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How To Get Rid Of Ants

Tania Vazquez January 2024

 

Ants invade our homes looking for food, water and shelter. They have been found in almost every room in the house from the attics to the basements. These insects usually come from the outside of our homes and here are some helpful hints on how to get rid of ants and prevent them from entering your homes:

Maintain a well-groomed landscape

  • Keep all plants bushes and trees from touching the walls, windows, and roofs of the house, this an easy way for ants to look for entry ways and to bridge any preventative measures you or your pest control company have taken to control them.

  • Cut your lawn and plant beds regularly and pick up the grass and plant clippings. This will help you identify ant nests before they enter your home...

 

10 Things You Can Do To Prevent Insects This Fall

Tania Vazquez October 2023

 

When temperatures drop and food becomes scarce insects and rodents migrate indoors looking for food and harborage.  Here are some tips on how to prevent them from entering your home:

1. Clean and de-clutter roofs, gutters and drain pipes. After a long summer, these areas can easily create harborage areas for insects and easy access to your home.
2. Trim back trees and bushes away from all structures at least a foot or two away. Insects and rodents can use these plants as bridges and find entrances to your home.
3. Clear and de-clutter possible harborage areas like: attics, basements, garages, perimeters, patios and sheds. Throughout the summer we have been busy with landscaping, home improvement projects and kids playing around leaving stuff all over the place, this creates easy harborage areas where insects and rodents can hide...

 

What is IPM?

Carlos Langberg December 2023

 

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is an effective and environmentally sensitive approach to pest management that relies on a combination of common-sense practices. IPM programs use current, comprehensive information on the life cycles of pests and their interaction with the environment. This information, in combination with available pest control methods, is used to manage pest damage by the most economical means, and with the least possible hazard to people, property, and the environment.

 

IPM takes advantage of all appropriate pest management options including, but not limited to, the judicious use of pesticides. In contrast, organic food production applies many of the same concepts as IPM but limits the use of pesticides to those that are produced from natural sources, as opposed to synthetic chemicals...

 

A Tick Can Really Make You Sick

Salo Langberg June 2023

 

Ticks can transmit serious diseases due to the fact that certain bacteria (germs) can survive and multiply inside them. At the same time when for example your dog is bitten by a tick and the tick sucks the blood of your dog, it also opens a driveway for these germs to infect the dog. 

 

Here are the most important diseases transmitted by ticks in Florida

 

Tick-borne Diseases in Florida...

 

What Do Termites Look Like?

Carlos Langberg May 2022

 

How to Identify Termites and Look for Evidence: evidence of damage, evidence of flying insects, distinguish between termites and ants.

1. Evidences of Damage
There are several things you need to look for before determining if you have a Termite Infestation:

  • Is it termite damage?

  • Is it water damage or wood rot?

  • Could it be carpenter ant damage?

  • Or maybe wood boring beetles?

Brown Spots On Lawn

Tania Vazquez Jan 2024

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How to Recognize the Difference Between Lawn Damage Caused by Chinch Bugs or Lawn fungus

When it comes to lawns it is better to be knowledgeable about what kind of problem is causing the brown spot damage in your lawn. Many pest control companies may want to take advantage of this and claim poor insect control by your pest control company and recommend you switch to their own Lawn Pest Control program, when in fact this could cause more damage on your lawn if instead you have lawn fungus.
Lawn fungus damage may be confused with chinch bug damage on your lawn because they both cause brown spots. Be aware that most lawn pest control programs do not cover Lawn fungus. Here are a few tips and how to distinguish between the two.

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