About Mosquito Steve

Female mosquitoes are the only ones that bite. They have a proboscis so they can suck out your blood. What’s worse, they have two appendages with serrated edges on either side of the proboscis so they can cut a hole in you to put their proboscis in!

Once the female mosquito a belly full of blood, she can lay viable eggs. Depending on the species, mosquitoes will lay 100 to 250 eggs. She might lay eggs three times before her life ends, usually in two to three weeks.

Mosquito Steve products affect multiple receptors on the mosquito antennae. That makes our products more effective but also keeps the mosquitoes from building a resistance for much longer than products that rely on the olfactory sense alone. This is why we layer our essential oils so that as one essential oil stops working another one takes its place.

So, when you treat the landing and hiding places of the mosquito, it is so irritating to the mosquito that they flee. They can float in the air but it is unlikely they will do this for long. So they leave.

However, when you have a blood meal outdoors, their instinct is to fight through anything to get that blood meal so their eggs will be viable. If you have treated but are sitting outside for long, it would not be unusual for a mosquito to fly in from somewhere else to get their blood meal. So, now, how do we keep them from flying in?

That is what misting systems are for! Misting systems can keep mosquitoes from flying in by building up a bubble of repellency they will not fly through. But misting systems can be expensive.

We have found that our incense will work well to prevent fly-ins. Maybe not quite as well as misting but for a fraction of the price you can get relief.

We expect to have some manually operated, relatively inexpensive sprayers that could do the job of misting by Spring of 2021 (Coming SOON!). By 2022, we believe we will have a spray system for the back yard that will be much less expensive than misting systems but will actually do a better job. Plus, for the DIY guy your refills will be easily available and affordable. 

We have thoroughly tested our products using human landing rate counts. The National Institute of Health calls human landing rate counts the GOLD STANDARD of testing! However, most products rely on lab testing because of the dangers of allowing thousands of mosquitoes to land on you and possibly infect you with a lethal disease like West Nile Virus.

Laboratory mosquitoes are not the same as those raised outdoors where each generation of mosquitoes is more advanced than the last. They are subject to the elements of the outdoors, including pesticides, where they adapt to survive.

We perform real world testing to compare our products to others. We do this with all of our products. We don’t rely on what the chemical salesman told us and neither should you!

We hired three entomologists to validate our field trials in the last 15 years. One of them even claimed we had “discovered the Holy Grail” since we created an EPA Exempt product that really works!

Mosquito Steve has had more than 2000 bites in a single evening in order to test his products! Through thousands of field trials, we have honed our products specifically to work better and last longer than DEET, Picaridin or any other products! We guarantee it!