Debunking Myths About Termite Treatment
When protecting your home from termites, misinformation is almost as damaging as pests. Many homeowners feel caught between conflicting pieces of advice about treatments. This confusion can lead to stress and poor decisions that may do more harm than good. Our team...
Identifying Different Types of Cockroaches
Understanding the characteristics of different roach species is crucial for effective pest control. There are several common types of cockroaches that you might encounter, and comprehending their physical features, behaviors, and habitats can significantly impact your...
How to Spot Early Signs of a Cockroach Infestation and Take Action
Indeed, hints of an unwanted roach invasion can be obvious once you know what to look for. The most telling sign is their droppings, which resemble ground coffee or black pepper specks, with shapes varying between species. However, these signs might not always be in...
Early Signs of Bed Bugs: How to Detect and Prevent Infestation
The earliest signs of a bed bug infestation often appear as tiny, rust-colored stains on your sheets or pillowcases. These are traces of blood from bed bugs that have been squashed after their meals. You might wonder why these bugs would be crushed. This happens...
Why Spiders Can Bring Problems?
Spiders are a common household pest that many people dislike. While they do eat other insects such as roaches, aphids, moths, and earwigs, having a consistent population of spiders in your home could indicate underlying problems. Spiders are attracted to areas with...
Protecting Your Home: The Importance of Effective Termite Control
Termites are highly destructive insects that cause significant damage to homes and properties in the United States every year. These tiny creatures feed on wood, cellulose, and other organic materials and can weaken a building's structural integrity over time....
Pest control to make your life easier
When we think of pest control, we often envision the immediate relief of getting rid of unwanted insects or rodents. However, the advantages extend far beyond mere pest elimination. Professional pest management services offer many benefits that contribute to a...
Keeping Your Space Ant-Free: Expert Tips from Plank Pest Control Pros
Ants are tiny creatures that can create big problems when they invade your home, yard, or office. They can contaminate food, and build unsightly trails, and some types of ants can even cause serious structural damage and pose health risks. To effectively control ants,...
Flea Control: Prevention is Key to a Pest-Free Home
When it comes to dealing with fleas, prevention is the key. These tiny pests are not easy to eliminate and can reproduce quickly, hiding in various places such as carpets and clothes. Knowing the right strategies to protect your space against fleas can effectively...
Termite Swarmers
It's that time of year again when the weather is getting warmer and we're starting to see more insects around. Unfortunately, one of the pests that we need to be mindful of is termites. They tend to swarm in March, April, and May, looking for food sources and places...
Organic Pest Control Solutions: Non-Toxic Methods for a Pest-Free Home
Natural pest control solutions present a safe and effective way to manage pests around your dwelling. Utilizing plants like dill, fennel, and sunflowers can attract beneficial insects that target destructive pests, fostering a balanced ecosystem right in your garden....
Ultimate Guide: Identifying and Dealing with Pest Infestations in Your Home
Identifying and managing pests at home is a more straightforward task than it first seems, often with the help of pest control companies. Pests leave marks - droppings, chewed items, or even nests hidden in secluded corners. However, the secret lies in understanding...
Problems with Ticks & Mosquitoes?
The spring months are here when we all enjoy spending more time outdoors. Mosquitoes and ticks unfortunately can get in the way of our enjoyment of the outdoor activities. These pests are not only annoying, they spread diseases that can become harmful to your health...
Ants vs Termites: The Unseen Battle in Your Backyard
Ants vs Termites: Have you ever wondered what’s going on beneath the surface of your garden? An underground battle wages daily between two seemingly similar insects: ants and termites. As a homeowner, it’s essential to understand the differences between these two...
Baits Station VS. Liquid Termite Treatment
Termites are common and destructive pests that can cause significant damage to our homes and buildings. It is crucial to treat them and choose the proper treatment that effectively kills and eliminates them for good. Bait station systems and liquid termite treatments...
Tips To Prevent Bedbug from Infesting Your Home
Bedbugs are small insects known for their ability to hide in small spaces and feed on human blood. They are often found in places where many people come and go frequently, such as hotels, motels, apartments, dorms, shelters and public transportation. Bedbugs can...
Different Types of Termite Species
Termites are a common problem for homeowners and businesses worldwide, including in the US. These tiny, yet incredibly destructive insects, can cause severe damage to your property if left uncontrolled. The only kind of termites we have in Missouri are subterranean...
Signs of Roach Infestation
Cockroaches are one of the oldest and most widespread invasive pests around the world. They prefer to hide in dark and moist places to eat, breed, and live. They can invade homes, restaurants, and other businesses. Identifying a cockroach infestation is...
Spider Infestation
Dealing with a spider invasion in your home can quickly turn you into a warrior in search of a solution. While spiders prefer being outside where they can feast on their prey, they may move indoors if they are hungry or cold. Here are some signs that you may have a...
Ladybug (Asian Lady Beetles): All You Need To Know
Like many animals and bugs, tend to come inside houses during the colder months to hibernate, escape the cold weather, and possibly lay eggs. They usually gather in large numbers and can be found in doorways, windows, and light sources. Ladybugs (Asian Lady Beetles)...
Termites: The Destructive Pest
Termites are a common and destructive pest that can cause extensive damage to homes and buildings. Among all termite species, subterranean termites are the most destructive. They create mud tubes or tunnels to reach food sources and protect themselves from open air....
Sentricons Complete Termite Elmination System is the #1 Defense System Against Termites
Termites are common and destructive pests that cause damage to our homes and buildings, making it crucial to choose the right treatment plan that will effectively eliminate them for good. Two popular ways to exterminate termites are bait station systems and liquid...
Rodent Rat and Mice
It is possible for mice and rats to create a breeding ground in your home by finding food and shelter in your living space. If you suspect that rodents have taken over your home, it can be scary and make you feel uneasy. Rodents can carry diseases that can make humans...
Why Chemical Treatment is Better than Heat Treatment?
Bedbugs are small insects that feed on human blood. They have a flat, oval-shaped body and can easily enter your home by hitching a ride on humans, such as on purses and suitcases. They can be found in a variety of places, including houses, apartments, hotels, dorms,...
Why Roaches are Hard to Kill?
To ensure the safety of your family, it is crucial to understand the cause of cockroach infestations and how to prevent them. With almost 4000 cockroach species, it is important to know the ones that can adapt to living in close contact with humans, such as the German...
Fall Pest Invaders
As the days grow colder during fall, these fall pest invaders begin to appear on the walls and windows of your home that seek warmth and shelter. As temperature drops various pests move indoors. These are the common fall invaders:Ladybug or Asian Lady Beetle...
Yard sprays that can help control mosquitos, ticks, fleas, and other pests.
There’s no doubt, it can be all fun to walk free in your yard, throw a backyard party and play games with your kids when there’s no swarm of mosquitoes that are blood-thirsty, fleas and ticks that can harm you kids and pets, itchy chigger bites and many other bugs you...
Ants vs Termites: The Unseen Battle in Your Backyard
Ants vs Termites: Have you ever wondered what's going on beneath the surface of your garden? An underground battle wages daily between two seemingly similar insects: ants and termites. As a homeowner, it's essential to understand the differences between these two...
Ant Control: Understanding the Social Insects and How to Control Them
Tips for ant control: Ants and termites are often mistaken for one another, but there are several key differences between the two insects that can help you distinguish between them. One of the most notable differences between ants and termites is their appearance....
Termite Control
Termite Control in Missouri Since termites are difficult to see, termite control can be challenging and best dealt with by professionals. Be aware termite swarms are coming! Spring is a great time of the year, temperatures are getting warmer, flowers are blooming,...
November Pest – House Fly
Are Flies Coming in your Home? Do you find yourself chasing flies around your house, swatting at them like a crazy person, swatting your kids and your pets, knocking things over. These house flies are such a nuisance. Where are they coming from? How are they...
Cricket infestation in the house?
Additional common pests that we often see in September are crickets.
Crickets can build up in large numbers, and an infestation can actually be harmful to your health and property.
September Pest – Flying Ants
September Pest - Flying Ants In the month of September, the pest to look out for is the Flying Ant. Flying Ants are ants that are sexually mature. A common flying ant is the Carpenter Ant. People commonly confuse the common Flying Ant and termites. Although Flying...
Snails
Snails can be found in a very wide range of environments including ditches, deserts, and the abyssal depths of the sea. Although many people are familiar with terrestrial snails, land snails are in the minority. Marine snails constitute the majority of snail species,...
Slugs
Slug is a common name that is normally applied to any gastropod mollusc that lacks a shell, has a very reduced shell, or has a small internal shell. This is in contrast to the common name snail, which is applied to gastropods that have coiled shells that are big...
Silverfish
Silverfish are small, wingless insects in the order Thysanura. Its common name derives from the animal’s silvery light grey and blue colour, combined with the fish-like appearance of its movements, while the scientific name indicates the silverfish’s diet of...
Pillbug Sowbug
Pillbugs belong to a family of woodlice, a terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda. Unlike members of other woodlouse families, members of this family can roll into a ball, an ability they share with the outwardly similar but unrelated pill millipedes and...
Ladybug
Ladybugs are small insects, ranging from 1 mm to 10 mm (0.04 to 0.4 inches), and are commonly yellow, orange, or scarlet with small black spots on their wing covers, with black legs, head and antennae. A very large number of this species are mostly, or entirely,...
Ground Beetle
Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, approximately 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe. Common habitats are under the bark of trees, under logs, or among rocks or sand...
Cricket
Crickets, family Gryllidae (also known as “true crickets”), are insects somewhat related to grasshoppers, and more closely related to katydids or bush crickets (family Tettigoniidae). They have somewhat flattened bodies and long antennae. There are about 900 species...
Box Elder Bug
These highly specialized insects feed almost exclusively on the seeds of Acer species. The boxelder bug is sometimes known as a garage beetle or may be confused with other Jadera spp., especially Boisea rubrolineata. The name “stink bug,” which is more regularly...
Black Vine Weevil
Otiorhynchus sulcatus, commonly known as the black vine weevil, is native to Europe, but common in North America as well. It is a pest of many garden plants. The adult weevil is matt black with fused wing covers, and is unable to fly. It feeds at night on the outer...
Lone Star Tick
The Lone Star Tick is very widespread in the United States ranging from Texas to Iowa in the Midwest and east to the coast where it can be found as far north as Maine. It is most common in wooded areas, particularly in forests with thick underbrush. Like all ticks, it...
American Dog Tick
The American dog tick, is a species of tick that is known to carry bacteria responsible for several diseases in humans, including Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia (Francisella tularensis). It is one of the most well-known of hard ticks. D. variabilis is not...
Brown Dog Tick
BROWN DOG TICK The brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus, is a species of tick which is found world-wide, but more commonly in warmer climates. This species is unusual among ticks in that its entire life cycle can be completed indoors. Rhipicephalus sanguineus will...
Deer Tick / Black-Legged Tick
Ixodes scapularis is commonly known as the deer tick or blacklegged tick and in some parts of the USA as the bear tick. It is a hard-bodied tick of the eastern and northern Midwestern United States. It is a vector for several diseases of animals and humans (Lyme...
Deer Mouse
Peromyscus maniculatus is a rodent native to North America. It is most commonly called the Deer Mouse, although that name is common to most species of Peromyscus and is fairly widespread across the continent, with the major exception being the southeast United States...
White-Footed Mouse
White-footed Mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) is a rodent native to North America. It ranges from the Ontario, Quebec, Labrador and the Maritime Provinces (excluding island of Newfoundland) to the southwest USA and Mexico. It is also known as the Woodmouse, particularly in...
Vole
The Meadow Vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus), sometimes called the Field Mouse or Meadow Mouse, is a small North American vole found across Canada, Alaska and the northern United States. Its range extends further south along the Atlantic coast. One subspecies, the...
Roof Rat / Black Rat
A typical adult black rat is 12.75-18.25 in (32.4-46.4 cm) long, including a 6.5-10 in (17-25 cm) tail, and weighs 4-12 oz (110-340 g). Despite its name, the black rat exhibits several colour forms. It is usually black to light brown in colour with a lighter...