Natural Mosquito Strategy Design

Source reduction, barriers, repellent planting, and personal protection, ranked by actual effectiveness.

The ranking is the lesson and it puts plants well down the list, which is inconvenient for a nature curriculum and is what the evidence says. Standing water removal dominates everything else.

The page has the strategy framework, the evidence summary, a site plan and a costed proposal. It also asks why the less effective measures are more popular, and the answers, that they are visible, pleasant and require no ongoing work, apply to a great deal more than mosquitoes.