Mosquito Prevention Facts and Tips Every Manager Should Know

Your job has plenty of demands as it is, like keeping your operations efficient, your team safe and your customers satisfied. It’s easy to overlook mosquitoes, but here’s why you shouldn’t: they affect efficiency, safety and customer experience. Plus, customers hate them.

4 Mosquito Facts to Support Managers:

There are a lot of reasons why mosquitoes are bad for business. To start, here are four mosquito facts every manager should know.

1. The mosquito is the deadliest creature on earth, spreading dangerous diseases like West Nile virus, dengue and malaria.

2. The risk in the U.S. is bigger than you think. Between 2003 and 2023, more than 1 million cases of vector-borne diseases — illnesses spread by pests like mosquitoes and ticks — were reported in the U.S. reported in the U.S.

3. Mosquitoes multiply very quickly. One mosquito can lay enough eggs to create 400 more mosquitoes in only two weeks.

4. Water is a mosquito magnet. If you’re near bodies of water, have water features nearby or if it ever rains on your property, you have the right conditions for a mosquito problem.

These facts explain why mosquitoes seem to be everywhere during peak season — especially in the summer (and spring and fall, depending on where you live). Now that you know the risks, here’s how to take action and help keep mosquitoes from becoming a problem at your business.

4 Mosquito Prevention Tips to Protect Employees and Customers

Mosquito prevention doesn’t have to be complicated. A few strategic steps can make a big difference in helping to keep them away from your business. Start with these five key areas:

1. No standing water, anywhere. Remember how mosquitoes love water? Note the places around your property where water tends to pool and remove any debris that can hold rainwater.

2. Maintain all water features. Ensuring pool water is properly treated and decorative fountains or irrigation systems are circulating as they should be.

3. Prioritize landscaping. Mosquitoes love lingering in shady areas around underbrush and trash.

4. Seal them out. Repair window and door screens. Also make sure weather sealing on doors is in good shape for the season.

Itching for more mosquito prevention tips? We’ve just scratched the surface here. You can get more free guidance on helping to protect your business from this wildly unpopular pest by downloading our Mosquitoes 101 guide.

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