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Add some birdfeeders around your house, and if swallows start to build their nests on your home, let them. I live next to wetlands, but the birds eat the bugs. Swallows specifically eat over 10,000 mosquitoes a day, so if you get them established on your property, it makes a huge difference.

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We have swallows, bats, and more dragonflies than you can imagine.

Thanks for the suggest, but it is just hopeless.

While these kind of suggestions are no doubt intended to be helpful, they come off as ignorant to anyone who has lived in a mosquito-prone area.

Short of living in an actual bat cave, you’ll never get the density of predators required to solve the mosquito problem.

Of all the natural predators mentioned above, only dragonflies make a real difference. It's night and day in the same area depending on whether there's a healthy population of dragonflies nearby.

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