Mosquito Season is here!

Our Category 3 Certified Mosquito Control Specialist will provide an evaluation of your property for areas that breed or harbor mosquitos, and make synthetic or organic based barrier applications every 21 days to control mosquito populations in your yard and landscape. Regular treatments will provide an effective means for control of an annoying insect that is also the number one insect vector of disease among humans and our pets and livestock. We will be happy to provide you a quote over the phone, if possible, or in person, as is often required. We do 10 and 12 treatment programs as well as one time special event sprays.

Save 10% by prepaying for a full season of treatments or pay as you go. Mosquito Spray season starts March 15 and goes through to November, depending on the weather.

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Other Useful Information

  • Applications are made with backpack foggers spraying a fine mist to temporarily fill the air and to thoroughly cover foliage of shrubs and small trees, and wet, shady spots. 
  • We will inform you of breeding areas and harborage.
  • The price for our applications depends, to some extent, on the size of your property, but more importantly on how much of your property will harbor mosquitos and allow them to breed.
  • We treat every 21 days, or as close to that number as weather permits. 
  • We use either a synthetic insecticide or an organic, as you prefer. 
  • The synthetic insecticide will provide an instant kill for immediate relief as well as long term kill by residual action that will deter between treatments. 
  • The organic provides effective control and also has both instant and long term kill.
  • Mosquitos are most active in early morning and later afternoon/evening, but some species are active 24 hours. 
  • Male mosquitos do not bite. The females do all the biting and blood sucking.
  • Mosquitos are attracted by body heat, so darker and or thicker and or less breathable clothing will make you hotter and more attractive to them. 
  • Mosquitos reproduce on the surface of water or, in some cases, in mud. Eliminating these from your yard as much as possible will help reduce their population. Clogged gutters are a prime breeding spot for them, and cleaning them may be a big help. 
  • Deet mosquito repellents are useful for you, and dunks in puddles, rain barrels, and bird baths are a good way to prevent breeding. 
  • You should wait about an hour before using your yard again after we treat with the synthetic option. 
  • The organic option is not dangerous to people or pets, but please keep people and pets off the yard while we are there making the application as even the otherwise safe organic option is still an oil and should not be directly sprayed on skin or inhaled. And, of course, we don’t want to inadvertently let a beloved pet out of the yard should it rush the gate while we are entering or exiting.
  • We don’t need you to be home for us to treat your yard or landscape.
  • If you need us to call ahead so you can unlock a gate, put a dog up, what have you, we will happily contact you the day before. 
  • We will call on the way, if you need us to do so.
  • We will close and relock your gate on the way out unless you want it left unlocked.
  • We won’t treat while it’s raining, but once our applications are dry, they will remain residually effective for 3 weeks. This is true of both our synthetic products and our organic option. 
  • Mosquito season in the Mid-South runs from about mid March through the beginning of November, depending on the weather. The start, end, and overall length of the season will vary. Mosquitos need the right temperature and moisture to breed.
  • While the pesticides we use to kill mosquitos will kill other bugs, and may curtail them incidentally, if you are interested in a particular problem bug being addressed, it may require a different product, application method, frequency, or application rate to handle it properly. We are happy to provide an evaluation for other problem pests in your landscape or fleas and ticks in your yard. We do not provide pest control inside houses or businesses. 

Say Bye Bye to Mosquitos

We provide professional mosquito control services for homes and businesses in Memphis and surrounding areas. Our team of experienced technicians is ready to put an end to your mosquito problem!

A Little Information about Synthetic vs Organic Options

We don’t use any products that are overtly dangerous to people or pets. The synthetic options for mosquito control are not dangerous, but the EPA and the Tennessee Department of Agriculture make guidelines based on an abundance of caution. Synthetic pesticides may, at very high rates no one may ever legally use, be carcinogenic to rodents in laboratory tests.

Even with the kind of frequent exposure our techs get, they are in no danger of being susceptible according to product labels and available literature from studies. The rate of exposure for your family and pets is many times lower than that of our techs, so your risk and theirs is accordingly even smaller.

The one area that must be very carefully watched and avoided is fish ponds. Fish are far more sensitive to pesticides than mammals, and may be harmed or killed. If you have a water feature with fish, such as koi, our well-trained techs will keep a minimum safe distance from them and avoid harming them. If you have an exotic, pet bird, we advise that you do not place their cages outside or on screened porches while we are treating, as they are more susceptible than mammals, though not so much as fish.

Synthetic pesticides may harm pollinators such as bees and butterflies, and that is a concern. We take all steps required by product labels to avoid harm to pollinators and mitigate any risk to them. Most harm to pollinators from our synthetic products comes from exposure to higher rates of use than are required to kill mosquitos.

Synthetics do have an issue with the gradual development of pesticide resistance in their target pest, though there are ways of working with synthetics to mitigate this and manage it well.

Our organic pesticide, cedar oil, is not harmful to pollinators unless it is applied directly to their bodies. There is no residual toxicity to bees or butterflies from cedar oil. However, since they breathe through the outsides of their bodies, like other insects, any oil may cause them difficulty breathing. We will not directly spray any butterflies or bees with our organic applications, thus avoiding harm to them.

Our cedar oil product works several ways to kill mosquitos and other pests such as ants and roaches and these ways are not ones that bugs can easily adapt to and gain pesticide resistance against.

Cedar oil causes dehydration. The oil leeches water from mosquitos and other bugs, eventually killing them.

Cedar oil disrupts pheromones. Since bugs navigate and communicate through pheromones and use them to regulate body functions, disruption of pheromones can disorient and kill them.

Cedar oil physically dissolves insects in early life stages. Eggs, larvae, and pupae are vulnerable to this process. The exoskeletons of adult insects and arachnids are dissolved as well, causing them mobility issues, and aiding other effects in penetrating shells and hastening morbidity.

Cedar oil is an emulsifier and breaks down fat particles. Since bugs require fat to live, the loss can be fatal.

Cedar oil can interfere with respiration in bugs, clogging the pore on the outsides of their bodies through which they breathe, or causing them to close the pores in self defense, thus suffocating them.

Cedar oil neutralizes acidity, disrupting their body chemistry, resulting in death.

There are some synthetics that work faster than cedar oil, and some that don’t. There are some that last longer and some that don’t. As we weigh the costs and benefits of various pesticide options, we find that the cedar oil product is an excellent addition to the arsenal for mosquito control. In the personal experience of our techs, it provides control quite on par with synthetic pesticides. Both are viable options for controlling mosquitos on your property,and we are happy to use either.

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