How to Keep Mosquitoes Away from Your Home & Yard in The Villages, FL; Mosquito Pest Control & Negative Effects of Spreading Dangerous Diseases
Summer’s warm days and long nights are prime conditions for mosquitoes, and these bloodsuckers can ruin outdoor enjoyment. Mosquito control manages the population of mosquitoes to reduce their damage to human health, economies, and enjoyment. Mosquito control is a vital public-health practice throughout the world and especially in the topics because mosquitoes spread many diseases, such as malaria, chikungunya and Zika virus. There isn’t anyone that likes the redness, swelling, and itchiness that comes with a mosquito bite. They are best known for the habits of the female that feeds on blood to help generate her eggs. Adult mosquitoes prefer to be most active from dusk to dawn but will be active with sufficient cloud cover or in dark shady areas. Signs of a mosquito infestation are mosquito activity that includes the buzzing of the females and their bites. People react differently to bites, ranging from mild irritation to intense inflammation and swelling.
Negative Effects of Mosquitoes on Society
Nuisance mosquitoes bother people around homes or in parks and recreational areas. Economically important, mosquitoes reduce real estate values, adversely affect tourism and related business interest, or negatively impact livestock or poultry production. Public health problems focus on mosquitoes as vectors, or transmitters, of infectious disease. In the United States mosquitoes can transmit dengue fever, yellow fever, encephalitis, and the ever growing, Zika virus. Mosquito control will depend on the situation, but usually includes source reduction, biocontrol, larviciding (killing of larvae), or adulticiding (killing of adults) to manage mosquito populations.
Mosquito Control Options
Source reduction is the most important method to control mosquitoes as they breed in standing water. Empty water from containers around the home. Remove unused plastic pools, old tires or buckets. Clear gutters and repair leaks around faucets. Regularly change water in bird baths and drain or fill puddles, swampy areas, and tree stumps. Biocontrol or biological control is the use of natural enemies to manage mosquito populations. Larviciding controls larvae by using contact poisons, growth regulators, surface films, stomach poisons to prevent the larvae from maturing. Adulticiding is killing the adults through ground-based applications or through aerial application. Mosquito traps provide artificial breeding spots for mosquitoes to lay their eggs. The traps contain a chemical that will kill the adult mosquitoes.
Choosing a Pest Control Company
When you hire a pest control company to assess your problem, the first step will be to conduct an inspection of the property and to identify the kind of mosquito causing the problem. Then source reduction will begin and necessary chemicals will be used. Locating all standing water sites and exclusion recommendations will be made to prevent mosquitoes from breeding. Recommendations for vegetation management will be provided as many kinds of mosquitoes rest in vegetation around the home during the daylight hours. Chemicals include insecticides applied to vegetation, application of insect growth regulators in their water environment to prevent their development and application of microbial insecticides to kill them in their water environments.
Mosquito Inspections, Prevention, Control, Treatment & Removal in in Ocala, The Villages & Central Florida
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