harryopal wrote
Thank you YachtRock and Markit. We have people there today cutting back the growth in the front and back yards which I am sure provided excellent habitat for mosquitoes with little pools of water with the heavy rains. Always on the lookout for pools of water however tiny. I keep a cup of water by the bed to sip If I wake during the night. I stopped covering with a saucer so as not to disturb the wife. Then when checking before bed to see if I still had water I found lavae in the cup. I now cover with a bit of gladwrap. Very enterprising are mosquitoes. Will spray the interior as we move in and then hopefully will have not much of a problem.
(This seems a very trivial concern as I watch the news about the earthquake disaster in Turkey and Syria. As assistance is rushed to the area so too will organized crime to see what they can pull out from aid. The Mafia, worse than virus bearing mosquitoes, have been notorious in Italy for sucking out profit from earthquakes there.)
Go thru the area and see if you can see places where water is "secretly" standing - upturned ornamental seashells, plant pots, even traveler palms carry about a litre of water between each of their leaves for the beasties to grow in.
Markit tip 101 - I'd top up the bedside water with a decent scotch if I were you - they can't grow in that.
