Best Places For Mosquitoes To Hide

When you’re in your backyard and you suddenly have a dozen mosquitoes swarming around you, it only makes sense to wonder, “Where did all of these mosquitoes come from?” Well, there are many places in your yard that mosquitoes can hide and wait for you to appear. We’re going to take a quick look at these places and talk about how professional pest control technicians use these hiding places against them.

While there may be mosquitoes roaming around when you first go out into your yard, most of the mosquitoes that mob you are mosquitoes that are hiding, especially in the middle of the day when the sun is high in the sky. Mosquitoes need moisture to live. The hotter and dryer it is, the more likely they will be to hide. These hiding places include:

  • Under the leaves of ornamental plants and in bushes, shrubs, and small trees. These offer shade from the hot sun.
  • Inside toys that are scattered around the yard. Toys hold water after it rains, and this is appealing to mosquitoes.
  • Under decks, porches, and other structures. These areas can have shade and moisture. Locations that get a lot of shade prevent rainwater from being dried up quickly by the sun.
  • Kiddie pools. If you have little children, there is a good chance you have a little pool. When these pools are left with water in them, mosquitoes will use them to stay moist or to lay eggs.
  • Any object that holds water. If you have outdoor potted plants, mosquitoes can hide in the dish underneath them, or in wet soil under the plants themselves. If you have tarps covering objects in your yard, mosquitoes can hide under those tarps and lay eggs in water that accumulates on top of them. If you have obstructed gutters, these are the perfect place for mosquitoes to hide and breed. Anything that holds water or offers shade is a potential hiding place for mosquitoes.

Pest control specialists use these hiding places against mosquitoes by spraying them with a residual insecticide. When mosquitoes go to hide, they will be unable to avoid this insecticide. It has been scientifically proven that dead mosquitoes do not fly around your yard laying eggs anymore.

If you need help controlling mosquitoes on your property, we can help. The mosquito control professionals here at Active Pest Control use the most advanced protocols for ongoing mosquito reduction throughout the mosquito season. Get your service in place today, and start enjoying your backyard again.

What’s With All The Mosquitoes?

We’ve had a lot of wet weather recently. Have you noticed? Whether you’ve noticed the weather or not, mosquitoes sure noticed it. Let’s take a look at how foul weather makes more foul mosquitoes, and explore a couple of things we can do about them.

What happens when it rains? If your answer was, “It gets wet,” congratulations, you’re exactly right. Rain makes stuff wet. And, if the sun doesn’t dry that rainwater up, mosquitoes take advantage of it. Here are a few examples:

  • If you have an area of your yard that gets a lot of shade, there is a greater chance that you’ll have puddles that won’t dry up shortly after it rains. Mosquitoes will use those puddles to lay their eggs and produce more mosquitoes in your yard.
  • If you have objects in your yard that collect rainwater such as toys, a tarp, stacked construction materials, or the top of a parked vehicle, you have the conditions for mosquitoes to breed.
  • If you have a gutter that is obstructed by sticks and leaves, this will act as a dam. The water held up by that tiny dam will be more than enough for mosquitoes to breed in.
  • If you have hard ground, concrete, or some other firm surface that holds puddles for longer than a day, that could be long enough for mosquito eggs to hatch.

More rain makes all of the above a breeding ground for mosquitoes. It also makes the wooded, shaded areas, more of a breeding ground as well. If you live near a swamp, you probably don’t notice when there are more mosquitoes than usually but folks who live in relatively dry areas sure do. Mosquitoes take quick advantage of still, stagnant water.
Is there anything we can do? Yup! We don’t have to put up with all those mosquitoes. Here are four important things you need to know about mosquitoes:

  • The average mosquito doesn’t travel more than 300 yards in its entire life. If you’re getting mosquito bites in your backyard, those mosquitoes probably didn’t travel very far to bite you.
  • When you have breeding sites controlled or treated, you reduce the number of mosquitoes that will breed in your yard.
  • When you have the vegetation in your yard treated for mosquitoes, you will be destroying mosquitoes that would have bred in your neighbor’s yard.
  • When you reduce mosquitoes on your property, you are also reducing the number of mosquitoes that would have come back into your yard after breeding in your neighbor’s yard.

Don’t let the foul weather make your yard or your neighborhood a mosquito paradise. Get ongoing mosquito reduction service from a professional, and stop the cycle.