Mosquito control can be achieved using a biological environmentally safe bacteria that kills only mosquito larvae or an I.G.R. (insect growth regulator.) The best time to control mosquitosl is before they become adults. Through careful inspection of breeding sites and timely applications of a larvicide you can achieve up to ninety percent control. Mosquitoes are, however, able to fly up to a mile in search of blood. It is therefore imperative in a successful control program to be able to have access to all potential breeding sites in a given area. Used on your property, Altosid or Mosquito Dunks will stop mosquitos from breeding and combined with an adulticide or mosquitoe machine give you excellent control. See our mosquito product page.

Fogging will actually kill the adult insects eand there are various brands of concentrate, usually pyrethrum, available for fogging. Mosquito machines are also a means of killing the adults. These machines lure the pests to their device which then eliminates them.

For those of you who have ponds on your property there are special fish available for purchase through various agricultural departments and fish hatcheries. They are called the Gambusia. They grow 50 mm long and eat an enormous number of larvae. They are used throughout Florida, released by state and county commissions. For more information e-mail me at info@scapest.com. For Mosquito Products, click here. For more on mosquitos, click here

Mosquitoes and the diseases they carry have had a significant effect on history. Napoleon, for example, agreed to the Louisiana Purchase only after his forces had to abandon Haiti in 1803 after a majority of his forces contacted yellow fever. Napoleon estimated that at any given time one out of eight of his soldiers were sick or dying from some disease or another.

The Spanish American War had significantly more American casualties due to yellow fever and malaria than bullets. Had Walter Reed not discovered that theses insects were the vector for these diseases the aftermath of the war as well as the building of the Panama canal would have been substantially different.