MILFORD, Mass. - Recent rains and high humidity could lead to a boom in mosquitoes this summer.

Mosquito Mary’s, a local pest control service company, recommends treating your property soon to keep fleas, ticks and mosquitoes away and prevent the blood borne illnesses they can transmit.

Homeowners can do their part by removing standing water around their property. A female mosquito can lay up to 300 eggs in one tablespoon of water.

"Cleaning out your gutters, any place where there is shrubbery or clippings for lawns, piles of mulch, those are all breeding grounds for mosquitoes,” Mosquito Mary’s employee Kathryn Ablaschai said. “You have to make sure you maintain your property on top of the treatments to get the best results for the treatments."

"Mostly we use synthetic chrysanthemum extract, similar to what you use when you give your dog flea and tick bath,” said Jesse Bowen, another employee. “It'll kill up to 64 insects through a process of by sucking all the water out of them. It doesn't hurt mammals because it pulls water out of exoskeleton, which mammals don't have by definition."

Mosquito Mary's recommends receiving their kind of treatment every two to three weeks. They said if you wait too long, the treatment can break down and the insects will come back.