Watching life return to the world each spring can help you shake off those winter blues, but not if that life starts buzzing and scurrying around in your crawl space. As spring comes and temperatures start to rise, adult mosquitos will start to come out of hibernation, and a new generation of young mosquitos will start to hatch from their eggs.

Unfortunately, the crawl spaces of many homes provide an ideal environment for mosquitos to breed and thrive. These insects can quickly find their way into the rest of your home, giving you and your family painful and itchy bites that can spread serious diseases. If your home has a crawl space, you should take steps now to make sure it doesn't become a breeding ground for mosquitos this spring.

How Can You Keep Mosquitos Out Of Your Crawl Space This Spring?

There are a number of steps you can take to make your home's crawl space a mosquito-free zone:

Mosquito Traps And Zappers

Laying down mosquito traps and bug zappers in your crawl space can be effective. You can make DIY mosquito traps yourself using water, bottles, and suitable bait, but store-bought traps are generally more reliable and effective. 

Bear in mind that, while traps and zappers will kill flying mosquitos, they will not kill their eggs or their non-flying larvae. If your crawl space remains damp and humid, mosquitos will continue to breed within it, and some will inevitably escape the traps and zappers to enter your home. This solution should only be used as a stopgap measure.

Professional Control

Calling in a professional pest control and extermination service is generally the best way to remove mosquitos from your crawl space and prevent them from returning. 

Professional services will inspect every inch of your crawl space and will determine how the mosquitos are entering the crawl space, as well as the locations where they may be breeding. They can then deploy commercial-grade insecticides, traps, and sprays, which will rapidly eradicate any and all mosquitos in your crawl space.

Once the infestation has been dealt with, your service can use preventative measures to prevent future infestations. In some cases, they may recommend having the crawl space encapsulated. They can also use insecticidal sealant foams to seal off entry points and lay down long-lasting insecticidal solutions to kill mosquitos that enter your crawl space later in the year.  

For more info about pest control services, contact a local professional.