Q. If I hire your company to take care of my termite problem, how can I be sure that you’ll do a good job and that I’ll be a satisfied customer? What if I’m not happy with your work? Are there any guidelines, besides your own, for choosing a pest control company?
VIEW MOREA pest is a pest only if someone thinks it is! Insects and mites that are pests in one situation can be useful in another, sometimes even providing important commercial products. The honeybee is the best known example. It pollinates crops and provides honey. There are a number of less famous insects and mites that provide us with valuable products, as well:
VIEW MOREQ. We often get these beetles in our house…at least I think they’re beetles. They’re black and look kind of like a cockroach and they run really fast. I see them outside too, on our front porch. Do you know where they’re coming from?
VIEW MOREQ. People are getting bitten by something in the office where I work. It started with just a couple of people, but now several others say they have bites, too. Most of us haven’t had any bites and I’m skeptical. I think it’s all in their heads. How can we find out if we have biting bugs?
VIEW MOREQ. I’ve seen several ads for these ultrasonic pest repellers that you plug into an electrical outlet to rid your home of cockroaches, mice, and everything else. Do these things work?
VIEW MOREEveryone likes beetles. Kids are always collecting and playing with beetles. Did you know that lightning bugs, also called fire flies, are neither bugs nor flies, but are actually beetles? Beetles aren’t usually scary and we don’t worry about them biting or stinging us, so beetles are kind of fun and very interesting.
VIEW MOREQ. We had a carpenter ant problem. The pest control technician who treated our home said that carpenter ants are usually associated with moisture problems in your home but he didn’t tell us where to look for moisture problems. How do we know if we have moisture problems that could attract pests?
VIEW MOREQ. We have a small farm with a little smokehouse out back and we have some hams hanging there. When I went in there yesterday, I saw several insects crawling on the hams. They look like beetles, mostly black with yellow across the center. I tried to look them up on the Internet and the closest I could come was larder beetles. Shouldn’t larder beetles be in a kitchen?
VIEW MOREMothballs, moth crystals, or moth cakes are an age-old remedy for getting rid of everything from moths, to cockroaches, to squirrels in the attic. But do mothballs really work to repel animals from an area?
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