There’s always that one greedy neighborhood kid at Halloween who keeps showing up on your porch for another round of candy, right?
After you give him three Kit-Kats and a Snickers, he’s kind of on your nerves.
Same thing with ants, hobo spiders, black widows, earwigs, box elder bugs and beetles. They keep showing up. And those costumes are pretty scary.
How often should perimeter pest control be done to keep these creepy crawlers away?
Grab some Reese’s Pieces and let’s take a look:
First, How Does Perimeter Pest Control Service Work?
It’s pretty easy. Perimeter pest control is an outdoor barrier spray that helps prevent bugs from entering your home and foundation. They hate the spray, so they turn around and make their way into some other poor sap’s house.
Lawn Buddies technicians spray around the perimeter of your home and yard to keep pests like ants, hobo spiders, black widows, earwigs, box elder bugs, wasps, fleas, and beetles from making their way inside.
It’s all done outside, so no chemicals are applied inside your home.
In fact, our perimeter pest control service doesn’t even require anyone to be home at the time it’s applied. Go see a movie. Go fishing. Get your nails done. The whole time you can be smugly smiling about the bug barrier going up at your house.
Bonus: we’ll perform your insect control while we’re already on your property for lawn care treatments. No extra hassle for you.
Perimeter pest control focuses on prevention – carrying out insect control before bugs make it into your home and begin to creep you out. That’s way better than dealing with actual bugs, right?
Lawn Buddies technicians typically treat about three feet up on the house and six feet out, creating a wide protective barrier around the house that includes the landscaping and lawn directly around your home.
Bugs will say, “Bummer!” or some bug language swear words, and look for some other place to infest.
How Long Does Perimeter Pest Control Last?
Professional perimeter pest control lasts about three months. That’s long enough to get so much done in your bug-free home.
Clean out all the closets without worrying about creepy spiders skittering out at you, causing blood-curdling screams that summon the police.
Munch so many bags of cheese puffs, without worrying about the crumbs inviting every ant in the county.
Go ahead, leave that damp towel on the bathroom floor without fearing six earwigs will skitter out from underneath it when you pick it up whenever the heck you feel like it.
Call it your Three Months of Bug-free Bliss.
How Often Should Perimeter Pest Control Be Done?
Once that three months has passed, if you want more Bug-free Bliss, you’ll want another treatment, depending on the time of year. Spring through fall is when pesky insects are lurking here in Idaho.
A late fall treatment will help prevent these crumb and heat-seeking pests from coming inside, but once it’s freezing, perimeter pest control service won’t do much good.
At Lawn Buddies, our last exterior pest control treatment is done in October. Once the winter freeze arrives in Idaho, bugs aren’t hanging around outside your house anymore. Woo hoo!
But once spring arrives and the ground thaws, you’ll want the protection professional perimeter pest control provides.
Is Your Lawn Ready for a New Best Friend?
When you call Lawn Buddies for professional perimeter pest control you can relax, knowing creepy invasive pests aren’t on their way inside your safe and cozy home.
You’ll have to deal with pesky repeat trick-or-treaters on your own.
Time for perimeter pest control in Idaho Falls and Boise, ID?
The first step to taking advantage of Lawn Buddies perimeter pest control is to sign up for our 6-step complete lawn care program.
You’ll be glad you did.
Choose an Idaho Falls or Boise professional lawn care service that makes it easy, bundling your yard’s most-needed treatments into one convenient, no-fuss plan.
Fertilizing, weed control, grub control. Done. Add pest control. Double done.
We’ve got your back.
Got a few minutes? That’s all you need to get started. You can simply:
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Call us at (208) 656-9131.
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Then kick back and relax in your healthy, thriving yard and pest-free home.
