When the weather outside is frightful… mice look for warm, dry, safe accommodations that are close to food sources. You guessed it; they are looking to take up residence in your home. These pests prefer darker, hidden areas, such as attics and walls. This makes them more challenging to trap - but far from impossible. Armed with a few expert tips, you can kick out these freeloading critters and keep them from coming back.
Mickey and Minnie notwithstanding, no one likes mice in their homes or businesses. Many of us have a natural aversion to these four-legged pests, but they can also carry and spread diseases like hantavirus, salmonellosis, and listeria through their droppings, urine, saliva, and nests. Suddenly, those cute little critters are not so cute. Mice like to invade warm, dry shelters (e.g. your attic, basement, or kitchen!) ahead of the cold months and make themselves comfy. How can you fix (and better yet, avoid) this pest problem?
It’s a little tiny mouse. What’s the big problem? Disney movies and cute cartoons aside, mice can cause a wide assortment of health and safety problems. And when you see one mouse, you can reasonably expect that there will be more (especially if they are producing litters - which they do at an astonishing rate of between five and ten a year… of between five and a dozen pups!). What can you do about it? Professional mice extermination is the most effective way to rid your space of these pesky intruders - and keep them from coming back.
As Halloween decorations start appearing on porches across North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, there's one spooky element that most homeowners don't want inside their homes: real spiders. While plastic arachnids might add to your holiday decor, finding actual eight-legged visitors can turn your home into what feels like a genuine haunted house.
A long hot summer finally seems to have come to an end. After a relatively warm winter and spring, summer seemed to bring an excess of the pests and critters we hate the most. Ants, termites, spiders, stink bugs, and ticks were certainly plentiful this year. Homeowners in the Carolinas and Virginia also noticed quite a bit of their least favorite wildlife.
Notably, there were snakes a-plenty throughout the warm season.