Heritage Pest Control

Ants are just one of many noxious pests that chronically invade northern New Jersey homes, disrupting homeowner’s lives, placing families at risk and adding to home maintenance expense. Heritage Pest Control’s Home Protection Plan gives homeowners peace of mind and protects your home and family from insect invasion for a full year. For the convenience [...]

Spring means ants if you live in northern New Jersey. Trailing lines of odorous house ants crawl across kitchen floors and into trashcans or swarm traces of juice spilled on the kitchen floor. Hard to see, pharaoh ants spread bacteria and pathogens. Busy, teaming puddles of pavement ants erupt across garden flagstones. Big, black, destructive carpenter [...]

Walking into a kitchen overrun by tiny ants can be a nightmare for northern New Jersey homeowners. Spraying trails of ants or ants swarming in trash cans or over counters with house or garden insecticides may kill the ants that don’t escape, but it doesn’t guarantee that their nest mates won’t be back. Ants communicate [...]

Unlike wood-destroying carpenter ants, most ants that bother northern New Jersey home and business owners do not cause damage and are considered nuisance pests. However, their incredible numbers can overwhelm a home or office and create havoc for residents and workers. While many ants bite, minute Pharaoh Ants are the only species common in New [...]

Spring means ants in northern New Jersey. Any large black ant seen in northern New Jersey is most likely sign of a carpenter ant infestation. Carpenter ants are the largest ants found in New Jersey and can do significant damage to buildings and other wood structures. Up to 3/4 inch long and a dull, matte [...]

Ants are as much a part of northern New Jersey spring as blooming daffodils and tulips. As soon as the weather warms, ants become more active and often invade homes in search of food. Many ant species, including destructive carpenter ants, spread by swarming. If you notice “puddles” of winged ants pooling in your lawn [...]

Just the size of an apple seed when they’re full grown, bed bug eggs and nymphs may be no bigger than the head of a pin. Bed bugs can easily crawl inside suitcases when you’re traveling and come home with you. Even if you experienced no itchy bites during your spring vacation, a few precautions will [...]

Nothing spoils spring break like being attacked by itchy bed bugs or, even worse, bringing bed bugs home with you. Bed bugs are so prevalent in America today that 70% to 90% of hotels in some tourist destinations have experienced bed bug infestations in the past 2 years. Most hotels address bed bug problems promptly [...]

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure when it comes to bed bugs. Before you book your hotel, check for bed bug reports on TripAdvisor.com, BedBugRegistry.com and HotelChatter.com. Most reputable hotels have pest control professionals address bed bug issues promptly, but these blood-sucking pests are extremely difficult to control in transient settings [...]

Nothing takes the fun out of spring break like sharing your bed with bed bugs. Bed bugs are tiny insects that feed on human blood while their victims sleep. Turn on the lights and you can see them scurrying across the sheets,  back into the tiny cracks and crevices where they hide during the day. [...]