Category: Home Pest Control
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Could the Rats on Your Property be Norway Rats? How to Know
Rats from Norway? Actually not. Amplified over the years resulting from a mistaken 18th century theory, this Central Asian rat goes by a slew of aliases, including common rat, brown rat, street rat, sewer rat, Hanover rat, and wharf rat. How can you tell if these Norwegian nincompoops have hijacked your home? Their mangy mugshot……
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Top Problem New Jersey Winter Pests
Just because pests are out of sight and out of mind that does not mean they are absent from your home. Pests are clever enough to conceal their presence. They also have heat detecting abilities that humans lack. Rodents and insects notice the warmth emanating from your home and they will seek shelter in it…
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Can Mice and Rats Be Present Together?
Do you have a mouse problem? Or is it a rat problem? Maybe you’re not sure, or maybe it’s both! Here at Allison Pest Control, we get so many questions about mice and rats. Some people are sure they have seen rodents big and small, so they assume they must have them both in their…
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Is It a Rat or a Mouse? How to Know
It’s dusk and you see something small and dark scurrying across the floor of your garage, deck, backyard patio, or one of the rooms in your home. You don’t have an indoor or outdoor pet, it isn’t a flying squirrel, and you don’t have any critters that may have gotten loose from their pen like…
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Squirrel Poop 101 – The Key to Identification
What kind of rodent poop is littering your attic? It pays to know for effective pest eradication – and for preventing the transmission of diseases via that funky feces. Differentiate the dung The most common attic offenders are the red and gray squirrel. Appearance Squirrel dung typically looks like a smattering of wild rice, as…
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Little Known Facts About Squirrels
Though pesky when infiltrating areas to which they don’t belong, squirrels are nonetheless fascinating creatures. Did you know… Squirrels are rodents of the genus Sciurus and large family Sciuridae, which includes chipmunks, marmots, and prairie dogs. Groups of squirrels are called “scurries.” There are 1,650 species of squirrel, which typically possess a large bushy tail,…