Garlic, lots of garlic. Plant it in your garden, under your windows. Rub your doorframe and window frames with it. Rub the dog collar with it.
Helps against Ticks as well
Garlic, lots of garlic. Plant it in your garden, under your windows. Rub your doorframe and window frames with it. Rub the dog collar with it.
Helps against Ticks as well
FWIW my yard would be full of mosquitos if we did not have a mosquito service treat it every 3-4 weeks. It's not a big yard, and my neighbors don't treat their yards. The mosquitos still stay out of our yard though.
Point is it can be done. Whatever the Mosquito businesses do - works. Hire one of you have the money to spend or try to figure out what the professionals do.
Half the battle is getting rid of water. Every few days walk around and pour out anything that collects rainwater.
Not serious, but amusing: https://hackaday.com/2023/07/10/gas-powered-fly-swatter-slightly-over-engineered/
You just gotta take the loss and burn your house down.
I just use a electric racquet
Get a bug zapper with a UV bulb, even if its branded for outdoor use it'll work fine inside.
Mosquitoes aren't attracted to light. You're only killing moths and other insects with that, maybe some mosquito but not all.
Things that actually attracts mosquitoes:
-Standing Water.
-Carbon Dioxide.
-Strong Fragrances.
-Overgrown Vegetation.
I tried the propane powered foggers. Useless.
Anything short of premetherin yard fogging once a month is dicking around.
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