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Mosquito Control

About Mosquitoes

Unfed mosquito and fed mosquito filled with blood meal

General Information
Life Cycle
Information from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on mosquito-borne viruses:

Preventing Mosquitoes

Man pouring out water that could be used as mosquito breeding habitat

Tips to prevent mosquito bites

Mosquito Repellents

Applying bug spray to child's arm

Mosquito Control Methods

Mosquito briquet; image courtesy of Schultz Communications