Never Clean Your Gutters AgainGutter Guard Installation in Nevada, IA

Standing water and mosquitoes

A mosquito needs very little water and not much time. A tablespoon is enough, and the cycle from egg to adult takes about a week in warm weather. A gutter holding a shallow film of water behind a plug of leaves is close to ideal: still, shaded, sheltered from wind, and undisturbed for exactly the interval required. Homeowners who have carefully emptied every flowerpot saucer are frequently breeding thousands of them twenty feet up where nobody looks. This is one of the more concrete arguments for gutter protection and it does not require any exaggeration to make. A gutter that drains completely after a rain does not hold water long enough for anything to hatch in it. The key word is completely, which brings it back to slope and to whether the trough was clear before it was covered. A guard on a gutter that still holds a puddle in one low spot has not solved this; a guard on a gutter that drains has.