The City of Southlake, working with the emergency management and environmental team, has developed a checklist to help residents and businesses keep their homes and businesses free from possible disease-carrying mosquitoes.
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Clean gutters – clogged gutters can hold water and provide a great place for mosquitoes to breed.
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Replace water in bird baths and animal dishes daily – mosquitoes can go from egg to adult in as little as one week!
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Add mosquito dunks to French Drains – French drains typically hold a small reservoir of water that attracts mosquitoes. The City of Southlake can provide mosquito dunks to our residents; for
more information please contact cupton@ci.southlake.tx.us.
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Drain flower pot saucers – the saucers below your flower pot help ensure your plants stay watered and prevent messes, but these same saucers provide an excellent location for mosquitoes to breed inside your home!
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Place the mosquitofish in ponds – Southlake, in partnership with Tarrant County Public Health, can provide the mosquitofish, Gambia, as a natural mosquito predator in your pond’s ecosystem.
We are here to help – if you notice a large amount of mosquitoes we can help identify their source make recommendations to reduce the mosquitoes you are seeing. Contact us at cupton@ci.southlake.tx.us.
If you have unanswered questions about West Nile or the Zika virus, Tarrant County Public Health has established a hotline at 817-248-6299 to help. For further information please contact Tarrant County Health or direct any additional inquiries to Southlake’s Environmental Coordinator at cupton@ci.southlake.tx.us.