Mosquitoes can breed in as little as a capful of standing water, and they’re multiplying in spots most homeowners never think to check. This video walks through a complete, natural system for wiping them out around your property, from killing larvae before they hatch to repelling and eliminating adult mosquitoes. If you’ve been searching for how to get rid of mosquitoes outside the house naturally, this step-by-step demonstration covers everything from a simple bucket trap to a professional-grade essential oil concentrate that’s completely safe for honeybees and butterflies.
What you’ll walk away with: A full three-step mosquito control system: killing eggs and larvae with Mosquito Bits, repelling adult mosquitoes with an essential oil spray, and then eliminating them with a microencapsulated concentrate that delivers up to 30 days of residual protection.
What most people miss: Most people spray and hope for the best, never realizing that old dog bowls, clogged gutters, and low spots in the yard are quietly breeding thousands of mosquitoes. This video pinpoints exactly where those hidden sites are and how to shut them all down.
Why it works: The core product, Mosquito Bits, contains BT (Bacillus thuringiensis), a naturally occurring bacteria that kills mosquito larvae within 24 hours. The approach comes from an active pest control business that deploys this system monthly at customer properties, not just a one-time backyard experiment.
One detail this video covers that most mosquito guides skip entirely: the spray you put on your shrubs isn’t just for open air… mosquitoes actually hide under leaves during the heat of the day, and if you miss those spots, you’re leaving the bulk of the population untouched before they even emerge at night.
Key Moments in This Mosquito Control Walkthrough
Click any timestamp to jump to that moment in the video.
- ► 2:18 – “mosquitoes are going to lay their eggs in water. They can lay their eggs in as little as a capful of water.”
- ► 3:16 – “it releases this bacteria and when the mosquitoes go to lay their eggs in the standing water, it kills those eggs. It kills that larvae within 24 hours.”
- ► 9:20 – “that’s called source reduction… go around your house and empty out anything that’s holding water and mosquitoes can’t breed in it.”
- ► 14:00 – “during the day in the heat, the mosquitoes are going to be hiding out up underneath these leaves for protection. When the sun goes down, it’s a little bit cooler. That’s when they’re going to come out.”
- ► 16:45 – “This kills mosquitoes. The other one just repelled mosquitoes.”
How to Kill Mosquitoes Around Your Home Naturally – Full Walkthrough
Mosquitoes Kill More People Than Any Other Animal
Kill every mosquito around your home, guaranteed. The great thing is it’s 100% safe for honeybees and butterflies. And once you find out what it is, you’ll never fight mosquitoes the same way again.
Today, we’re going to show you the safest, most effective way to get rid of mosquitoes in and around your home. It’s safe for your pets, safe for honeybees, butterflies… the whole nine yards. And it’s super easy.
The Bucket: What to Get and Why Color Matters
Get one of these little buckets. You can find them at Home Depot, Lowe’s, or Tractor Supply. Get an orange one, a black one, or a red one. Don’t get a white one or any other color. Color matters… get orange, red, or black.
Filling the Bucket with Water
Start by filling the bucket about half full of water.
Adding Grass Clippings, Leaves, and Debris
Get some old limbs, grass clippings, leaves, and put it in that bucket. It’s not going to take much. Don’t put too much debris in. You want it to be kind of swampy, but not too swampy. Just put a little bit of this in there.
The grass clippings and leaves are going to help make this more attractive for the mosquitoes. Mosquitoes are going to lay their eggs in water. They can lay their eggs in as little as a capful of water. We’re going to create a place that’s attractive for mosquitoes to want to lay their eggs, but when they do, it kills them.
The Secret Ingredient: Mosquito Bits
This is the product you want: Mosquito Bits. You can buy this at Home Depot or Lowe’s. It’s about $17. We use this in our mosquito programs with our company that goes out to customers every single month. This is going to be a game changer for you.
This product will be safe for birds, animals, and even fish. You can use this in your fish ponds as well.
What BT Bacteria Does to Mosquito Larvae
Mosquito Bits contains a product called BT, a naturally occurring bacteria. When you place it in standing water, it releases this bacteria. When the mosquitoes go to lay their eggs in the standing water, it kills those eggs. It kills that larvae within 24 hours.
How Much Mosquito Bits to Add
Get a spoon and add one heaping spoonful of this stuff. That’s all you’ve got to do. Now the mosquitoes are going to die.
Mosquito Dunks for Larger Areas
They also make mosquito dunks for larger areas, like ditches and low areas in your yard that actually hold water for a long time. Take one of these dunks and just toss it in the ditch. It will cover 100 square feet.
These are going to last anywhere from 14 to 28 days. Then you’re going to have to reapply the product in the buckets.
Where to Place Your Mosquito Trap Buckets
Place the bucket away from where you like to hang out, away from the pool, away from the patio. If you have a shed with a little overhang, that’s a perfect place to put one of these buckets. Mosquitoes are going to find that bucket, they’re going to be drawn to the color, and to the environment created by the leaves and grass clippings. The BT is also going to release carbon dioxide, which draws them to that area too.
You can make multiple buckets and place them around your property. If you have an overhang where water is not going to get into the bucket, that’s ideal, because the more water that gets in, it dilutes it, and you have to add more Mosquito Bits.
Building a Rain Cover for Buckets in Flower Beds
If you want to place a bucket in the flower beds where it’s going to get rained on, take the little lid that comes with the bucket and get some wooden dowels. Screw the dowels into the top of the lid to create little legs, and set it over the bucket as a shelter. Now when it rains, the bucket is covered. Mosquitoes can still go in there and lay their eggs, and it’s going to stay effective.
You can get these little wooden dowels for a few bucks at Home Depot or Lowe’s. Just screw them into the top, and that’s it. Super easy, super effective.
Some people are going to want to just drill some holes in the top and let the mosquitoes go in that way, but that’s not going to be effective. The open-entry design with the cover is the best route.
Source Reduction: Empty Out Any Standing Water
You see this old dog bowl? There’s a little bit of water in it. It does not take a lot of water for mosquitoes to breed, even little things like this. You can either dump it out, turn it over, or put some Mosquito Bits in there and be done with it.
That’s called source reduction. Go around your house and empty out anything that’s holding water, and mosquitoes can’t breed in it. But if you have areas that are going to hold water, this is what you want to use.
Treating Gutters That Hold Water and Debris
Gutters sometimes hold water, especially if they have a lot of debris in them. A lot of times we don’t clean out the gutters like we should. You can take Mosquito Bits and sprinkle it inside these gutters and it’s going to keep those mosquitoes from breeding in there.
Deploying Mosquito Dunks in Ditches and Drain Pipes
Mosquitoes kill more people than any other animal on the planet. They spread Zika virus and West Nile virus, which is extremely deadly. That’s why we want to kill them.
Mosquito dunks are perfect for ditches. If there’s water in the ditch, that’s a perfect place. Toss a dunk on one side of a drain pipe and go put one on the other side too. That way it’s going to be covered.
Moving from Larvae to Adult Mosquitoes: Introducing Mosquito Beater
We showed you how to get rid of mosquito eggs and larvae, but now we’re going to show you how to get rid of the adult mosquitoes, and it’s completely safe.
Mosquito Beater is a go-to product for repelling adult mosquitoes. We just killed the larvae and the eggs, but now we’ve got to deal with the adults. This is going to level up your mosquito program. You can get this at Home Depot, Lowe’s, or Amazon, it costs about $20 to $21. It comes with a hose-end sprayer so you can hook your water hose up to it. This will cover about 5,000 square feet.
Why the Backpack Sprayer Beats the Hose-End Attachment
Rather than using the hose-end sprayer that comes with it, use a backpack sprayer instead. Fill the backpack sprayer with water, then dump the entire contents of the Mosquito Beater into it.
Your backpack sprayer is going to put out about 1,000 square feet per gallon, and this product will do 5,000 square feet. It’s going to be mixed a little strong at four gallons when it should be five, but it’s going to be fine.
This right here is essential oil. That’s why it’s completely safe for honeybees, pets, birds, and butterflies. It’s not going to harm them at all.
Why You Spray the Shrubs and Leaves – Not Just Open Air
The reason we spray these plants is because during the day, in the heat, mosquitoes are going to be hiding out underneath these leaves for protection. When the sun goes down and it’s a little bit cooler, that’s when they’re going to come out. They like to stay out of the sun during the day and rest underneath those leaves. That’s why you want to spray them thoroughly.
Use a low volume, just a light mist. You don’t want to do it real heavy.
Spraying the Patio, Furniture, and Back Door
This is where we like to hang out, the couch, the chairs, the fans, all of it. If we spray this area, it’s going to repel mosquitoes from wanting to even be around us. You can spray all up underneath here.
This is not going to kill mosquitoes on contact. This is going to repel them from these areas. It works in conjunction with the Mosquito Bits. You can spray the flowers too. Sometimes mosquitoes try to come inside when you open the door, so spray around your back door as well. You can also spray your furniture, it’s not going to hurt anything or stain anything.
How Long Mosquito Beater Spray Lasts
Mosquito Beater is probably going to last about 14 to 21 days. It’s all going to depend on how much rain you get, if you get a lot of rain, you’re going to have to reapply it more often.
Baracore: The Professional-Grade Essential Oil That Kills on Contact
This is the last product: Baracore by Invoo. This is a great product. It’s essential oils. This kills mosquitoes, the other one just repelled mosquitoes. This is going to level up your mosquito game along with the Mosquito Bits and the Mosquito Dunks around your house.
It’s safe on bees, safe for use around outdoor food handling areas, and safe for butterflies. It’s a microencapsulated material, which means it lasts longer. That’s why we like it. One gallon goes a long way.
How to Mix Baracore: Low Infestation vs. Heavy Infestation
When mixing in a backpack sprayer, use 2 oz per gallon for a low infestation, and 4 oz per gallon for a heavy infestation. For a 4-gallon backpack at low infestation, that’s 8 ounces total.
Before you use this, shake it up really well because it can settle to the bottom. Tip in the measured amount and mix thoroughly.
What’s Inside Baracore and Why It Won’t Harm Pollinators
On the label: sesame oil, cinnamon oil, clove oil, thyme oil, and some other added ingredients. This stuff works and it’s not going to kill honeybees or butterflies.
This product is specifically designed to adhere to the plant really well. It’s got a binder in it, it’s microencapsulated, and it’s going to bind to the plant and stay where you spray it. That means it’s going to last a lot longer. You can use it even on plants that honeybees visit regularly and it will not harm them at all.
The Complete Three-Step Mosquito Program
When you do the Mosquito Bits, when you do the Baracore, and you do source reduction, this is going to take care of all your mosquitoes around your house. It’s not going to harm any pets, any birds, any squirrels, any honeybees, or any butterflies. It’s not going to harm anything except mosquitoes.
If you’ve got any questions about mosquitoes or anything like that, put them in the chat below. And as always, God bless.
The best place to start is outside, right now, before the next rain. Walk your property and look for anything holding even a small amount of water, overturned lids, old planters, dog bowls, low spots near a fence line. Dumping those out costs nothing and immediately removes breeding sites that could be producing hundreds of mosquitoes per week. That one walk-around is the foundation everything else builds on.
Once you’ve done your source reduction sweep, set up a bucket trap near any shaded overhang away from where you spend time, and get Mosquito Bits into any water source you can’t drain. The BT bacteria does the work quietly and continuously, and you only have to reapply every two to four weeks. If you have a ditch or low area that holds water after rain, a mosquito dunk tossed in there will cover 100 square feet without any mixing or measuring.
The spray step, whether you start with Mosquito Beater or go straight to Baracore, is what makes the full system click. Knowing that mosquitoes spend the heat of the day hiding under your shrubs changes exactly where you aim the sprayer, and that one adjustment makes the treatment dramatically more effective. That’s really the whole point of learning how to get rid of mosquitoes outside the house naturally: not just grabbing a product, but understanding the behavior behind it so every step you take actually works.