Since 2008 | 2-Year Guaranteed ERADICATION™ | Licensed and Insured
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We provide a professional, guaranteed eradication program for the poison ivy on your property. We treat your infestation, permanently killing the poison ivy, roots and all.
We guarantee our work. If you find any live poison ivy in the treated area this year or the next calendar year, send a photo of it and we will retreat at no charge. The poison ivy we kill is DEAD. It won't ever come back.
Please note that we can not guarantee more than 2nd calendar year since we can not stop birds from flying over and dropping new seeds.
LEARN MORE"Leaves of Three, Let It Be," or maybe "Hairy Vine, No Friend of Mine" . . . in any case the advice is well taken, unless you're in the fortunate 15% of the population that isn't affected by poison ivy or its cousins, poison oak and poison sumac. They all contain an oil, urushiol (o ͝oˈro ͞oSHēˌôl) that can cause rashes, blisters and itching within a few hours or up to two weeks.
We are licensed and insured professional poison ivy eradicators serving all of Massachusetts. Pricing is time, materials, and travel time, so it varies by distance with starting points for each town that may be adequate for smaller jobs and may cover your property. We can't give you a final price without seeing how much poison ivy you have and what challenges there may be in eradicating it. No job is too small, so contact us today to schedule an educational site visit.
Poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) is neither a poison nor an ivy. It is an allergen and a member of the Anacardiaceae family that also includes pistachios, mangos and cashews. Poison ivy, along with its cousins, can cause a red, itchy rash called allergic contact dermatitis from the urushiol. The body considers it harmful and reacts to protect you from it. You may not appreciate the attempt! Your body can become sensitive to the oil through contact, sometimes over many exposures over many years, sometimes on first contact.
Urushiol is present in all part of the poison ivy plant: leaves, vines, stems and flowers. All parts of the mango plant EXCEPT the fruit can cause the rash. Cashew shells contain the oil which is removed before packaging. That's the reason you've never seen a cashew in it's shell! Pistachios don't have the oil at all.
Poison ivy grows anywhere and can be a free-standing shrub, a rope-like vine on a tree or a trailing vine along the ground. It has three leaflets attached to the same smooth stem. Two leaflets are opposite each other and may/may not be mirror images. The third attaches with a short stem. They are sometimes a glossy, bright green but may be dull, any shade of green, and sometimes reddish or brownish green. It's shape and color are moving targets from the the common 2-4" slightly longer than wide, with or without "teeth" or "lobed" leaves to long, narrow. Occassionally up to 8-9" in length. Poison ivy is one of the first plants to show fall colors, beautiful yellows and reds.
67 Shrewsbury Street, Boylston, Massachusetts 01505, United States
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