Mosquito Facts/Prevention

Prevention

• Hire Skeeter Pro to spray your yard every 21 days to kill adolescent and adult mosquitoes before they bite you, your kids and your pets.
• Make sure your rain gutters are clean and flowing
• Drain all standing water on your property.
• Cover trash containers so that water does not accumulate on the bottom.
• Do not allow water to stand in any type of container in your yard
  including at the base of planters.
• Change pet dish water frequently and water in bird baths at least once per week.
• Properly care for backyard pools and water filled landscaping accents.
• Trim trees and shrubs around sitting areas to eliminate mosquito resting places.
• Encourage your next door neighbors to hire the Skeeter Pro. Refer a friend or neighbor to a seasonal application and get one Skeeter Pro’s application free of charge.

Mosquitoes Facts

• A mosquito only weighs 1/25,000 of an ounce.
• Mosquitoes are responsible for more human deaths than any other living creature.
• Mosquitoes pose a threat to public health, spreading everything from West Nile virus, encephalitis, dengue fever, malaria, and even heart worms in pets.
• Citronella candles and smoking coils repel mosquitoes, but you have to stay in the smoky plume to be protected.
• West Nile virus is spread by infected mosquitoes, and can cause serious, life-altering and even fatal disease.
• There are over 2,500 species of mosquitoes scattered throughout the world.
• One female mosquito may lay 100 to 300 eggs at a time and may average 1,000 to 3,000 off springs during her life span.
• Mosquitoes breed in standing water, so eliminating standing water on your property reduces your risk.
• The average life span of a female mosquito is 3 to 100 days and the male lives an average of 10 to 20 days.
• Only female mosquitoes bite—they need the protein for their eggs.
• Male mosquitoes survive by sucking on nectar and other plant juices.
• The welt that appears after a mosquito bites is an allergic reaction to the saliv that is injected into your skin to prevent your blood from clotting.
• From 100 feet away (30 meters) mosquitoes can smell your scent, especially the carbon dioxide (CO2) you exhale.
• Mosquitoes rarely travel farther than 300 feet from their birthplace.
• Light colors are less attractive to mosquitoes than dark colors; thus, mosquitoes are more likely to choose a victim wearing darker colors.
• Mosquitoes are found all over the world, even in cold places like the Arctic.
• Mosquitoes prefer dark places like trees, grass and shrubs.
• A mosquito develops from egg to adulthood in 4 to 7 days.
• Like humans, mosquitoes have food preferences—not all mosquito species bite humans, some prefer birds, horses, frogs or turtles.