Heritage Pest Control

During the winter months before termites begin to swarm is the best time to have your northern New Jersey home inspected for possible termite infestation. Northern New Jersey is home to the Eastern subterranean termite which begins swarming as early as March with termite swarms continuing through April and May. Swarming is the behavior termites use [...]

Just because we don’t see insects crawling or buzzing around outdoors during the winter doesn’t mean they’re gone. While some insects do die back or enter a type of hibernation during northern New Jersey’s cold winter months, many insects simply move indoors where it’s warm and toasty.   Termites are among the damage-causing insects that [...]

What do you do if the worst happens and despite your most careful precautions your college student brings home bed bugs and they start to infest your northern New Jersey house? With bed bugs rampant at college campuses across the country, it’s every New Jersey parent’s nightmare scenario. As soon as there is even the [...]

If bed bugs have been a problem at your college student’s campus, take precautions when he comes home. To avoid contaminating your home, unpack suitcases, laundry baskets, boxes and back packs in the garage or in a cleared portion of your laundry room. Carefully inspect items for signs of bed bugs. Look for live bugs, [...]

When college students came home for the holidays, parents used to worry about a stray cockroach crawling out of their laundry bag. Today, parents worry that their children will bring home bed bugs. This year college campuses across the country have reported bed bug infestations in campus dorms, lecture halls, classrooms and off-campus housing. There isn’t [...]

Santa isn’t the only one who may be coming down your chimney this month. Raccoons find chimneys ideal places to build their dens. Northern New Jersey chimneys provide cozy spots for raccoons to wait out the cold winter months, and they make ideal nurseries come spring. Raccoons favor tall structures like hollow trees that can be [...]

The incidence of childhood asthma has been increasing steadily for decades, perplexing scientists who have postulated causes including city pollution to second-hand smoke. As it turns out, the primary culprit is the common household cockroach, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. Cockroach saliva, feces and dust from decomposing cockroach carcasses generate hyper-sensitive [...]

Your family is precious to you. As a parent you strive every day to protect your children from danger so that they’ll grow up strong and healthy. So why would you risk exposing them to powerful commercial chemicals when you have a pest control problem in your home? While there are times when certain chemicals [...]

Bed bug infestations in northern New Jersey have become so numerous and created such volatile strife between tenants and landlords that the New Jersey legislature is currently considering ground breaking bed bug legislation. If passed, many hope New Jersey’s bed bug legislation will serve as a model for bed bug legislation in other states. Already passed [...]

You can’t rid your home of bed bugs with a can of Raid. Even the most powerful pesticide available from your local hardware or home store won’t touch these nocturnal vampire bugs. Bed bugs have a hard cuticle that is difficult to penetrate. Coupled with genetic immunity built up over generations of exposure to lethal [...]