When hiring a tick and mosquito company, make sure you understand what type of product they are using. Some are much safer for use around your pets than others. 

The Pet Problem

Across New England and the mosquitoes are out in force, targeting your next BBQ like it's their Superbowl. At the same time, tick populations are booming across Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine, and Connecticut. 

Meet the college students of Pure Solutions, our August Employee Spotlights! As their time with us comes to an end this summer, we wanted to showcase them as a token of our appreciation before they each go back to school. 

Meet Shannon, our July Employee Spotlight! Shannon is a tick and mosquito field specialist! 

If no one has told you yet, Massachusetts is currently in a drought. When people think of a drought, they think of deserts, or of people thirsting for water, but it is really a lot simpler. According to the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC), a drought can be defined as “a protracted period of deficient precipitation resulting in extensive damage to crops, and a consequential loss of yield,” but the same way hurricanes have different levels, droughts do as well. A drought can very much be a dry desert with no crop in sight, but it can also be the reason why your grass is turning slightly brown, or your berries and your vegetables are not blooming as frequently as they should.

It's Pollinator week, a nationwide "holiday" where people all around the country raise awareness about dangers our pollinators are facing and what we can do to help! This week, Pure Solutions is participating in this awareness campaign. We will be posting consistently throughout the week on our Instagram and Facebook more facts about Pollinators and how they affect our environment.

Meet Nate, our North Shore location general manager! An asset to the team, Nate works out of our new shop in Gloucester, Massachusetts. 

Pure Solutions is excited to announce that we have officially opened a new office located in Gloucester, Massachusetts. This additional location will allow the company to grow and increase its customer base in Essex County. The expansion will support Pure Solutions’ mission to decrease chemical usage: protecting people, pets, and the environment. 

Finding a professional mosquito control company near you is not hard. But finding one that understands your property's unique needs can be a challenge. Here is what to look for when selecting a mosquito control company. 

You’ve lathered up in mosquito repellents, you’ve tried removing all standing water around your home, you light citronella candles, and you even bought an expensive propane mosquito catcher…and yet you still have mosquitos...lots of them. Then it may be time to consider a professional mosquito spray service company. As mosquito (and tick) populations explode across New England, so has the rise of companies that offer services to kill these populations. But the level of service, the products, and the attention to detail varies widely from the larger, national corporate companies to the fly-by-night one-man operators and you need to make sure you engage with a reputable company you trust. 

Although many of us in New England are still hitting the slopes, building snowmen, and wearing parkas when we leave the house the reality is spring is around the corner. Others are already "over it" and are contemplating new garden layouts, spring home improvement projects, and planning the first hikes of the season. But is it really time to start worrying about ticks and the diseases they carry?

It’s a common misconception that ticks hibernate or die in the winter. The reality is that they are always there, waiting for the opportunity to feed (and in many cases spread tick-borne illnesses)

All across New England, winter is here. Ski areas are opening, Christmas is just around the corner, and the leaves are off the trees and on your lawn. Hopefully, by now, you have done a comprehensive cleanup around your home, removing all the leaf litter that ticks love. As we put Summer and Fall in the rearview, it’s easy to think that tick season has passed as well. But don’t be fooled, ticks don’t care about seasons, they only care about temperature, and if there is one thing us New Englanders know, it’s that we can hit temperatures well above freezing all throughout winter.