Not anymore, we have zebra mosquitoes. They grow in hedges and bushes and require very little water. They also come out in the warm daytime and will bite you 4-6 times in a row before it starts to itch.
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Denjin@feddit.uk 3 months agoMosquitoes need standing water
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You know it’s odd. We have no streams or ponds. I make certain we have no standing water around us by ensuring unused pots and other items are upturned, but we always have mosquitoes around. It’s forest around us which is very nice, but the mozzies get very thick. I am sure I miss some water, but not enough for the numbers I see. Don’t know how far they’ll travel, but there’s gotta be some junk somewhere on the neighbor’s property in the forest holding water.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They can breed in a few cups of water. Try what I did this year at our camp in the swamp. Purposefully set stagnant water traps, buckets or whatever. Get Mosquito Dunk. Another user here turned me onto that. Its bacteria that kill the larvae.
This was my first year, but it seemed to work. Hard to say because it’s a swamp with loads of neighbor trash and stagnant pools, but the actual camp seemed better. Didn’t hear a single blood sucker today. I know, it’s October, but it’s still in the high 80s down here.