What is the best thing to keep mosquitos away?
Question:I spay poison, spead poison but the rain has been relentless and just washes it away. My dogs are getting eaten up and I can go outside for 5 minutes and just get eaten alive. What can I do to rid them and rid them affordably?
Answers:
First, try to removed standing water & fill in low areas in yards to discourage puddles. Keep drains, ditches and culverts clear to allow proper drainage. Check for any damp spots where mosquitos can hide & breed such as clogged roof gutters.Trim shrubs to discourage them from resting on foliage.
Mosquito Dunks destroy Mosquitoes - by killing the larvae before they mature into biting adult pests. They're the only sustained-release B.t.i. mosquito larvicides available.
You could check out the high tech Infrared Mosquito Killing Trap (IMKT), to see if this is an option. I haven' t had any experience with this, though.
Mosquitos don't like Citronella, Catnip, Rosemary, Thyme, Lemon Balm, Mint, the oil of Lemon Eucalyptus, Garlic, or Tea Tree Oil. Make a spray of one of these & add a tablsp Ivory soap to a gallon of water & spray your bushes with it when you're outdoors. You can also add a tablsp. soybean (vegetable) oil to the soap & water spray.
OR ...
Use citronella torches &/or candles.
Cinnamon oil shows promise as an environmentally friendly pesticide, killing mosquito larvae more effectively than DEET.
Cedar chips are helpful. Spread on pathways.
While combating those bugs, avoid the mosquito's most active time between the hours of dusk and dawn. On windy days you can usually move about outside with less mosquito confrontations & protect yourself.
The CDC says " oil of lemon eucalyptus provides protection time "similar to low-concentration DEET products in two recent studies."
Iowa State U. researches have reported that an essential oil found in catnip (Nepetalactone)
is more effectivethan DEET. (Organic Gardening Aug/Sept '06)
Rub Lemon balm leaves over yourself & your clothing to repel mosquitos.
Good luck! I hope you get rid of those mosquitos.
the best thing to do is to get a bug zapper...put it about 30 feet away from where u are and turn it on...it really works
so try it and i guaruntee youll like it :-)
It won't take effect immediately, but buy a Bat House. Bats eat like 1.5 times their own weight in bugs. Buy one now, and next summer you'll be mosquito free.
Use "r"s. You will find them very helpful.
Those are both good ideas, also there are certain plants that mosquits cannot stand. Lemon grass, lemon scented geraniums or mosquito plant(another geranium). Also citronella candles, and tiki torches with citronella oil.
Also any where you have standing water dump it, that is where they breed. And if you have a water feature in your yard buy mosquito dunks. They release microbials into the water that do not harm fish or plants but infect insect eggs! Bye bye future mosquitos. Also try putting out bird feeders. Birds eat bugs. including mosquitos.
Also i read that citrus oils in general repel and drinking tart lemon/lime drinks (low sugar) during the summers may help repel them by changing the scent of our sweat. A bit grooss to think about but interesting.
In Australia you can get a Solar Bug Zapper that will kill mosquitoes.
Get it at K-Mart or Bunnings.
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