It is a well-known fact that in order to prevent mosquitoes from extending their family in your house and creating an infestation, you must make sure that there are no sources of standing water in or around the property. Mosquitoes are one of the worst household pests and can spread diseases like malaria, dengue, and chikungunya.
Humans are bound to make mistakes. If you have left water in the open and mosquitoes have laid eggs in it, and the eggs have hatched, you must be wondering how to get rid of the larvae effectively. To learn more and eradicate mosquitoes completely from your property, contact pest control today.
Top ways to kill mosquito larvae in standing water quickly
- Add mosquito dunks.
You can find mosquito dunks easily in the market, and adding them to standing water containing mosquito larvae is one of the quickest ways to kill them. These dunks contain a biological larvicide that kills the larvae before they can grow and turn into mosquitoes that bite and spread diseases.
- Dilute the water with apple cider vinegar.
While apple cider vinegar is widely known for its health benefits among humans, it is a killer for mosquito babies. While adding the apple cider vinegar, make sure the concentration of the solution is 15% apple cider vinegar, and the rest of it is water. It can be difficult to maintain this proportion when the larvae are in a small puddle in your garden. When you are unsure, add more. Once the concentration reaches up to 15%, the larvae die within 18 hours.
- Add vegetable oil to standing water.
If you have decorative ponds, fountains, bird baths, or other water features in or around your house, it can become challenging to check for mosquito larvae in them every single day and change the water there. Instead, you can prevent the mosquitoes from laying eggs by adding vegetable oil to the surface of these water features. Oil creates a blockage and prevents the larvae from accessing air, due to which they die.
- Use a mosquito magnet.
Mosquitoes are attracted to people who emit more carbon dioxide than others. Pregnant women or people who exercise often feel more mosquitoes biting them than the other people around them. This knowledge is used in a mosquito magnet to attract the bugs using carbon dioxide, heat, and moisture. They are sucked into and trapped in a net, eventually dying. However, mosquito magnets are only effective in large water areas, not small ones.
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