Your yard.
Their eviction notice.
The city stopped fogging to cut its budget — no trucks, no traps, no hotline. This is the easy, proven playbook neighbors are using to take their yards back, one block at a time. SkeeterDefeater is neighbors clearing standing water, running traps and comparing notes, block by block, until the backyard is ours again.
Five simple habits. One big difference.
Toss, Treat, Trap, Talk, Tend — cheap, spray-free steps you can do in minutes a week. Even two of them noticeably cut the bites; a whole block doing them changes the summer.
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