Crickie's New Jersey Pest Control Tips

When you find them in your northern New Jersey home, your first impulse is to squash these ugly-looking bugs. That’s a mistake most people don’t make twice! Looking like some prehistoric creature, stink bugs are gray to brown with long spidery-looking legs and antennae. These insects have a knobby, shield-shaped back that has the appearance [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 experienced [...]

Carpet beetles are a persistent household and commercial pest in northern New Jersey which is home to several species of this voracious insect. These small, 3/8-inch long black beetles were given their name for their appetite for carpeting, but these insects can cause significant damage to a wide variety of fiber and wood products as [...]

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 [...]