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.
With the summer in New England comes backyard events, graduations, cookouts, showers, and weddings. Why let the mosquitoes take the joy out of those events for you?
You might feel like ongoing mosquito control treatment isn’t necessary. And if that’s the case, you can book a one-time treatment in advance of a special event that you want to make sure goes on without a hitch.
One-time treatments work in a single visit, timed usually one to three days before the event. A technician treats the resting spots, the shaded foliage, the shrubs, the undersides of leaves, and the perimeter. These are all the places where mosquitoes like to rest during the day, which is why it works. Mosquitoes touch treated surfaces and then they are knocked down.
The same basic treatment can be used to treat ticks as well. In western Massachusetts tick country, a backyard event means guests, kids, and dogs out on the grass and near the edges where ticks wait. If you’re already going to the trouble of dealing with mosquitoes, it takes your technician very little extra effort to treat for ticks as well, so let them know if ticks are an issue on your property.
If you’re looking for one more tip to make sure your event goes well, dump out any standing water you see around the yard a few days before. Mosquitoes breed in standing water, so if you deny them easy sources, you’re doing your own version of mosquito population control before the technician arrives, and it can only serve to make the treatment more effective.
If you're tired of mosquitoes and ticks crashing your summer gatherings, Mosquito Squad of Springfield 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.
