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Locally owned mosquito and fire ant company. We offer a pollinator friendly mosquito solution.

23/10/2026

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15/10/2026

Last day of the season

That's a wrap on the 2026 season.

Today's the last day of our fall fire ant window. Soil temps are dropping, the colonies are heading down for the winter, and after this the bait stops doing what it's supposed to do. If you've been meaning to call, today's the day.

To everyone who trusted us with their yard this year — thank you. Genuinely. We're a two-person family operation with a seasonal helper, and every single job this season came from somebody deciding to give a small local business a shot instead of a national chain. We don't take that lightly.

Two things before we go quiet for the winter:

If we treated your yard this year and you were happy — a Google review would mean a lot. It's the single biggest thing that helps folks in the Upstate find us. Takes two minutes.

If you want 2027 handled before you think about it: ask us about a season plan. Plan customers get scheduled first in the spring, treated on a set rhythm all season, pay less per treatment, and never have to call and hope we have an opening in June. We'll start booking spring plans over the winter — get on the list now and you're set.

Call or text 864-327-6433. We'll see you in the spring.

— Holly & Danny

14/10/2026

The water you can't see

One last mosquito tip before we close the season, and it's the one people miss every year.

Everybody dumps the obvious stuff — bird baths, buckets, the kiddie pool. Almost nobody checks the hidden water:

• Corrugated drain pipe. Those ridges hold water permanently, even when the pipe looks dry and drains fine. It's one of the most productive mosquito sites on a typical property. • Gutter corners and downspout elbows. A little debris and you've got a standing pool nobody will ever look at. • Tarp folds and boat covers. Every low spot in a tarp is a container. • Tree holes. Where a limb was cut and the crotch collects water. • The saucer under the pot you forgot on the side of the house.

Going into winter, clean your gutters and flush your drain lines. It costs you an afternoon and it genuinely changes what next spring looks like.

Then get on the schedule for 2027 and let us handle the rest. 864-327-6433.

12/10/2026

Last porch weeks of the year

Mosquito Monday, and this is the good part of the year.

Cool mornings, fire pit weather, the ballgame on outside, everybody actually wants to be in the yard again. These are the best few weeks the Upstate gets — and it's a shame to spend them getting bitten because the treatments stopped in August.

We're running the last mosquito treatments of the 2026 season through this week. If your yard is still a problem, this is the last call to fix it before winter.

And if you're planning to be out there next year without thinking about any of this — ask Danny about a season plan when you call. Plan customers get put on a schedule in the spring, treated on a rhythm all season, and never have to notice mosquitoes or remember to book anything. It's less money per treatment than calling us one at a time, and it's the only way to stay ahead instead of catching up.

09/10/2026

Your neighbor's mounds are your mounds

Fire Ant Friday. Fire ant workers forage up to about 300 feet from the mound — roughly a football field.

Think about what that means on a normal Upstate lot. Colonies two and three yards over are foraging into your grass. Which is why treating only the mounds inside your property line gets you a few good weeks and then a fresh crop along the fence.

Two things follow from that:

One. Treatment has to cover the whole yard, especially the edges, not just the mounds in the middle.

Two. If your neighbors are getting treated too, everybody's results get dramatically better and last longer. We already run several neighborhoods where three or four houses on the same street are on service, and those yards stay noticeably cleaner than isolated properties.

If you've got a neighbor who complains about ants every summer, tag them. Call or text 864-327-6433 — we'll treat both yards the same trip.

07/10/2026

They don't die in the winter

Common belief around here: the first hard freeze takes care of the fire ants.

It doesn't. Fire ants don't die off in a South Carolina winter — they just go deeper. The colony moves down below the frost line, clusters around the queen, and waits. On a mild sunny afternoon in January you'll see them come right back up into the top of the mound to warm up.

Come March, that colony wakes up intact and starts building. That's why the yard that had eight mounds in October has fifteen by May.

Which is the whole argument for treating in the fall. Every colony you take out now is a colony that isn't there next spring, multiplying. Wait until you see mounds in April and you're starting the year already behind.

We're booking fall fire ant treatments through October 15.

05/10/2026

They're not gone yet

Mosquito Monday. It's October, mornings are finally cool, and folks are asking if they can stop worrying about mosquitoes.

Not yet. Mosquitoes stay active as long as daytime temperatures hold in the 50s and above, and in the Upstate that regularly runs into November. What actually happens in October is that they shift their schedule — you'll get bitten in the warm middle of the day instead of at dusk, because that's the only window that suits them.

Here's the part worth planning around: the eggs being laid in your yard right now don't hatch this year. Container mosquito eggs can sit dry through the winter and hatch with the first warm rain in spring.

So a fall treatment isn't just about October. It's about how bad next April is.

That's the case for staying on a plan through the end of the season rather than stopping in September.

02/10/2026

Why bait takes time

Fire Ant Friday, and this is the question Danny gets more than any other: "It's been a week and I still see ants. Is it working?"

Almost always, yes. Here's why.

Fire ant bait is built to work slowly on purpose. The workers have to find it, carry it back, and pass it around the colony until it reaches the queen. If the bait killed on contact, the foragers would die in the yard and the colony would never get the dose that matters. Slow is the whole design.

Depending on temperature and product, you're looking at anywhere from two to twelve weeks for full colony collapse. You'll usually see mound activity drop off well before that.

What you shouldn't do is decide it failed at day five and go pour something on it. That kills foragers and cuts off the delivery route to the queen.

Trust the process, and call us if something genuinely looks off.

30/09/2026

Only the females bite

Mosquito fact that surprises most people: only the females bite you.

Male mosquitoes feed on flower nectar their whole lives and never touch a person. The female does too — nectar is her normal food. She only comes after blood when she needs the protein to develop a batch of eggs.

So every bite you get is funding the next generation, in your own yard.

She finds you by the carbon dioxide you breathe out, then closes in on your body heat and skin odor from a few feet away. Which explains a few things you've probably noticed: why she finds you the second you sit down outside, why the person who just finished mowing gets hit hardest, and why the citronella candle across the deck isn't doing much.

You can't stop breathing. You can make the yard a bad place to raise a family.

29/09/2026

The fall rain surge

Mosquito Monday. Here's a pattern we see every single fall and almost nobody expects.

The Upstate gets a stretch of rain — a front stalls out, or what's left of a tropical system rolls up from the coast. Everybody assumes cooler, wetter weather means fewer mosquitoes.

Then about ten days later the yard is unbearable.

That's the timeline. Rain fills every container, tarp, low spot, and clogged gutter in the neighborhood at once. The eggs already sitting in those containers hatch, and roughly a week and a half later you've got a synchronized hatch across the whole street.

So the move is to get ahead of it: dump everything the day after a good rain, and keep your yard on a schedule rather than reacting after the fact. Our plan customers get treated on a rhythm that covers this instead of scrambling for an appointment during the surge.

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Opening Hours

Monday	08:00 - 17:00
Tuesday	08:00 - 17:00
Wednesday	08:00 - 17:00
Thursday	08:00 - 17:00
Friday	08:00 - 17:00

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+18643276433

Website

http://www.palmettomosquito.com/

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