Mosquito all over the door and window frame...

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<p>My new townhouse, just moved in last month, really enjoy and busy for set up everything.
Two weeks ago, when I went out to pick up a package, I saw tiny mosquito all over my front door frame and window frames. Yes, ALL OVER… Feel so horrible, like the Hitchcock movie…</p>

<p>I went to Home Depot, they suggest me a spray to kill. It works, but then the bodies stuck on the wood, I have to wipe them off (yek!) and after two days, they came back.</p>

<p>There is a white bright street light in front, first I thought may the light attract them, but I walked around the development, non of my neighbor has the problem (even there is the same street light in front of their house). </p>

<p>Is it because egg under the soil and now began to hatch? </p>

<p>What to do??? It really bother me!</p>

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<p>Call an exterminator.</p>

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<p>It’s a brand new house, still under warranty but not sure if this issue is covered or not. I already called them.<br>
Yes, an exterminator is a good idea, thanks.</p>

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<p>Is there standing water in the area? Mosquitoes breed in water.</p>

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<p>Tiny mosquitos? It doesn’t sound like mosquitos at all to me. I know mosquitos!
Are you sure you don’t have carpenter ants? The newly hatched carpenter ant is like an ant with wings which is attracted to the light. They really don’t live long so they can be attracted by the light of a window (from anywhere in the house so just because they end up in one spot means nothing as to their origin) and die soon afterwards. They swarm in the spring especially after the rain and then may mysteriously disappear (until the next year when they come back to haunt you forever…)
Do you have woods nearby or wood piles near your home?</p>

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<p>No standing water. Not near woods or any wood piles.
I google carpenter ants images, they don’t look like carpenter ants.</p>

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<p>Mosquitoes don’t swarm on windows, etc. like that. It is some other kind of bug. Take a dead one to the garden store and have someone identify it for you and suggest something to take care of them.</p>

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<p>Another possibility is termites. The behavior you describe sounds very much like a situation we encountered.</p>

<p>Given that you don’t know what it is and it’s a new house, I’d definitely get an exterminator over to check it out. They’re not that expensive and worth it if you have any kind of destructive insect on your hands.</p>

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<p>Yes, it sounds very much like a spring termite swarm. An exterminator is your best bet.</p>

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<p>Arling, what were they? What part of the country is this?</p>

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<p>That also sounds like a flying ant type situation.</p>

<p>We had them in FL and they were a pain to get rid of.</p>

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<p>In different parts of the country, different kinds of insects hatch in a massive common hatch. Orvis (the fly-fishing company) has a lovely chart of what flies hatch when in what part of the country: [url=&lt;a href=“Orvis: Quality Clothing, Fly-Fishing Gear & More Since 1856 | Orvis”&gt;Orvis: Quality Clothing, Fly-Fishing Gear & More Since 1856 | Orvis]Hatch</a> Chart - Eastern & Midwestern US - Fly Fishing – Orvis<a href=“eastern%20and%20midwestern”>/url</a> [url=&lt;a href=“Orvis: Quality Clothing, Fly-Fishing Gear & More Since 1856 | Orvis”&gt;Orvis: Quality Clothing, Fly-Fishing Gear & More Since 1856 | Orvis]Hatch</a> Chart - Western US – Orvis<a href=“western”>/url</a>. </p>

<p>Why is a company that supplies fishing equipment interested in fly hatching? Well, the flies all hatch at once, so that the odds of some escaping being eaten (and therefore getting to reproduce) are higher. When flies hatch, that’s what the local fish are expecting to eat.</p>

<p>Usually mass fly hatches are harmless.</p>