How Do You Get Rid Of Mosquitoes?
Where Did These Man-Eating Mosquitoes Come From? Here’s a treat if you ever visit Austin, Texas, outside the winter months. Go down to the Congress Avenue Bridge over Town Lake, a wide section of the Colorado River. If you get there at sundown, for what seems an eternity, millions of bats fly out from under the bridge to feast on mosquitoes. It’s quite a sight. Houses for the bats were built under the bridge a long time ago, and under the bridges that preceded it. The bats were employed as mosquito control devices to counter the illnesses those mosquitoes were spreading back in the early history of the Lone Star State. Mosquitoes spread such diseases as malaria, yellow fever, dengue, filariasis, various types of encephalitis, dog heartworm, and West Nile virus to humans and animals. So there’s one way to control mosquitoes in your area: invite bats over for dinner. You can also build bird boxes to attract mosquito-eating birds (For birdhouse construction, learn
