MOZZIE ALERT

Check your ponds, tubs and pools, not for wasps, but mosquitoes – the larvae, not the parents. Still water is home right now to the wriggling larval form of the mosquito and you’ll see them breaking the surface of the water in order to breathe through what seems to be their rear ends. Left to mature, the wrigglers will metamorphose into flying, adult mosquitoes and do all they can to make your life a misery. Raise frogs to eat the humming, blood-