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Mosquito control
Learn how Rentokil can help prevent and eliminate mosquitoes from your property.
Mosquitoes are more than just a nuisance. They can pose health risks and disrupt daily business operations. Mosquitoes are known to spread diseases such as West Nile virus, Eastern equine encephalitis, and La Crosse encephalitis. The following mosquito prevention tips can help reduce activity around your commercial property:
- Encourage employees to wear mosquito protection
- Maintain your business’s exterior to prevent standing water
- Landscape to reduce shaded areas
- Secure structural barriers
- Treat swimming pools, fountains, and other water sources
- Select a mosquito barrier treatment
What attracts mosquitoes to businesses?
To help with mosquito prevention, it’s important to understand what attracts these pests in the first place. Mosquitoes can be drawn to commercial properties that provide moisture, shade, standing water, and access to people. Restaurants with outdoor seating may attract mosquitoes through landscaping and water features, while hotels and apartment complexes may have standing water in gutters, drains, birdbaths, or dumpsters.
Many mosquitoes rest in shrubs, tall grass, and other shaded areas during the day before becoming more active at dusk and dawn. They lay eggs in standing water, including ponds, puddles, clogged drains, and other areas that can collect water. While mosquitoes thrive in warmer temperatures, adults can remain active as long as temperatures stay above 50°F.
Mosquito prevention tips for your business
Proactive mosquito prevention can help businesses create a more comfortable environment for employees, customers, and guests while reducing potential health risks and protecting outdoor spaces from unwanted pests.
Encourage employees to wear mosquito protection
Employees who work outdoors, such as landscaping crews, event staff, and construction workers, should wear long sleeves, long pants, and use an EPA-registered insect repellent to help reduce the risk of mosquito bites. Businesses should also inspect outdoor areas for items that can collect standing water, such as trash cans, outdoor seating, and planters. Ensure these items are emptied regularly.
Maintain your business’s exterior to prevent standing water
Standing water creates ideal breeding conditions for mosquitoes, so routine exterior maintenance is key:
- Clean gutters regularly to remove leaves and debris
- Inspect sprinkler systems to prevent overwatering
- Repair plumbing leaks that could create puddles.
Businesses should also address potholes or low spots in parking lots or grassy areas, clear storm drains and grates, and monitor drainage ditches to help ensure water flows properly and doesn’t collect.
Landscape to reduce shaded areas
Mosquitoes like to rest in cool, shaded areas during the day, so thoughtful landscaping can help make your property less inviting. To limit resting spots:
- Regularly trim overgrown shrubs, trees, and tall grass
- Remove leaf piles and excess yard debris
- Keep vegetation away from building entrances, patios, and walkways
Secure structural barriers
Mosquitoes can enter commercial buildings through small openings. Install and maintain window and door screens, replace torn mesh, and use weatherstripping or door sweeps to seal gaps around entry points. Businesses should also inspect windows, doors, vents, and utility openings for cracks or other openings where mosquitoes could enter.
Treat swimming pools, fountains, and other water sources
Decorative fountains, pools, retention ponds, and other water features can attract mosquitoes if the water is stagnant. Keep pools properly maintained, ensure fountains and other water features stay clean and circulating, and regularly inspect drainage areas for standing water.
Select a mosquito barrier treatment
Even with proactive prevention measures in place, mosquitoes can still find their way onto your property. Mosquito barrier treatments help reduce mosquito populations by targeting areas where they rest and breed, creating an added layer of protection around your business.
A Rentokil expert can inspect your property, identify mosquito hotspots, and recommend the best mosquito treatments to help prevent and eliminate activity. Contact us today to speak with one of our mosquito control experts and find out how we can protect your commercial property from these biting pests.