An exterminator gives tips on how to ward off disease carrying bugs like mosquitoes and ticks this summer.

It looks like Ottawa is going to be in for a hard and bug-filled summer.

"We are going to have a tough season and the reason for that is there is so much standing water and so much rainfall and continues to come and the standing water is not going away," says Thom Bourne, the president and general manager of Mosquito.Buzz of Ottawa. "It's breeding grounds galore for the mosquitoes. We have all these female mosquitoes right now, looking for places to breed, getting into the mud, getting into the standing water, laying a hundred eggs every couple of days."

"This is going to be a huge year for mosquitoes in the City of Ottawa," he adds.

It's become so much of an issue in Kanata, that the City of Ottawa has started treating it's marshlands to keep bugs from spreading.

"The City of Ottawa, what they're doing, it is preventing a lot, but it doesn't get rid of them all. We hear it everyday: 'Yes, the city is doing their thing but I'm still getting a wack of mosquitoes in my yard.' And that varies from yard to yard. Some yards, if they have a swamp right behind and the BTI [larva-killing agent] worked and everything is good. Well, two doors down it's a different marsh, it didn't get treated and they need the help that we provide for them," says Bourne, who explains he has many clients in the Kanata, Carp and Dunrobin areas.

Bourne says that when it comes to black flies, there really isn't much anyone can do to prevent them from spreading unlike with other bugs.

"The mosquitoes and the ticks are the two things that you can control and you can stop from biting you and causing all sorts of diseases to be passed around to people," says Bourne, referring to the spread of viruses like West Nile, Zeka and Lime disease.

To ward off unwanted bug bites, the expert recommends using products with deet, which he says he uses in his own products and is approved by Health Canada. He also mentions people wanting to use this prior to hiking or going to leafy areas where bugs tend to hide.

"What people are doing these days they're buying these yards, they've got these cottages... They want to be able to go outside and enjoy it in the day and at night, cause mosquitoes are coming out at all times."