Mosquito Facts

• Mosquitoes need standing water to develop.
• Mosquito habitats include ponds, sloughs, river flood plains, and tidal marshes. 
• Man-made habitats include ditches, tires, bird baths, unused swimming pools, boats, eaves troughs.
• Only females bite because a blood meal is required for egg production.
• Some female mosquitoes take multiple blood meals and produce several generations during a single season.
• Only one mating is required to fertilize a lifetime of egg production
• Mosquitoes can live from one to two months and others over winter to live up to a year or more.
• Mosquitoes can travel up to 20 miles.
• In the Canadian Arctic, mosquitoes can bite at the rate of more than 1000 per minute.

• Sound and Electric units are marketed with no test results and these devices have no repellent effects
• Citronella (plants and candles) - there is no data to support claims - pleasant odour does not guarantee results
• Skin Moisturizing Oil - field tests do not support claims

Mosquitoes are 30 times more sensitive to DEET than to skin moisturizers

CONTROL

• Bug Zappers - mosquitoes comprise less than 50% of the catch and usually kills more beneficial insects than mosquitoes.  Bug Zappers  actually attract mosquitoes.
• Birds - ornithologists state Purple Martins and other swallow-like birds do not like to eat mosquitoes which make up less than 3% of their diet.
• Bats - bat diets consist mainly of beetles, wasps, ants, flies, stoneflies, mayflies, moths and grasshoppers.  Mosquitoes make up less than 10% of their diet .