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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now that warmer weather has arrived, mosquitos are beginning to show up as well. </span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.artofmanliness.com/lifestyle/homeownership/how-to-control-mosquitos/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’ve done battle against these detestable bloodsuckers for some years now.</span></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thanks to treating mosquito breeding grounds (i.e., standing water) around my property, I’d significantly reduced the number of mosquitoes bugging us.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Then, early last summer, I came across a new weapon in my war on these infernal pests: the mosquito bucket. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Once I put a mosquito bucket on my property, the number of mosquitoes I encountered during the rest of the summer dropped to almost zero. We could enjoy being outside by the pool without getting bit or play pick-up basketball games in the driveway without constantly slapping away mosquitoes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The mosquito bucket is cheap and simple but highly effective. Put one on your property and watch the mosquito population around your home dwindle to near extinction.</span></p>
<h2>How to Create a Mosquito Bucket</h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The mosquito bucket is a trap for mosquitoes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To reduce mosquitoes around your property, you must disrupt their breeding ground: standing water. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mosquitoes lay their eggs in standing water. Still, stagnant water provides mosquito larvae with the bacteria and microorganisms they need for food. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can kill mosquito larvae by placing </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3Qr4zna"><span style="font-weight: 400;">mosquito dunks</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in any standing water on your property. Mosquito dunks are donut-shaped tablets made of bacteria that only kill mosquito larvae. They don’t kill other insects. They’re cheap.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eliminating and treating mosquito breeding grounds can go a long way in controlling mosquitoes around your home. But it’s not foolproof. Mosquitoes are wily suckers. They can find not-so-obvious places on your property to lay eggs. The bit of water that collects in the depression of a leaf is sufficient for a mosquito to lay its eggs. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With a mosquito bucket, you purposely create a hyper-attractive, but fatal, standing water environment to lure mosquitoes to lay their eggs there. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creating a mosquito bucket is cheap and easy; here’s how to do it:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Get a 5-gallon bucket, fill it halfway with water, add grass, leaves, and other organic matter, and toss in a mosquito dunk. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Place your mosquito bucket near areas where you spend a lot of time outdoors. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That’s it. You’ve now created a weapon of mass mosquito destruction.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the grass and leaves rot in the water, carbon dioxide is released, which attracts mama mosquitoes that are ready to lay eggs.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But what the mama mosquitos don’t realize is that you’ve put a mosquito dunk in this incredibly luxe mosquito birthing center. Any mosquito larvae that emerge from the eggs she lays in the mosquito bucket will die an instant and ignominious death. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">No new blood-sucking adult mosquitos will emerge from the mosquito bucket. The mosquito bucket destroys the mosquito lineage that would otherwise haunt your property.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Every thirty days, add a new mosquito dunk and some fresh grass and leaves to your bucket.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One mosquito bucket should cover the average-size house lot in the United States. If you have a larger property, consider adding more mosquito buckets as needed.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></p>
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Eliminate Mosquitoes with the Power of the Mosquito Bucket
