Today, I had the chance to converse
with Dovid Davis, the Director of A # 1 Pest Control in Baltimore Maryland,
and Dovid talked to me about what's going on with mosquitoes. This year, he
pointed out, we're having a hot summer and one of its
characteristics is the mixture of periods of hot dry weather and periods of
heavy rainstorms and downpour, which is good for causing mosquitoes to increase. Mosquito larvae typically live in any container that has a minimum of
two teaspoons of liquid, and that can be an empty soda can or it can be a
swimming pool that you are not using.
Dovid mentioned that he gets calls from homeowners wanting to
know if he can treat their yard to eradicate
the misquitos. Dovid does offer this treatment, and it will help for a
few days, providing coverage for an outdoor wedding or party, for example. Yet
it won't provide a permanent relief from the misquitoes. There is, at this time,
no effective pesticide treatment that provides long lasting protection against
the mosquito. If a pest specialist treats with insecticides in your backyard,
for example, it may provide enough relief to cover an outdoor party, but after
48 hours mosquitoes start to return. If it should rain during the 2 days after
the treatment than it will weaken but not do away with the effectiveness of the
treatment.
If you take preventative measures in your yard, to remove all
mosquitoe breeding areas, but there are nearby misquitoe breeding areas, then
despite your efforts the mosquitoes will come back. So for example, if your
next door neighbor has a body of standing water on the far side of your fence,
the mosquitoes will simply fly over the fence and repopulate your
yard.
So what treatments does Dovid recommend. Dovid pointed out that
mosquitoes hone in on people based on the CO2 levels in expired air. The CO2
levels in the air people breathe creates a powerful attraction for mosquitoes. So
the question is what can we do to repel misquitoes and Dovid described a type
of repellant. First off Dovid made two suggestions for repelling
misquitoes naturally, people shouldn't wear bright clothes and they should
put a type of ointment on their skin. A natural way of doing this is to take a
fabric softener that you use to treat your clothes, prior to wearing them, All
you have to do, according to Dovid, is put two sheets of fabric softener in a
dryer with the outfit you are about to put on. The fabric softener chemicals
become absorbed in the clothes and act as an excellent natural mosquito
repellant, According to Dovid, as long as you are wearing fabric softener
treated clothing, you won't be approached by a
misquito.
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# 1 Pest Control of Baltimore; 7236 Park Heights Avenue; Apt. A. ,Baltimore, MD.
21208; 410-764-7500; Baltimore, Maryland Pest
Management Baltimore,
Maryland Pest Control
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