Getting Rid of Unwanted Creatures from Your Home or Business

Even if your home or business is perfectly clean, you may still have pests like spiders, rats, and termites in your building. These creatures have a way of finding a way into a building and making themselves immediately at home. When your best attempts to trap and eliminate them have failed, it is time for you to reach out to professionals who are trained to kill off pests permanently. You can partner with skilled contractors like exterminators in MD and other pest control specialists who are ready to come to your location today.

Identifying the Pests in Your Building

Many home and business owners do not know the range of pests that can come into their buildings. They may not recognize the droppings, chew marks, and other tell-tale signs of a pest invasion. Some creatures, however, are easy to detect, at least for some people. If you have ever heard chewing sounds in the walls, seen chew marks on wires, the doorways, and papers, or seen droppings on the floor and in cupboards, you could be certain that you have rodents in your home or business.

Rodents must be trapped and removed. They are not like bugs that can be killed with spraying. A pest control contractor must lay out traps, put out poisons, or even put down sticky pads that will trap and kill rodents permanently. Some poisons are taken back to the nest to kill the offspring as well.

It is important that you maintain a relationship with your contractor until all of the rodents are killed and removed. If you end the relationship early, you could be left with rotting rat and mice corpses in your building.

Other Pest Removal Services

Along with rats and mice, your building may also be infested with spiders, roaches, and other bugs. These creatures can be removed relatively quickly if you act promptly. Contractors can spray and put out gels that will kill the bugs rapidly. Their offspring will also be killed. Many buildings only require two or three treatments to become totally bug-free.

You can keep bugs out, however, by maintaining a relationship with a licensed pest control contractor. Regular spraying and inspection can ensure that bugs and pests are staying out for good.

Orkin Scientific Prize Pack Giveaway

We've all heard myths about bugs, but do you know what's fact and what's fake? 

Here are just a few of the myths you may have heard:
“Daddy longlegs are poisonous.”
“Mosquitoes prefer adults over children.”
“Ants can survive underwater.” 

Me - fact or fake, I just want those bugs GONE!  That daddy long-legs spider isn't poisonous?  I'm still going to smash it with whatever's handy if it comes in my house.  Or, better yet, get someone to do it for me, though sometimes that's not an option.

Currently those tiny little gnats that love to buzz around fresh fruit or my wine glass are the most annoying bug problem in this house.  Those things are so irritating!

Should you need some help getting rid of bugs in your house, remember Orkin.  Orkin uses the latest technology and unparalleled training to develop a treatment that's right for your home and your needs. To learn more about pest control that's based in science, or to schedule an inspection, visit orkin.com or call (844) 503-8251.

Take Orkin’s Scientific Fact or Scientific Fake™ Quiz to test your bug knowledge. Be sure to watch every clip for the scoop on these infamous bug myths and share the quiz with your friends.

Once you've learned some bug facts, be sure to enter the giveaway. Orkin has agreed to give me and one lucky reader an official Orkin Scientific Back-to-School PRIZE PACK which includes:

• Clip-on Fisheye Lens (iPhone, Galaxy, Android compatible) 
• Orkin On-the-Go Drink Tumbler 
• Orkin Drawstring Bag
• Orkin “Field Notes” Notebook w/ Pen 

Perfect for your little backyard explorer!  To enter, simply leave a comment here. Tell me how you did on the Fact or Fake Quiz or share your own bug story.

You can earn extra entries by tweeting about this giveaway and using the #OrkinMan hashtag.  Shares on Facebook and Google+ will be counted, too,  Just be sure to link to this giveaway and make sure I can see your post so I can count it.  You can tweet and share once per day per social network.  Be sure to leave a separate comment for each tweet, post, and share.

Giveaway is open to U.S. residents, and all entries must be received by 11:59pm ET on August 31 2014.  Good luck!

Each household is only eligible to win One (1) Orkin Fact or Fake School Pack via blog reviews and giveaways. Only one entrant per mailing address per giveaway. If you have won the same prize on another blog, you will not be eligible to win it again. Winner is subject to eligibility verification.

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EcoSMART giveaway @ My Dogs Keep Me Sane

My friend Misty is hosting a giveaway for EcoSMART all natural pesticides.  There are several value bundles available, and the winner gets to choose the bundle he or she wants.  Misty has tried these products and links to her review in the giveaway post.  She found that, not only are these products all-natural, safe, and non-toxic, they really work!

Winter will be over before we know it, and warmer weather brings all kinds of bugs, insects, and creepy, crawly things.  You'll want to enter Misty's giveaway so you'll be ready!

EcoSMART giveaway @ My Dogs Keep Me Sane - ends Saturday, March 12 @1pm CST.  Enter now!

I'm Such a Girl!

When I was unpacking my garment bag this week, I got to the very end, pulled out the last dress, and a bug came crawling out.  I jumped and screamed and would have called for a man, but no-one was home but me.

Of course, my next step was to call for Commercial Pest Control! No, not really.  I squished that bug with the edge of the garment bag and then ewwwwed and squirmed as I watched it continue to move, even with all its guts squished out.  Ewwwww.  Just thinking about it makes me squirm!  But I finished the job, got a tissue and wiped up all the nasty bug guts - and hoped there weren't any more where that one came from.

I'm not really up on my Bug Facts so I don't know what kind of bug it was.  Not that it matters because pretty much any bug is a bad bug in my world.  I'm sure they all have their reasons for existence, but I'd very much appreciate if they'd exist somewhere else.  Away from me.

If I have to call Pest Control Services to make that happen, then so be it - but usually I can just get my husband to take care of them. When he's home.

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Dead Flies

After I posted about all the flies in the house yesterday, Cory and I killed at least 20 more of them!  I found a whole bunch on the kitchen window, hidden behind the mini-blind.   Then today we've killed 15 or 20 more.  I still have no idea where they're coming from.  What I do know is that it has nothing to do with extenze side effects, though some of those flies are pretty big, making me wonder what they've been taking.

And now, as I'm typing up this post, Cory is killing more of them.  He just counted at least 7 flies on the window.

Just for fun, or because we're too lazy to pick them up, we've got a whole pile of dead flies on the floor by the sliding door.  At least I hope they're dead and aren't re-animating and becoming some kind of vampire flies... that we keep 'killing' over and over again.

Cory said all the dead flies would make a good picture to take for Camera Critters, but I'm thinking NOT.

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Cory and I have killed at least twenty flies this afternoon.  For some reason, they're all buzzing around the sliding door, and we can't figure out where they're coming from.  It's not like we've had any windows or doors hanging open.  A few of our screens got ripped in the storm, but we've either taped those up or those windows haven't even been open.  So how are these flies getting in?  Luckily I think they're half frozen too, because they seem kind of slow and stupid and haven't been too hard to kill. 

Also, it's that time of year when the gnats are everywhere - little bitty bugs that can come right through the screens if they want to.  They hang around any fruit we might have, such as ripe bananas or nectarines, and they love my sourdough starter.  I had to fish several of them out of it today - even though I had a towel over it.

I read somewhere that mixing a little dish soap (just a squirt) with some cider vinegar (2 T. or so) and setting it out on the counter is supposed to help.  They're attracted to the vinegar, which will hopefully keep them away from the fruit, and they end up drowning themselves in it.  I used this last year, and it really took care of (killed!) a lot of them.  There always seemed to be more of them, so I pretty much kept a container of vinegar and dish soap on the counter all summer, replenishing it when the vinegar all evaporated.

There are already 3 dead bugs in the mixture I set out this afternoon.   I think vinegar and dish soap are the perfect diet supplements for these little pests, don't you?