We have been having heavy rains and lots of standing water.
Weather has been a bit too cool most days to relax outside so I've not been bitten but clearly we have conditions in place to have a horrid year for mosquitos. Actually with woods on the west and north sides of my home, every year is pretty much a bad year for mosquitos for us.
Last year I used a spray that worked pretty well, its a hose end sprayer product and it lasts for about of month in controlling the pests. But with a new puppy I'm a bit hesitant to expose a 9 week old floppy dog who likes to bite grass, flowers, etc to whatever chemicals are in the spray.
This year I opted to buy this trap, paid $89 for it from Sams Club >>> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...iveASIN=B008CN8L0I&linkCode=as2&tag=jdteta-20
Put it together until yesterday mid-afternoon. Checked it today, after it had been on for less than 18 hours, and there were a couple hundred mosquitos trapped inside. Apparently the key is to let these run day & night because you are trying to break the breeding cycle of the mosquitos. It says it may take more than a week to begin to get good results.
FWIW, it is nearly silent, it does NOT 'zap' the bugs. It traps them and dehydrates them. There is a slight fan sound if you get close to the trap but you have to be very close to hear it.
To make my trap more 'attractive' to mosquitoes I hung an "Octenol Mosquito Attractant" inside my trap.
And with my trap there is a screw on screen area that holds all the captured bugs while they die. It is below the suction fan. So I hung the attractant lure from the bottom of the fan with the assumption that the fan would blow over the attractant and spread its smell out through the screen. That is my theory and I'm sticking with it. Besides it was an easy place to hang the attractant so, being a lazy man, I took the easy method.
I purchased the attractant at Menards. I think it was Black Flag brand but tossed out the package so I'm not positive. Cost for the attractant was maybe $7 and should last about 4 weeks before I need to replace it.
As for the spray that I used LAST year, it was a CUTTER brand product. It worked very well but you need to spray everything. And get the spray into the plants, bushes, under the leaves, etc because that is where mosquitoes shelter from wind. If you do NOT have kids/pets to worry about and want to control mosquitoes then I would recommend this CUTTER stuff.
BECAUSE of the new puppy I'm a little worried about the chemicals so I bought an eco-friendly product this year. Probably just as toxic? Cost twice as much! But I feel better about using it, likely just ignorant?
In any case, photos below of the new electric mosquito trap ... the CUTTER yard spray that I highly recommend ... and the new eco-stuff that I have not used yet because of rainy conditions.
Weather has been a bit too cool most days to relax outside so I've not been bitten but clearly we have conditions in place to have a horrid year for mosquitos. Actually with woods on the west and north sides of my home, every year is pretty much a bad year for mosquitos for us.
Last year I used a spray that worked pretty well, its a hose end sprayer product and it lasts for about of month in controlling the pests. But with a new puppy I'm a bit hesitant to expose a 9 week old floppy dog who likes to bite grass, flowers, etc to whatever chemicals are in the spray.
This year I opted to buy this trap, paid $89 for it from Sams Club >>> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...iveASIN=B008CN8L0I&linkCode=as2&tag=jdteta-20
Put it together until yesterday mid-afternoon. Checked it today, after it had been on for less than 18 hours, and there were a couple hundred mosquitos trapped inside. Apparently the key is to let these run day & night because you are trying to break the breeding cycle of the mosquitos. It says it may take more than a week to begin to get good results.
FWIW, it is nearly silent, it does NOT 'zap' the bugs. It traps them and dehydrates them. There is a slight fan sound if you get close to the trap but you have to be very close to hear it.
To make my trap more 'attractive' to mosquitoes I hung an "Octenol Mosquito Attractant" inside my trap.
And with my trap there is a screw on screen area that holds all the captured bugs while they die. It is below the suction fan. So I hung the attractant lure from the bottom of the fan with the assumption that the fan would blow over the attractant and spread its smell out through the screen. That is my theory and I'm sticking with it. Besides it was an easy place to hang the attractant so, being a lazy man, I took the easy method.
I purchased the attractant at Menards. I think it was Black Flag brand but tossed out the package so I'm not positive. Cost for the attractant was maybe $7 and should last about 4 weeks before I need to replace it.
As for the spray that I used LAST year, it was a CUTTER brand product. It worked very well but you need to spray everything. And get the spray into the plants, bushes, under the leaves, etc because that is where mosquitoes shelter from wind. If you do NOT have kids/pets to worry about and want to control mosquitoes then I would recommend this CUTTER stuff.
BECAUSE of the new puppy I'm a little worried about the chemicals so I bought an eco-friendly product this year. Probably just as toxic? Cost twice as much! But I feel better about using it, likely just ignorant?
In any case, photos below of the new electric mosquito trap ... the CUTTER yard spray that I highly recommend ... and the new eco-stuff that I have not used yet because of rainy conditions.