What to do about buzzing mosquitoes
Hands Up… have you had that annoying buzzing sound in your ear just as your about to nod off?
Well you’re not alone, it’s happened to most of us and unlike the fly and the cockroach, they are so much harder to see. Given their fine size, it’s often that you find yourself bitten before you realise that they are around.
They too are breeders and the most common way to reduce your risk of mosquitoes is to remove their breeding sites.
You’ll find their presence in cool, dark and damp places such as rain water in discarded refrigerators, car tyres and tins, and in septic tanks/leach drains, water storage tanks, protected corners of effluent ponds and natural bodies of water. For those mosquitoes which do manage to breed somewhere and become a pest in the community, it is important to keep them out of houses.
Here are a few ways to reduce their presence in and around your home.
- Empty, drains or cover all things that can and may hold water, repair or prevent outside leaks, maintain swimming pools with proper care, keep the rain gutters and drains clean.
- Use a surface spray around furniture and curtains where they tend to group in cool and dark places.
- Put up fly screen mesh on all door openings and windows.
- It is important to make sure that there are always lids on water tanks, septic tanks and leach drains and that sewage ponds are kept free of grass and other vegetation around the edges.
As mosquitoes can bite it’s also important to take personal protection measures such as:
- Wear cover-up clothes and use a personal “DEET” based insect repellent on exposed skin to reduce the risk of being bitten when outside during the biting times.
- Loose clothes are best because mosquitoes can bite through clothing which is tight against the skin, even jeans.
- Sleeping children and babies should be protected with mosquito nets. Insect repellent should never be used on babies under 12 months. Cover them with a net instead.
We recommend using Terminator High Performance Odourless Multi-Insect Killer or Fast Knockdown Flying Insect Killer for in the home. Both are highly effective for fast kill knockdown quick kill action and can be used as a complete room treatment.
When it comes to personal protection, choose a highly recommended DEET based product, that remains the most trusted and effective repellents against mosquitoes and other biting insects.
We recommended RID® Medicated Insect Repellent which delivers a high quality superior formulation to repel biting insects without the need for high concentrations of DEET along with its unique inclusion of an Anti-microbial agent to help prevent infection. RID®. Australia’s own skin friendly multi-purpose repellent.
