Long and loose sleeved shirts and pants are great gift items! They’re perfect in linen for Summer months, good travel essentials for layering, and most importantly, they keep mosquitoes and other vectors (like ticks) off your skin.

Perfect for:

• Gardeners and landscapers
• Active people
• Nature lovers
• Young children 
• People who are always cold 

It's the best time to stock up on long sleeves! You can buy them at any superstore or department store.

We all know that one person who gets bit up everywhere they go … So gift them some repellent. Look for ONE of the following active ingredients on the label that is safe and effective against biting insects:

• Oil of Lemon Eucalyptus
• Picaridin
• DEET
• IR3535

Perfect for:

• You
• The people in your life who always get bit 

You can buy repellent online, in any superstore or outdoors store. Usually, repellent is found in the outdoors or gardening aisles. 

Choosing which repellent to use is a personal choice, as long as you choose 1 of the 4 CDC-recommended active ingredients:

Oil of Lemon Eucalyptus (also known as PMD)

Picaridin

DEET

IR3535

The active ingredients will be printed on the front of any repellent bottle, along with a percentage, which is a range of how long protection will last -- like sunscreen. 

Know anyone with a green thumb? Gift them beautiful and biodiverse California Native Plants that help reduce mosquito micro-habitats in our backyards.

Perfect for:

• Nature lovers
• Plant parents
• Coworkers
• Gardeners and landscapers 
• Neighbors 
• Teachers and faculty 
• In-laws

There are many privately owned nursuries and plant businesses, as well as outdoor stores and superstores that sell California Native Plants. You can look up a place that is closest to you or within your budget.

We recommend checking out California Botanic Garden in Claremont and Theodore Payne Foundation in Sun Valley for wonderful plants and garden tours. They also have useful resources to help get gardens started. 

Students deserve the best, so gift them a FREE and NGSS-aligned program. We do all of the work and educate about mosquito-borne disease prevention and how to create healthy communities.

Perfect for:

• Pre-K through 12th grade students
• Teachers and educators

You can book a program here

Get your family or community involved with your fight against mosquitoes. Advocate to others about the Bite Back Program and book a presentation for those who love spending quality time together.

Perfect for:

• Residents
• Neighbors 
• Educators
• City Council meetings
• Community meetings
• Local activists
• Environmentalists

Book now!

Show that you care through gifting an act of service and help a loved one maintain their home. For example, you can help someone fix torn screens to block mosquitoes from making themselves cozy in your home this holiday season.

Perfect for: 

• Procrastinators
• People who like spending quality time with you