F.A.Q.

Both traditional and natural barrier treatments can reduce mosquito populations when applied properly. Natural treatments usually need to be reapplied more often.

Yes, a one-time special event treatment is made for exactly this: a graduation party, a wedding, or a backyard gathering where you want the bugs gone for the day. It's applied a day or two ahead and knocks down the mosquitoes, while helping with ticks too, so your guests can actually enjoy the yard. 

Different pests live in different places and need to be treated differently, so no one application handles mosquitoes, ticks, ants, spiders, stinging insects, and rodents. But you can ask your provider about a home and yard package that bundles all the different treatments into one service.

In New England, the best month to start mosquito and tick control is early spring, generally April. This is when temperatures begin holding in the 50s and the first pests become active.

In western Massachusetts, mosquitoes and ticks are a spring-through-fall problem, so year-round pest control isn’t necessary. Ants, spiders, rodents, and other structural pests can cause trouble any time of year, so home-and-yard coverage is justified throughout the year.

Yes, and New England has among the highest Lyme disease rates in the United States. The disease was first identified in Connecticut in 1975, and the region has remained the epicenter ever since.

Tick season in Massachusetts typically begins in March or April, as soon as temperatures consistently reach the mid-40s, and extends through November. Peak risk is from May through July when nymphal ticks are most active.