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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't want to spray, but what's the solution?? I have an entire yard with perennials and native plants. I even have a bat house with bats in it in my backyard. I probably average 20 bites an hour that I'm outside. I don't see standing water anywhere, but there is a stream just beyond my backyard. I feel like the mosquitoes are also ruining my kids' childhoods. They can't go outside unless covered in bug spray, which they don't like.

The vast majority of my bites are from native mosquitoes, not the Asian tiger ones. I can tell the difference in what the bites look like.

One of our halfway solutions is spraying the bushes that they live in. We notice them congregating around certain bushes (I have a hydrangea that they love) and I spray that.

I wish mosquito dunks were cheaper, but I'd need to use several a week to make a dent.[/quote]
I mean you could replace the hydrangea; if there’s something there that they need, take it away.

These tiger mosquitos are horrific in that they only need the amount of water in the lid of a soda bottle to lay eggs in; you have to check gutters, bottoms of drainspouts. How close are your neighbors and are they as diligent? The stream shouldn’t be as big of a concern as tiger mosquitos don’t lay there (and most mosquitos need fairly still water for their eggs to hatch, like a pond): http://www.idph.state.il.us/envhealth/pctigermosquito.htm

It is really annoying, I know, but it’s going to have to be a neighborhood wide approach to get rid of standing water and plant more natives - not like a few here or there, but a LOT of them. [/quote]

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