2. Blooming plants attract bees, butterflies, and other pollinators that dragonflies like to eat. You might try black-eyed susan, joe pye weed, swamp milkweed, butterfly bushes, anise hyssop, yarrow, turtlehead, tickseed, coreopsis, hollyhocks, or aster (which comes in a myriad of colors/varieties.). 3.
Insecticide Treated Nets The Anopheles is one of the best known types of mosquito because of its role in the transmission of malaria. Since the Anopheles mosquito bites between dusk and dawn, sleeping under mosquito nets treated with insecticides provides critical protection against the spread of malaria.
In addition to malaria, mosquitoes carry the West Nile virus and dengue fever. West Nile is a disease the insects pick up from infected birds. It affects the nervous system and, like malaria, can be very serious in people with lowered immune systems.