Why Your Backyard Pool is Attracting Mosquitoes

Las Cruces residents are installing backyard pools or seeking refuge in their existing pools. Many are noticing more mosquitoes.

Why is a backyard pool enticing to mosquitoes? Do they require a dip to remain cool in the Las Cruces triple-digit temperatures? Not exactly. Pools are notoriously popular spots for mosquitoes for a few reasons. In this blog, we’ll discuss why mosquitoes are attracted to your pool.

You are attracting mosquitoes to your pool.

The heat throughout the Southwest is sending us for reprieve in our backyard pools in the mornings and evenings more so than in the heat of the day. Just as it’s too hot for us to enjoy our pools in the heat of the day, it’s too hot for mosquitoes to be out. Therefore, we are keeping the same schedule as mosquitoes. As such, your morning or evening swim is likely being interrupted by an influx of biting and buzzing female mosquitoes, who are homing in on your body’s natural CO2 emissions. And because it's still hot even when the sun is down right now, our body heat and sweat are hugely enticing to mosquitoes. Add to that, sweet drinks, fresh fruit snacks, and alcohol consumption could make our CO2 emissions even more attractive to mosquitoes.

Light is leading mosquitoes to your pool.

Scientific studies have shown that mosquitoes are not attracted to light. That is why bug lights are ineffective for mosquito control. However, mosquitoes use light for navigation. They use the moon and sun to lead them to ample breeding spaces and places where other animals or humans are, where they can obtain essential blood meals to produce fertilized eggs. Pool lights are being used for our early morning and late night swimming ritual in the intense summer heat, and these lights are leading mosquitoes to where you are – in or around your pool!

Your pool fountain is creating a mosquito breeding ground.

As you might know, mosquitoes are not generally attracted to swimming pools. They prefer ponds, swamps, and puddles. Any area of still water will do. This includes pet bowls and bird baths. Many residents are equipping their pools with fountains to help cool the water for more enjoyable swimming. And while many pool owners report that their fountains are making their backyard pools cooler, they too, could be splashing water outside your pool. The puddles created from splashing water create perfect areas for mosquitoes to lay their eggs and hatch hundreds or thousands of mosquitoes in only a week or two around your pool.

Las Cruces Pest Control for Mosquitoes

If you are suffering mosquito problems around your Las Cruces pool, it’s time you enlist the advice of Mosquito Squad, your local mosquito and pest control specialists. Our mosquito control technicians are ready to get to work to help make your yard less mosquito friendly and treat your yard with proven and effective mosquito control spray. Our EPA-registered barrier protection spray kills mosquitoes and larvae on contact and will work for about three weeks between sprays. Our natural mosquito control works to repel about 80% of the mosquitoes around your pool area for about two weeks.

Call Mosquito Squad for the best pest control Las Cruces. Fill out our form online or call us at (575) 221-1787 for a free quote.

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