Notes from the Green Truck

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 [...]

When rodent pests invade your New Jersey home or business, they spread life-threatening infectious diseases, expose humans and pets to dangerous parasites, contaminate food supplies and foul food preparation areas with their urine and feces, and damage structures with their incessant gnawing. Every year, rodents destroy one-third of the world’s food supply, do millions of [...]

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; [...]

With termites beginning to swarm in New Jersey, active new termite infestations are being reported in Morris and Bergen counties. As flying termites land to establish new colonies, termite infestations could quickly spread to neighboring counties, including Passaic, Essex, Hudson, Somerset, Sussex and Union counties in New Jersey and Rockland County in New York. (See [...]

More swarms are being reported in the eastern part of Bergen County now….add Cresskill, Paramus, and Teaneck to the list.  Previously we had reported swarms in Parsippany or East Hanover neighborhoods of Morris County, New Jersey or the Rutherford, North Arlington, Saddle Brook or Maywood areas of Bergen County. If you think you might have termites or [...]

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 [...]

Rats are more than just an unsightly houseguest.  They are known to spread over 70 diseases too.  Back in the Middle Ages they were considered the main source for spreading the Black Plague.  In today’s world, we need to be especially careful of the likes of bubonic plague, typhus, and leptospirosis, to name just a [...]

Termites are one of the largest contributors to home destruction.  It’s hard to imagine, but termites are likely munching away at some location on your property as you read this blog.  A colony of termites consists of workers, soldiers, swarmers, and the queen.  You can expect that an average termite colony has anywhere from 350,000 [...]