[goda90]

You can target mosquitoes more directly with mosquito dunks. It's a block of dehydrated bacteria that produces a toxin believed to only impact the larva of mosquitoes, fungus gnats, and black flies. Basically you make sure all standing water in the area is drained or has a mosquito dunk in it. You can make buckets full of yard debris and water and a mosquito dunk to attract mosquitoes to lay their eggs that then get killed.

You can also try to increase the number of predators. Create habitats for bats, dragonflies, mosquito larva eating fish, etc.

I've found picaridin lotion to be much less annoying than DEET spray but still effective this year.

[Auracle]

Yeah, I’ve used mosquito dunks experimentally but we have a pond behind our house and in front of it, and a lake nearby. It’s Minnesota, after all. I did try to chuck some dunks into the ponds but they have a lot of cattails in the way so I was unsure if they even made it in the water.

Our attic was such a good habitat for bats we had to do something about it ;). But we’re also surrounded by woods.