You have enough to think about these days and it seems everywhere you turn, businesses that you relied on for help before are now closed. Colonial Pest is still here and still providing you with pest control services and peace of mind – but with some changes to better protect your health as well. WE
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Of course you need to have a professional take a look at the situation because, as you already know, lots of small animals nest in burrows with entrance holes. However, I regret to report that the situation you describe sounds pretty typical for rat burrows. Rats have a strong association with garbage, they like to
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You probably didn’t even know you had carpet beetles in your home. But lately, you keep seeing tiny, black dots moving slowly up walls and you’ve found a few dead insects on the windowsill, too. Without prior experience, about the only way to determine that these are carpet beetles is with a professional identification. Since
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Since my calendar says there is an annual event called Groundhog Day coming up, it seems like a good time to review the interesting biology of our large, furry friend, the groundhog, also known in our region as the woodchuck. “PUNXSUTAWNEY PHIL,” OUR RELUCTANT HERO The reason that poor, dazed Punxsutawney Phil is dragged out of
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If you were a school kid, how much fun would it be to be asked to be part of a science project to collect ants? School children in various parts of the U.S. helped Florida researchers collect pavement ants for study. Even more fun, the children got to use Pecan Sandies cookie crumbs for their
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If you’ve got an ongoing mouse problem in your home and you’re working with a pest control professional, there are things you can do to insure that your control program works. Any pest control technician will tell you that it’s difficult to permanently eliminate mice without some help from the customer. New mice will continue
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There’s very little chance that winter is going to affect your bed bugs unless you are moving out and leaving your home unheated. Even that generally won’t kill bed bugs. Think about it. Bed bugs are living in a strictly climate-controlled environment in your home. The changeover to winter means very little to them, assuming
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If you’re unlucky enough to be one of those homeowners whose home is regularly invaded by outside insects in the fall, you know what I’m talking about. When the weather gets cooler and the days shorter, certain plant-feeding insects look for places to spend the winter. Whether or not your home is invaded depends on
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Already starting to think about spring and warm weather…and perhaps the bugs that warm weather brings? Well, we are. These days, public health pests such as ticks, bed bugs, and mosquitoes are more important than ever. If you’ve been reading this blog, you know that new diseases transmitted by blood-sucking pests, especially ticks and mosquitoes,
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