Crickie's New Jersey Pest Control Tips

Insect and animal pests not only present a health risk to you and your family, they can cause hundreds, even thousands of dollars in damage to your northern New Jersey home. Professional pest control companies can get rid of invasive pests, but what about the damage to your property? It may be weeks before you [...]

Restaurant owners have a tough challenge. They need to cook and prepare enormous amounts of food on a daily basis. Alongside that they need to ensure that their establishment is hygienic and clean, and that their food is as well. Of course, cooking is messy, so industrial kitchens are hard to keep clean.
Obviously, customers are [...]

With garden flowers in full bloom, bees are becoming an  increasing problem for northern New Jersey home and business owners. Bee and wasp stings kill 50 to 100 Americans every summer and send half a million people to hospital emergency rooms every year. More than 2.5 million Americans are allergic to bee stings which can [...]

If you’re a home buyer which home would you prefer? A home with no pest control record that could be harboring unseen termites or nesting mice or some other unhealthy and potentially dangerous pest? Or a home that has been continuously protected against invading insect and animal pests and carries a pest control warranty from [...]

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.
Adroit hitchhikers, bed [...]

Gnawing squirrels have become a serious problem in northern New Jersey communities in Bergen, Passaic, West Essex and Morris counties. Homeowners are complaining of squirrels gnawing on wood siding, chewing holes in cedar shake roofs, chomping the tips off evergreens and deciduous trees, and stripping the bark from the trunks and branches of landscape plants. [...]

If you see signs of large, dull black carpenter ants around or in your northern New Jersey home (see our last post), do NOT reach for the Raid. Spraying carpenter ants with home or garden insecticides will at best kill the few ants you see. But it won’t do a thing to the tens of thousands of [...]

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 you planted your vegetable garden this weekend, visions of succulent lettuce leaves and delicious vitamin-rich vegetables danced through your head. Your mind was on the coming harvest, not on the threat of hungry wildlife. Especially in spring while food sources are still scarce, newly planted northern New Jersey vegetable and flower gardens offer a [...]