The Skitter Squad · Jubilee Corner, Ferris Lake & the Taffy Road grade · Same-week service, three techs, one mascot
Bugs lose. Kids win.
The Squad is pest control for houses where the calendar is written in crayon: species-specific baits the colony carries home, exclusion that seals the door they used, and placements high in the voids where a toddler cannot reach and a dog cannot smell. Forty minutes after an interior visit the living room is a living room again — and if anything skitters inside 30 days, the re-check is free.
2,600 families served since 2018 · 40-minute re-entry for kids and pets · every tech background-checked and badged · Major Molt approves
Knock
Ten minutes and a specimen jar — the species gets named before anything gets placed, because the bait that finishes one ant feeds another.
Sock
Gel where the colony feeds, dust where the colony lives, locked stations where curiosity might. Nothing broadcast, nothing hosed.
Seal
The door they used — sill gap, weep hole, the sleeve behind the hose bib — copper-meshed and closed the same visit.
Score
Monitors read at day 14 and day 30, the count taped inside the report, and a clean sheet earns the sticker. The kids find this part very important.
Knock, sock, seal, score
The Squad method
Family pest control fails two ways: chemistry aimed at the wrong animal, and chemistry aimed at the family. The Squad runs neither play. Every visit opens with an identification — the jar goes home with a label, not a guess — and every placement lives in a wall void, a locked station or a sealed crack, places a two-year-old cannot engineer access to. The method is integrated pest management with the vocabulary translated for the minivan: identify first, exclude second, place last, prove on paper.
The Boot
$139one-time
- Full interior and exterior visit, jar included
- Species named on the report, in crayon-friendly type
- One wasp or hornet nest removed at dusk
- Every entry they used sealed the same visit
- 30-day free re-check, no debate
- Season monitoring between visits
Covers ants, spiders, roaches, silverfish and one nest.
The Season Pass
$42/ month
- Four visits timed to the school calendar, not the spray calendar
- Monitors read and graphed every visit
- Wasp queen band on the eaves each May
- Unlimited call-backs between visits
- Cancel any month — a pass, not a contract
The Fortress
$76/ month
- Everything in the Season Pass
- Flea and tick yard program for the dog months
- Full exclusion audit in year one, photographed
- Mosquito line on the foliage, April to September
- Same-week emergency slots held open
Services
The playground four
01
Odorous house ants — the coconut trail
The trail across the counter smells faintly of coconut when squished, and spraying it is the one move that makes it worse: the colony buds into five and inherits the house. The Squad baits instead — a sweet gel the workers carry home to every queen — and seals the sill gap the scouts used. Trail gone in about four days, gone for good, and the report says which gel by name.
02
Wasps & the May queen band
A founding queen in May is forty wasps by July and a playground emergency by August. Nests come down at dusk when the colony is home; better, the eaves get a repellent band in May so the queen shops elsewhere. The play-set beams get the same pass — one spring hour that buys the whole summer.
03
Fleas & ticks — the dog months
The program runs the yard on the calendar the vet keeps: an insect growth regulator in the shaded runs where larvae develop, a residual on the resting lines, and the indoor placements high and locked. Re-entry for the dog is an hour; the cat stays out of the treated rooms until dry, and the report carries the product names for the vet’s file.
04
Mosquitoes — the birthday-party problem
Dunks in the tire swing’s puddle and the gutter’s low corner, a residual on the underside of the foliage where adults rest, and a water walk that finds the container nobody remembered. Biting stops at the property line for about three weeks a visit — long enough that the party calendar and the treatment calendar can be the same document.
Sticker-verified · 2025 — 2026
The Squad on the job
Six stops off last season’s route sheets. The mascot is optional; the count sheets are not.
The Squad, in figures
The PTA hired them for the sprinkler park after two wasp summers, and the May eave band ended it. The techs explain everything at eight-year-old height, the report has a sticker, and my daughter now identifies odorous house ants by smell, which is a dinner-party skill I did not plan on.
Our dog brought home fleas and the house brought home a baby, in the same month. The placements went high and locked, the yard program ran the shaded runs, and the re-entry was honestly forty minutes — I timed it, because I was that parent. The vet got the product names for her file without asking.
We run a daycare, which means the state form and the parents both want paperwork. The Squad’s reports name the species, the product, the placement height and the re-entry time, and the licensing visit took nine minutes. The count sheet is on the fridge beside the lunch menu.
Before you call
Asked at the door
The five every parent asks on the porch. If yours is missing, the dispatch line at the bottom of this page runs seven to six — and Saturdays, because Saturdays are when it happens.
Is it safe with a toddler and a dog?
That is the whole design. Placements live in wall voids, cabinet kick-plates and locked stations — above reach and behind doors — never on floors, counters or the grass the bare feet use. Re-entry is forty minutes after the interior gel sets, exterior play can resume once the foliage is dry, and every product is named on the report for the pediatrician or the vet to read before we open a container.
Do we have to leave the house?
No — placement, not fog. Product goes where the pest lives, not where your family does, and most visits the kids watch the identification through the door and ask better questions than most adults. Forty minutes after the last placement, the rooms are the rooms.
Why bait instead of spray for the ant trail?
Because odorous house ants bud under spray: kill the workers on the counter and the colony splits, each fragment with its own queens, and now it is hereditary. The gel lets the workers do the delivering — the colony collapses at the source in days — and then we seal the sill so the next scout has to start over outdoors.
What if it rains on the yard treatment?
The residual on the foliage needs about thirty minutes of dry to set, and the forecast is checked before the truck rolls — a rained-off visit is rescheduled free, not charged and repeated. The dunk in standing water is, obviously, waterproof. We live in the same weather you do and the calendar reflects it.
What does the 30-day re-check actually cover?
Live activity of anything on the original report inside 30 days — the follow-up visit is free, on the calendar inside 48 hours, and the monitors get re-read rather than the gel re-flung. It is not conditional on cleanliness, weather or whether the neighbor’s yard is a nature preserve. The sticker is for morale; the clause is the contract.
Saturday slots book first — wasp nests before July, fleas with the dog months · (555) 044-9083 · squad@skittersquad.example
Call in the Squad
Town, what you are seeing, and the ages of everyone who might lick a baseboard — it changes the placement map, honestly. A specimen in a jar beats a paragraph of guessing, and the first visit names the species either way. squad@skittersquad.example