Crickie's New Jersey Pest Control Tips

Last week, discovery of a single bed bug shut down a waiting room and exam room at the Newark facility of  the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. The bed bug was found in a patient’s belongings. The two rooms were treated promptly by New Jersey pest control professionals and reopened the next [...]

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 [...]

August is peak vacation time for northern New Jersey families. This year, the nationwide proliferation of bed bugs adds a new element of risk to family vacation. Bed bugs can take all the fun out of a vacation and be a nightmare to cope with if you bring them home with you.
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Bed bugs shut down the Lenox Hill Victoria’s Secret store in Manhattan this week, sending ripples of concern through the northern New Jersey retail community. Coming on the heels of bed bug infestations that closed two popular NYC Abercrombie and Fitch Hollister stores in SoHo and South Street Seaport over the busy 4th of July [...]

Bed bugs have become such a serious problem in the northern New Jersey area that some people are resulting to drastic measures to gain relief from these noxious blood-sucking pests. New Jersey pest control companies hear horror stories every day of people bathing their children with insecticides, soaking mattresses in gasoline or ransacking garage shelves [...]

Bed bugs closed down Hollister’s SoHo store this week. The popular teen apparel store had to shut down to allow exterminators to deal with an infestation of bed bugs. Seems like there’s no escape from these blood-sucking vampires. Bed bugs are so prolific that they’re creating problems everywhere from swanky Manhattan shops to northern New [...]

If you are waking up with itchy, red bumps or welts on your body, it’s likely that you have a bed bug infestation. These hardy insects have come back from extinction in the US, likely due to increased international travel and the US ban of the toxic DDT pesticide. Areas like New York City and [...]

We won’t kid you. If bed bugs invade your northern New Jersey home, it’s going to be traumatic. Bed bugs are tenacious and difficult to kill. Their bodies are covered with a hard outer cuticle. They hide deep in tiny crevices where they are hard to access, and they spread easily from one room to [...]

Bed bugs have reached epidemic proportions in New York City and northern New Jersey and spread across the U.S. Bed bug infestations are now regularly reported in all 50 states. Many people wonder how these tiny, blood-sucking insects manage to spread so quickly once they gain a toehold in a northern New Jersey community.
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Bed bugs have attacked the swanky Upper Eastside condos of New York City’s rich and famous, causing a new round of consternation across the bay from northern New Jersey. While New York City is considered ground zero in the U.S. bed bug wars by most pest control professionals, northern New Jersey falls well within the fallout [...]