Suamico and Little Suamico sit on low, flat ground where two rivers reach the bay, with wetland along most of the shore. This is the heaviest mosquito landscape we work in anywhere, and the most useful thing this page can do is be honest about what that means.
Why it is this bad
Three things stacked:
Wetland margin is the most productive mosquito habitat there is — shallow, warm, vegetated, undisturbed, and in the temporary pockets largely free of the fish that would otherwise eat the larvae.
Flat ground drains slowly. Rainwater that would run off elsewhere sits here for days, which is all the time a cohort needs.
Two rivers reaching the bay add backwater, marshy margin, and ground that floods and recedes.
A property a few miles inland on higher ground has a genuinely easier problem. That is geography, not effort.
What we can and cannot move
The rivers themselves produce nothing — larvae cannot complete development in current. Their margins and backwaters produce heavily.
The bay marsh and the conservation land produce in quantity, they are doing exactly what they are supposed to do, and nobody should be treating them. You should be sceptical of anyone who suggests otherwise.
So the honest division is:
- Not ours to change: the marsh, the protected land, the river margins, the neighbouring low ground
- Ours to change: everything inside your lot line, and the shaded band where adults spend the day
The ceiling, stated first
A program here buys you a usable evening on your own property. It does not buy a mosquito-free yard, and on a lot against the marsh margin dawn and dusk will always be worse than elsewhere.
That is a real improvement and a bounded one. We would rather agree which we are selling in May than argue about it in July, and if your lot cannot be improved enough to be worth the money, we will tell you before taking the job.
Your own lot still matters
Even in a wet landscape, the water within thirty feet of your deck is the water biting you:
- Gutters, clogged — the most common source anywhere, the least often checked
- Corrugated downspout extensions holding water in the ribs
- A tarp over the boat, the trailer, the woodpile
- Plant saucers, buckets, wheelbarrows, bin lids, tires
- A birdbath nobody empties
- Any low patch that holds after rain, which on flat ground out here is often a good share of the back lawn
Clearing that list costs nothing and it is worth doing before paying for anything.
Where the treatment goes
Into the shaded vegetation where adults wait out the day: shrub undersides, dense ground cover, tall grass at the lot edge, the shaded sides of the house and outbuildings, and the wooded or marsh-edge margin.
On a Suamico property that margin is usually the back boundary, and it is usually the whole job. Treating open lawn achieves close to nothing here, because the adults are not in it.
The drive
We come from Clintonville and this is a real distance, so Suamico and Little Suamico are scheduled work rather than same-hour response. For a seasonal program that is fine. If you need somebody today, a Brown County company will beat us and you should call one.
If you want the underlying detail, start with the mosquitoes profile, then mosquito and tick control and the tick and Lyme yard program, which matters a great deal on marsh-edge property.