Tag: pest control
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Interesting and Unusual Facts About Ants
Ants are one of Earth’s great success stories. Ancestors of ancient wasps, with whom they share their hourglass figure, ants first appeared on Earth when dinosaurs roamed the planet more than 120 million years ago. These small insects are among the few species that have survived to modern times largely unchanged. An amazingly hardy species,…
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Put Your Mind at Ease With a Free Pest Inspection
There’s nothing worse than finding out that one of your neighbors has a pest control problem. Immediately, your thoughts turn to your own home, and you start to wonder if you might have the same problem without knowing it. This time of year, pest control issues are fairly common in New Jersey, and it’s a…
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What is the Most Painful Place for a Bee Sting?
You don’t have to be a child to feel the intense pain that’s brought on by a bee sting. Now that spring is here, you’re probably noticing a lot more bugs in your back yard, as well as more bees than you’d like to see. Even though a certain number of bees is good for…
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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…
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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…