Destructive Pests
Am I Covered – Home Insurance and Termites
Hate to be the one to break it to you. Are you sitting down? That standard homeowners insurance policy doesn’t cover termite control. Take heart though. While you don’t have an infestation, there’s something you might want to talk to Vulcan Termite and Pest Control, LLC. about. There is a special kind of peace of mind…
Read MoreApartment Life and Pest Control
Buying a house in America is very time consuming. Down payments when you find the one you like. Securing a mortgage. Carefully scrutinizing the home inspector’s report. That’s why many people opt for just renting an apartment…. Looking through “For Rent” ads from the local paper or at an online website, you come across something…
Read MoreMosquitoes Part 2
Last time we spoke, we talked about the damage a single mosquito can inflict on your body once you are bitten. West Nile Virus here in the states. In other corners of the Earth there’s yellow fever and malaria. With the warmer winter and spring we’ve had so far in 2013, most mosquitoes in…
Read MoreMosquitoes Part 1
Many people think that the mosquito-borne disease malaria is cordoned-off in Africa. Ain’t necessarily so. We get this from Public Broadcasting: “For the men leading the Panama Canal project in 1904, challenges of building the canal were exacerbated by the infectious diseases that ran rampant in the hot, wet Panamanian climate. By 1906, more…
Read MoreGrowing Season – Aphids
Your kid can get lice. It’s not that big of a pain to get rid of them. No need to shave their heads like in the old days. Take them to a doctor, they’ll prescribe treatment. Contact the school to tell them that your child came down with these bloodsuckers. That’s all folks! But did…
Read MoreThe White House and its Bug Problems
Recently, there’s been a lot in the news about The White House and the bugging of phone conversations. We’re not going to get into that here. In this case, we’re going to look at the people’s house from a real bug angle. For instance, back in 1998, subterranean termites were found in The West Wing.…
Read MoreHow did Bed Bugs Get to the New World
That’s another thing the Europeans thrust on the Natives of this fair land. Before the explorers came to North America, there were no such things as bed bugs biting the people who lived here before we dropped in. Thank the early colonists. When you go back and read the history of our invasions, there were…
Read MoreGnats in my Mouth — Extermination – A primer on the “fungus” gnat.”
You’re walking on a beach. Maybe a lightly wooded trail. Perhaps even down your sidewalk to visit a friend. Not paying a heck of a lot of attention, suddenly you run into a cloud of bugs. Little insects. Gnats. Having an infestation? The longer you wait to deal with the problem the worse things will…
Read MoreStable Flies
We’re not talking about flies that have to go to a psychiatrist for mental health issues. Buzzers that are so normal, other insects think of them as mentors because they’re stable in the brain department. Nothing like the menacing ones that are always lounging around in the head shrinker’s chair, grousing about how they were…
Read MoreThe Trouble With Grubs
A Grubpocalypse is coming! And with the Grubageddon other creatures are about to invade your outdoor space. Moles, mice, rats, birds, armadillos, shrews, gophers, badgers, possums, muskrats and the dreaded, gaseous skunk. A Pest Control Army’s nightmare! They feast on these infants. While grubs have a scorched Earth policy, the critters they bring with them…
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