Mosquitos From Gutters

After that check the slope of your gutters.

Mosquitos from gutters. This means if you do not clean your gutters out or if you have a leak and water is pooling in your yard it is a prime area for mosquitoes to breed. Mosquitoes love open style gutters clogged with water wet leaves and other debris. They should be running one to two inches in slope for every forty feet of gutters. New research shows that mosquitoes can also successfully lay eggs right next to standing water.

Mosquitoes and standing water are the main summer issues of the leafguard gutter cycle. From a health standpoint clogged gutters are a haven for mosquitoes that will breed freely in a clustered moist environment. Clean gutters eliminate standing water which means mosquitoes don t have the water they need for their larvae to grow. You may need to make it a two inch slope to get the best possible results.

Which means that places like your gutters where you overlook small puddles of standing water are the best places for mosquitoes to breed undisturbed. Leave your gutter covers and gutter guards spick and span so that you leave mosquitos no place to breed. In fact a significant percentage of mosquitoes in your neighborhood are bred right at home in your wet rain gutters.