Heritage Pest Control

With swarming season about to begin, northern New Jersey home and business owners should be alert for signs of termite infestation. As noted in our previous post, swarming termites are a certain indication of an entrenched termite infestation in the immediate area. Termites swarm to expand their colonies but these inexpert fliers don’t always fly [...]

Termites are active year round; but as spring nears mature colonies expand their territories, sending specialized colony members called “winged reproducers” to establish new termite colonies. March is when termites start to swarm in northern New Jersey, and they continue swarming through May. As the ground warms, subterranean termite colonies send hundreds of winged reproducers climbing [...]

If you suspect bed bugs have invaded your northern New Jersey home or business, immediately call Heritage Pest Control, the bed bug experts. Exterminating bed bugs is not a do-it-yourself job. You cannot kill bed bugs with household or garden pesticides; you will only spread them, increasing the area of  infestation. Over decades of battle [...]

The Canadians may not be leading the Olympic medal count, but they’ve certainly cornered the bed bug market at the Vancouver games. In our last post we shared the travails of Canadian downhiller Manny Osborne-Paradis who’s been complaining about being nibbled on by bed bugs at the private Vancouver condo where the team is staying. [...]

The problems at the Vancouver Olympics just keep coming. Not only do they have less snow than we have here in Northern New Jersey, now it seems bed bugs are nibbling on Olympic athletes. Canada has experienced the same resurgence in bed bug populations over the last five years as the U.S. Bed bug infestations [...]

Those hand-print shaped tracks you see in the snow mean raccoons and possums are exploring your yard. Humans aren’t the only critters whose thoughts turn to love around Valentine’s Day. Raccoons, possums, squirrels and other nuisance wildlife are preparing to continue the cycle of life. March begins birthing season for these animals and wildlife moms are busy scouting [...]

Insects are tiny and annoying. When they invade your home they usually do so in prodigious numbers. When you call your northern New Jersey pest control professional for help, you don’t really care what the nasty little critters are called, you just want them out of your house. However, figuring out exactly what is bugging [...]

Good news for northern New Jersey residents. After stalling out in the lame duck legislature at the end of last year, a potentially landmark New Jersey bed bug bill is back on track for passage early this year. Reintroduced last month by Assemblywoman Joan Quigley, New Jersey bill A-2072 passed the Assembly Housing and Local [...]

New Jersey researchers at Rutgers University have come up with an inexpensive homemade bed bug trap. Costing about $20, the MacGyver-like contraption can be built from a thermos, dry ice, talcum powder and pet food dish. Here’s how it works: An insulated thermos filled with dry ice is placed on an inverted plastic pet food dish. Bed [...]

A mouse in the house is cute in Disney movies but not so funny when a furry critter runs across your kitchen floor. Mice seek shelter indoors when it’s cold out and food is scare. Your toasty home and well-stocked kitchen offer mice just the accommodations they’re looking for to weather the cold winter months [...]