Notes from the Green Truck

Pigeons aren’t the only pest bird to bedevil home and business owners in Bergen, Morris, Passaic and Hudson counties in northern New Jersey. House sparrows and woodpeckers are other common nuisance birds that require NJ pest control services. Sparrows often build their nests in building gutters, creating clogs that can cause expensive water damage to buildings. Woodpeckers can [...]

Warm spring temperatures are bringing lady bugs out of hibernation. The colorful red and orange black-spotted beetles can be seen collecting on windowsills in Bergen, Morris, Passaic and Hudson County, New Jersey homes and businesses, seeking a way back into their natural outdoor environment. Considered a good luck symbol by many, lady bugs can be a considerable [...]

Several ant species can create problems for New Jersey home and business owners. Generally classified as nuisance pests, most ants are more of an annoyance than a threat to human health and property, with the exception of pathogen-spreading pharaoh ants and wood-destroying carpenter ants. However, their incredible numbers (ant colonies can number in the millions), [...]

Stink bugs
aren’t the only problem pests emerging from winter hibernation to bedevil New Jersey home and business owners (see our previous post). Spring in New Jersey typically brings the reemergence of stink bugs, lady bugs and lady beetles, box elder bugs and cluster flies. Most of these problem insects overwinter inside buildings, falling into a [...]

Excluding disease-harboring rats or mice from your New Jersey home or business can be a complicated process that requires the skill and knowledge of a trained and experienced rodent control expert. Rodents’ narrow skulls and flexible bodies allow them to enter through very small holes and cracks under doors, in foundation walls, up sewer and [...]

Although mice and rats are active year-round, spring and fall are when rodents cause the most trouble for New Jersey home and business owners. Their narrow skulls and flexible bodies allow rodents to squirm through small cracks and holes to get inside buildings. A mouse can wriggle through a space no bigger than a dime; [...]

Pigeons were first introduced to the US as pets several centuries ago, but as they learned how to adapt to the environment, their numbers grew rapidly. Today, feral pigeons are the number one pest birds in the country, and they can be found in just about any place where food and shelter are available.
Pigeon droppings [...]

Cockroaches are one of the most feared insects on the planet.  Nobody wants them, nobody ever wants to admit that they have them, and they are very hardy little buggers.  Cockroaches are so hardly that try as you may by using store bought sprays, traps, or bug bombs, and you will likely not kill them [...]

I was surprised today when someone said “bed bugs are just an old wives tale, they are not real.”  Ask any of the residents of the 308 unit North Bergen senior housing building their opinion of that statement, and I am certain it will differ.  Bed bugs have been plaguing the residents of the building [...]

So there he was, alone in his private bathroom, minding his own businesses, when he suddenly had specks of the ceiling come tumbling down upon him.  At first he looked up and did not see anything out of the norm.  After a few minutes, it happened again.  White ceiling material came raining down on his [...]