For many Connecticut homes, year-round coverage is worth it because different pests are problems at different times of year. Ticks stay active on mild winter days, spring brings ants and early mosquitoes, summer peaks, and fall pushes rodents and overwintering insects indoors.
It's easy to think of pest control as a summer thing, but in Connecticut the calendar tells a different story, and that calendar is the key to whether year-round coverage is worth it.
Winter doesn’t fully shut down ticks here. On any day above freezing, blacklegged ticks can become active again. In a state with Connecticut’s history of Lyme disease, that’s no small detail. Overwintering insects, meanwhile, hide in wall voids for warmth.
With spring comes carpenter ants and other ants, as well as the first mosquitoes. Summer is then the obvious peak, right when mosquitoes and ticks are at their absolute worst. Then as summer turns to fall, rodents and overwintering pests like stink bugs and lady beetles start heading for warmer shelter to get out of the cold.
Year-round coverage means that you will be proactively warding off all sorts of seasonal pests. You won’t have to start from scratch every spring. And you won’t have a rodent issue going unchecked indoors while your backyard is largely unbothered by mosquitoes and ticks.
In truth, whether or not year-round pest control will make sense for you comes down to your home and the pest situation there. If your home is near woods or water, then continuous coverage makes more sense. If you live in a tight house on an open lot and you don’t have a history of past issues, you might be able to get by just fine without year-round pest control.
If you're tired of restarting the fight every spring, Mosquito Squad of Hartford can help. Mosquito Squad offers year-round coverage built around Connecticut's pest calendar, helping protect your home with up to 90% reduction in mosquito activity on a 21-day cycle through the season.
