Mosquitoes are more than just a nuisance; they are a significant threat to your health and comfort. The best mosquito control provides immediate, effective, and long-lasting solutions to protect your home and family from these dangerous pests.
Comprehensive Mosquito Control Solutions
We understand that every property is unique. That’s why we offer tailored, comprehensive mosquito control solutions. Our expert technicians use advanced techniques and industry-leading products to deliver superior results, ensuring your environment is safe and mosquito-free.
When to Start Mosquito Control
Effective mosquito control is all about being proactive, not reactive. It’s much more effective to start your mosquito control efforts before you even notice mosquito infestations, rather than waiting until the pesky bugs start biting you.
How Critter Control Gets Rid of Mosquitoes
- Inspection & Identification
We identify the mosquito breeding grounds and hiding spots on your property. - Mosquito Treatment and Extermination
Treatment is tailored to your property. For best results, we apply treatment once a month. - Installing Mosquito Traps
After our initial treatment, mosquito traps work 24/7 to control mosquito populations.
Common Mosquito Breeding Grounds We Target
Understanding and eliminating breeding grounds is crucial. We expertly target and treat these common areas to disrupt the mosquito life cycle.
Standing Water Sources
Standing water sources are prime breeding grounds. We identify and treat bird baths, clogged gutters, decorative fountains, and any container holding water to eliminate larvae.
Dense Vegetation
Mosquitoes rest and hide in dense vegetation. Our treatments penetrate shrubs, tall grasses, and shaded areas, reducing adult mosquito populations where they congregate.
Shady Areas
Cool, shady areas provide ideal resting spots for mosquitoes. We apply targeted solutions to these critical zones, effectively reducing mosquito activity around your home.
Drains and Gutters
Drains and gutters, especially if clogged, retain water and debris, creating perfect breeding sites. We address these areas directly to eliminate mosquito larvae and prevent future breeding.
Ponds and Water Features
While often beautiful, ponds and water features can become mosquito nurseries. We employ safe, effective treatments specifically designed for these environments, protecting your family and your landscape.
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Experiencing a wasp infestation? We can help! Complete this form and your local Critter Control® office will contact you to assist.
Size and color vary from wasp to wasp. In general, social wasps have black and yellow stripes or spots and measure between one and two inches in length. However, some species are uniquely colored and appear red or black. In contrast to bees, who are typically hairy or fuzzy, wasps have smooth, shiny bodies. The pests are aggressive and sting people often.
Solitary Wasps
Most solitary wasps build their nests in the ground. Others make nests of mud attached to sheltered spots on homes, such as behind shutters or under eaves. It is the females that build these nests. They sting and paralyze insects or spiders and bring them back to the nest to feed their larvae.
Social Wasps
Social wasps live in above-ground colonies that can house dozens or thousands of wasps that work together to build and maintain the nest, find food, raise their young, and defend the nest, if necessary.
Their nests are primarily built by chewing wood mixed with their saliva until it forms a paper-like material. They attach these nests to tree branches, logs, utility poles, and house siding. And they’ve been known to build nests in attics.
Wasps enter homes through cracks, holes, and open doors or windows. They typically build nests hanging off roof eaves but may construct them somewhere inside homes if they’re able to move freely between the indoors and outdoors.
Although wasps serve an important ecological role, they can be dangerous to people as one of their traits is that they are extremely territorial and aggressive. Their instinct to sting with little to no provocation is increased by the fact that they can sting multiple times and release pheromones that alert other wasps nearby to join in on the attack.
The most common reason a wasp will sting is that someone is near their nest, and, unfortunately, they like to build those nests in areas that people frequent, such as near doorways, hanging from eaves, or underground in your lawn where your family and pets play.
Wasp stings hurt, and the danger of having an infestation of wasps on your properties is the potential of being stung over and over again by many of them. Being stung so many times can be potentially life-threatening to someone who is allergic. In addition, wasps can chew through wood, using it to construct their nests, which damages the structural integrity of the home or shed they are chewing through.
Individuals should avoid wasp nests as best they can to keep themselves safe. Since hives often appear on private properties, it’s important to take action at the first sign of infestation. Additionally, since wasps are attracted to trash, food, and sugary drinks, get tightly fitted lids for trash bins and have covered containers when picnicking.
Controlling wasps is dangerous so homeowners should not attempt to remove infestations on their own. For the safest results, call the pest control experts at Critter Control. Our experts keep residents safe from the dangers of wasp presence.