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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you plant things that attract other bugs, you can keep the mosquito population down.  This is not a quick fix.
You need native plants, and you need to leave more dead plant matter in the flower beds - sticks, leaves, etc.[/quote]

This is fantasy gibberish.  Unless you can control the area for a tenth of a mile or more - you aren’t going to make a dent in any population - really even with limiting standing water (they will grow next door or in wet leaves or soil too).  And if you do have a lot of space bats, toads, frogs, and birds are far greater predators than insects - which you can encourage to flourish by not using pesticides.  And you don’t need native plants to attract the bugs that do eat mosquitos (spiders, ants, mosquito hawks).

But really there’s not much you can do.  Citronella candles and tiki torches plus bug spray is your best bet.

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I’ll add the best success I have, which I did anytime we want to sit outside is with tiki torches creating a lot of smoke and citronella candles for the scent.  Plus the pet friendly fogger that smells like it’s mostly peppermint oil that they sell at Home Depot I spray around the yard 30 minutes before we eat.

It keeps them at bay for a while.

I found instead of a systemic approach that an on demand localized approach was more effective. [/quote]

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