If you're in Pennsylvania, you know that mosquito season has started! To understand how to keep them off your property, you need to know what attracts them to it in the first place. By leaving standing water on your property, not trimming overgrown shrubs, letting your grass grow too long in between mows, and not cleaning up debris on your lawn, you could be essentially rolling out the red carpet for mosquitoes!

1. Leaving standing water on your property will attract mosquitoes.

Stagnant water with mosquitoes spawning near Telford, PA.

Standing water invites mosquitoes to your property because they use it to breed. It doesn’t even need to be a lot of water for them to start breeding. They can use leftover water in buckets or even water trapped in upside-down trash can lids. It's important to remove any stagnant water to limit the number of places they can use to breed on your property. To do this, add a bubbler to water features like ponds, regularly refresh the water in your bird baths and pet water bowls, and empty out anything that holds water such as kiddie pools and buckets. If you do these things, mosquitoes will look elsewhere for other breeding spots.

2. Failing to keep your shrubs trimmed will attract mosquitoes.

Overgrown bushes and grass in a yard near Lansdale, PA.

Mosquitoes are drawn to overgrown vegetation on your property. The foliage on your shrubs provides mosquitoes with shelter, which helps protect them from the wind. Since the shrubs tend to retain moisture, they become the ideal spot for mosquitoes to congregate. Regularly trimming your shrubs will reduce the number of areas that mosquitoes can hide on your property. This small detail can go a long way in reducing the mosquito population in your yard.

3. Letting your grass grow too tall between mows will attract mosquitoes.

Overgrown yard with weeds and tall grass near Harleysville, PA.

Another way you may be unintentionally inviting mosquitoes to your property is by not regularly mowing your lawn. Mosquitoes use tall grass to seek refuge from the wind and the sun. Much like overgrown shrubs, tall grass provides mosquitoes with a cool and shady environment to gather. You can address this by ensuring you regularly mow your lawn. By keeping your grass shorter, you can drastically reduce the number of places mosquitoes can hide during mosquito season. With fewer places to hide, they’ll look for other areas where they can seek shelter, leaving your property with a much more manageable mosquito population to control.

You should be mowing your lawn weekly to keep your grass from attracting mosquitoes.

4. Keeping debris on your lawn will attract mosquitoes.

Vines, a tire, and debris along a wooden fence in Souderton, PA.

A lawn that’s covered in excess debris will also invite mosquitoes onto your property. Debris, such as piles of fallen leaves, is yet another way for mosquitoes to seek shelter from the wind, and it provides them with a cooler environment to hide from the sun. So, you need to make sure you’re regularly removing any excess debris from your lawn. This will help you effectively control the mosquito population on your property.

Mosquitoes use leaves trapped in your gutters for shelter. You can reduce the number of places mosquitoes can hide by regularly cleaning your gutters!

Find yourself facing a mosquito problem? Call us to schedule our mosquito control treatments!

Addressing these four issues is a great way to reduce the mosquito population on your property, but there’s no better way to handle mosquitoes than by scheduling a professional treatment. At Green Grass Lawncare, Inc., we'll visit your property 6 times per year to spray for mosquitoes. We service commercial, HOA, and residential properties in the Telford, PA area, including areas like Souderton, Harleysville, Quakertown, and Perkasie. Call us today at (215) 723-1034 and schedule our mosquito control treatments to keep the mosquitoes at bay!