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Plain & Simple - all natural solutions All natural solutions for tick and mosquito problems

The warm weather will be upon us sooner than we realize. We have already been out, treating properties and killing bugs,...
05/08/2026

The warm weather will be upon us sooner than we realize. We have already been out, treating properties and killing bugs, so that the first cookout is mosquito-free. HIT US UP!!!

He’s all about the mission!
04/20/2026

He’s all about the mission!

Tank has been working hard to get ahead of these ticks and their mosquito brethren. Send us a message if you want your yard to back this year

Tank has been working hard to get ahead of these ticks and their mosquito brethren. Send us a message if you want your y...
04/20/2026

Tank has been working hard to get ahead of these ticks and their mosquito brethren. Send us a message if you want your yard to back this year

Hit us up - The time is now!!!
04/19/2026

Hit us up - The time is now!!!

04/11/2026
This hedgerow had a ton of mosquitoes in it, which means the warm days last week allowed a hatch or two. Message me or c...
04/11/2026

This hedgerow had a ton of mosquitoes in it, which means the warm days last week allowed a hatch or two. Message me or call, let us get our hands around it before we are playing catch up.

04/09/2026

Listen to Nonna, These ticks need to be dealt with!

03/13/2026

Washington just became the 11th state to ban bee-killing pesticides from residential use. Eleven states. Count that number again and think about what it actually means — because something is shifting across this country and most people are completely missing it.
With Washington's new law, the use of neonicotinoid pesticides on ornamental plants, lawns, and residential turf is now legally prohibited across the state. If you live in Washington and you've been using these products in your yard, that just changed. If you don't live in Washington, that number — eleven states in a relatively short window of time — is the story you need to pay attention to.
Because eleven states moving on the same issue isn't a trend. It's a signal that the science reached a point where lawmakers couldn't keep looking the other way.
Neonicotinoids were never really designed to be a mass consumer product. They were developed for agriculture. But they ended up in the sprays, granules, and soil drenches sold at garden centers and hardware stores across America — products that homeowners applied to their roses, their lawns, their vegetable beds, their ornamental shrubs — without any real understanding of what those chemicals were doing once they left the bottle.
Here's what they were doing. Moving through soil into groundwater. Showing up in wildflowers growing near treated areas that were never sprayed directly. Getting absorbed into pollen that bees collect and bring back to their colonies. Accumulating in the bodies of birds that eat contaminated insects and seeds. Not dramatically, not visibly, not in ways that anyone could point to on any given day and say — there, that's the problem. Quietly. Systemically. Everywhere.
The bees foraging in your neighborhood right now are navigating a landscape contaminated in ways they have no way to detect or avoid. The parent birds feeding nestlings in your trees are eating insects that have been exposed to compounds designed to disrupt insect neurology. The colonies weakening in hives a few miles from your house are dealing with a slow accumulation of something that was applied to someone's flower bed last spring with no harmful intent whatsoever.
Washington's ban cuts directly at that. Residential ornamental and turf use — gone. The most diffuse, least regulated, hardest-to-track exposure pathway in the entire neonicotinoid story just got closed in state number eleven.
Thirty-nine states haven't done this yet. Share this today and let people in yours know exactly what they're still allowing — and what eleven states have already decided is no longer acceptable.

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