Heritage Pest Control

Most ants come inside northern New Jersey homes to forage for food but live outdoors in underground colonies. The Pharaoh Ant is a notable exception. A tropical transport, pharaoh ants cannot survive our chilly New Jersey winters and live exclusively inside homes and other buildings. Pharaoh ants live in massive colonies, “budding” to form new colonies nearby as populations [...]

The first cool nights of late summer signal New Jersey insects that it’s time to seek shelter for the cold winter ahead. A number of insects — stink bugs, Asian lady bird beetles, native lady bugs, boxelder bugs and cluster flies — creep into northern New Jersey homes each fall to overwinter in wall voids [...]

Bed bugs seem to be everywhere. In a new poll, New York City again ranked first as the most bed bug-infested city in America, beating out Philadelphia, Detroit, Cincinnati and Chicago for the dubious honor. That’s bad news for northern New Jersey residents, many of whom work in New York or visit the city regularly [...]

Many insects that plague us during the hot summer months die back or go dormant during northern New Jersey’s cold winters. Unfortunately there is no respite from termites. These destructive wood-eating insects continue gnawing on the structural wood in New Jersey homes and commercial buildings year-round. Each year, termites attack one in four northern New [...]

We all laugh at those funny squirrel videos on YouTube. These wily backyard acrobats seem capable of performing the most incredible contortions to get to the birdseed in your feeder. Nothing keeps a determined squirrel from achieving his goal. An admirable characteristic until his goal is to make a toasty nest in your attic. When [...]

When you were a kid, you probably laughed at Disney’s Jiminy Cricket sawing away on his violin. Now that you’re a homeowner, a cricket in the house is no laughing matter. What New Jersey homeowner hasn’t leapt out of bed in frustration to stalk the noisy cricket that is interrupting his sleep? Unfortunately, these nocturnal [...]

New Jersey pest control professionals from across the state, including Heritage Pest Control staff, will gather Thursday, August 19, for the New Jersey Pest Management Association (NJPMA) annual clinic and tradeshow on the Cook College campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick. A variety of educational seminars approved for certification credit by the New Jersey Department of Environmental [...]

The heat may make it hard to believe, but fall is right around the corner. Mice are already starting to look for warm places to spend the winter and breed. If you don’t take precautions to keep mice out, they’re likely to find your toasty northern New Jersey home the perfect place to raise a family. [...]

Asian tiger mosquitoes pose a new threat to residents of northern New Jersey. A serious problem in nearby Mercer and Monmouth counties, the Asian tiger mosquito has become a public-health threat in recent years. This mosquito prefers human to animal blood. Its bite can transmit West Nile virus, Dengue Fever, Yellow Fever and Chikungunya virus. Unlike [...]

Nothing kills a vacation glow like finding out that you’ve brought bed bugs home with the sand in your shoes and shells in your pockets. Finding a bed bug in the laundry or in your bed when you return home from vacation can send you from pleasantly relaxed to hyper-stressed in under 60 seconds. The [...]