No amount of drainage, though, can keep the Houston skies from opening up. When it rains, the water brings with it lots of little critters. Here are some of our featured pests and some tips on avoiding them. It s the water. Think of Houston as a giant bucket of water.
Rice is in the middle of that bucket.
Even a few hundredths of an inch are enough to gather mosquitos. The most important way to keep mosquitos out of the colleges are to make sure that your windows are closed - especially in bathrooms where the moist conditions are an invitation to mosquito bites. In colleges where there are screens over the windows, these screens are sometimes damaged or missing. Notify your SMR to have these taken care of. The rains seem to turn fire ants to the tops of the soil.