Why do mosquito bites itch?
When a mosquito bites, it pierces its proboscis into your skin and sucks blood, at the same time it leaves its saliva there below your skin. This saliva contains blood coagulating agent and to overcome this your immune system releases histamine.
As a result of this auto immune response system, the area around mosquito bites becomes red and swells into a bump. This histamine so released within our body, causes increased blood flow and causes inflammation around the bite which causes excessive itching sensation.
Kill mosquito larvae before they become a problem
Mosquito infestations should be dealt at source. If mosquito breeding is allowed than its very difficult to catch or kill the adult ones in open. Its very important to kill mosquito larvae which requires minimal efforts and control. This shortens the lifespan of mosquitoes and reduces transmission of diseases to a great extent.
The mosquito lifecycle consists of 4 stages – eggs, larva pupa, and adult. Controlling mosquito infestation and killing mosquito larvae are far better options than using mosquito repellents or traps.
Learn more about mosquito traps which are free of chemicals
Mosquito traps usually work by attracting mosquitoes through either light, heat or carbon dioxide, which later kills or capture them without using any chemicals. Mosquito traps improves the sleep and quality of life, very much useful for outdoor locations where your kids and even pets, like dogs and cats play around.
They enhances the overall effectiveness of mosquito repellent plants and other natural mosquito repellents made using essential oils. Even homemade mosquito traps are widely used which are made using sugar, yeast and water.
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