What to Do During a Home Inspection
A home inspection is a professional consultation that is performed to determine the condition of a home and its systems through a visual inspection of features that are accessible. What Happens During a Home Inspection? A home inspection provides a field evaluation of...
Rodent Control: If You Don’t Think your House Has Rodents, Think Again.
Based on data from the National Pest Management Association (NPMA), rodent control is a problem for about one-third of all the residents in America. Missy Henriksen, who serves as the Vice President of Public Affairs of the NPMA, has expounded on the fact that rodents...
What’s That in My Bathtub?
Have you recently witnessed a frightening pest that appears to have hundreds of long legs and move exceptionally fast in your bathtub, or other areas in your home, such as a sink? The house centipede appears to be quite fierce and extremely threatening. The thing is...
Get Your Cracks Inspected and Repaired This Winter
Cracks in your home invite bugs. Repairing these cracks can both prevent and solve infestations of common winter pests. If you're seeing an influx of bugs and don't know where your home's vulnerabilities lie - or how to fix them, you can have your home inspected for...
Prevent Rodent Infestations by Winterizing Your Home
As the temperatures plummet, the winds become harsher, and precipitation abounds, rodents make numerous attempts to gain entry into homes by climbing, clawing, and gnawing. As a result, many types of structural damage may be experienced. Examples include roof damage,...
6 Signs Bed Bugs Have Moved to Your House
The reminder that bed bugs are alive and well in your neck of the woods shows up when there’s more hours of darkness and the weather gets cooler. Humans tend to tuck into bed earlier from late fall through early spring. To bed bugs, that’s an invitation to a food fest...
Minute Pirate Bug Populations at An All Time High This Fall
Minute pirate bugs are exceptionally small – much smaller than mosquitoes – however, recent influxes in populations in Indiana are proving that the bite of this bug is just as painful and frustrating as the bite of the mosquito. These bugs belong to a group known as...
Entomologists Warn Indiana Residents of the Potential Arrival of the Asian Longhorned Beetle
In recent years, Indiana residents have seen an immense amount of damage to tree populations by the metallic green ash borer. Entomologists now warn that this damage could dramatically increase due to the potential arrival of the Asian longhorned beetle. Appleby J E,...
Keep Pests Away from Your Home This Winter
It’s natural to forget about pest control during the winter. It’s cold, snowy, rainy or foggy outside. What would encourage pests like mice, ants and spiders to drop by the house for a visit? Houses are generally warmer and drier than the outdoor homes where critters...
Keeping Bugs off your Mums and Pumpkins
Bugs have a place in the world. I’d prefer them to find someplace besides my fall garden as their full-service dining and rest area. Wilted runners and leaves on the pumpkins and mums are a typical sign that unwelcome insects have dropped in for a snack, harming the...
Pest Control for Fall
Sweaters and pumpkins are just around the corner and with cooler weather, many people tend to think their pest control problems are over as well. Not so much. In truth, there are a number of pests that actually become more active and prevalent during the fall season....
End-of-Summer Pest Control Problems: Ants
Now that summer is drawing to a close, it is quite likely that you have experienced numerous run ins with a wide assortment of unwanted pests in your home, on your property, and in or around other structures, such as sheds, barns, garages, and workshops. One of the...
