About Company
Mosquito Control of Iowa has been
doing mosquito control for cities in Iowa for over 40 years.
We started spraying in the late 1960s as Bode Spraying
Service. The company
started out in ag spraying and was asked to spray home county road
ditches that expanded to spraying over 4000 miles a year in several
counties in northern Iowa.
In the late 1970s we started to do mosquito control for
cities in Iowa. The need
for mosquito control was growing during that time and the road ditch
spraying was fading for counties as the state was giving grants to
counties for the living roadway trust.
We focused on the mosquito control side and renamed company
to Mosquito Control of Iowa.
We now deal with over 150 towns in Iowa and also cities in
Minnesota and South Dakota.
We have maintained over 98% renewal in contracts with the
cities over the years.
The mosquito control market has reached saturation for our work
areas. We have been
looking at getting back in to the vegetation management for the past
few years.
Please read the attached Jefferson
Herald news paper article from 1983 writing in one the counties that
we were doing road ditch spraying. Back then we were the first
company that had computerized control system on a ditch spraying
truck. The equipment
that we are building for the reentry back in to the vegetation
management market will be of the highest standards to achieve the
best control and safest application of the chemicals.