Is Mosquito Spray Right Solution?

Mosquito sprays can help prevent invasion by mosquitoes in your yard and your outdoor events. The homeowners may use ready-to-use sprayers, foggers or aerosols. In and around mosquito resting places like tall grass, standing water, rims of lawn and flower beds, mosquito sprays should be administered. There are also specified mosquito treatment sprays that can protect you when you camp, walk, or just enjoy nature. Mosquito repellents generally work by interfering with the ability of the female mosquito to lay eggs.

Inexperienced professionals can lead you to waste your money by misuse of chemicals or by using non-work products. And you could be exposed to unnecessary risk. Misused chemicals can cause more toxins to your children and pets and harm natural leaflets and non-threatening insects. They can also produce resistance to insecticide, which makes any existing problem with insects much worse.

Take Simple Steps

Before considering spraying, you should try the most basic tactics of mosquito treatment, starting with eliminating standing water from pet dishes, old tires, bird feeders, plants and so on (where some mosquitoes like to breed).

Moreover, door and windows repair screens and use air-conditioning to prevent mosquitoes from invading the house.

Keep your lawn mowed to discourage ticks from your yard, as ticks prefer long grass. And remove any litter or brush from the leaves.

Ask Questions

Ask for a license or certification, an insecticide label and protective equipment. All these things should be ready for professional companies. They are legally required in most states in any pest-control company. The license should be up to specify the chemicals that the company uses.

Ask if the company has a plan to guard non-target organisms. Mosquito killing chemicals can also kill good insects like bees, ladybugs and butterflies. Professional sprayers will adopt policies to minimize the drift of chemicals into non-target areas, such as being back to property lines and working with the wind.

Mosquito Spray for Yard

Mosquito treatment sprays are ideal for the yard before a backyard event. Sprays for homeowners may last up to a few hours or several days depending on the product. Professional applications last for a prolonged time because licensed professionals have expertise and can use a more efficient way to administer professional products. In lawn, landscape, patio and garden insecticide active ingredients can be toxic to other living creatures, so that you and your pets should not enter the yard before the spray has dried. Read the Product label instructions and follow them strictly before using them to ensure that they are used safely. Furthermore, other native wildlife must be made aware of and not spray to harm other living animals.

Mosquito Spray for Person

DEET is the most frequently used spray for mosquito killers. It is used every year by more than 50 million Americans to protect against mosquito bites, and over 40 + years it has been used more than a billion times. Generally speaking, as the concentration of active ingredient in the product increases by 30%, the length of DEET mosquito protection increases.

Certain essential oils were also examined in order to repel mosquitoes. Oils like citronella, citric eucalyptus and tea tree can all be used to prevent mosquitoes from mixing with water or base oil such as almond oils for at least 2–3 hours.

Mother Nature Pest and Lawn will work for you to treat mosquitoes. Contact us for pest control, termite extermination and other pest infestation problems.