try looking around and eliminating any sources of standing water that you may have. Some of them may be obvious such as water bowls and rain barrels, others may not be so obvious such as the leaf axils of plants in the banana family (bird-of-paradise, traveler's palms, heliconias etc.) or worse yet and not so obvious bromeliad patches.

Bromeliads are bad because mosquitos and other animals in nature are designed to utilize these reservoirs to live in.

If it is something you cannot easily empty there are two approaches you can take, for larger water containers like ornamental ponds and such you can stock them with goldfish or mosquito fish you can buy both at the fish store (the latter are what they usually sell as feeder guppies here in Fl.) or for plants like bromeliads or if you don't want to use fish you can by BT (baits????not sure if it is technically a bait...BT stans for baccillus thurigensis ) It is usually sold in the form of solid donut shaped dealies (seriously I'm not sure of the exact term here.) or in a granulated form which works really well for your bromeliad patches.

Other than the prevention steps I do not know what to tell you, I always thought the mosquito magnets would be my ultimate solution for mosquitos. I heard they work quite well. I have never really thought of putting repellents on my tortoises (nor would I since I am leery of them.) I am not sure I would even try skin so soft on them and that is the only thing I will put on myself for mosquitos.

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