I’d love to hear the buzz that my garden is something spectacular, a garden that you just have to see and experience – beauty, exquisite landscaping, the essence of tranquility. Okay, I’m dreaming. I can barely keep up with my front flower bed between working full time and other activities.
However, I do love flower gardens as they cheer me up after a stressful day at work. I just look at the beauty they provide for a few moments and all seems well.
Unfortunately, there sometimes is a different “buzz” in my garden. This buzz keeps garden visitors away. No, it is not the welcome buzz of the bees pollinating my flowers.
It is the buzz of mosquitoes.
It only takes two tablespoons of water for a mosquito to lay her eggs! Whoa! That means mama mosquito doesn’t need much to deposit her future kiddos in our yards!
One consolation is that birds, bats, and goldfish love to dine on mosquito larvae. I have the birds, but not the bats or goldfish. There are all kinds of suggestions to reduce the population of mosquitoes; the most logical is to get rid of standing water. However, to squash some of the myths surrounding mosquitoes, check out this article. And see what works for some nudists!
I’m getting ready for some buzz this summer from friends who want to join my husband and me for an outdoor meal. Hopefully there will be the right kind of buzz and we won’t be the mosquitos’ dinner guests!