As owners of Mosquito Squad of Columbia, we are also residents of the beautiful suburbs surrounding Columbia SC and own a home on lovely Lake Murray to the west of the capital city. One of the primary reasons we chose this area is because we love the outdoors, as this climate offers many days of sunshine and pleasant temperatures most of the year.
When we’re outdoors, we hate to be bitten by mosquitoes or sandfleas, and we want our pets protected from lyme disease-carrying ticks. That’s why we purchased Mosquito Squad, a business dedicated to providing a mosquito-free environment for the entire family (including your pets). With Mosquito Squad’s barrier spray treatment program, a trained applicator visits your home every 21 days and treats the designated area (usually your backyard) using a backpack sprayer.
In addition to treating your home, our applicators are trained to practice the 5 T’s, preventive measures that you can follow at home to reduce biting insects:
- Tip – tip any vessel that holds unintended standing water outside your home - pet water bowls, planter trays, children’s toys.
- Toss – toss any items in your yard that could collect water that can be discarded: old toys, unused birdbaths, tires. An item as small as a flipped over soda pop cap can become a breeding ground for thousands of mosquito larvae.
- Turn Over – turn over any potentially water-holding items or containers so that liquid can’t collect in them, until the time they may once again be needed. Again, think bowls, planters, birdbaths.
- Tarps Eliminated - tarps create ideal mosquito breeding grounds. If at all possible, eliminate all outside tarps. Not only do they hold small pools of water which are ideal for egg-laying, but the shade they create is a preferred spot for adults to harbor during the heat of the day, waiting to come out and bite when they detect warm bodies nearby.
- Treat Accordingly – this is where the experts at Mosquito Squad come in. Our trained applicators will take care of Tip, Toss, Turn Over, and eliminate Tarps for you, and we also use the safest, most effective Treatments available to protect your family and pets from biting insects and the diseases they carry.
Call Mosquito Squad of Columbia today at 803-345-7575 and ask about our Free Barrier Spray that allows you to test our Satisfaction-Guaranteed services at no obligation. Offer is limited, and certain qualifications apply. Call today to see if you qualify. Or click here to schedule your Free Consultation.
Here’s to a sunny, bug-free summer!
[...] This mosquito, along with being one of the most bloodthirsty of its class, is also known to be a master at laying its eggs in some of the smallest crevices in miniscule amounts of water including gutters, holes and crevices in trees, dense foliage and brush that may hold moisture and even in our trash and litter. A single soda bottle cap can become a nursery to hundreds of mosquito larvae. Anything that can hold or pool water within your landscape and around your home can serve as a place for a female mosquito to lay her eggs. It is of the utmost importance to inspect your surroundings on a regular basis and turn over, tip over or throw out anything that can aid in the mosquitoes reproductive process. Mosquito Squad calls this the five T’s of mosquito prevention. [...]