Notes from the Green Truck

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’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 [...]

Several different ant species are native to Bergen, Morris, Passaic and Hudson counties in New Jersey. From the small black ants that invade kitchens to the wood-destroying carpenter ants that gnaw tunnels through structural timbers, ants can be a persistent problem for New Jersey homeowners once spring arrives. Their small size and tremendous numbers allow [...]

It’s one of the inevitable, if annoying, signs of spring in New Jersey: small ants marching across your kitchen floor and into trash cans or onto counter tops. Many homeowners in Bergen, Morris, Passaic and Hudson counties are surprised by the springtime onslaught of small ants. Because ants are seldom seen during the winter, most [...]

If you see a large, black ant in New Jersey, it’s most likely a carpenter ant. The largest ant species found in New Jersey, carpenter ants range in size from 1/4 inch to 3/4 inch. While carpenter ants share many of the same characteristics and feeding habits as other ant species, it is their habit [...]

Ants are one of the most prolific and annoying insect pests in New Jersey. Ants regularly invade New Jersey homes and businesses and can be impossible to eliminate and control without the help of a knowledgeable professional pest control expert. Today we continue our discussion of common ant species that create problems for New Jersey [...]

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, lady bugs and cluster flies aren’t the only problem insects emerging in New Jersey homes. Ants become more active as the spring sun warms their underground nests. Trails of ants may be seen leading from doorways or windows, across floors to trashcans or plates of food left on kitchen counters. Seething black swarms of tiny pavement ants [...]

Carpenter ants have been plaguing homeowners and businesses throughout New Jersey as well as other areas in the United States.  These pests are difficult to get rid of and quite destructive if left untreated.  It is not uncommon for a carpenter ant colony to have over 10,000 ants in their nest.  Once a nest has [...]