For pools in use, the filtering action should eliminate mosquitoes. Small wading pools provide excellent breeding places. Change the water in wading pools frequently. Empty accumulated water from boats and cargo trailers. Ponds with fish are not a problem, since fish feed on wrigglers and tumblers.
Dense vegetation prevents fish from finding the mosquitoes.
Clean out vegetation, particularly from pond edges. For mosquitoes inside the house, use a fly swatter or an aerosol insecticide labeled for flying insects. Since people vary in their attractiveness to mosquitoes, the success and length of effectiveness of any one repellent depends somewhat on the individual. Repellents can protect humans from mosquito bites for one to five hours, depending on the amount of perspiration and rubbing of the skin and abundance of mosquitoes. Evenly cover the areas of the skin to be protected because mosquitoes will bite untreated spots.