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How to Stop Ants from Ruining Your Summer
The warmer weather brings fun outdoor activities and a reminder that summer is practically here. It’s a time for vacation trips and sunlit evenings. It’s also a time when they come. You can’t hear their footsteps. Unless you’re paying close attention, you won’t even see them. But make no mistake, they are coming for you…
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Home Renovations Can Prevent Pest Problems
Home renovations present an opportunity to fix up the old and transform it into something new. On TV shows, the home improvement end product usually manifests itself as a sharp aesthetic change. Knocking down a wall creates an open space in the floor plan. Of course, home renovations are great for creating a new design…
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How to Stop Pets from Bringing In Pests
Pests take advantage of any way into your home that presents itself, and many times, that means hitching a ride on household cats and dogs. Besides the health risks that some bugs can pose to your pet, especially ticks, fleas, and mosquitoes, other pests can also find a way into your abode if you’re not…
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Interesting Facts About Controlling Termites
Termites are among the most common and annoying pests, and when they’re allowed to run rampant, they can also be among the most destructive influences on your home. To defeat them, we’ve become experts on termites (as well as pests of all kinds) and how they affect the structures of your home. If you notice…
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3 Tips to Pest-Proof Your Home
Every season, it can seem like there’s a new swarm of pests to protect your house from, but the battle doesn’t always have to be an uphill battle. Controlling an infestation can seem overwhelming, but the truth is that there are several things you can do to protect your home from the most common pests.…
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Is That Termite Damage?
Is That Termite Damage? Whether you own or rent your home, one of your greatest fears may be whether or not your home is vulnerable to termite damage. After all, homeowners in the United States spend billions of dollars repairing termite damage every year. Therefore, every spot and speckle on your foundation or walls may…
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Can You Treat Your Yard For Ticks?
Can You Treat Your Yard for Ticks? California has many different kinds of ticks, but only six of these types are known to bite humans. Ticks are tiny and they can spread disease. They attach themselves to animals and humans and feed by sucking their blood for several days at a time. While they are…
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How To Keep Spiders Out Of Your Home
Today is the first day of spring and with the beauty of blooming flowers and plants, longer days, and warmer weather comes spiders and all sorts of other unwanted pests. Spiders are actually beneficial to us humans because they feed on pests such as flies, mosquitos, roaches, earwigs, clothes moths, and more, but that doesn’t…
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Is Construction Stirring Up Rodents In Your Neighborhood?
Although you may not see them, at least if you’re lucky, rats and mice are dwelling around your home. There are two types of rats in North America that homeowners may become familiar with: the black rat, also called the roof rat, and the Norway rat. Norway rats, as well as mice, can be found…
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Spring Cleaning And Pests
Spring is just around the corner, literally only weeks away, and as your thawing out from winter by enjoying longer days, sunshine, and blossoming flowers, so too are flies, bees, wasps, and more. Pests that have been lying dormant during the winter months are going to become pesky again with the warmer weather. Many pests…
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