Nothing ruins a nice summer day more than the bite of pesky mosquitoes on your skin. With their small size, they are difficult to spot and you can go to great lengths using insect repellents, candles and mosquito traps to repel them from your property. But if all your efforts are still not enough, you may want to call in mosquito control experts to make your home into a mosquito-free zone. In Passaic County, the experts at Abarb Pest Services can provide you with a treatment plan to last all season long.

Mosquitoes are Problematic

The bites from mosquitoes are red, itchy and painful and can become swollen. They often resolve on their own within a few days, but can become infected at times. Typically the bites are a nuisance and don’t cause serious illness, but this is not always the case.

In addition to causing painful, itchy bites, mosquitoes are widely known to carry diseases. The CDC has referred to mosquitoes as the deadliest animals on the planet. It’s estimated that mosquitoes kill a minimum of a million people a year around the globe, and infect countless others with serious illnesses. Some diseases carried by mosquitoes include:

• West Nile Virus
• Malaria
• Dengue
• Zika
• Yellow Fever
• Lymphatic Filariasis
• Chikungunya
• Encephalitis

Spread by the bite from an infected mosquito, these diseases can lead to serious illnesses or even death. By taking action to limit the mosquito population around your property, you can lessen the chances your family will be infected by these kinds of dangerous mosquito-borne illnesses.

Why Hire an Expert?

By starting mosquito prevention services early in the season, you can prevent an infestation from becoming a problem as the temperatures warm up. Early prevention can attack the eggs and keep mosquitoes from growing into adults. Once they are adults, mosquitoes can multiply rapidly. A mosquito control expert can provide a safe and effective treatment option to cover your yard, landscaping and perimeter of your foundation at the outset of the season. By targeting these areas, your home will have a barrier of protection to repel mosquitoes. An expert can also advise you on problem areas on your property that can breed mosquitoes. Hiring a mosquito control expert can provide you with the peace of mind that you are taking important measures to protect the safety of your family.

Our Mosquito Control Services

At Abarb Pest Services, we recommend servicing your home once a month during the peak mosquito months in Passaic County of May through September. Regular spraying around your property will create a barrier to keep mosquitos at bay. Our mosquito control experts spray around the perimeter of the home and on bushes and plants that may attract mosquitoes. Using an organic product that targets mosquitoes and ticks, our team is concerned about the safety of your family and the environment. To get a free quote for your home, give us a call today and one of our agents will provide you with all the information you need to keep your Passaic County home inviting and pleasant throughout all the summer months.

Mosquitoes thrive in the cool morning and evening air. Just as you come out to enjoy your yard before it heats up in the middle of the day, you are swarmed by blood-sucking mosquitoes. After you are finally driven back inside because of the incessant biting, it’s obvious that you must get rid of mosquitoes if you are ever going to enjoy your yard again. There are several ways to create an environment that is not hospitable to mosquitoes. But the best sure fire way to prevent mosquitoes from taking over your yard is to have a professional pest control service spray a barrier around your yard, keeping the mosquitoes out for good.

Keeping mosquitoes away

Everyone knows that you can spray on a little insect repellent to keep the mosquitoes at bay. But to have that distinctive, pungent smell of repellent on you at all times would certainly get old pretty quick. When it comes to your yard, you want to be able to sit on the back porch to sip coffee or check your garden vegetables without having to wear a hazmat suit. If you want to keep  mosquitoes from entering your yard, start close to the house and work your way out. Always take special note of any stagnant water on your property. This is an ideal breeding location for mosquitoes. You can prevent mosquitoes from breeding in your yard by draining water from these spots.

Light citronella candles on the patio or porch as soon as you go outside or if you have a fan installed under your porch, flip it on.  You can also begin planting beautiful, mosquito repelling plants around your primary outdoor spaces. If planting them in the ground is not a good idea because you are a renter or if the ground is not suitable, there are several plants that thrive in pots while keeping mosquitoes away. Try planting herbs like:

• Basil
• Mint
• Rosemary
• Lemon balm
• Thyme

And flowering plants like:

• Geraniums
• Marigolds
• Lantana
• Lavender

Eliminating mosquitoes in your yard

Further from your most frequented areas, the best way to get rid of mosquitoes is to hire a professional pest control company to treat your yard. By fogging around the perimeter of your yard, any mosquitoes that land on foliage for a rest or to escape the heat of the day, will be exterminated on the spot. Every female mosquito is capable of laying close to a hundred eggs after she bites you. Every adult mosquito killed can result in a less and less mosquito ridden yard until you can finally exit your home and peacefully enjoy your yard without a trace of mosquitoes buzzing around.

For Northern New Jersey residents, give Abarb Pest Services a call to begin making your yard an oasis away from the itchy bites of mosquitoes.