How to Control Backyard Mosquitoes
Posted by Mosquito SquadMay 3, 2024
Are there surefire methods of reducing the number of mosquitoes in your backyard?
Springtime in Tennessee brings most of us outdoors. Once the pollen goes away, it’s time to clean up our backyard patios and decks. It’s time to uncover our backyard pools. It’s time to swat mosquitoes at every turn in our backyards – OR IS IT? Here are some great tips to help control buzzing, biting, breeding backyard mosquitoes!
Tips to Control Backyard Mosquitoes
Mosquitoes need water to breed. They do not need huge pools. Small puddles will do. Seemingly harmless areas where puddles form after a springtime rain, can actually produce hundreds of mosquitoes around your home in only a few days.
There are logical means to help control your backyard mosquitoes. Many are related to typical yard and outdoor home maintenance. For instance, have your irrigation inspected for leaks to ensure that puddles are not forming throughout your yard. Be sure that gutters and downspouts are not clogged with last fall’s leaf debris – clean them out if so. Improper drainage means stagnant water forming around your home. If you do have a backyard pool, it is wise to have dry storage for toys and floats, as some will collect rainwater if left exposed to the elements. Have a backyard pond? If so, it is wise to use a fountain or some form of agitator to disturb placid waters, where mosquitoes love to lay their eggs. The same goes for bird baths, rain barrels, or any other receptacles that hold water in your backyard. Take a good look around your backyard to identify any areas that could hold water and devise ways to prevent it.
For more information, see our 7 T’s of mosquito control.
Enlist Backyard Mosquito Services by Mosquito Squad
The best defense against backyard mosquitoes is more than yard and home maintenance. Your plan to curb mosquitoes should entail partnering with Mosquito Squad of Nashville for professional mosquito control in Franklin TN and surrounding areas. We will work in concert with you to break up mosquito breeding sites, as well as potential areas for tick, chigger, and flea infestations. Once your yard is made less mosquito-friendly, we will apply our traditional or natural mosquito treatment to help make your backyard the haven it is meant to be – for up to three weeks between treatments!
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