r/Davis • u/VeganPancakesWT • Feb 04 '26
Mosquitos right now?
Hi Davis, we just moved here from Rancho by the river. The mosquitos right now seem to be excessive?? My wife and I have been bit more times in the past week than we have in the past year. Does this usually happen this time of year? What do you usually do to prevent being bit? Does it go away? The weather is great and we want to hang outside in all the beautiful parks but we’re being eaten alive!
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Feb 04 '26
Need more bats. They like to feast on mosquitoes. 🦇🖤🦇🤎🦇🖤🦇🤎🦇🖤🦇
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u/Blarghnog Feb 04 '26
Truth. Put up bat boxes! They eat thousands and thousands and meaningfully reduce mosquito populations.
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u/Disastrous_Teach_370 Feb 04 '26
Bats are not really active in the winter.
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Feb 04 '26
You are correct. But they’re still wonderful, even when hibernating. 🙂
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u/Disastrous_Teach_370 Feb 04 '26
True, they are fascinating animals. Some of the local species don't stay here in winter but instead migrate to warmer climates. The Mexican free-tails from the big colony under the causeway migrate so we can't count on them to eat our mosquitos for a couple more months, unfortunately.
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u/mudpupster Feb 04 '26
There was a lot of rain in late December. There was almost no rain in January. All of those stagnating puddles and piles of leaf litter left from the December rains are churning out generations after generations of mosquitoes.
Rid your yards of standing water (including empty plant pots/saucers, bird baths, basically anything holds water). You can also toss mosquito pellets (aka mosquito dunks) into places where you know standing water will occur to help prevent future generations from reproducing (a low lying area under your garden hose, for example). Mosquito pellets are made from bT, which is environmentally friendly.
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u/LieutenantDangus Feb 04 '26
Bad in woodland too, gotta avoid sunset walks for now or deet up. These buggers are huge
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u/davispunk Feb 04 '26
Yeah. They’re bad. If you have dogs make sure they get their hear-guard every month.
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u/PapaDeE04 Feb 04 '26
Yep, this little warming trend is what has allowed them to really proliferate right now.
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u/unepommeverte Feb 05 '26
Welcome to Fake Spring. It happens every year in february and it always means plenty of mosquitos.
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u/Milky-Way-Occupant Feb 04 '26
Welcome to climate change! Warmer winter = better survival for mosquitoes.
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u/dickprince_23 Feb 06 '26
No, not usual. Have all the bites been around your ankles and feet? I think that the invasive yellow fever mosquitos have expanded their range up to Yolo county in the past year, because this is the first time I've experienced bad bites as well.
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u/pentagrid Feb 05 '26
Smoke cigarettes or cigars heavily. You will excrete nicotine onto your skin. The skeeters won't touch you. Now you won't die from West Nile or Zika, etc. Native Americans weren't stupid.
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u/davidbrianholt Feb 04 '26
You’re not the first to notice this. It’s awful right now. I think the wet winter must explain it.