Big T’s Natural Mosquito Killer

If y’all are like our family, you love to spend the long days (and nights) of summer, outdoors. However, along with the warmer and sunnier weather, come nature’s deterrent from being outdoors in your yard: mosquitoes.

We can’t stand mosquitoes. We also can’t stand the pesticides that the bug spray and foggers use to get rid of them.  For years, we have just put up with the little buggers, using our bug light and bat houses to try to keep their numbers down.

Enter Big T. Big T and JP were chatting one day while we were at Big T’s house. JP asked him about the containers around his yard. Big T explained that those containers got rid of the mosquito population. From that moment on, our outdoor activities have taken on much more enjoyment.

Big T’s Natural Mosquito Killer

• Grab several containers that you don’t mind setting outside all summer. We used old peanut butter jars.
• Fill ¾ of the way up with water.
• Add three drops of blue dawn dish soap.
• Stir.
• Place containers all around your yard. JP placed them all over three of our five acres.

You will notice a difference within a week. Fewer mosquitos, then no mosquitoes. Seriously.

Why this works: mosquitoes lay their eggs in still water. The dawn in the water prevents the eggs from hatching. Therefore, fewer mosquitos, then, eventually, no mosquitoes.

Once in awhile we have an errant mosquito, but even those die off and are gone quickly, unable to reproduce successfully.

I hope you find this approach in the war on mosquitoes to prove as successful at your house as it is at ours. We love that we have found a pesticide-free way to keep mosquitoes from attacking us in our back yard!

~Annie

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