Yes, reputable providers deliberately avoid treating blooming flowers and pollinator areas of your yard. Treatments target only the shaded resting spots where pests like mosquitoes and ticks are likely to hide.
If you've got pollinator gardens or flower beds you care about, this is a reasonable thing to ask before service, and the answer from any careful company is going to be yes.
Mosquitoes, ticks, and pollinators do not use the yard the same way. Pollinators go for blooming plants. Mosquitoes and other pests rest on the undersides of foliage, and in shaded areas. Treating the places where pests tend to hide will, for the most part, not bother bees and butterflies.
But providers don’t want to harm your yard’s ecosystem, so they do two other things to help. One is that they treat when the bees and butterflies are less likely to be active. The other is that they don’t treat blossoms directly.
All this said, the products used will affect insects on direct contact. That includes insects and bees. Technicians take precautions to keep bees and butterflies from coming into contact with the product. But if they still come into contact with it, it will knock them down.
If you have any particular worries about flower beds or vegetable gardens, you can always tell your technician which areas to avoid and they’ll be careful to do that. If you want to take it one step further, you can also ask about plant-based natural treatment options as well. There are very good pest control products available these days that run on botanical oils.
If you're tired of feeling like you have to choose between controlling pests and keeping your garden's bees, Mosquito Squad of Greenwich can help. Mosquito Squad applies treatment with pollinator-conscious placement and routes around blooming areas, helping protect your yard with up to 90% reduction in mosquito activity on a recurring 21-day cycle.
