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Insects In And Around Your Home Or Business

Insects In And Around Your Home Or Business Wasps Because of their painful stings, which sometimes can be fatal to some allergic individuals – wasps should be dealt with quickly whenever they are seen near homes and buildings. Their colonies can be found in leaves, trees, shrubs, walls, inside attics, etc. There are several varieties of wasps in the United States, including hornets, paper wasp, and yellow jackets. The color ranges from black to combinations of black with yellow, white or brown markings. All wasps don’t sting; only the queens and workers have egg-laying tubes forming the stinger. Wasps are most common during warm spring and summer months and are most active during daylight. To ensure wasps stay away from your home or garden, always pick up fallen fruits and refuse the ones that attract wasps. Seal all holes around the house. If you have a wasp nest on your property, call us for the best treatment. Ants In and Around the House Ants are social insects and live in la
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Pest Control Services – Rodents

Pest Control Services – Rodents House Mouse The adult house mouse is small and slender – about 1-2 inches long, excluding the tail. It has a pointed nose, large ears, small eyes, and a nearly hairless tail. The tail is as long as the head and body combined. The color varies a bit. It is usually light grey or brown but could also be in darker shades. More here on San Antonio Rodent Control Unlike other pests, house mouse numbers are not limited by lack of water. Mice can get enough water from food, even from dry cereals. If there are good living conditions, they can multiply rapidly. Females produce 8 or more litters per year, with 5 to 7 pups. House mice can gnaw through wood, asphalt shingles, and soft mortars. They can squeeze through tiny cracks 1 cm in size. House mice leave small dark brown droppings wherever they go. These droppings are the first indication of mice problems. Mice make their nest from soft materials like paper, insulation, or furniture stuffing. These nests c
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Have Insects Been Buggin.. You

This Blog was posted for you By Your Pest Control San Antonio – Jenkins Pest and Lawn Have Insects Been Buggin’.. You If you’ve ever played outside, insects have bugged you. Maybe unwelcome ants joined you at a picnic in the park or a bee buzzed around your head while you were playing catch. None of this may have bothered you – unless you were bitten or stung. Ouch! It’s enough to make you stay indoors. But the outdoors can still be a great place to play if you know a little bit more about insects. Why Do Insects Bite or Sting? Insects such as bees, wasps, spiders, scorpions, and hornets usually attack when they feel in danger. Sometimes they are protecting their territory, web, or nest. Other insects, such as mosquitoes and ticks, suck blood to survive. The female mosquito needs blood so that she can lay her eggs. (The male mosquito does not bite at all!) What Are Insect Bites and Stings? An insect injects venom into your skin when it bites or stings you. Usually, venom is like
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Termite Inspections – Termite Treatment and Control

Termite Inspections – Termite Treatment and Control If you are a home or business in a damp and humid climate, you know that the threat of termite infestation is constant. If you have termites on your premises, you may not notice them immediately or mistake them for ants. They are sometimes called white ants because they look similar, but you can distinguish termites from ants in several ways. For one thing, they are pale in color. Additionally, termite bodies do not have the distinctive slender connection of the two sections of the body. While you don’t want ants or termites in your home, you should view their presence with greater alarm because they eat wood and can cause a great deal of damage to the structure of your business or home. In this article, we will share some tips that will help alert you to the presence of termites. We will also provide some information to help you address and/or prevent termite infestation. Read on to learn more. Three Things You Can Do To Prevent/Ad
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Carpenter Ants and the Places They Hide

Carpenter Ants and the Places They Hide Carpenter ants have become more common than most people realize. Due to climate change and other variable factors, carpenter ants have started to be seen across many residential areas around the globe. The U.S. is particularly impacted across the southern portion of the country. This in effect causes a lot of distress among many households across these states as they are anxiously looking for carpenter ant treatments that are affordable and effective. Normally, you would only expect to find carpenter ants in the wild. The most common place would be in a moist area full of trees and other plant life. Carpenter ants are known to build their colonies in trees by eating their way through to the center. As more people in the United States of America have also started to grow a lot of trees and plants in their backyards, it has become quite common for many homes to find themselves infested with carpenter ants. Carpenter ants are known to be good mig
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Different Types of Pest Control Methods

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 Pest Control Pest control is going to be a major threat for mankind in the coming future. Sooner or later we will all be affected by pests as it is omnisciently present everywhere. Whether it is ants or beetles in the kitchen or weeds in the vegetable garden, pests can be annoying. At the same time, many of us are not interested in pest control and the problems caused by pests as well as the pesticides we use to control pests. Here are some questions most asked when thinking about pest control:- - How can pests be reduced and controlled safely? - Are the pesticides available, effective and safe? - How and when should pesticides be used? Pests are beneficial as well as a curse to mankind. Animals, bacteria and some insects are beneficial to people in many ways, but the same time they can also be pests. Pests such as rats, ants, cockroaches, mice and flies are common in houses and apartments. There should be an effective pest control to prevent pests in multiplying themselves in houses,
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