Pest Protection
4 Ways to Rodent-Proof Your Holiday Season
With Halloween on the horizon along with Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, and other holidays close on its heels, the 2021 holiday season is upon us! While the holidays typically include time with loved ones, good food, and fun, they’re often harbingers of less pleasant things: rodents. From rats nesting in your Christmas tree to mice scrounging […]
Seeing spiders in your home? There’s a reason.
Are you seeing more spiders in your home? You see more spiders in the home, on porch lights, more spiders on the walkway, even more spiders in the nooks and crannies of the patio this time of year. When you least expect it, you can find yourself walking into a web. It seems as if […]
Are Your Fruit Trees Attracting Rodents?
It’s no secret that rodents like mice and rats will eat anything. But they love fruit! They are drawn to the smell and sweetness of fruit which is why fruit trees act as magnets to these small creatures. This article will further discuss how to keep rodents away from your fruit trees, further preventing an […]
Bee Swarms: How to Handle Them
While the sight of swarming bees can be frightening, the knowledge behind why bees swarm can go a long way toward calming any panic, as well as giving an idea of what to do in case one of these clumps of resting bees is sighted. Bees live in hives that consist of a queen, thousands […]
Identifying a Carpenter Ant Infestation
Tell-Tale Signs of a Carpenter Ant Infestation – Signs and What to Do Carpenter ants are large black or brown ants that can cause serious damage to a home’s wooden structure if allowed to thrive. Often the winged carpenter ant is mistaken for termites, which is also a serious problem here in the Northwest. The […]