Easy And Natural Ways To Prevent Mosquitos

Summer months can bring heavy rainfalls and if there’s one thing mosquitos love, it’s high humidity! Regardless of if it’s rained recently or not, mosquitos will always gravitate toward places of high moisture in the air from the largest of lakes to the smallest of puddles, it’s why we recommended keeping your grass short above. Removing standing water wherever…standing, is a great way to negate the local mosquito population a place to breed. It also prevents any reason for them to stick around if they can’t thrive there.

This goes for standing water in plant pots too. The smallest bit can house mosquito eggs so wherever you see it, drain it! If you own a pool of any kind, we suggest keeping it chlorinated routinely to prevent it from becoming a large breeding ground as well.

A more costly approach that’s been becoming more and more accessible throughout the years is using a mosquito magnet that slowly burns and disperses gas to attract mosquitos to the device which then sucks them in with a small fan, trapping them. Placed farther out into the yard, mosquito magnets draw them away from you entirely and is a great way to control the mosquito population over time.

Similarly don’t bother with high frequency emitting devices that claim to repel mosquitos. In most cases they do not work well and have been shown to give headaches to a number of those exposed to them. If worse comes to worse, fallback on usual methods like bug spray with DEET or natural ingredients, as well as wearing clothing that covers your skin and can possibly be tucked into each other.