How to get rid of mosquitoes in the area

How to prevent mosquitoes from entering your yard

Before you fight unwanted insects, make the environment uncomfortable for them to live.

1. Make it harder to access water sources

Still water is the perfect breeding ground mosquitoes. First of all, cover the barrels or other containers for watering with lids. Pour out the liquid from buckets, watering cans, garden figures, basins and other items that are rarely used and can collect moisture. Try to dry puddles if possible. And to prevent their occurrence in the future, you may have to fill the recesses with sand or soil and carefully tamp.

2. Keep artificial ponds and pools clean

If your plot decorates a small homemade pond, try to change the water in it weekly. In the case when the design is voluminous or for some reason it is impossible to replace the liquid, use special biological preparations. Such funds, getting into the water, destroy the larvae of mosquitoes and other blood-sucking insects. The method of application and consumption rate can be found in the instructions.

As for the pool, make sure that the water in it is always clean, and fill it with a new one as needed. Wash the bottom and walls regularly with cleaning products. And if you do not use the pool, for example because of the weather, it is better to cover it with a special awning.

3. Mow your lawn regularly

It is important not only to maintain a tidy appearance of the lawn, but also to periodically shorten the vegetation throughout the area. mow grass and weeds along fences and buildings, under bushes and trees. Do not allow thickets to appear even in the most undeveloped and hidden corners of your site.

4. Plant fragrant plants

Mosquitoes are sensitive to certain smells. If you plant crops in the garden and vegetable garden that exude persistent and characteristic aromas, this will most likely scare away unwanted insects. For example, decorate the area lavender, basil, marigolds.

How to get rid of mosquitoes in the area using traps

1. UV trap

The simplest device consists of an ultraviolet lamp, the light of which mosquitoes fly, and then fall into a trap container. More expensive options are equipped with a grid that is under electrical voltage. When touched with it, the mosquito instantly dies and falls into the pan.

By the way, such devices also attract other annoying flying insects like flies and os. The area of ​​influence depends on the device.

Traps come in different sizes. More options can be placed in different parts of the site. True, this method of dealing with mosquitoes is unlikely to be budgetary. But for installation in pergola and other recreation areas, one small device is enough.

What to buy

• UV trap for rooms with an area of ​​100 m² from Airhot, 2,530 rubles →
• UV trap for small spaces, 890 rubles →
• UV trap for small spaces, 800 rubles →

2. Homemade bottle trap

Mosquito bait can be made from improvised means.

What you need

• Plastic bottle;
• knife;
• sugar;
• dry baker's yeast;
• water;
• newspaper or thick paper;
• paperclips.

How to do

1. Unscrew the cap from the bottle, you won't need it. Cut off the top of the container with a sharp knife, as shown in the picture.

2. Pour about 200 ml of water at a temperature of 35-40 degrees into the bottom of the bottle. Add 2 tablespoons of sugar and stir thoroughly to dissolve all the crystals.

3. Sprinkle 1 teaspoon dry yeast. You don't need to stir them.

4. Cover the bottle tightly with its top, setting it upside down.

5. Wrap the trap in newspaper or thick paper that doesn't let light through. Secure the material with staples.

The trap is ready. Make a few fixtures and place them in different corners of the site. During fermentation, carbon dioxide will be released, which attracts mosquitoes and lures them inside the structure.

On average, such a trap works for about two weeks. After that, it is enough to pour the contents of the bottle, wash it and fill it with fresh yeast solution.

How to get rid of mosquitoes in the area with special preparations

The easiest option is to invite specialists who will competently treat the entire area with special preparations. But such tools can be found in stores or garden centers and apply them yourself.

Many drugs contain cypermethrin, which depresses the nervous system of mosquitoes, which leads them to paralysis and death. The method of using such products is similar: you need to prepare a working solution according to the instructions on the package, pour it into a sprayer and process the site. First of all, pay attention to storm drains, gutters, reservoirs and swampy places, and then spray the walls of buildings, fences, thickets, non-fruit trees and shrubs.

For the treatment of fruit crops, it is better to take biological products, for example, based on geraniol. Such compounds do not accumulate in berries and fruits, therefore it is safer for humans.

When using chemicals, wear gloves, a protective mask and goggles so as not to harm your health. And before use, carefully read the instructions and precautions.

What to buy

• A drug based on cypermethrin from NPO Garant, 499 rubles →
• A drug based on cypermethrin from ROSAGROSERVICE, 990 rubles →