DFW Pests Don’t Wait For Spring, And Neither Should You!
Avoid February Flops
The month of February brings both new and returning challenges. With all of DFW just on the cusp of spring, warm-weather problems start to pop up again across DFW homes and businesses. Even worse, the changing seasons can cause Dallas home foundations to shift, creating new gaps and entrances for unwanted guests like rodents, roaches, and ants.
Eliminating pests is a year-round job in DFW, which is why professional Dallas-Fort Worth pest control services are essential in every season.
In the fall, cockroaches and other bugs crawl inside, seeking warmth. In the winter, rodents burrow into walls and insulation, gnawing on wires and causing electrical fires while hiding from the cold. In spring, once-dormant pests awaken, and wasps take over the neighborhood. Summer brings high heat and high pest activity, with mosquitoes swarming the moment you step outside.
At Eco-Safe Pest Control, we help homeowners stay ahead of seasonal infestations with professional DFW pest control solutions. Here are some tips and tricks to help you make it through February in Fort Worth unscathed.
Mosquitoes On The Horizon
Last summer’s mosquitoes have only just disappeared with January’s freeze, and it won’t be long before they start popping up again. Mosquito season in Dallas can begin as soon as February, depending on the weather.
The appearance of mosquitoes in Fort Worth also signals the potential for disease. Zika, West Nile, Dengue, Chikungunya, and Malaria inevitably appear when mosquitoes are thriving.
You might ask yourself, is it more important to prevent vector-borne illnesses, or to avoid exposure to toxic chemicals often used for mosquito control? The answer is: You don’t have to choose! Eco-Safe offers natural organic treatments that are made with active ingredients like garlic, thyme, and lemongrass, while providing more effective coverage than traditional chemical treatments.
With a population reduction of up to 98%, Eco-Safe is the clear choice for Dallas mosquito control.
Depending on your needs this spring, Eco-Safe offers an assortment of Fort Worth mosquito control services. Install an Eco-Safe mosquito misting system for consistent, season-long protection. Call an Eco-Safe technician out to perform a spray treatment before your family cookout to ensure nobody leaves with itchy mosquito bites. Interested in reducing the Aedes mosquito population even further? Ask about our In2Care buckets! We customize every service to your specific needs.
With Eco-Safe, you no longer need to dread the return of mosquitoes in DFW. Simply give us a call at 214-358-5201, and we will protect your yard tirelessly.
A Very Termite-Ridden Valentine’s Day
The relationship of a termite to wood is almost as tragic as that of Romeo and Juliet. With every embrace, the termite brings its love closer and closer to destruction. Eco-Safe’s DFW-based sister company, Miss Phoebe’s, is certainly responsible for the ending of more termites than anyone can count.
The story usually goes something like this:
Termio only knew the colony life, surrounded by identical worker nymphs. His parents, the king and queen termite, had no time for him- their only focus was creating more offspring to grow the colony. Not exactly a loving upbringing.
Termio dreamed of more than what his colony could offer him. And so he looked upward during the long nights, finding solace in a human-built structure.
Then he found Juliet. She was the most beautiful thing he had ever laid eyes upon, a structural beam filled with the most delicious cellulose.
But their love was forbidden. If the humans found out, it would surely spell doom for the colony.
How could Termio resist, though? Juliet loved him deeply, quietly making space for him between her wood fibers. He tunneled deeper and deeper as the love connecting them grew.
But he got sloppy. He was in a hurry to make it back to his colony before daybreak, and left tunnels and piles of frass where the humans could see.
His entire colony heard the human noises, calling a Miss Phoebe’s technician at 214-357-7373 to visit the house for a Dallas pest control inspection. Their doom was spelled out plainly. Termio was going to lose Juliet! Their love would amount to nothing!
Juliet quaked and creaked in place- she had sacrificed too much of her cellulose for Termio, and her structural integrity was weakening. She was going to be replaced and would never see Termio again!
Termio thought to himself: “If everything is lost, then at least I should visit my love one last time. It doesn’t matter if the Miss Phoebe’s termite treatments kill me or not.”
He ran through his tunnels one last time, up into the house above. Only for the Termidor liquid treatment to kill him- his final moments spent between Juliet’s grains of wood. There, they would embrace each other forever. Or at least until home repairs got underway.
For never was a story of more woe,
Than this of Termio and his Juliette above.
Showing Stinkbugs The Door
Now that spring is on the horizon, stinkbugs and other creepy-crawlies are starting to appear again in Fort Worth and Dallas homes. These troublesome little insects once found their way indoors for the winter, seeking warmth- but now they are looking for a way outside.
Overwintering pests like stinkbugs often find their way in- and out- through unsealed entrances in your home. Keep an eye on places like the plumbing voids underneath your sinks, cracks in garage doors, improperly weather-stripped windows and doors, and cracks in your foundation.
If the thought of bugs living inside your home terrifies you- Eco-Safe is here to help! A trained Dallas pest control technician can help spot any potential entry spots in need of repair, and can seal up plumbing voids underneath your sinks.
For year-round protection, choose our general pest control services. You get to select the frequency that works best for you: monthly, bimonthly, or quarterly. Your Eco-Safe technician will surround your DFW home with a layer of powerful natural organic protection, and will check for new points of entry during every pest control service.
Stinkbugs can be scary, but Eco-Safe can help you feel safe again with our effective DFW-based natural organic methods of pest control.
Shifting Foundations
With the change of seasons on the horizon, it’s important to focus on the security of your Dallas home or business to prevent costly rodent problems. When the temperature changes, foundations shift, and brand-new entrances for pests can appear.
Mice are known to squeeze through openings the size of a dime, and rats through holes as small as a quarter, so it’s important to do your due diligence to seal up any potential entrances ASAP. You must have someone inspect the outside of your home regularly to look for any new or worsening holes and cracks.
It is also just as important to monitor rodent activity outside your house, so you can stop problems before they even start. When a female mouse can have 12 young every 3 weeks, noticing activity early can be the difference between a close call and a full-blown infestation.
Luckily, help is just a call away, at 214-358-5201. Eco-Safe offers multiple, state-of-the-art solutions for your Dallas rodent problems. Whether you notice signs of rodent activity or are interested in stopping rodent activity before it starts, you can trust the original and only RatBusters®.
If you are worried about rodents getting indoors, Eco-Safe offers exclusion services for DFW homes and businesses. A technician will come and inspect your space, identify every possible point of entry, and create a plan to seal up areas of concern. This can be done in conjunction with trapping and monitoring services to ensure complete coverage. Once rodents are eliminated from the building, Eco-Safe also provides sanitation services for Dallas-Fort Worth to ensure that potential diseases will not linger in your space.
If your home is already sealed tight, Eco-Safe can still help! Placing monitoring stations outside is a great way to ensure the safety of your space- helping your Eco-Safe technician to address an increasing rodent population before they have a chance to gnaw their way indoors.
Just remember, if you have a pest problem, call Eco-Safe: your trusted DFW pest control experts! Contact us at 214-358-5201 via call or text, or send us an email at info@ecosafepest.com. We are more than happy to help with whatever Dallas-Fort Worth pest control problem you might have.