Control Home Mosquitoes | Mosquito Products

Here are some tips for controlling mosquito breeding areas around your home or business: • Empty water from old tires, tin cans, buckets, drums, bottles or other places mosquitoes could breed. • Clean rain gutters and downspouts. • Empty plastic wading pools at least once per week and store inside when not in use. • Change the water in bird baths and plant pots or drip trays at least once per week. • Store boats covered or upside down or remove accumulated rain water every week. • Empty pets' water bowls daily. • Level the ground around your home so water won't collect in low spots. • Fill in holes or depressions in the ground around your home if they collect water. • Cut weeds and grass where adult mosquitoes seek refuge from the heat during the day. To protect yourself: • Stay indoors during the peak biting periods of dawn and dusk. • Make sure door and window screens fit tight and are in good condition. • Wear long-sleeved shirts and long pants of tightly woven fabric. • Use

By Brennan Purtzer With record rainfall flooding Kaunakaka'i and other areas of the island, much of the wet stuff ended up in ponds, swamps and bogs across Moloka'i. hile frogs are enjoying the ponds, you may have noticed they have also become hatcheries to thousands, if not millions of mosquitoes. As mad as we get at the whalers who brought them here, the fact remains they are here to stay, and we've got to learn to live with the bloodsuckers. Here are some tips to dealing with these parasitic pests. * Avoid swampy areas if you can. * If you're in a swampy area, try to avoid being there at dawn or dusk. * Wear long, heavy pants and shirts. * Tuck your pants into your boots. * Wear light colored clothing so ticks and bugs show up easily. * Spray pesticides on your clothing (NOT on your skin). Even more effective - don't be a mosquito breeding ground. Try to prevent mosquitoes from breeding in the first place. Replacing your outdoor lights with yellow lights and usin

by Bill Hanckel Slapping yourself silly trying to keep mosquitoes from biting you? Besides causing irritating itching bites, mosquitoes can also carry and transmit several diseases including the West Nile Virus. Although you cannot get rid of every mosquito, there are many ways to protect yourself and those around you. The most important way to help fight mosquitoes is by breaking their breeding cycle. Mosquitoes lay their eggs in stagnant water and those eggs hatch within 48 hours. Once hatched, the larvae feed on debris in the stagnant water until they move into the resting stage. In this stage, the larvae become pupae. The mosquito begins to develop and finally emerges as an adult mosquito. All this can happen in less than 5 days! Be pro-active and check the area around your home for places where standing water may accumulate such as birdbaths, clogged gutters, buckets, kiddie pools, toys, even bottle caps – mosquitoes can breed in just a thimble full of water. Change water often in

By Mark Jansen Mosquitoes can carry diseases like malaria, yellow fever, many types of encephalitis and dengue. Almost 600 million people die each year with mosquito-born diseases. What can you do to prevent getting bitten? Mosquito netting is important because it prevents an insect bite that carries infectious diseases. It comes in a variety of shapes, color and purposes. Here are some guidelines for you to choose the perfect mosquito netting. 1) Size and shape: The size of the net should be spacious. It should have enough space to cover your whole body while sleeping. The mosquito netting should provide you with your needed air circulation. A mosquito net with holes of 1.2mm x 1.2mm is the most used and the most recommended. Rectangular mosquito nettings are more advisable to use because it provides much needed space for you and your friends. Pyramid shaped mosquito nets could be used for individual purposes. 2) Material: There are two most common material used in mosquito netting –

by Stefanie Olsen American Biophysics, a small private company based in North Kingstown, R.I., runs a healthy business selling the "Mosquito Magnet," a system to rid American backyards of biting insects, according to its new CEO Devin Hosea. Simply described, the magnet emits a humanlike scent that includes carbon dioxide and moisture to attract bloodsucking insects. When the bugs flutter past, they're sucked into and suffocated by a vacuumlike device. Now AmBio, as the company is commonly called, is upping the ante with a "smart" mosquito net, or computerized defense system, to serve the corporate and public health sectors. By the first quarter of 2006, AmBio executives hope to have finalized sophisticated software to control a network of magnets--forming a kind of wide-scale fence--which will be able to communicate with a central network through wireless 802.11b technology.It's unbelievable the lengths people will go to, to get rid of mosquitoes. --Devin H