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Typical sites include birdbaths, old tires, clogged gutters, portable basketball hoops, uncovered outdoor grills, potted plants with saucers and flower vases.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2024

If you live in a home with outdoor space, reduce places where water can accumulate, such as garbage bins, potted plant saucers, birdbaths and other home equipment.

From Scientific American • Jul. 31, 2023

Stiller added two ceramic birdbaths and a bird feeder filled with black oil sunflower seeds, all of which sit among her yard’s Northwest native plantings — red sorrel, oceanspray, red flowering currant and more.

From Seattle Times • May 26, 2022

And because the Culex mosquitoes that spread the virus live close to humans, they can usually get enough water from humans' sprinklers and birdbaths to breed, even during a dry spring.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2022

We pass lawns and porch furniture, bird feeders and birdbaths.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides