Avoid Mosquito Bites

• Pack and wear long, loose-fitting and lighter coloured clothing.
• Make sure clothes cover most of the body.
• Mosquitoes can bite through tight clothes – so choose loose.

Prevent Mosquito Bites

• Use insect repellent containing DEET (diethyl toluamide) or picaridin.
• Consider using mosquito coils outside.

Treating Mosquito Bites Naturally

• Scratching an itchy bite can damage the skin and may cause the bite to become infected.
• Reducing the itching can help to prevent this.
• Putting a cold cloth over the bite can help soothe the itch.

Mosquito Repellent

• Insect repellents do not kill mosquitoes, but should stop them landing on and biting your skin. 
• It must be applied carefully around the face and eyes. Be careful not to breathe in the repellent – if using a spray, spray it onto your hands and then rub onto your face.

Eliminate Mosquitoes

• Few Insecticide (Pyrethroid) plug-in products use electricity to slowly release insecticide from a liquid or tablet into your room.
• Other options would also include use of insect repelling candles, methylated burners, cones and coils can be used when there is no electricity, but should NOT be used indoors.

Protect Your Home

• Maintain fly screens on windows, doors, vents and chimneys.
• Remove stagnant water around the house so mosquitoes can not breed.
• Change pet drinking bowls, bird baths at least once a week.
• Check rainwater and water storage tanks.