Mosquitoes can lay their eggs in as little as a bottle cap full of water and can go from egg to biting adult in as little as five days.

Cover water sources. Use screens on rain barrels and lids on containers so mosquitoes can’t reach the surface. Fix tarps.

If your kids can’t make it through a backyard evening without itchy mosquito bites, the issue might not be a nearby pond or wooded area (though that’ll certainly contribute to the problem). But when ...