Spring has sprung! That means most insects are now waking up from hibernating and all pests are becoming more active foraging for food and hatching out young.
Primary Pests Right Now
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Mice
Mice do not hibernate. But in the spring they start to become more active as the temperatures start to warm up. Throughout their lives, their two main jobs are to breed and hoard food. These two activities in the spring increase dramatically. They start moving in and out of homes more often and no longer need to hunker down for long periods during extremely cold days in the winter. When they have access inside, they spend most of their time inside attics and unfinished rooms. These dark areas are often left untouched, and provide them with a place to build nests for their young and to hoard food. To keep the mice from getting inside the holes on the outside need to be sealed.
Ants
Ants are one of the first insects to be found inside homes in the Spring. The two most common ants are pavement ants and carpenter ants. Pavement ants get their name from nesting under pavement. Because their nests are underground as the ground thaws out the colonies that were dormant all winter start to wake up. The excess moisture in the ground also forces them to go above ground to escape the ground water.
Carpenter ants are attracted to nesting inside water-damaged or rotting wood. Due to snow melt and rain in the spring, many areas around the home such as decks, siding, and roofs get wet and soak up water. If these materials are not protected correctly the wood will release a pheromone that attracts these ants to build nests inside the water-damaged wood.
Spiders & Centipedes
Centipedes are prone to dehydration so they need to live in moist environments to survive. In the spring basements and crawl spaces become increasingly damp. The groundwater around the home causes sub-pumps to start working overtime in the spring. We recommend keeping a dehumidifier in these areas in the spring. This will deter centipedes and other moisture pests from living in your home. Centipedes are also the apex predator in the insect world. They will eat a variety of insects that may be living inside. If a home currently has insect activity this would attract centipedes to live inside the home.
Spiders can be found living inside homes all year long. In the spring spiders start to become more active and will start moving in and out of the structure. They will also start to feed on insects like boxelder bugs, stink bugs and Asian lady beetles. These start to wake up from hibernation inside homes in the spring. Some spiders will go out and hunt for their prey while others will build webs to catch their next meal.
Boxelder Bugs, Stink Bugs & Asian Lady Beetles
These insects may all look different but they behave very similarly to each other. These insects overwinter/hibernate inside homes in the winter. It is extremely common to see them crawling outside of homes in the fall searching for ways to get inside. Many of them lay dormant preserving their energy until spring. Once spring hits people start to see an influx of them crawling around inside windows and doors looking to get back outside to feed and breed. Unfortunately, there is no interior service in the spring that will effectively exterminate the population that is already inside the home. We offer a thorough exterior service in the fall the will kill these insects before they get inside.
Flies
Flies can be a big nuisance for many homeowners in the spring. Certain flies hatch out of the soil as the ground thaws outs. As temperatures in the Spring go from hot to old flies can be triggered to go inside homes to get warm at night. Homes near bodies of water, woods and farms will all see more flies than usual in the spring. Things like manure and soft moist soil are primary areas for flies to lay eggs. There really isn’t a service designed to combat against flies. If there is an extremally large population inside a home we need to search for the source of why they are inside and remove that source.
Ticks
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