No homeowner who has had to confront the problem of ants in the home needs to be reminded of how big of a nuisance these little pests can be, and winter is often a prime time for ants to try and make their move indoors.
But as this short video demonstrates, there are a number of simple steps you can take to not only prevent ants in the home, but also stop a potential ant infestation.
Does the mouse super highway run into your house or business?
Fall is coming and that means mice will be moving indoors soon. They will be searching for shelter, food and warmth. Now that we’ve had a cold snap, mice will begin “packing their bags” and planning for the months ahead. That means that mouse control should be starting to creep into home owners minds. In this video blog, Josh Erdman, owner of Erdye’s Pest Control shows the mouse super highway that exists in most central air conditioned homes and businesses.
In the video, Josh shows us how they handle mouse control by explaining that most mice get into houses by climbing up air conditioning hoses that run into the building. This is the number one way mice get into your house. So of course, the best way to stop mice from entering your home is to seal up those areas.
Houseflies can taste with their feet – they have taste buds on them.
The average bed contains between two million to six million dust mites.
Each year the average person will “eat” several insects while they are sleeping.
A cockroach can live nine days without eating. This is also the same amount of time that the body of a cockroach can live after its head has been cut off before it eventually dies from starvation.
Dragonflies are capable of flying sixty miles per hour.
Mosquitoes have killed more humans than all the wars in history.
Certain types of grasshoppers and crickets have their ears on their front legs.
Honeybees are more dangerous than snakes. Bees kill more people each year than all the poisonous snakes combined.
An ant is capable of lifting fifty times its own weight and is capable pulling thirty times its own weight.
A flea can jump about two hundred times the length of their body, which is about thirteen inches.