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Mosquitoes are bred on the property far more often than they arrive from elsewhere. A saucer under a plant pot is enough for a generation, and the work is finding those before spraying anything.

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Licensed technicians. No obligation for the call.

Timing is the part that changes with where you live, and it changes the job rather than the wording: a population knocked back every winter is a different task from one that never dies down.

Pick your state below to get to the town pages, where that is spelled out.

Why mosquitoes do not go away on their own

A blocked gutter is a nursery, and so is a saucer under a plant pot, a tarp with a dip in it, a corrugated downspout extension, a toy left upside down, the fold of an unused wheelbarrow.

Each of those holds enough water for a generation, and a generation takes a little over a week in warm weather. A yard like that refills faster than any treatment wears off.

Why the can from the hardware store makes it worse

A citronella candle moves them a few feet, and a fogger clears an evening. Neither touches the reason there are mosquitoes in the yard at all.

Treating the open lawn is aimed at the wrong place. Mosquitoes rest during the day in shade — the underside of leaves, dense shrubs, the shaded side of a fence, under a deck — and that is what a barrier treatment is applied to.

The part that lasts is not the spraying. It is the walk round the yard that finds the seven containers nobody thought of, and a technician doing this properly will tell you which ones to empty.

A pest control technician working inside a home

When to stop trying and call

  • You are being bitten during the day — that usually means Aedes, and they breed in containers close to the house.
  • You have emptied everything you can find and it has not helped.
  • There is standing water you cannot drain: a low spot, a pond, a pool next door.
  • Someone in the house reacts badly to bites.
  • There is an event coming up and the timing matters.
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License
Issued by the state where the work happens, and held by the contractor rather than by this site. Ask which name it is held under — a trading name and the licensed entity are often not the same.
Price
Quoted before the work starts, not after. If a technician cannot say what the visit will cost before beginning, that is the moment to stop.
The call
Describing what you found commits you to nothing. Nothing is booked until you say so.
Coverage
By town, not by region. Pick a state below and work down to the town you are in.

What the visit includes

  1. 01

    Inspection

    Inside, around the outside, and in the crawl space or slab edge where the trail usually starts. Identification comes before anything is applied.

  2. 02

    The plan, out loud

    What the pest is, what the treatment involves, how many visits it takes and what it costs — explained before any work begins.

  3. 03

    Treatment

    Aimed at the nest and the route to it rather than at what you can see. Products used indoors are chosen around pets and children in the house.

  4. 04

    The follow-up

    Some jobs need a second visit to catch what hatched after the first. A technician says so up front rather than after.

What to say when you call

  1. 01How big the yard is and how much of it is shaded or planted.
  2. 02Whether there is standing water you already know about — a pond, a rain barrel, a low spot that stays wet.
  3. 03What time of day they are worst.
  4. 04Whether there is an event coming up, because timing the visit matters more here than for most work.

Walk the yard once before the visit and turn everything over. Every container you empty is a generation that will not happen, and it tells the technician what is left to treat.

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