Join the Mosquito Bucket Challenge

From Doug Tallamy and Homegrown National Park

Mosquitoes are often controlled with broad pesticide spraying, called fogging. These treatments don’t just affect mosquitoes—they can impact other insects, wildlife, and people, and they don’t address where mosquitoes reproduce.

The Mosquito Bucket Challenge offers a more targeted approach. By controlling mosquitoes at the source, it reduces populations without affecting the rest of the ecosystem. It’s safe, it’s affordable, and it’s better for biodiversity.

How it works:

Mosquitoes lay eggs in standing water. A mosquito bucket attracts them as a place to reproduce. A mosquito dunk (Bti) prevents larvae from developing into adult mosquitoes, interrupting the life cycle and reducing mosquito populations over time.

For more information and directions on making your own Mosquito Bucket with a 5 gallon pail, water, some organic material and a quarter of a mosquito dunk tablet go to: https://homegrownnationalpark.org/build-mosquito-bucket/