If cockroaches creep you out, there is a good chance you have been actively looking for a way to rid your home or office of them. In today’s modern age of the internet and social media, it’s likely you have gotten your fill of do it yourself tips and remedies. Some of these tips involve sealing your walls. Others will kill the roaches you see but not the ones just behind your cabinets or in that deep dark corner where you store the brooms. Some are actually helpful tips on how to make your home or business less appealing to these foraging insects. But the real question is: do they work?
 

Cockroach Prevention Cleaning

You have cleaned and deep cleaned again. You have put all your food into sealed hard plastic containers and made sure that there are no crumbs under the toaster, no grease on the top or the side of the oven, no fruit laying out on the counter, and no dirty dishes sitting next to the sink. These are great stops toward prevention but it won’t make the existing cockroaches you have disappear … or make them want to move to the neighbor’s house.
 

DIY Cockroach Control Follies – Home, Apartment, Office

Next you try not to breathe in the smelly bombs you set and try not to be sick when you dispose of the roach traps. You put concentrated powdered mixtures all over your kitchen floor and counters and after you’ve tracked down the possible roach access points and used a caulking gun to fill those cracks and crevices, you have a bunch of dead roaches but did you get them all? This situation is even worse if you live in one of our Manhattan apartment building. Cockroaches will just run to the next apartment, only to run back at a later date.
 

Highly Adaptable Disease Ridden Cockroaches

Here is the base truth about what you are trying to protect your home and business against! Cockroaches can climb up walls, walk across ceilings, slip through the thinnest of cracks and many species can even fly. This is an insect that doesn’t need to eat for weeks and can survive for an amazingly long time without its own head. The CDC connects this insect to the transmission of many human-spread diseases, asthma, breathing difficulties, allergic response, and stomach illnesses. According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) studies show that 78 to 98 percent of urban homes have anywhere from 900 to 330,000 cockroaches living in them. So, if you think you only have the two cockroaches you see in your home, you are most likely very mistaken. There are probably hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands or more living in your walls right now!
 

Professional Cockroach Control

The single best way to protect your home from cockroaches is to have a professional pest control company.Abele Exterminatingis licensed and insured with over 30 years of experience. We can thoroughly inspect your home or office, seal your exterior walls, exterminate current roaches, disinfect contaminated areas and safely apply the proper mixture of pesticides to vulnerable areas. Your home CAN be roach free, but it is a job for a certified professional like Abele Exterminating.
 
Don’t risk poisoning your family and pets or employees and customers with home remedies or start the seemingly never ending process of disposing of roach traps every day, only to wake up and do it again the next day and the next. You can live without dirty roaches crawling around your personal space, causing diseases and illnesses. It only takes a quick phone call to Abele Exterminating to begin your move to a roach free life!

Tick, Tick, Tick. We’re not talking about watching the clock, were talking about the arachnids that feast on the blood of animals and people. There are two kinds of ticks that don’t stick to just animal blood, they have a taste for human blood too and can be a real pain in more ways than one if you are bitten. Most people think that it is a problem that only effects their dogs, but they can be a problem for people that spend time outdoors or who live near farm animals or wooded areas. Ticks don’t actually burrow all the way under your skin, they just burrow their head and start to feed on the blood of the host. One of the many problems with ticks is that like other pests they can carry disease that can be dangerous to humans. It takes just one tick bite to start the spread of bacteria that can potentially cause disease such as Lyme disease. The two main ticks that you need to be cautious of are dog and deer ticks. Don’t be confused both of these ticks will and do latch onto a human host if given the chance.
 

Dog Ticks

Dog ticks are found all over the Unites States but tend to be found mostly in open fields. Dog ticks don’t need as much water to sty hydrated so they can survive and thrive in dryer areas. A disease that is known to follow around dog ticks is Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Rocky Mountain spotted fever comes from a bacteria that is spread by the dog tick and starts off with a fever as one of the first symptoms. You can also have headache, muscle pain and a rash. This disease needs to be treated by a professional as soon as it is expected.

Deer Ticks

Deer ticks are another tick that is found and needs to be looked out for. They carry bacteria that can cause many diseases but one of the worst is Lyme disease. Lyme disease can affect your nervous system and cause headaches, fatigue and much more. If Lyme disease is left untreated it can turn into a long term disease that can be very hard to treat. If you suspect you have been bitten by a deer tick and you show signs of an infection you should call a health care professional right away.

Professional Tick Control

There are treatments that can help deter ticks from coming around your property. Call Abele Exterminating Co to set up an inspection and sign up for a pest and tick treatment plan today!

Rats are extremely hardy animals who unfortunately adapt well to our urban environments. Tolerating rats in your home or business is not something that most people want to do. For many reasons people and rodents aren’t likely to coexist peacefully! Rats will eat anything a human will; and more. But worse than the damage of rats eating your food is the damage done by their urine and feces (which are left behind on any uneaten food). As rodents front teeth never stop growing, rats and other rodents chew on things to keep their teeth worn down and manageable. Unfortunately this can be both inconvenient and dangerous when rodents start gnawing on your property; particularly your electrical wiring. The worst aspect to having rats near you though is that they carry and transit many harmful diseases. Just some of the diseases that can be spread from rats to people are bubonic and pneumonic plague, leptospirosis, murine typhus, salmonella, Hantavirus, and tularemia.
 

Signs of Mice, Rats and other Rodents

If you suspect you have rodents in your home or business, the following signs can be good indicators that you are right!
Inside the buildings:
• Droppings.
• Gnawed holes up to two inches wide in baseboards or at doorframes
• Smudge marks on walls (these are caused by rodents rubbing their body oils onto walls and other surfaces)
• Sounds of scratching and movement in walls and attics.
• Family pet staring blindingly at a blank wall.

In regards to outside of your buildings the most obvious sign of rodents are burrows. However, please be aware that burrows may instead indicate the presence of other burrowing animals such as chipmunks. Never attempt to control a wildlife problem on your own; especially when you aren’t sure what species of wildlife you are dealing with.
 

Rodent Prevention Tips

The best way to control rats and rodents is to discourage them from taking up residence in your place to begin with. Typically, conditions that support high rat populations such as plenty of available food and water as well as easy access points that provide rodents with the shelter they seek, are left until there is a rodent infestation – and a real crisis at hand. It is at this time that many homeowners break out unfamiliar poisons or trapping devices which may succeed in reducing the population temporarily but don’t address the cause of the problem in the first place (or eliminate the sneaky rodents that don’t get caught). Abele Exterminating eliminates your rats for good – we remove existing rodents, exclude them from returning and clean up the mess they left behind.
 

Rodent Prevention Habits

Good sanitation is the best and most economical way to prevent rats before they take hold. Abele Exterminating has prepared the following tips to keep rats away:
• Store food in rat-proof containers such as sealed galvanized cans with tight fitting lids.
• Store and dispose of garbage properly. Again, in sealed containers with tight fitting lids until trash night.
• If you feed your pets outside, leave the food out for just long enough for your pest to eat it and then remove it.
• Clean up any pet droppings from your yard every day.
• Remove old wood or rubbish from around your property as these areas attract rats.
 

Professional Rodent Control

If you already see (or hear) some of the above signs that rodents may be present in your home or business, call Abele Exterminating. We can promptly remove the rats, help to seal access points, clean up the infected areas and give you more advice on rodent prevention. Contact us today!