Mosquito Control in West Ashley, SC

Year-round mosquito treatment comes under Vinx Platinum at $109/mo, with monthly season treatments and one winter service. Mosquito-only service can also be arranged outside the plan. Call (855) 800-8469 for a price on your property.

Because its drains are tide-limited. Plan West Ashley states that flow through the drainage system varies with the outfall elevation relative to sea level, and the Charleston gauge at the mouth of the Cooper records a six-to-seven-foot swing between low and high tide. When the tide is up, the basin’s swales and detention ponds wait, and five days of waiting is all a mosquito needs.

Yes. Every product is EPA-registered, applied to the label. Children and pets can go back into treated areas after drying, about 2 to 4 hours, and we never apply while they are present.

Yes. Southern house mosquitoes come out on warm January days, and Aedes eggs in gutters hatch the moment temperatures hold above 50°F, sometimes in late February. A winter service fills the gap a May restart would leave.

Barrier treatment typically wipes out up to 90% of adults per application. Marsh-edge lots along the Ashley and Stono usually see 80% or better after the first two monthly visits, and basin lots hold their results best when the swale or pond margin is larvicided as well.

Each barrier application stays effective about three weeks. Monthly visits keep coverage running continuously all season.

It never fully ends. Pressure runs at its peak May through October. The first saltmarsh brood follows the first exceptional high tide of warm weather, and Asian tiger eggs hatch as early as late February. West Ashley is where Charleston began, at Albemarle Point in 1670, and the marsh that met those colonists still sets the calendar.

Yes. Every visit includes adulticide for resting foliage and larvicide for any undrainable water. In the Church Creek basin the larvicide is aimed at swales and detention pond edges, because that is where the Southern house population comes from.

Yes. For a gathering at a West Ashley home we time a barrier treatment a day or two ahead so the patio and lawn foliage is treated when guests arrive. Call (855) 800-8469 and tell us the date.

West Nile virus, carried mainly by the Southern house mosquito breeding in detention ponds and slow swales, and Eastern Equine Encephalitis. Among South Carolina's coastal counties reporting West Nile most years is Charleston County. Mosquitoes also transmit heartworm to dogs and cats from one bite.

The saltmarsh mosquito lays eggs on the high marsh and the whole brood hatches together when an exceptional tide or heavy rain floods it, finishing in four to five days and flying about a mile a day inland. Charleston averages about 51 inches of rain a year and Clemson counts at least 61 mosquito species in the state; the river neighborhoods from St. Andrews to Shadowmoss get the tidal share of both.

Most West Ashley appointments are same-day or next-day. Call (855) 800-8469. If we cannot service your home by the next business day, the initial visit is free.

We treat the shaded foliage and leaf undersides mosquitoes rest on, not the flowering plants pollinators feed from, and we schedule early or late when bee activity is lowest. Tell your technician about pollinator plantings and we will avoid them.