Common pests in New Hope, MN

Mice

Ants

Wasps

Spiders

Boxelder Bugs

Stink Bugs

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Mice in New Hope, Minnesota, have adapted to the cold temperatures. In the fall, most mice start searching for warm places to spend the winter. In the winter, mice don’t hibernate and will continue feeding and mating. They move in and out of the structure looking for seeds and nuts to bring back inside to add to the stockpile. As they continue moving in and out, they leave scent trails that lead them back into the home and back to their nests. Over time, these scent trails become rub marks as they use the same entry points over and over again. Rub marks become black and brown from the mud, urine, and grease stuck on their fur.

There are a variety of techniques and services that are used to keep mice out of homes. Most of these techniques are not effective solutions. There is only one long-term fix, and that is to seal up the home from the outside. This is the service we provide. We go around every inch, permanently sealing up the entry points the mice are using to get inside. After the entry points are all sealed, it takes around 30 days to catch all the mice still inside the home. We set traps for all our customers to help with completing the process. After 30 days, you should not see any more mice. If you do, we provide most of our customers with 2-year warranties.

Mouse Identification

A common ant to find in New Hope, Minnesota, is the pavement ant. These ants can be found inside and outside homes. When outside, their nests are easily identifiable by seeing piles of sand. They build their nests underneath sidewalks, driveways, patios, and curbs. Most ants that you see inside are foraging ants. These ants carry food back to their nests outside. These ants can also be active inside homes in the middle of winter. They nest in temperature-controlled areas like insulated foundations, under cement slabs, heated floors, and various home appliances.

There are two services for exterminating ants inside a home. We provide interior or exterior treatments. The interior treatments are done when it’s too cold for any insects to be active outside. We come inside and use a foam-based product that fills the voids and cracks the ants are crawling out of. Each interior treatment comes with an exterior treatment in the spring. The exterior treatment is the most effective long-term solution. Each service takes 30 days to exterminate any ant colony inside the home and comes with a 1-year warranty.

Ant Identification

The three most common social wasps in Minnesota are bald-faced hornets, paper wasps, and yellow jackets. As social wasps, they live in nests with a colony of foraging wasps, worker wasps, and a queen wasp. The foraging wasps spend their lives outside the nest foraging for food and nesting material. They search for protein-based foods to feed to the queen and larvae, and they eat foods with sugar and carbohydrates that provide them with energy to keep working. The nesting material is found in dried-up wood. They peel thin layers of the wood and mix it with their saliva to make the papery nest material.

Wasps build their nests in a variety of different locations. One of the services we provide is wasp nest prevention service. This service keeps wasps from building nests outside the home. Wasps start building new nests each year in late spring and early summer.  After this service, any wasp that lands on the home will die in 30-45 minutes. We also have a service to exterminate active wasp nests. Some of these nests could be built underground, in a tree, or inside another structure. These nests can go unnoticed until late in the summer and become increasingly more aggressive.

Wasp & Bee Identification

There are two different varieties of spiders in Minnesota. There are web-building spiders and there are hunting spiders. Some of the more common web-building spiders are; cellar spiders, house spiders, and daddy-long legs (aka harvestmen). Hunting spiders don’t use webs to catch their prey. These spiders include; wolf spiders, sac spiders, and jumping spiders.

Cleaning the webs around the home has more benefits than just increasing a home’s curb appeal. Cleaning the webs destroys spider egg sacs before they hatch. One tiny egg sac can hatch over 100 baby spiders. This is one reason why homes near lakes and woods may need multiple treatments to stay ahead of the spider’s life cycle. Another benefit is that the adult spiders will be forced to move around. Spiders live in their webs. Once their web is knocked down, they will come out to start rebuilding and crawl across the treated surfaces and die.

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In New Hope, MN, boxelder bugs and stink bugs start searching for places to overwinter in the fall. They use a variety of ways to get inside and can fit through the smallest cracks. They find entry points around the foundation, under the siding, around window and door trims, soffits, vents, and chimneys. Once they get inside, most of them stay dormant, conserving energy until spring. But during sunny days in the winter, both insects can warm up enough to come out of hiding. They can be seen inside around south-facing windows, warming up their bodies. While inside, neither one lays eggs or mates.

When we treat for boxelder bugs and stink bugs, we treat around the entire home. We treat the foundation, siding, windows, door trims, soffits, and chimneys. Because both insects can fly, we need to apply a protective barrier over the home. This treatment becomes more effective if it’s done right before the swarms start to appear. If there is already a large population outside the home, then there is a chance that a population is already inside. After a fall application, the treatment sticks to the surface and will kill any insect that lands on the home.

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