Closing the Cottage

Vacation homes are particularly vulnerable to pests because they are unmonitored for a large part of the year.  The absence of people coming and going makes homes more attractive to pests and can allow populations to grow because they aren’t detected early....
Summer Highlights

Summer Highlights

    End-of-Summer Pest Control As summer winds down, the pest pressures around homes and businesses shift, but they don’t disappear. In fact, late summer into early fall is one of the most active periods of the year for pests. Warm-weather pests like ants...

The Truth About Pet Waste

  Cleaning up pet waste is an important sanitation practice.  Throwing pet waste away helps public health directly by preventing the spread of pathogens that live in pets’ waste, and indirectly by removing food sources for rodents.   “On the...