It’s a beautiful late afternoon in summer. You’ve gathered family and friends for a backyard barbecue. Within minutes, everyone is being eaten alive by mosquitoes and the gathering has become a combat zone. The citronella candles aren’t working, and you can’t stand the loud noise the portable zappers make.
Instead of zappers and candles, there’s an effective solution: season-long mosquito control service from mosquito.buzz.
Chances are you have already spotted one of their bright orange mosquito.buzz vans buzzing around cottage country.
“We are bright and obvious on purpose,” grins Hunter Murphy, Director of Operations for the Canadian company that’s been in business since 2016. “It’s not just our vans that draw the attention … our technicians are decked out in orange pants, making them highly visible so people can ask us questions about what we’re doing when we are treating properties.”
The mosquito control process is clean, simple, and convenient. The control product is applied using a high-velocity backpack sprayer, which accurately delivers spray droplets to plant materials and surfaces where mosquitoes live, rest, and hide. The spray kills mosquitoes on contact, providing immediate knockdown control as well as providing residual treatment on surfaces that lasts for up to 21 days.
Customers experience full season control. A series of applications are scheduled throughout the summer months beginning in May through September, keeping properties mosquito free.
The spray application binds to foliage and the residue kills new mosquitoes and ticks when they contact it. Repeat applications ensure that the pests don’t interfere with any enjoyment of the outdoors.
Property owners appreciate the convenience of not having to be present for the treatments.
“We offer communication every step of the way – before, during, and after the application – and follow up to make sure every customer is satisfied with the results,” Hunter says. “Within 30 minutes you can be back outside, using your yard or pool with no danger to people or pets.”
Treatments can also be scheduled to happen right before important outdoor events such as weddings or birthday and retirement parties, making sure great times are the only thing your guests remember.
In addition to effective mosquito control services, mosquito.buzz provides targeted tick control services to help keep your loved ones safe. The blacklegged tick populations throughout Ontario have increased over the past few years, so it’s important to be safe. Blacklegged ticks are the subspecies that can carry and spread Lyme Disease.
An entire season free of pesky mosquitos and the threat of ticks? That’s the best kind of buzz kill.
TEXT MARNIE WOODROW
PHOTOS ANDREW FEARMAN
