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  • Drain Care Tips to Keep Out Drain Flies

    Drain flies are small, dark, fuzzy flies that breed in the stagnant organic slime that collects inside drains. A common pest in sewer treatment plants, drain flies can also be a problem around bathroom showers, household sinks and basement floor drains into which washing machines discharge. Drain flies have a short lifespan, about a month,…

  • Zombie Ants? Really?

    A staple of horror films, zombies have never been so popular. Hollywood seems fascinated by a zombie apocalypse while AMC’s The Walking Dead brings the flesh-eating undead into our living rooms. Of course, in the human world zombies don’t actually exist. But in the animal world it’s a different story. Evil Fungi In Thailand’s rainforest…

  • Interesting Facts About Termites

    Termites are like a stealth wood shredder. These tiny insects attack your home from their underground nests, gnawing into soft, wet, damaged wood before chewing into healthy wood. A termite colony of 60,000 insects can munch through one lineal foot of pine 2×4 every 120 days. But termite colonies can include hundreds of thousands to…

  • Five Interesting Facts About Flying Ants

    When colonies grow too large and need to expand, a number of ant species produce winged reproductives called swarmers. The species Monmouth and Ocean County, New Jersey home and business owners need to worry about is carpenter ants. These large, black ants tunnel into wood, chewing out large galleries where they live and raise their…

  • What’s Bugging You? No Need to Go It Alone with Our Free Pest ID

    When bed bugs first reappeared in the U.S. people started panicking. Any stray bug found in a bedroom provoked fear of a bed bug attack. Frightened home owners started sending captured or smashed insects to college entomology departments asking if they had bed bugs. What’s Bugging You? Because most insects are small and quick, one bug can…

  • Are You Sitting on an Ant Super Colony?

    If you are having problems controlling ants in your Monmouth or Ocean County home, you may be plagued by an ant super colony. What is an ant super colony? Typically, ants form colonies with only one nest and one queen. However in some species such as Argentine ants and odorous house ants, when nests fill,…