Most homeowners see a clear drop within the first day or two. The treatment knocks down the adult mosquitoes present at the visit, then keeps reducing the population as the residual on your foliage stays active over the following weeks.
When you’ve finally booked a service, you want to know: when will the bites finally stop? That impatience makes plenty of sense, too, especially if you’ve been going indoors to avoid your own patio or deck for weeks of otherwise-perfect summertime.
When mosquito treatment is applied, it goes on vegetation and in shaded areas. That’s because mosquitoes hide in these places during the day when it is hot and dry outside. They can survive in shrubs, under leaves, in tall grass, under your deck, and so on. It’s far harder for them to survive in an open lawn, freshly mowed, where there is a lot of sun exposure.
The adult mosquitoes that happened to be resting in those spots at the time of treatment are affected quickly. That accounts for the fast initial relief many people notice the same evening or next morning. But it’s the longer, more durable effect that comes from the residual of the treatment. It bonds to foliage and keeps working on mosquitoes that land there over the next two to three weeks. So as fresh mosquitoes move in from neighboring areas, they encounter treated surfaces and the population stays suppressed.
The treatment helps control mosquitoes on a population level, instead of an individual one. The whole idea is to break breeding cycles. This is why you can expect the results to further build over the course of the treatment, then hold steady as the schedule continues.
If you're tired of waiting out mosquito season indoors, Mosquito Squad of Central New Jersey applies a barrier treatment that helps protect your yard with up to 90% reduction in mosquito activity, refreshed every 21 days through the season by a trained technician. To learn what kind of results to expect on your property, start with Mosquito Squad of Central New Jersey.
