Category: Nuisance Insects
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How to Save Your Backyard Picnic
Flies floating in your fruit juice? Ants marching away with your apple pie? Mosquitos using your body as an all-you-can-eat buffet? Save your backyard picnic from pests with these NJ pest control tips: Dress the part. Although bright colors are festive, they tend to draw in bugs. Opt for cool neutrals to blend in and…
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Five Fun Facts About Stink Bugs
You might think that a name like stink bugs tells you everything you need to know about this pest. But as with most living creatures, there’s more to their story. Brown marmorated stink bugs are native to the Far East countries of Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan. They’ve been growing in numbers since they first allegedly…
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Ripe Summer Fruit Attracts Fruit Flies to Monmouth County Kitchens
If you find a cloud of tiny flies buzzing around your kitchen counter fruit bowl, something in the bowl has probably turned. Fruit flies are attracted to overripe and fermenting fruit and vegetables. These miniscule flies feed on the high sugar content found in decaying fruits and vegetables and use the surface of spoiled produce…
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Homemade Stink Bug Trap Hits the Market
Don’t let this season’s hard-won spring be tainted with the foul odor of stink bugs. There is a new, inexpensive, effective, and pesticide-free stink bug solution to liberate your home of these invasive, smelly pests. All it takes is a roasting pan, dish soap, and a light. Fill a disposable foil roasting pan with water…
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Are Pavement Ants Swarming into Your Monmouth County Home or Business?
As the ground warms, pavement ants start swarming up from their underground nests in search of food. You’ve probably seen these small ants massed along the edges of sidewalks or swarming over dropped food. Black to brown and barely 1/8 inch long, pavement ants live in nests under sidewalks, driveways, patios and slab-constructed buildings. A particular nuisance in the…
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Exterior Treatment Is Best Way to Exterminate Clover Mites
As soon as spring temperatures reach the 70s, clover mite eggs hatch and these tiny red mites start swarming over sunny building walls, plants and tree trunks by the thousands. If you are gardening where clover mites are present, they will swarm over your gloves or shoes and up your arms or legs. Plant-eating nuisance…