The best remedy against mosquitoes

Enjoying the summer without ankles massacred by mosquito bites is possible. There are many remedies for the invasion of mosquitoes, discover the best one for your garden.

The real challenge is to find the best mosquito remedy suitable for the application context. If you have a garden of a few tens of square meters, you will hardly be able to take advantage of the use of a mosquito trap calibrated to act on surfaces up to 5000 square meters. The same applies if you are invaded by mosquitoes in a huge park and you only want to protect a few tens of metres, perhaps around the swimming pool.

The best remedies against mosquitoes must be analyzed according to the context and your specific needs. We have already published the guide to anti-mosquito products, with this article I would like to complete with examples and information useful for understanding the best remedy according to the type of garden to be protected.

Prevention is the best remedy against mosquitoes.

First, prevention of stagnation. There is no valid fighting strategy in the absence of good prevention which can be summed up in one thing: elimination and control of stagnations. Attention, the tiger mosquito which is the most annoying as it bites during the day, is native to the jungles of South-East Asia where it is capable of reproducing in the smallest accumulations of water (overturned coconuts, etc.). So you have to be shrewd in identifying the smallest waterlogging in your garden. It only takes a few weeks for a mosquito to multiply and produce millions of new insects. For management you can choose one of the many larvicides available, tablets or drops for small accumulations of water, bottles of liquid for tanks. The latest Aquatain invention is valid and ecological.

Large gardens: the best remedy against mosquitoes.

The bigger the garden, the easier it is to protect it from mosquitoes. The reason is simple, you have the possibility to act on a large surface, without being the victim of any carelessness of the neighborhood or uncultivated areas. The best mosquito repellent for large gardens are Mosquito Magnet carbon dioxide mosquito traps. At the link just indicated you can find all possible information on these devices, including an index of all the articles published on this site. Each device, depending on the model, is capable of interrupting the life cycle of mosquitoes in spaces up to 5000 m2. They do not use harmful substances and are not afraid of bad weather.

Almost always in large gardens there are also situations, perhaps localized, of dense and therefore humid and shaded vegetation. It is precisely these places that become a welcome shelter for mosquitoes during the hottest hours of summer days. In cases of greater infestation it can be very useful to reclaim these contexts by spraying insecticide products. We often talk about the perimeter areas of the garden (hedges, walls covered with ivy, localized contexts of bushes) so we can be very targeted without dealing with the areas where people live most frequently.

Small gardens: the best remedy against mosquitoes.

In small gardens, usually in a residential context, the biggest problem is the neglect of the neighbours. You can spend yourself on daily preventions that give poor results if your neighbor breeds swarms of hungry mosquitoes. In this case the strategy provides for a barrier to the outside, usually the best solution is to treat the hedge with a nebulizer and a good insecticide with strong repellency qualities. In fact, all insecticides are also repellents. In these cases, automatic nebulizers are often used.

After that it is advisable to reclaim the garden from the mosquitoes present. You can orient yourself towards the smaller models of Mosquito Magnet (Patriot, Pioneer) or towards the photocatalytic mosquito traps. The Thermacell platelet evaporators are also very good. These are outdoor stoves available in different formats (also with belt sheath) capable of freeing spaces of a few tens of square meters from mosquitoes. These can easily be combined with all the other repellent solutions such as: candles, coils, slow evaporation sprays. It will thus be possible to enjoy dinners in company without "being dinner".

Automatic nebulizers like Zhalt are valid and practical, even combined with a natural repellent and disaccustomer.

Children in the garden: mosquito repellents to protect children.

The protection of the little ones has some characteristic aspects:

Babies have high metabolisms and move around a lot, so they are easily attracted to mosquitoes.

In the presence of children, natural remedies are preferred.

The perceived annoyance may not be proportional to the actual number of mosquitoes.

Also in this case the do-it-yourself solutions are the recommended ones. The treatments adulticides with insecticide, if carried out in person, can be done in a very targeted way by treating the perimeter areas more and leaving out the bush where the little ones play at being a "little house". The Mosquito Magnet mosquito traps are still an excellent remedy. They act on a large area and do not emit harmful substances, therefore they are harmless to people and animals.

Finally, given the sensitivity, the use of natural skin repellents would always be advisable.

DINNERS, PARTIES AND BARBECUES: EVENTS WITHOUT MOSQUITOES.

The characteristic in this case is that of having to protect a certain space at a precise moment. Often it is possible to obtain good results even in contexts in which no anti-mosquito fight has been practiced, naturally the higher the starting infestation level the more difficult it is to bring the nuisance back to an acceptable level. Mosquito traps, acting in the long term, are not usable.

In these cases the best anti-mosquito remedies are:

Preventive insecticide treatment by nebulization (up to 48 hours before)

Possible treatment with natural repellents (a few hours before)

Use of Thermacell environmental repellents, insecticide candles

Depending on the size of the space to be protected, the treatment can be performed with Soffy nebulizers (for large spaces) or with an automatic Zhalt nebulizer (small spaces). Thermacell repellents are available in many formats: torch with holder, with belt sheath, with lantern... there is a wide choice to find the model that best suits your needs.

Working in the garden: vegetable garden AND gardening.

The vegetable garden is usually one of the most infested areas. The dense vegetation, the frequent irrigations, the impossibility of using chemical insecticides make it the ideal place for mosquitoes. It can be reclaimed with a Mosquito Magnet mosquito trap or with the nebulization of a natural mosquito repellent like No Fly Natural Stop. The Thermacell repellents with belt sheath are also very useful.

As you have seen, there is no better solution than others against mosquitoes. By understanding the characteristics and strengths of each product you can easily identify where to use it for best results. I would like to point out to you a remedy that is often underestimated, what I like to call the diffusion of the anti-mosquito culture. Print information flyers and distribute them to neighbors' mailboxes. Sometimes a few precautions are enough to prevent an unbearable infestation from proliferating.