MOSQUITOES: Those Pesky Guests

MOSQUITOESTHOSE PESKY GUESTS

If you’ve been to the South in the summer, Biblical plague

levels are an annual occurrence—especially in Charlotte, North

Carolina. There is no “North” about it though. In the summer

it’s deep South as ever when it comes to mosquitos. Especially

as it seems to get hotter and more humid by the year.

LISTENUP!

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FACTSAedes aegypti. One of a couple hundred common

North American mosquito species, plaguing

mankind since the dawn of time. Quite literally.

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Mosquitos haven’t changed much in almost 80 million years. That’s because

they are well adapted to their major food source; warm blooded mammals.

The female of the species has specially adapted the serrated proboscis into a

fine tubed needle with pinprick accuracy in extracting blood as a nutritional

source aiding in the production of many, many, many offspring.

01 THEY ALREADYEVOLVED

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Mosquitos use carbon dioxide, heat and odor when locating a prey. Studies have

shown that each in it’s own helps a mosquito hunt down an individual, but all

these factors together make them the sharks of the sky. Sensing you out with

a much higher rate of accuracy. Unless you don’t need to breathe, have a

pumping heart, or sweat…then mosquitos have an all day meal pass to your skin.

02 WE FEEDTHEM

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A female mosquito needs less than a teacup of water to lay her eggs in, which

then hatch into larvae within about 14 days, and then emerge in the hundreds.

Each female mosquito is capable of having ~3000 offspring during an almost 2

month long lifespan during warmer months. That’s right. Scary math.

03 THEY BREEDFAST

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Much scarier too when you consider the number of diseases that mosquito

species carry worldwide and transmit such as Malaria, Chikungunya, Yellow

Fever, West Nile Virus, and Dengue to name a few.

04 THEY TRANSMITDESEASES

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The best treatment as they say is prevention. The market is saturated with

harsh repellants, natural deterrents, and other such products that only reduce

the chances of you getting bit by mosquitos that are around.

05 TEMPORARYSOLUTIONS...

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Why pay for something that might reduce the chances of you getting bit, when

you could just reduce the numbers of mosquitoes around you in the first place?

You can’t get bit, if there’s nothing to bite. Maybe actually enjoy that Summer

backyard bbq not covered in DEET?

06 ...THAT DOES NOTWORK

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Mosquitoes need standing water in which to lay eggs and reproduce. If you

reduce that resource then you began to break the reproduction cycle of the

mosquito. Eventually dwindling down the number of mosquitoes that can bite

you. If you combine that with other avenues that safely and harmlessly pre-

treat outside furnishings and fabrics.

07 YOU NEED TO FIXTHE REAL ISSUE

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If the mosquito can’t lay eggs, they can’t breed. If they can’t stand being in the

area then they can’t bite you in the first place. You are attacking their life cycle

from both ends by reducing yourself as a food source for them to breed, as well

as place to do it.

09 ATTACK ALLSIDES

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Do yourself a favor and find a pest control company that is trustworthy and

takes the time to understand the life cycle of a pest to better eliminate them

from your home in a more educated and safe manner.

10 YOU NEEDHELP

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THANKS!