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How to Keep Mosquitoes Out of Your Room
How to Keep Mosquitoes Out of Your Room. Only the female mosquito sucks your blood. Her sharp, protruding, tube-like mouth breaks your skin, then she feeds. She sucks blood to help her eggs mature before she lays them, but plant nectar is her primary food source. Mosquitoes have two wings with scales and belong to the order Diptera, or true flies....
Only the female mosquito sucks your blood. Her sharp, protruding, tube-like mouth breaks your skin, then she feeds. She sucks blood to help her eggs mature before she lays them, but plant nectar is her primary food source. Mosquitoes have two wings with scales and belong to the order Diptera, or true flies. Almost 200 species of mosquitoes live in the U.S. Of the three classifications of mosquito -- culex, aedes and ochlerotatus -- only the culex type readily enters a structure such as a house.
Prevent mosquitoes from breeding. The female mosquito lays her eggs in fresh or stagnant water. The eggs hatch in one or two days. Eliminating all sources of standing water inside and outside of your room prevents mosquitoes from being a threat in the first place.
Outfit windows and doors with tight-fitting screens of 16- to 18-gauge mesh. Culex mosquitoes will enter your home through any opening available. Screens are the most effective physical barrier.
Use a moderately strong fan. Mosquitoes cannot fly well against wind force.
Avoid scented soaps and lotions. Mosquitoes are attracted to the smell. Likewise, they are also attracted to body and foot odor.
Tips & Warnings
Mosquitoes are attracted to body heat and carbon dioxide emission.
Citronella candles do not work much better than other candles.
Mosquitoes transmit malaria, dengue fever and West Nile virus.
Dusk and dawn are the most active times for mosquitoes.
