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2025 Treatment Programs
3 Week Mosquito & Tick Program*
→ Mosquitoes & Ticks (8 Treatments): Your yard will be treated every three weeks from your start date. Program will run through September. Best Results!
4 Week Mosquito & Tick Program*
→ Mosquitoes & Ticks (6 Treatments): Your yard will be treated every four weeks from your start date. Program will run through September.
6 Week Mosquito & Tick Program*
→ Mosquitoes & Ticks (5 Treatments): You will see a reduction in the mosquito population for the first few weeks of each treatment.
7 Week Mosquito & Tick Program*
→ Mosquitoes & Ticks (4 Treatments): You will see a reduction in the mosquito population for the first few weeks of each treatment.
(*Choose From Organic or Synthetic)
Our Service Area
Backyard Defenders is currently serving customers in Chelmsford, MA and Westford, MA.
You can be bitten by a mosquito at any time of the day, although certain species are more active at different times. You have the highest risk of being bitten from just before dusk until dawn. Female mosquitoes bite to suck blood, using the blood to develop their eggs.
What Attracts Mosquitoes To Us?
Mosquitoes are attracted to 4 stimuli:
- Carbon dioxide we exhale from as far as 50 feet away.
- Lactic acid on your skin when exercising.
- Certain scents or fragrances.
- Dark colors.
Lyme disease is the fastest-growing vector-borne disease in the US. Though there are 80 tick species in the US and 850 species worldwide, the deer tick or (blacklegged) is known to carry Lyme disease. The other common tick, the American dog tick (wood tick), does not. Nymphal deer ticks are very small and difficult to spot. They are associated with more cases of Lyme disease, because preventing their bites is difficult. People who are wary of tick bites are usually more familiar with adult deer ticks. They are very large, and therefore are more likely to be found before they bite and transmit the disease.
Why The Mosquito Deserves its Bad Reputation
How many people do sharks kill a year? On average less than 15. How about bears? Under 3 a year. Mosquitoes? Over 500,000 due to malaria alone! The number of total mosquito borne illnesses that kill humans every year is so high, there’s no truly accurate data. They...
Tick Eating Animals Can Help Your Fight Against a Tick Invasion
Fighting against the tide of ticks in your yard may feel like an uphill battle. So many animals spread the tiny blood-suckers. Deer, mice, squirrels, dogs, and cats can all help ticks along their invasion route. It may be tempting to make your yard inhospitable to all...
Can Ticks Infest Your Home?
It’s pretty much a nightmare scenario, ticks infesting your home. You know to be on the lookout for ticks in your yard and outdoors, but what if one hitches a ride inside? Can they create an infestation? Well the answer depends on the type of tick. Deer Tick Deer...
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Backyard Defenders’ Mosquito & Tick High Pressure Spraying Truck used to treat yards in the Chelmsford area.