Englewood sits on the western slope of the Palisades, and that terrain does something unhelpful with rainwater. It does not spread it out — it channels it into ledges, rock depressions, culverts and the Flat Rock Brook corridor, then holds it there in small pockets long after flatter towns have drained. Those pockets are where your mosquitoes come from. Clearview runs seasonal mosquito programs across Englewood.
Call (201) 932-2487 for a breeding-site survey.
People assume a hillside drains and therefore cannot breed mosquitoes. The opposite is true in practice, because a container breeder does not need a pond. It needs a tablespoon of standing water that lasts a week, and broken terrain generates those constantly:
The species that matters most on a residential lot is the Asian tiger mosquito. It bites during the day, and its flight range is often under 200 yards — so if it is biting you on your patio, it hatched on your property or a neighbor’s. That is unusually good news, because it means the problem is within reach of the work.
The 150-acre Flat Rock Brook preserve is a genuine asset and a genuine mosquito factor. A brook corridor with dense canopy holds humidity through the day, which is exactly what adult mosquitoes need for resting habitat — they spend daylight hours on the underside of leaves and in shaded shrub lines, not in open air.
For properties along or near the corridor, this changes what treatment should look like. Fogging open lawn accomplishes very little because the adults are not in the lawn. Treating the shaded vegetation, fence hedges, the underside of deck framing and the ivy on garage walls is what actually reduces the biting population.
We walk the property before treating anything, and we look at the things that hold water rather than the places you get bitten. On a typical Englewood lot we find between four and nine breeding sites, and the owner is usually surprised by at least half. We show you each one.
Rock depressions, sump pits, ornamental water, culvert low points, a flat roof section that ponds. Standing water in a wall cavity or crawl space is a different call — that is usually what carpenter ants are telling you about. Killing larvae before they fly is far more efficient than chasing adults later, and it uses a fraction of the material.
Shaded vegetation, structural undersides, dense ground cover — the surfaces adults actually occupy during the day.
Residual products break down under sun and rain in roughly three weeks. Programs run from late spring to the first hard frost, with frequency stepped up during wet stretches. One treatment in June does nothing for you in August.
Our applications use pet-friendly products, and we work with eco-friendly and organic options where they fit — see the low-impact program if the watershed or a vegetable garden is a concern for you.
Bergen County operates a mosquito control division that responds to resident reports and will inspect a property — you can submit a mosquito inspection request directly. That is worth doing, and it costs nothing.
What the county does not do is run a season-long program on your lot. Public work addresses public water and county property; the gutters, ledges, retaining wall drains and containers on your own land remain yours. Most of the mosquitoes biting you in your own yard hatched within a few hundred feet of where you are standing.
Look up and look at the rock. Clogged gutters under tree canopy and depressions in exposed ledge are the two sites people never check, and both hold water for a week at a time. We find them on the survey and show you.
About three weeks for the barrier component, less after heavy rain or a stretch of strong sun. Larvicide in standing water lasts longer. That is why this runs as a program rather than a single visit.
It helps substantially, because tiger mosquitoes stay close to where they hatched and the barrier treatment protects your own resting sites either way. Where several adjacent properties treat together the difference is obvious, and we are happy to coordinate visits.
Late April into early May. Starting before the first generation of adults emerges means suppressing a small population all season rather than fighting a large one. Starting in July still works, it is just more effort to get on top of.
Yes. We treat vegetation and structural surfaces rather than broadcasting over play areas, and our products are pet-friendly. Point out the beds, play equipment and any beehives before we start and we will work around them.
Yes, both sides of the hill and the commercial corridors, plus the surrounding Bergen County towns. See pest control in Englewood.
Call (201) 932-2487. Tell us whether you back onto the brook or the preserve — it changes where we start looking. See also our mosquito control service.
