Take Your Backyard Back from Mosquitoes and Ticks
A three-week barrier treatment built around the way mosquitoes and ticks actually live, breed, and bite. Environmentally friendly. 100% guaranteed.
Family-owned since 2000
Serving IL, IA, WI, and MI
You shouldn't have to surrender your yard to mosquitoes and ticks.
By the time pressure peaks, most families have already lost the backyard. Kids come inside covered in bites. The dog brings ticks back from a walk. The can of bug spray sits half-empty on the patio table, more decoration than defense.
Standard quarterly pest service isn’t built for this. Mosquitoes can complete a full lifecycle in a week. A single rainstorm refills your gutters, planters, and tarps with breeding water and resets the clock. Ticks wait in shaded edges for any warm body that walks past. You need a treatment plan that’s paced to how these pests actually live, not how a corporate calendar wants to schedule them.
That’s what the Mosquito and Tick Hybrid Service is for.
The Mosquito and Tick Hybrid Service
The full-season barrier program.
Three-week visits paced to mosquito and tick biology, designed to take a high-pressure yard down to a usable one and keep it there. Environmentally friendly, family-safe, and 100% guaranteed.
Best for: Families who want their yard back through the active season. Households with kids and pets. Anyone planning to spend time outside without slapping at their arms every five minutes.
Have a one-time outdoor event?
We also offer a one-time Event Treatment for graduations, weddings, family reunions, anniversary dinners, BBQs, and any other gathering where you need short-term protection. A single visit timed before the event clears the yard for the day.
What Happens at Every Visit
Our technician walks the property and works the full mosquito and tick lifecycle, not just whatever’s biting today.
- Inspection: We look for active pressure and identify breeding sources. Standing water, leaf piles, shaded resting sites, brushy edges where ticks wait.
- Source Removal: We eliminate standing water sources where possible. Clogged gutters, planter saucers, forgotten buckets, anything else holding rain.
- Larvicide Treatment: Standing water that can’t be removed (low spots, water features, certain drainage) gets a larvicide treatment that prevents larvae from maturing into biting adults.
- Targeted Fog: We fog the resting sites where adults wait between meals. Perimeter vegetation, dense ground cover, the shaded areas under decks.
- Adjustment: Every visit adjusts to what’s actually happening on your property. A wet July gets a different approach than a dry one.
The three-week interval matches how fast mosquitoes can rebuild after a single rain event. Quarterly service can’t keep up. Monthly is closer. Three weeks is right.
Why This Works When DIY Doesn't
You’ve probably tried some version of these. Here’s why they fall short on their own:
- Citronella candles and tiki torches clear about three feet of air. Useful for a single chair on the patio. Useless for a backyard.
- Bug zappers kill mostly harmless insects. Studies have repeatedly shown they catch very few mosquitoes.
- DEET on skin works on you, not on the yard. The mosquitoes are still there waiting for the next person.
- A single fogging from a generic mosquito company knocks down adults but does nothing for the eggs already in your gutters.
The Hybrid Service is layered. Source removal plus larvicide plus targeted fog plus three-week pacing plus a re-service guarantee adds up to something a single product or visit can’t deliver.
Local Expertise Across the Region
We’ve protected homes across Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Michigan for over 20 years. We know where Aedes vexans floods in after a heavy spring rain along the Mississippi corridor. We know the deer-tick pressure that runs through the Driftless Area in Wisconsin. We know how a Lake Geneva vacation rental gets ruined by a single un-treated retention pond. That’s the difference between a national chain reading from a script and a neighbor who actually treats your kind of yard every week.
Family-owned. Locally operated. Eight office locations across the four-state service area.
100% Guaranteed
If mosquito or tick pressure rebounds between visits, we come back free. That’s the promise. No phone trees, no escalation, no “well, it’s the season.” We come back.
Common Questions
Is it safe for my kids and pets?
Yes, when applied correctly. Pets and kids should stay off treated surfaces until they dry, which usually takes 30 to 60 minutes. We follow product labels and apply at rates designed to be safe for households.
How quickly will I notice a difference?
Most homeowners report a noticeable drop in biting within a few days of the first visit. The full effect builds with the second and third visits as larvicide and fog stack across mosquito and tick lifecycles.
Do I have to be a Pest Protection Club member?
No. The Hybrid Service stands alone or pairs with the Pest Protection Club. Most families bundle the two because they cover different problems on the same property.
What if mosquitoes or ticks come back between visits?
We come back free. That’s the 100% guarantee.
When should I sign up?
The earlier in the season the better. Treatment timing matters most when populations are establishing, which means April and May are the highest-leverage months. Mid-summer signups still see strong results, just with one or two more visits to get pressure down.
What about ticks specifically?
The same fog-and-habitat approach that knocks down mosquitoes also reduces tick pressure on resting sites and yard edges. For households with kids, pets, or a wooded property line, the tick-reduction side often becomes the bigger benefit.
Where do you offer the service?
Across our full service area: Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Check our service areas or call us at (815) 284-4101.