Another way you can get rid of larvae is to attract or place mosquito larvae predators in your home such as dragonflies, copepods, fish and birds.
Dragon flies
Like mosquitoes, dragonflies are aquatic insects. They lay their eggs in water. Their larvae develop in water as well.
Because they share the same habitat, mosquitoes are an easy meal for dragonflies.
An adult dragonfly can eat hundreds of mosquitoes in one day. Dragonfly larvae also eat mosquito larvae.
Despite being fatal to mosquitoes, adult dragonflies are harmless to humans.
Adult dragonflies do not bite humans unless threatened. And because dragonflies do not have mandibles designed to bite humans, their bites are relatively painless.
Fish
Fish is another well-known predator of mosquitoes.
Some of the most popular ones are Mosquito fish, Guppies, and Threespine stickleback.
Western Mosquitofish or Gambusia specializes in consuming mosquito larvae.
These fish are tiny, enabling them to thrive in shallow waters where mosquito larvae live.
Another advantage of mosquito fish as a biocontrol is that they are tolerant of a wide range of environmental conditions, such as temperature and salinity.
Today they are used around the world as an alternative to using pesticides to control mosquitoes.
Copepods
Predatory copepods are small aquatic crustaceans found in the most freshwater and saltwater habitat.
These predators attack and eat mosquito larvae.
As such, they are an effective bio-control for mosquito production.
Copepods mainly feed on first and second stage mosquito larvae.
The largest of these predators copepod species can kill up to 30–40 larvae per day.
Another advantage of copepods as a bio-control is their abundance. Because you can find them in nearly all salt and freshwater bodies, they are relatively inexpensive to produce.
You can place copepods on permanent water containers as a natural way to control mosquito larvae.
Copepods can survive for several months in these containers, which means they can provide long-lasting control of mosquito populations.