Yes, a one-time special event treatment is built exactly for outdoor parties, weddings, and other gatherings where you want the mosquitoes gone for a day. It’s applied a day or two ahead and knocks down the biting population so your guests can have a good time.
In Los Angeles, outdoor entertaining happens all year round, so this comes up a lot. The last thing you want is a swarm of mosquitoes around to ruin your backyard wedding, graduation party, or evening gathering. But you don’t necessarily want an ongoing service. So what do you do?
Special event treatments take place in a single visit. They are timed roughly one to three days before your event. A technician treats the resting spots where mosquitoes wait out the day, the shaded foliage, the shrubs, the undersides of leaves, and the cool areas under decks and eaves. Adults in those spots are knocked down, and the treated surfaces keep the population reduced through your event and for a while after, since the residual lasts up to about three weeks.
This matters more in LA than it does in most places. LA has a problem with invasive Aedes mosquitoes whose charming behaviors include biting in the middle of broad daylight and going after ankles. Treated yards give you added protection against the typical mosquitoes that bite your arms around dawn and dusk, as well as the Aedes mosquitoes that have been causing a fuss in recent years.
If you have an event coming up, your best bet is to book a few days before the event takes place. You can have treatment done the morning of, and once dry, your yard will be usable. But you’ll see the best results if the treatment has a day or two to work.
And if you’re looking for one more thing you can do before treatment: walk the yard. Dump out any standing water you find, since that’s where the next batch of mosquitoes is most likely to come from.
If you're tired of mosquitoes crashing your get-togethers, Mosquito Squad of Los Angeles can help. Mosquito Squad offers one-time special event treatments and ongoing service, helping protect your yard with up to 90% reduction in mosquito activity on a recurring 21-day cycle when you go that route.
