Homeowner Tip: Keep window screens on tightly to keep out wasps, clean up spilled food and crumbs before foraging ants come and clean up for you.

Why? Moisture is just like steroids for insects, it helps give them what they need to rapidly grow their colony size, which means more insects foraging for food.  Ants, in particular, reproduce faster when it's humid.  

Additional pests mean a greater need for more food sources.  In turn, their foraging area becomes wider and wider. In many cases this will lead them directly to your home.

 
When it's raining and pouring the soil will swell with water and cause insects, especially ants, to search for a safer area...dry ground. Insects will seek out the closest area that isn't flooded and provides them with adequate shelter. If your home isn't flooded watch out for uninvited roomates, because ants are able to move entire colonies with speed and precision. 

Solution: Call Zebra Pest Control to utilize our inside/out treatment for ants and other foraging pests.

Dry Conditions

Watch out for: Ants, centipedes/millipedes, earwigs, pillbugs/sowbugs and spiders

Homeowner Tip: Seal and Caulk openings and cracks of home.

Why? When it rains insects multiply and when it's dry they come knocking on your door in search of water. O.k., they don't knock they just come on in. When it comes to an insects survival they will get water from any source possible and in many cases that is in your home. Millipedes especially like the cool damp, cool areas of basements and, in many cases, will travel from your yard in huge numbers and find a home in your house (we have seen hundreds at a time). In fact, other pest control companies are reporting sightings of thousands.

Solution: Call Zebra Pest Control to utilize our perimeter barrier treatments to help stop problems before they occur.

Cold and Colder