Crickie's New Jersey Pest Control Tips

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 [...]

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.
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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 the winter winds start to blow, insect activity in northeastern New Jersey seems to disappear. While winter’s frigid temperatures do thin the ranks of some insect populations and force others to enter a hibernation-like state, most insect populations simply go underground — or inside. You may not see carpenter ants or termites during the [...]