filling them.

Basic Mosquito Math

A ½ inch of rain can last 7 days

7 days is how long it takes a mosquito egg (larvae) to develop into an adult.

Mosquitoes can lay 100 eggs at a time, so populations of this pest can get out of control quickly.

DIY Mosquito Control

• Clean your gutters in the spring, guaranteed they have debris and hold water.

• Toss the plastic accordion style extension on your gutters, they hold water weeks after
  
  
  
  
  
• All the crap you leave outside that can hold rainwater gets tossed or placed inside. (If it were not crap, you would value it and wouldn't have left it out in the rain in the first place).  Crap = old flower pot, trash and recycling cans without lids and that do not have holes in them.

You can try repellents but understand that repelling and killing mosquitoes are not the same thing. Repelling mosquitoes will keep them away from you by making you less attractive to them (they are attracted to our heat signature, scent and the carbon dioxide from our breath).

Three of the four step will absolutely reduce mosquitoes. The fourth just tries to hide you. You are still going to get bit. Why will you keep getting attacked by mosquitoes? Why does DIY mosquito control not work? Mosquitoes if present are going to find you. Odds are you're reading this because you want to be outside and mosquitoes (the ones you did not get or ones from your neighbor) are going to detect your presence and fly over and bite you.

Professional mosquito control services treats your yard to break the lifecycle of the mosquito. In short it is designed to treat the mosquito Larvae, adult mosquitoes and to leave a residual barrier on foliage that both male and female mosquitoes need to eat for energy.   The barrier lasts several weeks and is meant to treat mosquitoes that were not present during the initial treatment. DIY mosquito techniques cannot accomplish this.

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