Mosquitos

Mosquitos and ticks are vectors of disease and New Jersey provides ideal environmental factors for them to thrive. Stank Environmental is licensed and certified to protect your property from these harmful pests. We provide information for best practices to reduce their breeding sites. Our service approach involves technologies for an instant elimination, residual protection and insect growth regulation.

Mosquitos have adapted to almost every kind of aquatic situation such as permanent ponds and marshes, temporary flood waters or woodland pools, drainage ditches, and water contained in tree holes, leaves of plants, or artificial containers. The number of generations per year ranges from 1 where the eggs require cold before hatching to many in warm climates where most breed continuously.

The larvae of most species feed on small aquatic organisms and organic debris which they strain out of the water with a series of oral brushes. Despite being quite active, the pupae do not feed. The adult males feed on nectar. Although the adult female also feeds on nectar, females of most species require a blood meal before they can lay fertile eggs. Females require 2+ days to digest a blood meal, lay a batch of eggs, and then seek another blood meal.

The flight range of mosquitos varies with the species, temperature, wind direction, time of year, and distance to blood meal sources.

The time of day in which biting occurs varies with the species. Most medically important species bite at dusk and dawn and also during the night. Several species of medical importance bite only during the daytime such as the Asian tiger mosquito and one species, the yellow-fever mosquito, bites during the day but also at dawn and dusk. Some species which normally do not bite during daytime will do so if disturbed, for instance by someone walking through high grass on which they are harboring.

Source: National Pest Management Association