Heritage Pest Control

Some terrorized northern New Jersey residents are resorting to dangerous  practices to get rid of bed bugs. Heritage Pest Control’s bed bug experts have heard horror stories of people bathing in garden pesticides and soaking mattresses in gasoline. These methods won’t kill bed bugs, but they do pose a serious health risk. It’s not the first [...]

Raccoons are putting northern New Jersey residents, their children and pets at risk. Particularly numerous and bold this year, raccoon are known carriers of rabies. A 4-year-old boy was attacked and bitten in the heel by a rabid raccoon that wandered into his yard. Wildlife account for 90% of the rabies cases reported in the [...]

The hunter has become the hunted. Opossums, commonly called possums, have become a serious wildlife nuisance in northern New Jersey. Introduced into New York City and northern New Jersey urban areas as a form of natural rat control, uncontrolled growth and lack of predators has turned possums into a serious urban pest in their own right. Adding [...]

In northern New Jersey, ants seem to be most intrusive during the spring. Spring is when homeowners seem to notice seething piles of ants coating pavement edges or long trails of ants leading across kitchen floors and into trashcans. Ants are particularly active in the spring when they invade northern New Jersey homes to forage for [...]

Cool nights herald the beginning of fall in northern New Jersey. The air turns crisp, the trees turn red and yellow, and mice move indoors, seeking a cozy place to nest for the winter. Able to squeeze its flexible body through openings just 1/4 inch in size, the small, gray House Mouse is the most [...]

Our planet is crawling with insects! Scientists have identified and named  900,000 distinct insect species and estimate that at least another 2 million are yet to be identified. Considering the rapid reproduction rate of most insects, entomologists calculate that the Earth is teaming with at least 10 quintillion individual insects! Comprising 80% of the world’s [...]

Morris County housing and health officials are reporting a noticeable increase in bed bug complaints across the county. A similar rise in bed bug activity has also been reported in other northern New Jersey counties. The news this summer has been full of reported bed bug infestations in New York City office buildings, movie theaters, college campuses [...]

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In some areas of northern New Jersey the annual fall invasion of “lady bugs” can cover patio decks with inches deep drifts. Waves of these small spotted beetles may cover building walls, windows and door screens as they try to get inside your northern New Jersey home to seek winter shelter. One of several nuisance [...]

Nothing sends a child (and some adults) panicking for help faster than a spider crawling along the wall or ceiling of your northern New Jersey home. Spiders elicit fear well out of proportion to their size. Perhaps we watched too many horror films during our youth, but there’s a definite creep factor involved in our response to [...]