Category: Home Pest Control
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Voles – How Do You Know if You Have Them?
You may be familiar with grub and insect munching moles, but have you ever heard of voles? These small, mouse-like rodents feed on plant roots, tubers and bulbs, and in the winter on roots and bark, causing significant damage to landscaping large and small throughout your yard. Vole hole or mole hole? Identification can be…
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Five Quick Tips to Keep Mosquitoes Away From Your Evening Cookout
Nothing ruins an evening cookout like a swarm of blood-thirsty mosquitoes. Follow these tips from our mosquito extermination experts to make your next cookout mosquito free: 1. Dress for success. Keep a layer of clothing between you and these blood-sucking pests by wearing long pants and long sleeves. 2. Destroy mosquito breeding grounds. Mosquitoes lay their…
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Top Three Invasive Pests from Abroad
Burmese pythons are slithering through the Everglades. Russian Zebra mussels are clogging water intake pipes in the Great Lakes. Asian longhorned beetles are killing trees in the Northeast. More than 50,000 alien plant and animal species are creeping and crawling across the U.S., competing against and too often overwhelming beneficial native species. Why Invasives Are…
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Five Fun Facts About Drug Store Beetles
Drug store beetles, also known as biscuit or bread beetles, are part of a class of pantry pests widely known for the destruction of processed and packaged goods. These tiny brown beetles, about 1/10-1/7 inch long in size, have an array of interesting features: 1. They are packed with B vitamins. Literally. The beetles are…
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The Allison Pest Control Difference is Experience
Suffering from pest problems in your New Jersey home? You want relief fast. How do you choose between the myriad of pest control options available? If you’re looking for the fast, definitive extermination of pests, experience matters – and Allison Pest Control has it in spades. Nearly a century of experience. Now one of the…