Quick answer: Central Florida’s rainy season — roughly June through September — resets your yard’s mosquito population every five to seven days. The species biting you at the grill, the container-breeding Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, can go from egg to biting adult in under a week in a bottle cap of warm water, and … Read more
How mosquito breeding pulses through Lakeland’s Chain of Lakes (Lake Hollingsworth, Lake Mirror, Lake Parker) week by week, plus the treatment windows that actually hold in Polk County.
If you live in Lakeland, Winter Haven, or any of the lake-belt subdivisions across Polk County, you already know that mosquito pressure is unusually heavy here. What’s less obvious is where the mosquitoes are actually coming from. Most homeowners assume the bugs they’re swatting in their own yard are breeding in their own yard — … Read more