When you played hide-and-seek or tag as a kid, did you have a base? The base is the place where you’re safe from being tagged and getting out. For your family, your home is the base where you are safe from the challenges we face every day. Each person probably has their own spaces designed to help them recuperate, recover, and recharge.
However, you may not realize your place of refuge could also be home to many tiny freeloaders. There could be six, eight, and multi-hundred-legged creepy-crawling and flying pests hanging out in your house, believing they belong.
Does your house have bugs inside? The short answer is, most likely, yes. In this article, we’re helping you figure out if you have pests in your house and what to do about them.
Life in the Carolinas is intricately tied to the beauty of the great outdoors. From spring through fall, our weather is perfect for getting out and exploring nature. Even during winter, it is usually warm enough to spend at least some time outside. When it’s cold enough to snow, you can find the entire neighborhood gathered around the sledding hill from morning till night.
Unfortunately, sometimes the outdoors gets inside our homes. Bugs and pests crawl, fly, and worm their way into our houses and can bother our families. Some of these pests can cause harm to people and damage to your property. No one wants to find their homes infested with our least favorite part of the outdoors.
We live in one of the most beautiful places in the country. The Piedmont and foothills of the Carolinas and Virginia are home to peaceful rolling hills, stunning fast-flowing rivers, expansive views, and abundant wildlife. Each season has its distinctive beauty.
In spring, our area bursts in color as flowers and trees bloom. The greens of summer invite us to explore nature and provide the opportunity to see animals and swim in cold water swimming holes. The changing leaves put on a magnificent display during fall, while winter gives us a chance to see our area blanketed in snow.
Regardless of your favorite season, we all want to make sure we preserve and protect what makes our area special. Nevertheless, even the prettiest places are plagued by pesky pests. Some pests are not just a nuisance; they can damage our homes and threaten our health. How can we eradicate them without causing harm to the things we love?
If you've had a pest inspection recently or you're in the process of buying a home in Wilkes County or Yadkin County, there's a good chance crawl space encapsulation has come up in the conversation. For homeowners who haven't encountered the term before, the concept can seem abstract: sealing off a space most people never think about doesn't immediately sound like a pressing priority. But in the NC Piedmont and foothills, where crawl space construction is common, humidity is consistently high, and termite pressure is year-round, the crawl space is one of the most consequential areas of a home for long-term structural health and pest prevention.
Summertime is wonderful, and that means plenty of time outdoors, trips to swimming holes, and cookouts with friends. With summer, it always seems like there are more flies out and about, trying to find their way inside of your home. Not only are flies annoying, but in some cases can spread disease.
Flies are found pretty much anywhere that humans can live. In fact, the only places you cannot find them are at the polar ice caps. While they are around year-round, flies prefer warmer temperatures, especially in summer to early fall.
Flies and fruit flies can be found in swarming trash cans, rotten food, and other sources and carry parasites and diseases to everything from surfaces that we come in contact with and possibly our food. Some of the pathogens that they can cause are typhoid, cholera, dysentery, and more.