As you prepare your business for the coming winter months, remember you are not alone. Pests also make preparations for the cold weather and search for places to create their safe winter haven. Pests usually begin showing up in more significant numbers outside your business, but as the temperature drops, you’ll soon be sharing an … Continue reading Commercial Pest Control: Preparing For Pests This Fall
As summer melts into fall, you trade in flip flops and pool parties for scarves and bonfires. The change in the weather is welcome for many people, but for homeowners, it may also mean it’s time to check for rodents that have taken up residence in your house in search of warmth. Preventing mice and … Continue reading Thornhill Pest Control: Keeping Rodents Out Of Your Home This Fall
Although their bodies are minute, ants are some of the most powerful creatures in the animal kingdom. Their strength and intelligence are underestimated by larger predators and only recently understood by scientists. A single ant does not seem very threatening, but when the creatures work as an organized collective, they can infiltrate buildings, raid food … Continue reading Learn More About the Impressive Skills of Ants
Carpenter ants use their strong front jaws to chew tunnels through wood to make their nests. In the wild, this helps the decaying stumps of fallen trees to break down more quickly. Therefore, as long as carpenter ants stay outside where they belong, they are actually beneficial. However, if they start building their tunnels in … Continue reading Carpenter Ant Prevention This Fall
As a business owner, you’re responsible for your employees, clients and the condition of your building. Maintaining your property is not too challenging until you have to handle a pest infestation. Any business that has a water supply and source of food is vulnerable to insects and rodents. Although a single bug or mouse scurrying … Continue reading 4 Most Common Places of Business With Pest Problems
As soon as spring appears, wasps can be seen feeding on and pollinating the early blooms. Although they’re not as aggressive as yellowjackets or hornets, they can attack you repeatedly and deliver painful stings. Wasps are active in the daytime, but can they sting you at night? They typically do not strike at night, and … Continue reading Will A Wasp Sting You At Night?
Rodents are voracious pests that destroy your property, raid your food, leave unwelcome gifts and spread disease. They can live in practically any climate with shelter, and they reproduce rapidly. When you have a rodent problem, how do you tell the difference between a rat and a mouse? Although they share similar characteristics, rats and … Continue reading What’s The Difference Between Mice and Rats?
The queen ant is arguably the most important ant in the colony, as she’s responsible for perpetuating her species. Here’s what you need to know about queen ants and how ant removal services can help you safely and humanely remove them from your home. What Is a Queen Ant? The queen ant is a reproducing … Continue reading How To Identify A Queen Ant?
No one likes mosquitoes. From candles and nets to sprays and creams, people are willing to try just about any means of mosquito control to ward off these pervasive and persistent pests. A cloud of mosquitoes can quickly ruin a pleasant outdoor activity. Their bites can range from itchy and mildly annoying to painful and … Continue reading Do Mosquitoes Prefer A Certain Blood Type?
If you own a food manufacturing business, the last thing you want is bugs, pests or rodents in your plant. Mice can fit into spaces as small as six millimetres, while tiny insects can enter through the smallest of cracks and gaps. Although a food manufacturing plant will inevitably have gaps and breaches, there are … Continue reading How To Keep Pests Out of Your Food Manufacturing Business