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Maintaining a beautiful lawn and garden goes beyond just mowing the grass and planting flowers, and an essential aspect of landscaping often overlooked is perimeter insect control. This practice involves creating a barrier around your property to keep insects at bay and away from your home or garden. Let’s dive into what perimeter insect control is, how it works, and why it is crucial for maintaining a healthy and insect-free environment.
What is Perimeter Insect Control
Perimeter insect control involves the strategic application of insect control treatments around the exterior of your property. This creates a barrier that repels insects like ants, spiders, beetles, and others from entering your home or garden. Our Grasshopper Gardens team offers two main methods of insect control: Wood Line Spray and Lawn Treatment.
Our Methods of Insect Control
Wood Line Spray
Our wood line spray method consists of an application sprayed along the wood line surrounding the perimeter of your lawn and landscape. This method targets insects that thrive in wooded areas and repels them from migrating into your yard and home. The spray forms a protective barrier that repel insects and keeps them at bay.
Lawn Treatment
Our lawn treatment consists of a granular application that covers the entire lawn area. This method involves spreading granules across your lawn, which release insecticides that target insects in the soil and on the surface. The granules provide lasting protection, ensuring that your lawn remains insect-free for up to 3 weeks.
How Does Perimeter Insect Control Work
Inspection
The process begins with a thorough inspection of your property to identify potential entry points and areas where insects are likely to thrive.
Treatment
Depending on the inspection results, either a wood line spray or a lawn treatment is applied. The wood line spray creates a barrier along the wooded areas, while the lawn treatment targets the entire lawn. Both methods are designed to be effective against a wide range of insects.
Maintenance
The barrier treatments not only kill existing insects but also works to keep new ones from entering. Regular maintenance treatments ensure that these barriers remain effective over time. Both of our treatments target existing insects and ticks and work to keep them from returning for 3 weeks.
Monitoring
Ongoing monitoring and follow-up treatments are crucial to ensure that the perimeter barrier remains intact and effective against new insect threats. We suggest recurring treatments during the spring, early summer, and fall season.
Why is Perimeter Insect Control Important
Protects Your Home
Insects can cause significant damage to your home. Ants can invade food supplies, and spiders and ticks can pose health risks. Perimeter insect control helps avoid these issues by stopping insects before they enter. By keeping insects at bay, you can avoid costly repairs and maintain the integrity of your home.
Maintains a Healthy Garden
Insects can wreak havoc on your garden, damaging plants and spreading diseases. By keeping insects away, perimeter insect control helps maintain the health and beauty of your landscaping. Healthy plants are more resistant to diseases and can thrive in an insect-free environment.
Reduces Indoor Infestations
By creating a barrier around your property, perimeter insect control reduces the likelihood of indoor infestations, leading to a more comfortable and hygienic living environment. This can also help reduce the need for indoor insecticide use, making your home safer for family members and pets.
Cost-Effective
Insect control measures are often more cost-effective than dealing with an infestation after it has occurred. Regular treatments can save you money on costly repairs and extensive insect control measures. Investing in perimeter insect control is a proactive approach that can help diminish the likelihood of expensive problems down the line.
Tips for Effective Perimeter Insect Control
Regular Maintenance
Scheduling regular treatments with our team helps to maintain the effectiveness of the perimeter barrier. Consistent treatments ensure that insects do not have a chance to breach the barrier and establish a presence in your home or garden.
Seal Entry Points
Ensure that all potential entry points around your home are sealed, including cracks, crevices, and gaps around windows and doors. Use caulk or weatherstripping to close off these entryways and make it more difficult for insects to get inside.
Proper Landscaping
Keep plants and shrubs trimmed and away from the foundation of your home to reduce hiding spots for insects. Consider using gravel or other materials that do not retain moisture around the foundation, as damp areas can attract insects.
Monitor for Signs of Insects
Regularly check your property for signs of insect activity and address any issues promptly. Look for droppings, chewed plants, or other indicators of insect presence, and take action to eliminate them before they become a larger problem.
Contact Our Grasshopper Team Today!
Perimeter insect control is a vital component of comprehensive lawn and garden care. By creating a protective barrier around your property, you can stop insects from causing damage to your home and landscape. Regular maintenance and professional treatments ensure that your perimeter remains effective, providing you with peace of mind and an insect-free environment. Visit our website to get started with a free estimate!