Crickie's New Jersey Pest Control Tips

Nothing sours a relaxing vacation faster than sharing your bed with a crop of blood-sucking bed bugs. Waking up covered in itchy red welts from bed bug bites can put a real damper on your vacation mood. Don’t despair! Northern New Jersey bed bug experts have a few tips for keeping your summer vacation bed bug-fee.  [...]

Most northern New Jersey pet owners breathed a sigh of relief and stopped worrying about fleas when monthly liquid flea products came on the market a number of years ago. These spot-on pesticide products for flea and tick control were considered safer to use for both pets and their owners. No more dusty, pesticide impregnated collars to [...]

Bed bugs have been found in two East Rutherford elementary schools in northern New Jersey. After finding bed bugs at McKenzie School, East Rutherford school officials have alerted parents that bed bugs have also been found at Faust Elementary School. East Rutherford and Bergen County public health officials are on the alert for additional bed bug infestations.
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Nothing takes the fun out of spring break like sharing your bed with bed bugs. Bed bugs are tiny insects that feed on human blood while their victims sleep. Turn on the lights and you can see them scurrying across the sheets,  back into the tiny cracks and crevices where they hide during the day. [...]

The Canadians may not be leading the Olympic medal count, but they’ve certainly cornered the bed bug market at the Vancouver games. In our last post we shared the travails of Canadian downhiller Manny Osborne-Paradis who’s been complaining about being nibbled on by bed bugs at the private Vancouver condo where the team is staying.
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The problems at the Vancouver Olympics just keep coming. Not only do they have less snow than we have here in Northern New Jersey, now it seems bed bugs are nibbling on Olympic athletes. Canada has experienced the same resurgence in bed bug populations over the last five years as the U.S. Bed bug infestations [...]

Good news for northern New Jersey residents. After stalling out in the lame duck legislature at the end of last year, a potentially landmark New Jersey bed bug bill is back on track for passage early this year. Reintroduced last month by Assemblywoman Joan Quigley, New Jersey bill A-2072 passed the Assembly Housing and Local [...]

New Jersey researchers at Rutgers University have come up with an inexpensive homemade bed bug trap. Costing about $20, the MacGyver-like contraption can be built from a thermos, dry ice, talcum powder and pet food dish.
Here’s how it works: An insulated thermos filled with dry ice is placed on an inverted plastic pet food dish. Bed bugs [...]

Bed bugs were once nearly annihilated in the U.S. and most industrialized countries. During World War II, DDT was found to be a potent insect killer. After the war, farmers, homeowners and pesticide companies regularly used DDT to eliminate bed bugs and other noxious insect pests. But DDT was found to cause harmful side effects [...]

A state battle over bed bugs and pesticide use just went national and could affect the way New Jersey pest control professionals treat bed bugs in your home. The Cincinnati, Ohio area is second only to the New York City-northern New Jersey area in the number and severity of bed bug infestations. Complicating the bed bug [...]