Sweat keeps them active. Smoke skin, hair, and clothing. Avoid scented personal care products and laundry detergents. They are seductive perfume to Mosquito when activated by body heat. Mosquitoes are most active at dawn and dusk.
Dragonflies can consume their weight in mosquitoes in a half hour.
They'll fly miles for the meal, and they can spot the buggers 50 feet away. Old favorites like bats and purple martins include a couple percent of mosquitoes in their diets, too. Keep a section of yard open to sun and breeze. When smoke hangs around, the mosquitoes don't. Brush them off.