Regular barrier treatments are your best option for controlling mosquitoes in high-humidity environments like Houston. They work because they target places where mosquitoes breed and rest during the day.
If you live in Houston and feel like mosquitoes are a different kind of problem here than anywhere else you've lived, you're not wrong. Humidity allows mosquitoes to fly around for longer periods of time because the risk of drying out in the hot sun during the day is lower. It also means more standing water, and with it, more opportunities to breed.
Mosquitoes don’t do well in direct sunlight and dry conditions. This is why they’re more trouble around dusk and dawn than they are during the day. When the sun is high in the sky, mosquitoes have no choice but to hide in places like vegetation or under decks because of the cooler, more humid microclimates.
Humidity also means that standing water doesn’t evaporate as quickly. And even a bottle cap of water can be enough for mosquitoes to breed and start the next generation. Every plant saucer, clogged gutter, and low spot in your yard can become a mosquito hatchery in Houston after the rain. And it rains about 50 inches in Houston every year, which is a lot.
If you’re looking for a way to control mosquitoes in a humid climate like this, your best bet is professional barrier treatment. Barrier treatments work by applying EPA-registered products to the vegetation, shaded zones, and resting areas where mosquitoes spend the day. In Houston's humidity, those resting areas are everywhere. This cuts the mosquito reproductive cycle short and can help control them on a population level.
Professional treatment is also regularly reapplied. That’s a large part of why it works. Treatments break down over time, which is why treating every three weeks is necessary. This is frequent enough that mosquitoes never have a chance to breed and rebuild.
If you’re tired of dealing with mosquitoes, Mosquito Squad of Houston can help. Every treatment is done with your on-site conditions in mind. A trained technician walks your yard and finds out where mosquitoes breed and hide. And, thanks to regular reapplications of the treatment, you can expect an up to 90% reduction in mosquito activity through even the most humid stretches of the season.
