Keeping Bugs Away from Your Summer Parties

 

What’s better than an outdoor summer party with friends and family? A summer party with friends and family—minus the bugs! It can be done and it doesn’t have to involve toxic methods.

Check out these bug-proofing tips:

1. First, make sure you remove things that attract bugs to your yard. Start with standing water where mosquitoes like to lay eggs. Look for buckets, empty planters, dishes, old tires, unused kiddie pools and turn them over or put them away.
2. If you have a bird bath, change the water often or add a small pump to circulate the water and discourage mosquitoes from laying eggs.
3. Clean out those rain gutters so they…”