(upbeat rhythmic music) >>Today I am standing in my garden that I have created into a wildlife habitat.

So with that, there comes insects.

Now, there are a lot of insects that are beneficial for our gardens, but some of them are a nuisance, and that includes mosquitoes, especially in the summer with our hot, humid weather.

With the popularity of mosquito control companies coming in and spraying for mosquitoes, I don't think that is helping with the decline of our beneficial insects.

So one thing that you can do is to build a mosquito trap.

It's very simple and easy.

You just need a couple pieces of material, hardware cloth, mosquito donuts, that kills the larvae of the mosquito so they don't develop into adults, which are what is the nuisance that bite you, and then some plant material that you as gardeners will always have around.

This is just material that I've already cut out in the garden and we can just use this to stuff down in the bucket.

And this material, as it's breaking down, will attract the mosquitoes in.

So we'll just get the last little bit of this in here and, see, what we're doing is creating an environment that attracts mosquitoes and they like to go in here to lay their eggs.

Now that we've got this in, it's about halfway full, then we can fill this up with water.

Pop this on.

(water sprays lightly) The idea is to get the water filled up just above the plant material, and the mosquitoes, they will have this stagnant water sitting here and they will be attracted to come and lay their eggs.

And then what we're gonna do now is to add in the mosquito donut.

Now, with these, it's supposed to last for about 30 days, and this size container, you don't need the whole thing.

You could use a quarter, but I think I'm gonna use about half of it, just to be sure.

We're almost there with the water.

Okay, that's pretty good.

So now I'll cut this off and we can put the donut in.

With the hardware cloth, the mosquito still can go in, but I want to keep other things out.

I would not want a bird or a chipmunk or anything to get in and then they're not being able to get out.

So I've already folded this in so that it could just fit over the top of the bucket here.

Just be careful 'cause there is sharp edges.

Now that we've got this on, nothing else can get in.

So I hope you will give this a try.

It's very easy to do and all you have to do is just add in another donut maybe about every 30 days, and just check the water level, make sure that it hasn't evaporated too much, so you can add water as needed.

If you give this a try, hopefully your mosquito population will go down and you don't have to rely on other chemical treatments that could take out your other insects.

Go out, enjoy your summer garden, hopefully with a few less mosquitoes.