Water stagnation

Um, yeah, it, you gotta be vigilant, you know, you gotta, you know, change the water in the bird bath every day or every two days.

I mean, given takes five days for larva to get rid of the standing water.

Um, it's tough if you live by a slow stagnant Creek or a lake like that, where, where the mosquitoes can breed.

Um, you definitely gotta be vigilant for you and your kids.

Um, again introducing the clothing treatment but as a community you know the city and they're doing it they got to go spray the creeks and they got to go uh drain drain the swamps you know where standing water doesn't need to be obviously you're not going to drain a swamp but you can drain certain areas dry it up or whatever so yeah stagnant water is the key to the larvae

And what can people do on the personal level? Because we talked about the sort of what should communities be doing? What can people do in their personal sort of day to day and how to maybe avoid exposure when outdoors? Is there more to it than just sort of the generic, you know, wear some kind of repellent?

Yeah, well, we're finally coming to the cooler months.

So instead of trying to walk in the evening, try and walk in the afternoon or whatever, you can do mall walking, whatever.

And so that heavy brush along the edge of your yard is going to be where we focus our treatment efforts to help control the adult population on your property.

We've also talked in other episodes about just generally about mosquitoes and standing water and things of that nature.

This is probably part of the overall inspection that you're doing.

You're watching for those things.

Absolutely.

When we come out to do an on-site evaluation, that's what we're looking for.

We're looking for harborage areas, the heavy, dense vegetation along the outer edge of your property, the standing water sources, the tires, the buckets.

So what can homeowners actually do? I mean, should we be, in addition to eliminating standing water and that sort of thing, is there anything we can do that you recommend before we even call you?