How To Keep Mosquito From Entering Your Home
Mosquitoes are insects that transmit disease-causing viruses and parasites from one person to another without catching disease themselves. They can transmit deadly diseases such as dengue, malaria, etc. Only female mosquitoes are able of drinking blood. Females do not take blood for their own survival, but they do require supplemental substances such as protein and iron to produce eggs. By drinking blood from one animal to another, they carry harmful bacteria.
There are numerous methods employed for mosquito control, but first we should have knowledge on their life cycle. There are four stages in mosquitoes’ life cycle: egg, larva, pupa, and adult or imago. Adult females lay their eggs in water, which can be a salt-marsh, a lake, a puddle, a natural reservoir on a plant, or an artificial water container such as a plastic bucket. The first three stages are underwater and last 5-14 days, depending on the species and the surrounding temperature; eggs breed to become larvae, then pupae. The adult mosquito comes out from the pupa as it swims at the water surface. Adult females can survive up to a month – more in captivity – but most likely do not survive more than 1-2 weeks in nature.
Now, we know that mosquitoes prefer stagnant water and dark places for them to thrive. So maintain your house clean and free from stagnant water that will be formed. Make your that your pipelines have no leaks and the drainage sytem is clean and free-flowing.
In sites near bodies of water like pond, remove all floating debris and other solid waste material from the water. Solid wastes render productive area for mosquitoes so make sure that they are cleaned. It is also useful to breed mosquito-eating fish in water to help control mosquitoes.
You can also utilize insecticides and mosquito repellents in case the mosquito problem is too great. You can also demand your local municipality to undertake mosquito prevention programme in your area.
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