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 [...]

When they discover carpenter ants on their property, New Jersey homeowners in Bergen, Morris, Passaic and Hudson counties are apt to reach for the Raid or some other home and garden pesticide and spray away. That may be the worst thing you can do.
Carpenter ants can forage over an area the size of a football [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The first sign of trouble was a little mound of what looked like sawdust on the raised concrete ledge in the laundry room. My neighbor has a raised ranch. In the unfinished basement area there is a narrow half-inch gap between the wallboard and the concrete foundation. Between every set of studs we could see [...]