Notes from the Green Truck

The lazy drone of buzzing flies is a common summer sound in northern New Jersey. Bug-eyed house flies strafe backyard picnics, landing on the potato salad as fast as you brush them away. Tiny fruit flies hover over melon rinds in kitchen trash cans. Fuzzy drain flies rest on shower walls. Iridescent green bottle flies [...]

When cockroaches invade your Bergen County home, they carry and spread disease and other pathogens. Cockroaches in your kitchen contaminate food supplies and create an unhealthy food preparation environment. Their decomposing carapaces and feces are the No. 1 cause of children’s asthma in America and aggravate respiratory illnesses, especially in children and seniors. In northern New Jersey restaurants, [...]

A cockroach scurrying across the kitchen floor of your Bergen County home is cause for concern and an immediate call to an experienced northern New Jersey pest control firm. There is no such thing as one cockroach. Roaches live in large nests that may house hundreds of individuals. They are attracted to garbage, food, yard debris and [...]

As the weather warms in late spring, adult Phyllophaga, commonly called June Bugs, emerge and begin to pester northern New Jersey homeowners. Big and noisy, these fat, round rust-colored beetles come out at night to buzz around porch, driveway and patio lights in Bergen, Morris, Passaic and Hudson counties. Although clumsy, both in the air and [...]

Particularly if you have white siding or white painted exterior woodwork on your northern New Jersey home, you may have noticed thousands of tiny red dots swarming over sunny exposures. Barely the size of a pencil point, clover mites are brightly-colored orange-red insects that live in sod feeding on grass and herbaceous plants. They climb up warm [...]

If ants invade your northern New Jersey home, they can quickly become an annoying and persistent problem. No amount of spraying by homeowners will permanently get rid of ants in your Bergen, Morris, Passaic or Hudson county home (see our previous post). Household insect sprays and home remedies may kill a handful of ants but they can’t [...]

It’s a complaint New Jersey pest control professionals hear often from northern New Jersey homeowners in Bergen, Morris, Passaic and Hudson Counties: “I keep spraying and spraying and I can’t get rid of my ants. Why?”
The answer requires a little knowledge of New Jersey ant biology and behavior. Most home and garden pesticides available to [...]

If you see one cockroach scurrying across your kitchen floor, you can bet there more lurking inside your Bergen, Morris, Passaic or Hudson county home in northern New Jersey. Several varieties of cockroach are common to northern New Jersey. Black to reddish brown in color with flat, oval bodies that range in size from 5/8 inch [...]

If you’re mowing the lawn and come across a teeming “puddle” of winged ants, you have carpenter ants on your property. These wood destroying insects can destroy landscape trees. Drawn by damp, damaged wood, they often migrate to porches, decks and into homes where they can cause expensive damage to structural timbers and wood elements [...]

Movies and writers use the cricket’s chirping song to conjure up images of idyllic summer evenings in America’s heartland. But any New Jersey homeowner who has been kept awake by this annoying insect’s strident chirping knows better. Spring heralds a new crop of crickets and the beginning of courtship rituals when these insects are at [...]