Mosquito and Tick Control Maywood NJ — Yard Treatments for Bergen County Backyards

Mosquito control Maywood NJ: small yards, big shade

Maywood backyards are mostly modest and fenced, sitting right up against the neighbors' yards, with mature trees, hedges and shrub beds along the property lines. That's comfortable for people — and for mosquitoes and ticks too.

• Mosquitoes breed in small amounts of standing water: a clogged gutter, a tarp over the grill, a toy left upside down. The Asian tiger mosquito, the striped one that bites during the day, only needs a bottle cap of water.
• Adult mosquitoes rest in the shade under shrubs and decks and in ivy and ground cover during the hottest part of the day.
• Ticks wait in leaf litter, tall grass and the strip where lawn meets a fence, hedge or wood pile — the edges kids and dogs brush against.
• Wildlife like squirrels, raccoons and deer passing along yard edges carry ticks and fleas in from other yards.

Because the yards are close, one neighbor's water-filled planter can keep feeding your yard. Treatment works better paired with a walk-through of your own yard — and a friendly word next door.

Walk your Maywood yard: where mosquitoes breed and ticks hide

Ten minutes with this list cuts down a lot of the problem before any treatment.

More ideas: how to keep mosquitoes away from your yard.

Tick control in Maywood: kids, dogs and yard edges

Ticks don't jump or fly. They climb grass and leaf litter and grab on as a person or animal brushes past. In Maywood we see two main kinds:

• Blacklegged (deer) ticks — tiny, dark legs, the young ones about the size of a poppy seed. This is the tick that can carry Lyme disease in New Jersey.
• American dog ticks — bigger, brown with white markings, common on dogs in late spring and summer.

We can't make medical claims, but the basics are well known: check kids and pets after they've been in the yard, remove a tick with fine tweezers close to the skin, and talk to your doctor or vet if a tick was attached or a rash or fever shows up. Your vet can also recommend tick protection for dogs and cats — yard treatment works alongside it, not in place of it.

More on our fleas and ticks page.

When to start mosquito and tick treatment in Maywood