Paper Wasps Are Scouting Your Home for Nest Sites!

By Chris Williams on April 8, 2016

We have these wasps bumbling around outside our house, banging into windows and buzzing around the front porch. They look like paper wasps but we don’t see any nests. Isn’t it kind of early for paper wasps?  T. T., Dracut, MA They probably are paper wasps and they’ve actually been around all winter, hiding in…

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Do we have fire ants in New England? We sure do!

By Chris Williams on April 7, 2016

Yes, its true we really do have ‘fire’ ants in New England, but it is not the southern species you may be familiar with. They’ve actually been around for over a century.  Myrmica rubra or European Fire Ant was first discovered and written about as a new invasive species by W.M. Wheeler in Massachusetts in…

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Could I Have Termites?

By Chris Williams on April 6, 2016

Q:  My wife found several hundred insects with wings in our attached green house.  We did notice a few ants last summer on the patio.  We are not sure if these are ants or termites, how can we tell? A:  This is a common question at Colonial Pest Control.  Ants and termites both produce winged…

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Will this snow have any effect on your homes treatment?

By Chris Williams on April 5, 2016

Snow again? Seriously? Second major event in just days for the newly minted month of April 2016, and its cold too at just 23 degrees at my location. Not your typical spring time wet snow at all and mother nature has certainly pulled a fast one.  I wonder how many baseball games will be postponed…

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Can Cockroaches Really Spread Diseases?

By Chris Williams on April 4, 2016

We know that the average household cockroach is ferrying around a boatload of germs on its body on any given day. We also know that, at least in the lab, cockroaches can transmit those diseases to people. However, cockroaches don’t transmit disease directly into our blood stream through a bite like mosquitoes or ticks, but…

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