Things you can do to prevent mosquitoes from attacking and breeding

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•Mosquitoes like to rest and congregate under ground covers.Fog or spray under foliage in your yard every so often to reducetheir resting spots.
•Wear loose-fitting clothing, long-sleeve shirts, long pantsand light-colored clothing. Mosquitoes are attracted to darkercolors.
•Discard any standing water or receptacles holding water atleast once a week. The life cycle of a mosquito is seven days. Ifyou change the water you are eliminating production of mosquitos.
Dump flower pot saucers, bird baths and boat tarp or water standingin a boat.
•Tiny, black Asian Tiger mosquitoes can breed in containers assmall as a discarded soda bottle cap. They have a short flightrange, so they feed on you where they breed. If you have smallblack mosquitoes, their breeding ground is nearby. Dump the waterout.
•Keep vegetation down around pond areas, because mosquitoesbreed in the margins, which should be graded steeply.
•Smoke from campfires, including those built from pine straw,from cigarettes and any kind of candle, is just as effective as acitronella candle.
•Tikki torches mask human odors -- such as the carbon dioxideyou exhale and the lactic acid you produce in your sweat -- thatattract mosquitoes.
•If you must wear both, put repellent on first, then sunscreenon second.
•Do not hang dirty socks outside of a camp site. Mosquitoesare attracted to foot odor. If you hang socks outside of a tent,you will be attracting mosquitoes. They are also attracted toLimburger cheese.
•Use ceiling and floor fans. Mosquitoes are weak fliers andhave difficulty navigating through the breeze.
•Use larvecide mosquito dunks, which are nontoxic to humansand helpful to small water sources such as holding ponds. Theselook like donuts but contain bacterial spores, which kill larvaewhen they eat the spores.
•Stay inside when mosquitoes are most active, an hour beforeand after dusk and dawn. Asian tiger mosquitoes are active duringthe day but will attack at night.
•Mosquitoes tend to be more active when the moon is full.
•Report high mosquito counts to Beaufort County MosquitoControl: 843-846-3913.
Myths about mosquitoes repellents:
•Garlic (eating or spreading on your skin): Using garlic onyour skin will provide about 20 minutes of repellent.
•Vitamin B1, Thiamin or anything that claims you can take bymouth and be protected against mosquitoes does not work.
•Clothes dryer sheets contain no chemical to repel mosquitoesor no see 'ums.
•Bug zappers are worthless. They kill more than 350 billionbeneficial insects. The zapping you hear are no mosquitoes, butbeetles and moths, which are food sources for bats and song birds.While bats do eat mosquitoes, it makes up for about one percent oftheir diet.
•Ultrasonic or electronic repellers do not work. They claim tomimmic the sound of amale mosquito wings that frighten the femalemosquito (the one that bites) away. "Why would females be afraid ofthe males anyway?" said Joe Conlon, technical advisor for theAmerican Mosquito Control Association. "They have it backward: Themales, in many cases, are listening for wing beats of females, in aswarm that they can mate with."
•A Philippines study found that men who drink beer are moreattractive to mosquitoes.
Information was provided by Gregg Hunt, Beaufort County MosquitoControl director and a board certified entomologist, and JoeConlon, of Orange Park, Fla., technical advisor for the AmericanMosquito Control Association and a retired U.S. Navy medicalentomologist.