Frequently asked questions

Keep kids and pets off the treated area until it is dry. We tell you when it is ready.

Spray jobs dry in a short time, usually once the surface is no longer wet. For a ground nest, keep pets off that entrance for the rest of the day. The lawn, driveway, porch, and the rest of the yard are fine.

Treatment is aimed at the nest or problem area, not the whole yard or the inside of the house. We do not apply product to animals, toys, dishes, or food.

If someone in the home is sensitive to pesticides, mention that when you request service.

Walking the yard after the treated spot is dry is fine. Keep pets off the wet spray and off a freshly dusted ground entrance.

If a pet does get into the treated entrance, rinse the paws with water. Call your vet if they act unusual. Waiting until the next morning to let a dog investigate that hole is the simplest approach.

This is a targeted nest treatment, not an organic program and not a yard-wide spray.

We treat the nest and the entrance. We do not spray blooming plants. We keep product out of drains, ponds, and water. Honey bees on flowers are not what we treat. The nest on the house or in the ground is.

Two labeled tools, three jobs. Brand names are not listed on this site.

• Hanging and paper nests: an outdoor contact spray that soaks the nest from a distance and also affects insects that return to it. People and pets stay inside until that spray is dry. The nest leaves with us the same visit.
• Ground nests: a residual dust placed at the entrance. Workers carry it deeper into the colony. The ground entrance is left open on purpose.
• Problem-area dusting: the same dust, placed in dry sheltered start points: eaves, soffits, window frames, deck edges. A queen that lands on that surface picks the particles up. This does not take down a nest already there.

Both products are EPA-registered and applied on label by a Wisconsin certified commercial pesticide applicator.

The nest is treated from a safe distance until it is thoroughly wet. Insects still coming back to that nest pick up the treatment when they land.

We wait at least 24 hours before taking an aerial nest down. That wait lets activity drop so the nest can be removed safely.

Dust is applied in the entrance and on the soil right around it. Foragers walk through it and carry it inside. The colony winds down over a few days, not in a few minutes.

The hole stays open. Closing it can push the insects to cut a new exit. We do not flood the nest with water.

Yes. Before your first treatment you can ask us for the name of each product we may use and a free copy of its label. Call or text (414) 236-2340, or ask when you book.

After every treatment you get a written record with each product's chemical name, its EPA registration number, the amount used and the label precautions.

Fewer bites at dusk. We treat the shaded plants and outdoor spots where mosquitoes rest.

• Where: Shrubs, hedges, fence lines, eaves, and other harborage. Eggs are laid in standing water, but that water is not the spray target.
• When: Most active from dusk to dawn, June through September in Southeast Wisconsin.

Protect your roses and ornamentals. We treat reachable plants that show active feeding.

• Where: On the foliage of roses, grapes, linden, fruit trees, and many ornamentals, usually within reach of a ladder.
• When: In Southeast Wisconsin, adults typically feed from late June through August. Grubs in the lawn are a separate service.

Save your evergreens. Treatment is timed for young larvae, when it is most useful.

• Where: Bags hang on arborvitae, spruce, pine, and some deciduous shrubs. Eggs overwinter inside last year’s bags.
• When: Young larvae hatch in June. Treatment works while the bags are still small. Old winter bags stay on the plant until they are pulled off.

Stop the leaf damage. We identify the caterpillar, then treat active feeding on reachable trees and shrubs.

• Where: On the leaves and twigs of reachable trees and shrubs. Species differ, so we identify before we treat.
• When: Arrives in waves from late spring through late summer, depending on the species that year.

Protect your lawn. We treat once sod webworm damage is confirmed in the thatch.

• Where: In the thatch just above the soil, not down on the roots like grubs.
• When: Damage is worst in mid to late summer, especially in dry heat.

Protect your turf from the roots up. We treat once grub activity is confirmed.

• Where: In the top few inches of soil under the lawn. We peel back a patch to confirm before we treat.
• When: In Southeast Wisconsin, feeding damage usually shows from late summer into fall. Adult Japanese beetles on leaves are a different job.

Fewer ticks where your family walks. We treat brush, wood-line, and other tick habitat.

• Where: Tall grass, brush lines, wood edges, and the underside of shrubs. Not the open center of a mowed lawn.
• When: Active in the warm months. Nymphs and adults are most often found spring through fall, after time outdoors.

Use your porch again. We remove accessible paper wasp, yellowjacket, and similar hanging nests.

• Where: Under eaves, soffits, porch ceilings, playsets, shrubs, and sheds. Send a photo before the visit so we arrive ready.
• When: Colonies start in spring and peak from mid-summer into early fall. They die out with frost, except the new queens.

Mow without the swarm. We treat active ground-nesting yellowjacket colonies.

• Where: A small opening in the lawn, mulch, a bed, or along a foundation. The colony is underground, not in the hole itself.
• When: Colonies peak from mid-summer into early fall. Please do not kick or flood the hole.

Fewer repeat nests. We treat known outdoor start points such as reachable eaves, soffit gaps, and porch structures.

• Where: Known outdoor voids: eaves, soffit gaps, porch ceilings, and other dry start points. This is not a whole-house treatment.
• When: Best after an active nest is gone, or on a known problem spot ahead of the next nesting season. It does not remove a nest that is already there.

Spray on an exposed nest works on contact. A ground colony takes longer because the dust has to be carried inside.

Typical timing: noticeable drop in 24–48 hours, most activity stopped in 2–4 days, full colony control commonly 2–7 days. If that treated nest is still active 7 days after the visit, contact us within 14 days of the visit and we'll treat it again free.

Wasps do not reuse the old nest. New queens often pick the same kind of spot the next season: the same eave, soffit, or porch corner.

If there is still activity at the same treated entrance 7 days after the visit, contact us within 14 days of the visit and we'll treat it again free. A brand-new nest in a different spot is a new job. We will tell you which one you have.

Insects that were already out foraging return to the nest, so it can look busier for a little while. Check the entrance again over the next one to two days.

The quote covers the nest you pointed out. Before we leave, we can walk the house with you and look for others. If a second nest was already there that day and we missed it, contact us. That is what the recheck is for.

Stay inside during treatment. Stay off the treated spot until it is dry. Foragers already in the air, or a second nest that has not been found yet, can still sting.

If anyone in the home has a sting allergy, tell us before the visit and stay inside until we are done and the area is dry.

Not while it is still an active nest. Closing the entrance can push yellow jackets to cut a new way out. We dust the opening and leave it open. Once activity has stopped, you can fill or landscape that spot if you want.

This is a side service with simple posted prices and no monthly contract. The price covers the nest and the service on the menu: treatment by a Wisconsin certified commercial pesticide applicator, nest removal when it is safe to do, and a free recheck if that nest stays active.

When you and a next-door neighbor both book a visit for the same day, the first problem at each home is $75. Extra problems on that house are $60. Your lots must share a side or back property line. Lots that touch only at a corner, or are across the street, don't count. Once your visit is confirmed at $75, your price stays $75, even if your neighbor cancels or reschedules.

Yes, with no fee. Use the cancel link in your confirmation within 72 hours of booking, or call or text (414) 236-2340 at least 24 hours before your visit.

No. Our services are outdoors, so we treat as scheduled. Please leave gates unlocked and pets inside. If we can't safely reach the area (a locked gate, pets outside, or unsafe conditions), there is no charge, and we will contact you to set a new time. When we treat, we leave the written notice the law requires at your door, and we post lawn warning signs when we treat lawn or landscape areas.

We don't give refunds for completed treatments. If the same nest we treated is still active 7 days after the visit, contact us within 14 days of the visit and we'll treat it again free. We don't store your card. Pay by Square invoice, or by card in person.

We confirm your final price with you before any work starts, and we never add charges after. If the nest is in a wall void, above a standard ladder, or needs the wall opened, we will tell you it is outside the menu instead of adding charges on the spot.

No. One visit. Pay that visit. Problem-area dusting: $100 on its own, or $60 added to another service on the same visit. The free re-treat covers only the same nest we treated: if it is still active 7 days after the visit, contact us within 14 days of the visit and we'll treat it again free.

Yes. A small, easy paper nest can be a short stop. A ground nest is also a short visit on site. Then the colony declines over the next few days. You are paying for the treatment and the recheck, not the number of minutes on the driveway. If that same nest stays active after the normal window, we come back.

No. Wall opening, attic work, and jobs past a standard ladder are not part of these services. If that is what the nest needs, we will say so on site.

No. If it is a honey bee hive, we stop and recommend you call a beekeeper. Paper wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets are the job.

No. We treat the nest you hired us for. New queens can start new nests later. Traps reduce foraging traffic. Preventative dust lowers the chance of new starts on treated eaves. The rest of the property is not a sealed zone.

Tell us when you book, and we can still treat the nest. If the hole was already sealed, leave it to us to decide whether it should stay open so the treatment can work.