Tag: pest control
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Sharp Teeth and Persistence Make Squirrels a Formidable Pest
Squirrels may seem cute when they’re leaping through the branches of your backyard trees; but when they move into your attic, these tree-dwelling rodents quickly go from cute to headache. Common along the Eastern Seaboard from Canada to Florida, the Eastern gray squirrel found in Monmouth County and Ocean County, New Jersey is one of…
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Bed Bugs Love a Crowd
Bed bugs apparently love a crowd. A new study by North Carolina State University researchers shows that bed bugs develop faster when they live in large groups. The same quick-growth phenomenon has been observed in large populations of cockroaches, crickets and grasshoppers; but this is the first study to explore the impact group living has…
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Don’t Risk Your Health on Do-It-Yourself Bed Bug Treatments
Attempts to self-treat bed bug infestations could place your family’s health at risk, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warns. After one death and 129 health problems linked to home use of bed bug pesticides were reported between 2006 and 2010, the federal agency issued a national health advisory “alerting the public to…
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Bed Bugs: A Threat for All Seasons
You may think that cold temperatures are enough to stave off the threat of bed bugs during the winter months. The fact is that these pests can invade a household at any time of the year. Exposing bed bugs to freezing temperatures has long been one of the conventional methods of eliminating them. However, NBC News…
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Squirrel Families – Visitors You Don’t Want
During the winter, a lot of the animals that you would normally see outside seek refuge indoors where it’s nice and warm. On the whole, we’ve done a great job of developing our neighborhoods in this country, so animals like mice, squirrels and birds have less options outside, so they look for other places to…