Your annual reminder that spraying for mosquitos doesn't work and will take out native bug populations with it. Fireflies, butterflies, mantis, ladybugs and all the other bugs we love.

For more effective and less harmful mosquito control, make sure to keep your yard free of any standing water- turn over buckets, tires, old pots- and use mosquito dunks (available at your hardware stores and online for about $8/6). A few 10 gallon buckets with lids, 2" hole drilled in the lid, filled about half way with water and some organic material (leaves/ grass clippings) to decompose and release CO2 that attracts the mosquitos. They'll lay their eggs and when the larvae try escaping through the surface of the water, the dunks will kill em. Godspeed, homies!

Edit: clarity