Mosquito Control in Miami, FL for Shaded Yards and Bay-Side Homes

Shade is the first thing we look at in a garden here. The older neighborhoods here have some of the thickest tree canopy in South Florida: banyans and palms in Coconut Grove, big shade trees around the mid-century homes of the Upper Eastside, and backyard fruit trees and container gardens in Little River and Little Haiti. That shade, plus bromeliads that hold water in their cups all year, keeps mosquitoes around in every month, not only in summer. Our family-run team handles mosquito control in Miami by treating the shade where adult mosquitoes rest and the water they breed in, starting with a FREE inspection and $50 off your first service.

Bromeliads: the first thing we check

If your yard has bromeliads, that's usually where the problem starts. Rain and sprinklers fill the cup at the center of each plant, and container mosquitoes like the yellow fever mosquito lay eggs right at the waterline. A single bed can hold dozens of tiny pools you'd never think to empty.

You don't have to rip them out. You have two good options:

• Flush them. Run a hose into each cup once a week so the water is replaced before larvae can finish growing.
• Let us treat them. On each visit we apply larvicide to the bromeliad cups so larvae can't develop. Our bromeliads and mosquitoes guide has more.

What we do on each visit

1. A walk with you. On the first visit, the FREE inspection, we look for every resting spot and breeding spot and ask where you sit, grill and let the dog out.
2. Resting spots. A licensed technician treats the still shade where adults spend the day: inside hedges, under palms and banyans, under porches, stairs and decks, along fences and garden walls. The backpack fogger is for outdoor work only. We never use it indoors.
3. Breeding spots that can't be emptied. Bromeliad cups, drains and fountains or water features without fish get larvicide, where the product label allows. We don't treat ponds with fish.
4. Larval traps on monthly plans. Monthly plans add larval traps set in the shade. They use a growth regulator, like birth control for insects, to help stop larvae from becoming biting adults.
5. What to do before next time. We tell you what to tip out, cover or flush.

It's a professional mosquito barrier spray treatment, and every product is applied according to its label. More detail in how our mosquito treatment works.