Beware winter is coming to your neighborhood!!!

Please, please, please DO NOT STORE FIREWOOD INSIDE OF YOUR HOME!! There is any number of insects in the firewood just waiting for a nice warm environment to live in for the winter. Theses insects include: ants, termites, stink bugs, and hornets to list a few. The insects are usually in or under the bark.
Try not to stack firewood next to the house. The best answer, of course, is a wood crib close to the house.

Most winter insects will not have to be sprayed and can be merely vacuumed up. Be on the lookout for ticks, at least until we have several hard freezes. Check the children out every day. Lyme disease is nothing to play with!

Check out the cupboard for meal moths. This is especially true if the meal or flour has been there a long period of time. The problem is often more prevalent with "off brand" products. Just discard the flour, meal, rice or pasta that is infected. Be sure to vacuum thoroughly.

Try to seal all entry points into your home to prevent insects from invading! Pesticides do not store well: check with your county to determine when / you can dispose of pesticides. Freezing weather will generally reduce the effectiveness of pesticides.

If you have a fresh cut Christmas tree be on the lookout for emerging insects. Just vacuum them insects. Many times you will bring spiders in with the tree.

Pest Alert: Indianmeal Moth!

Have you ever opened the pantry, picked up a bag of flour and seen moths scatter? Or worse yet have you opened a box from the pantry and found what looks like maggots in the product?

If you have found this you probably have an infestation of the Indianmeal moth. These pests can and will infest a variety of dry foods. The foodstuffs are vegetable in origin from sunflower seeds, cereal, rice, flour, rice and pasta. Sometime these moths will be found in cocoa beans, coffee, and chocolate. It is not a pretty sight as the food infested will look like it has been webbed together.

Well if you find evidence of an infestation, you now have two opportunities: a wonderful time to clean out the pantry or an OMG moment. Now, after the throw away of everything, just what do you do? All of the aforementioned foodstuffs need to be stored in tightly sealed containers. Why do this? Simple: these critters are hard to get rid of! If you see the moths flying around the entire pantry will need to be emptied because they can infest other places in the house.

With vacations looming, and the temperatures rising you could easily place your home at risk. This is especially true if your foodstuffs are not in sealed containers. High temperatures, high humidity are perfect for the Indianmeal moth. If you need help - contact us, we can help find where the moths are and we have the expertise to control the situation.