While the warm weather prompts many joyous things like swimming, having cookouts and spending time outdoors with family and friends, the summer weather brings a frenzy of mosquitoes.
The mosquito has been named the deadliest animal in the world, because their bite causes the life threatening disease malaria. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there were an estimated 207 million cases of malaria in 2012.
You may be providing mosquitoes the perfect haven right in your own yard, and you don’t even know it.
You can find a variety of homemade mosquito remedies online but the #1 thing you should do to eliminate or decrease the number of mosquitoes on your property, is to eliminate mosquito breeding grounds. The video above, from the Tennessee Department of Health explains where mosquitoes live, how they can quickly take over your property and provides information on products that you can purchase to help prevent mosquito bites.
Mosquitoes love standing water. Check your property for places where there is stagnant water, including trash bins, gutters and even bird baths. The Shelby County Health Department made the helpful graphic below to showcase all the places around your home a mosquito might call home.
