Boston Condo Was Home to Hundreds of Rats

By Chris Williams on October 26, 2015

Condo Unit 3R at 124 Beacon Street in Boston was hardly a place you’d want to call home even though it’s located in one of Boston’s most famous neighborhoods near the Boston Public Gardens and just an 11-minute walk from the State House. Last July, the $600,000 condo was condemned as being “not fit for…

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Cockroach Baiting is the New Normal

By Chris Williams on October 23, 2015

Actually, what might have once been seen as an alternative control is now the norm for most pest control companies. At Colonial Pest, almost all of our cockroach control uses nonvolatile pesticide baits, rather than pesticide sprays. Baits do not release any volatile chemicals into the air, they are odorless, long-lasting, and are placed in…

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Avoid Pests – Don’t Make Your Bed!

By Chris Williams on October 22, 2015

You’ve always hated making your bed. When you were small, mom made you do it. She implied that you would be a better person for having done so, you (and she) could take pride in your accomplishment. Maybe so, but mom didn’t know she was setting you up to spend your nights with pests. Now…

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Hoarders and Pest Control

By Chris Williams on October 21, 2015

You may have a friend or relative that you think is a hoarder, or who has hoarder tendencies. Some of us are just slobs. We clean up when things get so bad that we are embarrassed to have anyone see the mess, but we have no problem kicking the stuff to the curb when it has to go. Hoarders, on the other hand, compulsively acquire things that to others seem to be useless junk. To hoarders, everything they save has great value. True hoarders are not lazy; they just can’t bring themselves to part with their belongings. Hoarders suffer from a mental health disorder that almost always requires expert intervention.…

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Yes, You Can Control Termites with IPM Methods

By Chris Williams on October 20, 2015

For much of the 20th century, the standard termite treatment involved hundreds of gallons of liquid pesticide injected into a trench around a home’s foundation, and sometimes through drill holes inside as well. With raised environmental concerns, termite baits were a welcome new technology. The earliest bait, Sentricon, was introduced in 1994 and has been in use ever since by IPM-oriented pest management professionals like Colonial Pest.…

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