Heritage Pest Control

If you see signs of large, dull black carpenter ants around or in your northern New Jersey home (see our last post), do NOT reach for the Raid. Spraying carpenter ants with home or garden insecticides will at best kill the few ants you see. But it won’t do a thing to the tens of thousands of [...]

If you’ve begun finding large black ants inside your home or scurrying across your patio, it could be a sign that carpenter ants have invaded your northern New Jersey home. The largest ant species in the U.S., carpenter ants are the Godzillas of the ant world, ranging in size from 1/4 to 1/2 inch long. [...]

As you planted your vegetable garden this weekend, visions of succulent lettuce leaves and delicious vitamin-rich vegetables danced through your head. Your mind was on the coming harvest, not on the threat of hungry wildlife. Especially in spring while food sources are still scarce, newly planted northern New Jersey vegetable and flower gardens offer a [...]

Most northern New Jersey pet owners breathed a sigh of relief and stopped worrying about fleas when monthly liquid flea products came on the market a number of years ago. These spot-on pesticide products for flea and tick control were considered safer to use for both pets and their owners. No more dusty, pesticide impregnated collars to [...]

Raccoon activity has increased in northern New Jersey. The nocturnal bandits can be seen scurrying along roadways and backyard fences at night. Opportune feeders, raccoons will scavenge through trashcans and feast on kibble meant for your dog or cat. If you have a pet door, you might want to start securing it at night. Raccoons [...]

There are more than 900,000 insect species in the world with new ones being discovered every month. Smithsonian entomologists estimate that there may be as many as 30 million different insect species on Earth and more than 10 quintillion individual bugs on the planet. Fortunately, only a tiny fraction of them live in northern New [...]

Northern New Jersey homeowners should be on the lookout for termite activity. Although termites are active all year long, termite activity is often discovered in the spring as northern New Jersey homeowners start on home maintenance and home improvement projects. The annual spring cleaning ritual and home spruce up projects that most New Jersey homeowners begin [...]

Middle school students in Red Bank, New Jersey know their bugs. The northern New Jersey pest control professionals at Heritage Pest Control congratulate Red Bank Middle School students and their teachers, recent grand prize winners of a national science and technology competition sponsored by the National Pest Management Association (NPMA). Offered through NPMA’s  educational children’s website Pest World [...]

Modern pest control treatments have come a long way from the noxious, foul-smelling poisons that you may remember from your childhood.  Today, progressive northern New Jersey pest control companies like Heritage Pest Control are able to offer their customers “green” pest control options that use minimally invasive eco-friendly treatment procedures to safeguard your family’s health [...]

Bees and wasps can spoil summer picnics and place your family at risk. Bees generally do not attack unless their hive is threatened, but wasps are highly aggressive and will attack without provocation. Like many insects, problems with bees and wasps are best addressed by experienced, properly equipped professional pest control experts. It is also [...]