Crickie's New Jersey Pest Control Tips

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 [...]

Most people describe them as tiny, gray armadillos. Called pillbugs but also known as wood lice, these small pests are not actually insects but tiny crustaceans like shrimp and crayfish. Pillbugs have seven pairs of legs attached like fringe to flat, oval bodies. Their bodies are covered with overlapping protective plates that give them their [...]

When you see a cockroach skitter across your kitchen floor or find ants crawling on the counter, you need a northern New Jersey pest control company — fast! But how do you choose?
Here’s what to look for when selecting a New Jersey pest control firm:

Longevity of service. You can count on a northern New Jersey [...]

Expert northern New Jersey pest control companies provide warranties for many of their services. Pest control warranties ensure homeowners and business owners that the pest control company stands behind its work. Warranties protect your investment in your home or business and are your insurance against future pest attack.
Typically, pest control companies in northern New Jersey [...]

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 [...]

Spring brings out the bugs in northern New Jersey. As you walk around your Bergen, Passaic, West Essex or Morris County home, you’re likely to notice increased insect activity. House spiders weave silky egg pouches along ceilings. Little black ants trail across kitchen floors foraging for crumbs. Pavement ants spill over patio stones. Big black carpenter [...]

Bees and wasps can spoil summer picnics and place your family at risk. Bees generally do not attack unless their hive is threatened, but wasps are highly aggressive and will attack without provocation. Like many insects, problems with bees and wasps are best addressed by experienced, properly equipped professional pest control experts. It is also [...]

Ants are just one of many noxious pests that chronically invade northern New Jersey homes, disrupting homeowner’s lives, placing families at risk and adding to home maintenance expense. Heritage Pest Control’s Home Protection Plan gives homeowners peace of mind and protects your home and family from insect invasion for a full year.
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Spring means ants if you live in northern New Jersey. Trailing lines of odorous house ants crawl across kitchen floors and into trashcans or swarm traces of juice spilled on the kitchen floor. Hard to see, pharaoh ants spread bacteria and pathogens. Busy, teaming puddles of pavement ants erupt across garden flagstones. Big, black, destructive carpenter [...]

Walking into a kitchen overrun by tiny ants can be a nightmare for northern New Jersey homeowners. Spraying trails of ants or ants swarming in trash cans or over counters with house or garden insecticides may kill the ants that don’t escape, but it doesn’t guarantee that their nest mates won’t be back. Ants communicate [...]