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Pest ControlSpecializing in Home and Business Pest Control.
We Can Handle All Your Structural Pest Control
Needs.
Residential, Commercial and Industrial.
Insect Control - Rodent Control
Termite Control - Termite Inspection Certified Real Estate Termite Inspection
- Or, Almost Any Other Structural Pest
We Offer the Pest Control Programs You Need
We find that most residential customers do not need to have repeated service in their home month after month. Having your home thoroughly serviced once or twice per year is usually sufficient. However, if a problem does persist, most pests can be controlled from the outside.
NUMBER ONE PEST
The number one pest for the Grand Valley is ants. We’ve logged more calls for ants than any other insect. Ants are very difficult to control. There are several different types of ants in this area. Most of the calls are for the pavement ant, more commonly known as a sugar or grease ant. Their nests sometimes extend several feet below the soil surface.
They can live under homes -- even slab homes – and enter around plumbing, expansion joints, electric and gas lines and cracks in slab flooring. With so many hiding places in your home, these ants can often be difficult to control. But it is not impossible!
After ants, spiders and cockroaches take up a large part of our
calls. We have several species of spiders in this area. There are three types to be concerned about – black widows,
hobo spider, and the brown recluse.
Black widows, when full-grown, are about one-half inch long and
shiny black or dark brown. She has a spherical abdomen. Most widows also have orange-red markings on the underside of the
abdomen, sometimes appearing as an hourglass. However, these markings may be reduced and even absent among the widow species
found in this area.
The hobo spider is often confused with the brown recluse spider.
The hobo spider’s bite is of medical importance to both humans and pets, because it may result in a slow-healing lesion,
although it is not a particularly aggressive biter. They are generally gray and about 1" to 1 3/4" including legs.
The brown recluse spider is uncommon in this region. They are frequently
confused with the wolf spider and funnel weavers. The brown recluse is called the fiddleback spider because of its distinctive
fiddle pattern on the cephalothorax. They are usually yellowish-brown to dark brown in general color.
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