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  • Colder Winter Means Fewer Spring Pests

    It’s hard to believe we all made it through this winter. Record-setting frigid temperatures and snowfall made day-to-day activities challenging, to say the least. There is at least one silver lining to this brutal season, though. Experts say we’ll see reduced levels of pests this spring. Most insects are not warm-blooded. That fact, combined with…

  • 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…

  • New Tick Threat in New Jersey

    Most Ocean County, New Jersey residents don’t start thinking about ticks and the disease risk they pose until June; but it was early May when a 51-year-old Warren County woman died from a tick bite. The tick-borne disease the woman contracted, Powassan virus, an encephalitis virus that causes inflammation of the brain, is so rare…

  • Squirrel Control: How to Get Rid of the Squirrels Invading Your Home

    Squirrels are everywhere. It does not matter if you live in a rural area, the suburbs or a bustling city; they will find a way to thrive in the area that you live in. Sometimes, that means that they will live in your home. Squirrels will get into the walls, the attic, cabinets and every other…

  • How to Keep Carpenter Ants Out of Your Home

    Big and black, carpenter ants are the undisputed kings of the New Jersey ant kingdom and a formidable wood destroying pest. Unlike termites, carpenter ants do not eat wood; but the tunnels they carve into wood are nearly as destructive. Carpenter ants live in wood planks and beams, chewing long tunnels and large galleries into…

  • What to Do If You Find Insect Wings

    If you find discarded insect wings littering the floor of your basement or garage or scattered over the windowsills of your Monmouth County, NJ home; you have a serious insect problem and should call an experienced insect exterminator NJ immediately. A litter of discarded insect wings indicates a mature infestation of either termites or carpenter…