Thanks for the info. What do you charge for a one-time spray?

There is an alternative to Mosquito Squad. Backyard Bug Patrol kills tick and mosquitos. My name is John Mitchell and I founded Backyard Bug Patrol with my environmental scientist wife Tracey after my entire family got Lyme Disease in our own backyard. All five of us including my three young children have Lyme.

Our mission is: No Children should get Lyme Disease in their own backyard.

We certainly offer one time sprays and seasonal packages that kill ticks and mosquitos on contact and will put up a preventative barrier that will last up to 3 weeks depending on the spray. We will also custom tailor a package for you. We have 100% Organic options available. We serve the metro DC area including Suburban Maryland, Northern Virginia and portions of West Virginia.

We pride ourselves on our customer service and offer our customers on seasonal contract a 100% guarantee. Nature is unpredictable. If you have problems with ticks or mosquitos in between your regularly scheduled service we will take care of these pest ASAP and at no additional charge. Our web page has a lot of information on it for your review. It is the most comprehensive in the industry and also has an extensive section of the safety of our products.

We certainly welcome the opportunity to serve you.

John Mitchell
founder
Backyard Bug Patrol
john@backyardbugpatrol.com
www.backyardbugpatrol.com
855-NO TICKS
703-621-7116

Dear Damien:

How do honeybees like your standard treatment?

Thanks for any info.

Does Mosquito Squad Pro Rate for the rest of the season? I would consider MS only if they prorate starting the when they first start coming.
I don't want to pay the same as the people who started in April, when my service would start in July.

We use Mosquito Authority and they will do a one-time app.

Yes, standard treatments are effective against adult ticks, and we use daminx tick tubes to help with nymph and larval stage ticks. I would not recommend the natural option if ticks are your primary concern because it is a repellent, and ticks are not very mobile by themselves. Hope this helps. A great resource on ticks is NatCap Lyme.[url]http://www.natcaplyme.org/

Damien Sanchez
Mosqutio Squad of Greater Washington DC
571-830-8002

Bugsbite.com

Mr. Sanchez -

Does the Mosquito Squad treatment take care of ticks too?

Thank You!

Hi this is Damien Sanchez owner of DC Mosquito Squad. To answer the OP's question, does Mosquito Squad offer onetime treatments, the answer is yes or as a franchise it should, I do know that the Greater DC Franchise as well as the other MD franchises (West Montgomery, Fredrick MD, Montgomery County, Greater DC and Annapolis) do offer onetime event sprays for special occasions and periodically have special offers with sites like Certifikid. My location services inside the beltway in Virginia, DC, and the southern parts of Montgomery County (inside the beltway and south of 270) . To the previous poster I would love to speak with you about your experience, please give me a call, I would love for you to try our service and I would like offer you a complimentary treatment , I know some circumstances outside of our control affected our operation this last holiday weekend. Please contact me at 571-830-8002 ext 100 to discuss. I am very appreciative of the dialog on DC Urban Moms and Dads as it allows me to monitor how my franchise and the franchise system as a whole is doing in the area. I would also like to offer a special to the DC Urban Mom's and Dad's readers of $75 for a onetime treatment try the service out. This would be good at my location (described above) and any of the locations listed above in Maryland. Please give my office a call if anyone has any questions, I am happy to email over an FAQ as well.

Damien Sanchez
Owner
Mosquito Squad of Greater Washington DC
Serving Virginia inside the beltway, Maryland south of 270 and inside the beltway, and all of DC.
571-830-8002

MS will do a one time "event application" that is less. However, I will no longer consider them. They offered me a special vial email and when I tried to take advantage of it, I was told it wasn't available (offer sent on Friday PM of a holiday weekend and I tried to use it on Tuesday AM). I find that to be wrong and refuse to work with them. To me, they seem to be as shady as they were described on here a few weeks ago.

OP-thanks!

I just bought this kind of service through Angies List from Affordable Pest http://www.affordablepest.com/

Cropp Metcalfe will do a one-time application.

There's also Mosquito Authority. (I can't tell the 2 companies apart). But I don't know what their terms are.

I too would like to just do one application. When you do those Groupon or Social deal, you can do one application. There was a deal for Mosquito Authority from Amazon Deals, but I missed it.

MS will only do a $600 fee for the whole season, and we want to just do one application and see if it works, if we use the yard more, etc. The $600 is too much up-front for us. Is there a similar company with more flexible policies?