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How You Can Protect Yourself From Mosquitoes & Ticks

Jun 20, 2019

Yard Treatments Can Protect Your Family & Guests

Yard Treatments for Mosquitoes and Ticks

Outdoor living in North Carolina and Virginia during warm weather typically includes ticks and mosquitoes invading your property looking for victims to feed upon. These pests carry diseases, and the painful bites from mosquitoes can ruin the enjoyment of your yard and outdoor living space. Effective control has traditionally been limited to using repellents and continuously inspecting yourself and your family for ticks. Now you have another option to keep these biting pests away before they become a problem -- professional yard treatments.

How Yard Treatments Work

Our yard treatment service includes a careful inspection of your property. We will advise you regarding the elimination of standing water to the extent possible, as still water is a primary mosquito breeding habitat.

During mosquito and tick season, our technicians will treat the appropriate areas of your property with proper insecticides selected for your specific conditions. Generally, we target vegetation, grassy areas, ground cover, and dark areas where mosquitoes and ticks prefer to stay during the hottest times of the day. The treatment is designed to kill adult mosquitoes and ticks and to create a residue barrier that repels future pests from entering your property.

During the breeding season, your property should be treated every three or four weeks, depending on your property layout and other conditions. We will consult with you to develop the proper treatment plan for your property.

Are Yard Treatments Effective?

With regular yard treatments throughout the breeding season for mosquitoes and ticks, you will find that the need for candles, sprays, and other repellents are greatly reduced. Our treatments kill both existing pests and interrupt the breeding cycle as well, especially for mosquitoes. Female mosquitoes usually mate once per breeding season and then can lay eggs five times or more throughout the hot weather months. Once adult females are killed, and other females are repelled from your property, the breeding cycle for individual pests on your property is significantly disrupted. Our professional treatments, in combination with removal of unnecessary standing water around your property, will destroy the breeding habitat for mosquitoes and ticks on your property throughout the entire season.

Our professional treatments are designed to effectively kill the targeted pests while not harming the beneficial insects and other animals that protect your yard, landscaping, and garden.

Yard Treatments Are Family and Pet Friendly

The pesticides that are permitted for use against mosquitoes and ticks are strictly regulated by the government, and the Environmental Protection Agency determines which pesticides are safe for use in yards and other living spaces for people.

Depending on your particular circumstances, professional yard treatments can include larvicides, adulticides, and synergists. A professionally calculated combination of these types of pesticides kill and repel adult pests, and also kill larvae and immature ticks and mosquitoes.

When your yard is professionally treated, you will only need to keep your family and pets out of the treated area for 30 minutes following the treatment. The treatment material that remains to repel pests between treatments is not harmful to your family or animals. Normal washing of your fruits and vegetables from your garden after picking is all that is needed before consumption.

Professional Treatments Are Safer and More Effective Than Do-It-Yourself Applications

Because we are licensed pest control professionals, we are able to apply our experience and knowledge in preparing and making yard treatments for your property. Property-wide yard treatments are not an area where “do-it-yourself” is a good plan, either for efficiency or for safety.

Professional treatments ensure that the proper products are used, in the right way, and in the right mixture and amount. Misapplied chemicals can result in health risks for your family and pets, and can harm your natural grasses, foliage, and garden plants. Misuse of chemical products also promotes insecticide resistance, which will result in making the tick and mosquito problem worse than it is now.

Improper application of pesticides across your property can also easily harm non-target insects and other animals, causing environmental and property damage. Because the entire yard is being treated, do-it-yourself applications can also easily drift into unintended areas of your property and off of your property where the chemicals might cause harm. Yard treatments are cost-effective, safe, and they work when left up to our professional technicians.

Call Cook’s Pest Management today to get a quote for professional yard treatments for ticks and mosquitoes for your property.

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