Mosquitoes: The First Look

Do you have mosquito control? Some people use tiki torches with scents like citronella that mosquitoes don’t like. While this may keep them away and keep your patio mosquito free for the most part, Paffy’s uses a product guaranteed for results.

Female mosquitoes live 1 to 6 months, while males live 6 to 7 days. Did you know female mosquitoes are the only ones that bite? Females need blood to produce eggs. Males eat pollen.

How to Avoid

Mosquitoes are attracted to dark colors, carbon dioxide (when you exhale), sweat and exercise, and people who have either higher body heat or are pregnant. You can try to minimize your attractiveness to mosquitoes by exercising indoors and wearing light colored clothing when you go outdoors. There is no guarantee that this may change anything. Your best bet is to get a professional pest control company to have a technician inspect and treat your property according to its needs.

Patio bricks, mulch, tall grasses, any cracks and crevices, and standing water of any kinds are all potential breeding sites for mosquitoes.

How We Treat

It’s also important to know which mosquitoes are biting you. Because there are a couple different types of mosquitoes in Minnesota, treatment is specific to your yard. Once a technician from Paffy’s has inspected your yard, he will know where and how to treat. In every case, all vegetation like shrubs, bushes, trees, and tall grass is treated. Most active areas of the yard are treated. Paffy’s will rarely spray all the grass. Instead, the technicians target the areas where the mosquitoes breed and hang out.

Once applied to areas of the yard and a mosquito comes in contact with it, it will bring trace amounts of it wherever it goes, further adding to the success of the mosquito treatments.

Paffy’s price varies on the size of the yard, and is most effective as a summer package. Paffy’s treats for mosquitoes monthly May through September, and those monthly treatments continue to treat any new mosquitoes that may not have come into contact with the first spraying and reproduced.



Obtain a mosquito free yard this summer! Give Paffy’s a call: 651-459-4654. Mosquito control helps you live your best life outside.