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 There are many different types of ant species in New Jersey that bother homeowners. It can be difficult to tell the difference between ants. Unless you are a New Jersey pest control professional or an entomologist, all ants may look alike.
Dealing with an ant infestation inside of your home is extremely frustrating. Homes have many places for ants to hide and nest on the inside as well as on the outside of the home. One particularly annoying ant is the odorous house ant. This pesky ant is notoriously hard to treat throughout New Jersey as well as the entire United States. It has earned its name well by the distinct sweet smelling rotten coconut stench that it emits when it is squished.
The odorous house ant nest is commonly found outdoors just below the soil surface, in mulch, under rock beds, in woodpiles, in flower pots, under siding, and under pavement stones. Once they break away from their outdoor nesting site, homeowners often find them indoors occupying wall voids, under carpets or wood floors, in potted plants, and even in appliances. Do-it-yourselfers beware, using a store-bought ant spray will cause these ants to scatter. Once they scatter, the colony will relocate and often times disperse into satellite colonies thereby spreading the infestation.
Controlling odorous house ant infestations can be a difficult endeavor. Heritage Pest Control’s technicians are trained to find ant nesting sites so that full eradication can be achieved.
 For most New Jersey residents, buying a home is the most expensive investment they will make. It is important to protect that investment from unwanted pests that can invade at any moment in time say NJ Pest Control experts.
Carpenter ants cause huge problems for homeowners throughout New Jersey. These pests do most of their damage at night as they are typically nocturnal creatures. Like termites, they cause thousands of dollars in damage to New Jersey homes each year. Once they decide to invade a structure, an entire colony numbering into the thousands can move inside overnight.
Unlike termites which eat wood sources, carpenter ants excavate wood to make their nests. When they migrate into a structure, they move their eggs, larvae and pupae with them in one massive move. Carpenter ants need moisture to survive. Wood that is damaged by rain, leaking faucets or pipes, water heaters, soffits, or gutters, are an open invitation for carpenter ants to come indoors.
Carpenter ant nests are often found under floors, in wall voids, under roofing material, in or under kitchen or bathroom cabinets, or any place where moisture has damaged wood sources. A New Jersey pest control technician is trained to find carpenter ant nesting spots so that they can be stopped before too much damage can be inflicted.
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Apartment buildings and other buildings such as hotels, motels, condos, and townhouses that have bed bugs are faced with huge challenges when it comes to eradicating the infestations. Shared walls allow bed bugs ample places to hide and multiply. Multi-unit buildings allow bed bugs the opportunity to move from unit to unit establishing a presence. Bed bugs use the electrical wiring, plumbing, and cables to travel with ease from victim to victim.
Many multi-unit buildings make the mistake of providing treatment to the unit that they believe that the bed bugs are infesting. At the very minimum, the units above, below, and on each adjoining side of the known infested unit must receive treatment from a pest control professional in order to stop a bed bug infestation. The best way to achieve eradication however is to treat the entire building at one time so that surviving bed bugs do not have the opportunity to re-establish themselves in the same or other units within the building.
Bed bugs are aggressive creatures that require an aggressive approach to eliminating their presence. Many strains of bed bugs are pesticide resistant so they can be very difficult to eradicate. A licensed pest control operator who uses Integrated Pest Management techniques can help eradicate bed bugs in all types of buildings.
Try as you may to avoid bed bugs in your daily life and you still may find that you are plagued with the bloodsucking insects say NJ pest control professionals. Bed bugs are tenacious creatures that can strike at any moment in time. They can be found any place that humans frequent and can be picked up with the greatest of ease.
A University of South Carolina student and her family have learned the hard way just how cleaver bed bugs can be. According to WISTV.Com the student claims that she moved into an off-site campus apartment building at the beginning of the new school semester. It did not take long for her sleep to become disrupted by bloodsucking bed bugs. The nocturnal nibblers began their nightly attacks soon after her arrival. The student claims that her furniture was new when she moved into the apartment complex so it is impossible that she brought the bed bugs in with her.
Unable to withstand the nightly attacks, the student moved back home while her apartment was in the process of being treated for the bugs. Unbeknownst to her, the bed bugs apparently hitched a ride home to her mother’s house. It did not take long for the bugs to infiltrate the family home as well. The family has had to endure months of nightly attacks and costly bed bug treatments to try to rid their home of the nasty nibblers. To date, both the apartment and the family home still have bed bugs! You may read the article here.
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 New Jersey pest control professionals see first-hand how quickly one mouse living the good life in a New Jersey home can multiply out-of-control. Once a house mouse has moved into a dwelling, one silly little mouse can turn into hundreds of mice in no time at all!
Mice are prolific breeders. A pregnant female mouse carries her litter for 18 to 21 days. On average each mouse litter contains five or six pups per birthing cycle, but it would not be uncommon for a litter to contain as little as three pups or as many as a twelve pup off-spring. Male and female mice are capable of breeding as early as five weeks of age, but typically females mature at six weeks and males at eight weeks. The lifespan of a wild mouse is approximately 12 to 18 months and a female mouse can produce at least five litters during that timeframe.
Mice need food, water, and shelter to survive. They are nocturnal creatures that do not typically venture more than ten feet from their nesting site. Once a mouse has invaded a home, it will not leave on its own accord. Hiring a northern New Jersey pest control professional that has experience in mice removal is key eliminating these pests. For expert services in Bergen County, Essex County, Hudson County, Morris County, Passaic County, and West Essex County contact Heritage Pest Control.
 Bed bug infestations are a problem in all types of living environments says New Jersey pest control professionals. Hotels and motels must make the choice of treating the problem or face consequences by the loss of revenues, the loss of a good reputation, or the problem being identified and their name being placed on a public website for all to see.
When a homeless shelter becomes infested with bed bugs, there is not always a huge rush to provide bed bug eradication services. More times than not, shelters are financially strapped and are unable to come up with the funds needed to kill the bloodsuckers.
KPRC reported on January 20, 2012 that women and children are being attacked by bed bugs at a homeless shelter in Webster, Texas. Out of desperation to keep the bed bugs from biting her small children, “one woman claims she had to buy plastic crates to put her babies in so they don’t get bitten.” Another woman said that her daughter “was in bed for one hour and she had 50 bites on her legs.” You may read the article here.
Some types of pests, such as cockroaches, thrive in filth ridden environments. Having bed bugs is not a sanitation issue, although clutter does provide ample places for them to hide. Bed bugs survive solely on blood, preferably from humans. Bed bug infestations are difficult to control without the help of a licensed pest control professional who has experience with bed bug eradication.
Hiring a licensed pest control company should be an easy task. Consumers rely on the expertise of the technician and the company that they represent to administer the correct pesticides. If the correct amount of insecticide is not administered, serious or even fatal consequences can arise.
On February 5, 2010, a pest control company was hired to kill voles at a residence in Utah. According to reports, during the treatment of the property, the pest control technician administered poison too close to the family home. Soon after the poison was administered, the two small daughters (4 years old and 15 months), became ill when the gases from the pesticide leaked into the walls of the structure of their home. Both girls sustained extensive lung damage as a result of their exposure to the gas, and soon died from their injuries.
Initially, the pest control technician and the company that he worked for did not admit any wrongdoing in administering the pesticide. Fox13now.com reported on January 6, 2012 that the pest control technician has since admitted that his actions “lead to the deaths” of the two girls. He was sentenced to 36 months of probation and given a $3,000 fine for his actions. The pest control company maintains that there was no wrongdoing, but was also given the same sentencing in this matter. You may read the article here.
Pest control technicians have an obligation to provide services to their customers without causing harm. Heritage Pest Control has been providing northern NJ pest control services to customers for over 22 years and safety is a top priority for our knowledgeable staff.
 To date, New Jersey residents have been pretty lucky with our sporadic warmer than usual winter temperatures. Many wild animals may still be enjoying the great outdoors, but it won’t be long before they will need to find a place to hunker down for the cold months ahead, report NJ pest control professionals.
Screened attic vents, soffits, and even attached roofing material are no match for the skill and desire of a raccoon. The arrival of nuisance wildlife can occur at any moment in time. They tend to invade human structures to have access to food, water and shelter. In order to eliminate raccoons and other nuisance wildlife from your home, it’s imperative that a professional evaluation be completed so that entry points can be discovered, damage assessed, and a proper treatment or exclusion plan designed.
Heritage Pest Control reports that wild animals are not only difficult to eliminate from a structure, they can also be dangerous to encounter, especially when they are defending their young. In addition to animal encounter issues, the urine and feces left behind by invading nuisance wildlife can be harmful to humans.
Heritage Pest Control offers expert wildlife exclusion, humane trapping and removal services to Northern New Jersey residents. Call us today to see how our wildlife control program can help you.
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If you have a stinging wound, you can crush up a cockroach and place it on the wound for instant relief.
Cockroaches wear their skeletons on the outside of their body.
Cockroaches bleed white blood, not red.
Cockroaches have faster reflexes than humans which is why it is so difficult to sneak up on them to kill them.
Cockroaches can scale a wall like Spider Man thanks to the help of the tiny little claws on their feet.
Cockroaches will eat any type of food source that they find. Nothing is off-limits to a hungry cockroach. Void of food sources, cockroaches will also eat, hair, human dander, leather, beer, starch in book bindings, soap, toothpaste, cardboard, paper shelf backing, paper, decaying organic matter, beer, sweets, glue and so much more.
In Germany, the German cockroach is called the “Russian Roach”. In Russia, it is called the “Polish Roach”. Nobody is sure why in America cockroaches are called water bugs or where the name “cockroach” came from in any country.
Cockroaches can be found in any part of a home but tend to prefer the kitchen area so they have easy access to food preparation and feed off food spills. Once cockroaches have moved into your home or business, they are very difficult to control. Hiring a NJ Pest Control professional is the best option for controlling invading cockroaches.
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• Cockroaches spend approximately 75% of their time resting. The other 25% they are foraging for food, laying eggs, contaminating food sources/areas, and terrifying humans.
• Traditional bug bombs don’t work on cockroach infestations. Cockroaches are able to hold their breath for up to 40 minutes. Once they detect the poison in the air, they hold their breath and run.
• Have you seen any white cockroaches in your home? Don’t be afraid, it’s not the ghost of one that you squished coming to haunt you! Cockroaches will shed their skin a couple of times each year. Once they do, they are white for about 8 hours until they return to their normal coloring.
• Cockroaches are super-fast runners. They can easily run up to three miles an hour to avoid being wacked with a shoe.
• Cockroaches can survive a month without food, but will die after a week without water.
• A cockroach can survive a week without its head. It only dies because it does not have a mouth to drink water!
• Young cockroaches only need a space as slim as a dime to slip in and out of your home. Adult males need a space as thick as a quarter. Adult females with an egg sack need the equivalent of 2 nickels stacked on top of each other.
Please check back on Monday for the conclusion.
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