By law, a pest control company cannot automatically retreat your home for termites, even at your request. According to EPA, retreatment for subterranean termites is only allowed if there is clear evidence of termite reinfestation or disruption of the barrier due to construction, excavation, or landscaping and/or evidence of the breakdown of the termiticide barrier in the soil. …
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When the weather gets cool here in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, mice and certain outdoor insects move into buildings in an attempt to escape the cold (see Outdoor Insects Are Getting Ready to Move Inside!). Customers who are dealing with an influx of these pests for the first time are appalled, “I can’t understand how…
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Because of the material in your found hoard, I suspect it’s the work of a deer mouse. [Note: The deer mouse and the white-footed mouse are both closely-related Peromyscus species and the term “deer mouse” can refer to either one.] Although deer mice are common outside, they may move inside. They tend to bring their food in from outside though, and sometimes lots of it. They will collect and store acorns, beech nuts, and the scales (seeds) from pine and spruce trees.…
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We often get calls from office buildings and apartment buildings that have had enough of pigeon droppings. Even so, they usually don’t understand all of the problems that can result from accumulated droppings, beyond the obvious unsightliness. …
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Most of us can tell one insect order from another. In other words, you can tell the difference between a beetle and a butterfly, two very different groups. There are two insect groups, however, that are often confused, flies (the order Diptera) and wasps, bees, and ants (the order Hymenoptera). Even if you can recognize a yellowjacket and you know what a house fly looks like, when it comes to the lesser flies and the less obvious wasps, you may not be able to tell which group the insect belongs to. Because insects are such a large and diverse group, there are always exceptions to the rules, but here are some ways to tell a wasp from a fly. …
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