How Mosquito Control Can Transform Your Yard

Enjoying the outdoors is an important part of maximizing the value of your home. Whether you’re grilling a steak, dining on the patio, playing with your kids on the lawn, or just taking in the fall leaves and scenery. 

But nothing chases you back inside faster than unwanted guests … and we’re not talking about your neighbors. We’re talking about a much more menacing pest: mosquitoes. 

These nasty pests swarm around you and your guests, leaving them with annoying, itchy welts. What’s more, they can carry some nasty diseases, which make their presence even more frightening. 

Controlling mosquitoes in your backyard can be your answer to taking back your home landscape from menacing insects. Let’s talk about the ways treating your yard for mosquitoes can improve your outdoor experience. 

Control Mosquitoes in Your Yard 

The outdoors shouldn’t always mean mosquitoes. It doesn’t seem fair that you wouldn't be able to spend time in your yard because these pests have taken over the space, claiming it as their own. 

Your desperate attempt to avoid mosquitoes might force you indoors when you’d really rather be outdoors. 

Treating your yard for mosquitoes is the best way to get your backyard back. And, what’s more, it comes with some additional benefits to improve your yard. 

1. Eliminates Excess Standing Water

There is one thing mosquitoes need to breed: water. 

Obviously, eliminating standing water is a solid solution. However, mosquitoes only need a small amount of water for breeding -- as little as a bottlecap full. So you have to consider all of the places standing water collects to stay on top of it. 

Controlling mosquitoes in your backyard with these water management tips will help reduce mosquitoes and keep standing water down on your property: 

• Ensure your gutters are clean and drain properly.
• Remember to refresh the water in your outdoor pet bowls and bird baths every couple of days. 
• Don’t let water sit in flower pots, trash can lids, toys, etc.
• Try fountains or bubblers to help move water in water features or ponds. 

2. Increases Airflow 

Mosquitoes like to hang in dense areas of trees and shrubs where humidity is thick. 

What do these areas have in common: They don’t have lots of air movement. 

Controlling mosquitoes in your backyard by trimming trees and shrubs keeps the air moving on your property. 

While mosquitoes will always hunt down their “food,” which happens to be yours and your family members’ blood, they are less likely to do so when the air isn’t extra thick and humid. In addition, your trees and shrubs get the benefit of proper pruning. 

3. Enables More Outdoor Enjoyment

In Northeast Ohio, we deal with mosquitoes that fly short distances before landing, resting, and breeding. 

So when it comes to controlling mosquitoes in your backyard, doing so at regular intervals throughout the peak pest season ensures you can keep on enjoying your yard without the threat of mosquitoes. 

Pest control professionals use backpack misters and commercial-grade products to target the undersides of trees and shrubs, as well as beneath decks and other mosquito harborages, with a super fine mist. This works to control not only adult mosquitoes, but also mosquito eggs, e.g. future backyard pests. 

Eliminate Mosquitoes, Create More Memorable Moments Outdoors

You want to have a bonfire and maybe add some tiki torches to your backyard. You might have marinated some steaks. Your outdoor lounge furniture is calling you. There’s no need for you to let mosquitoes destroy all of these good times. 

Playing offense is the best way to a not only eliminate mosquitoes, but also gains ome positive backyard attributes. While wearing mosquito repellent and having some available for your guests also helps, using these tips above can be the sucker punches these pests need to stay away. 

Still having trouble with the biting and the itching? Let Turf Pride help you control mosquitoes in your yard. Our proven mosquito control solutions can give you a break from these sneaky bugs and let you enjoy your backyard again. 

Take back your yard from mosquitoes and eliminate the stress of their itchy bites for good so you can enjoy your summer patio parties again. Get started today with a free quote. Together, we’ll prepare a customized plan to help you keep mosquitoes away from your Northeast Ohio lawn.

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