F.A.Q.

Yes, rain creates new standing water for breeding and raises the humidity that mosquitoes need to stay active, so populations typically surge within a week or two after significant rainfall.

The difference usually comes down to the condition your yard is in, including factors like the amount of shade, standing water, vegetation density, and drainage on your specific property compared to the lots around you. 

Yes, and the main reason is because shaded yards are cooler and more humid. Mosquitoes dry out in the sun. Shaded yards give them a place to rest during the day.

No, a single barrier treatment stays effective for about 21 days. Mosquito season in Southern New Hampshire runs roughly from May through September. One treatment will give you a few great weeks, but the population rebuilds once the product breaks down. 

A mouse nest is a loosely woven ball of shredded material, roughly the size of a softball. Mice build them from whatever soft material is available: paper, insulation, fabric, cardboard, dried grass, or string.

Mice can fit through any opening roughly the size of a dime (a quarter inch), and they exploit gaps around foundations, utility lines, vents, doors, and rooflines to get inside.

Even if you eliminate all the mice inside, new ones can still come in from outdoors by following scent trails.

Yes, absolutely—and faster than you’d expect.

You stand the greatest risk of catching a tick-borne disease from late May to July because nymphal blacklegged ticks are at their most active. But the tick season in New Hampshire runs from March to November, and there is a second peak in the fall as well.

All hornets are wasps, but not all wasps are hornets. Hornets are generally larger, more aggressive when their nest is threatened, and build bigger, enclosed nests. Most other common wasps, like paper wasps and yellow jackets, are smaller and nest differently.