The best way to avoid a plague of mosquitoes in your back yard is to get rid of any standing water. This includes old buckets, empty planting pots, unused bird baths, and even items as innocuous as overturned garbage-can lids; mosquitoes will lay their eggs wherever there’s enough water for their little wigglers to survive in. One place most people don’t think of looking is in their home’s guttering, where clogs can create pools deep enough for mosquito larvae to thrive. Therefore, it’s a good idea to clear out your gutters regularly, in order to cut down on mosquito habitat.
If you have areas of standing water that can’t be removed, such as rain barrels or ornamental fountains, you can throw in non-toxic mosquito-control dunks that use bacteria harmless to people to kill mosquito larvae before they mature.
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