Heritage Pest Control

If carpenter ants invade your northern New Jersey home, a can of Raid is not going to do the job. Spraying carpenter ants or any ant species with house or garden insecticide will actually make ant infestations worse. Ants live in huge colonies that can number in the tens of thousands, even millions. The busy [...]

Carpenter ant populations are exploding in northern New Jersey. These wood-destroying ants thrive in moist wood, making our wet New Jersey spring perfect breeding grounds for this destructive pest. Carpenter ants are big, black ants as large as 1/2 inch long that nest in damp, rotting wood. These ants chew deep galleries into damaged wood [...]

The wet spring has caused earwig populations to explode in northern New Jersey, eliciting complaints from homeowners in Bergen, Passaic, West Essex and Morris counties. Garden scavengers, earwigs are about 1 inch long with dark brown flattened bodies and characteristic cerci that protrude from the end of the abdomen. It’s their fierce-looking, curved, forceps-shaped cerci that provoke [...]

Desperation is driving some people in northern New Jersey and other parts of the country to take drastic steps to try to rid their homes of blood-sucking bed bugs. In their rush to rid their homes of bed bugs and other pests, homeowners who fail to investigate the credentials of the pest control company they [...]

Restaurant owners have a tough challenge. They need to cook and prepare enormous amounts of food on a daily basis. Alongside that they need to ensure that their establishment is hygienic and clean, and that their food is as well. Of course, cooking is messy, so industrial kitchens are hard to keep clean. Obviously, customers [...]

Ants of all types are invading northern New Jersey this summer. Northern New Jersey pest control experts have noticed a marked increase in ant control-related service calls in Bergen, Passaic, West Essex and Morris counties. A relatively mild winter followed by a wet spring has caused New Jersey ant populations to explode. Big, black, wood [...]

Relatively harmless but endlessly annoying, mayflies have started swarming in northern New Jersey. An annual June pest in areas near open water, hundreds of mayflies can be found hovering near ponds, streams, lakes, golf course water features and subdivision retention ponds. These spindly flying  insects can become an intolerable nuisance near restaurants and outdoor dining areas. [...]

If you see tiny flies hovering near the bananas on your kitchen counter or buzzing around the trash can in your northern New Jersey home, fruit flies have come visiting. These tiny flies are just 1/8 inch long with tan-colored bodies and distinctive red eyes. Fruit flies are so named because they feed and breed on fruit. [...]

Like mini bombardiers, they strafe your front porch light, buzzing noisily as they fly in erratic circles that often result in collisions with visitors trying to dodge their attacks as they attempt to enter your northern New Jersey home. Heavy-bodied, hard-shelled June bugs can turn the front porch of your northern New Jersey home into [...]

Last time we talked about ground bees and the potential danger they pose if they inhabit animal burrows on your northern New Jersey property in Bergen, Passaic, West Essex or Morris counties. Even more dangerous are hornets that nest underground. The largest wasp species, hornets are often mistaken for large bees. Brown with yellow-orange stripes, [...]