As you check HVAC filters, search for leaks, reapply caulking, and perform other monthly home maintenance chores, are you remembering to check pest control off your list? Unfortunately, most homeowners don't think about pest control until it's too late. But pest control is meant to control pest activity, or prevent pests from ever becoming a problem. Preventing pests is much easier, and less expensive, than exterminating them, just as maintaining your water heater is much simpler than replacing it. Homeowners should include year-round pest control as part of their regular home maintenance to ensure a safe, comfortable home.

Walking through the pest control aisle of your local store, undertaking your own pest control job without any professional help probably looks like an easy task. However, it wouldn’t take long into the project to realize this is far from the truth. It’s tempting to try and take it on, but most pest control jobs should be left for the experts to take care of.

While rodent infestations can occur anytime, these pests are more likely to seek indoor shelter during cooler months. While it's important to protect your home from potential rodent infestations, professional rodent control is essential for active infestations.

Bed bug paranoia is a very real thing. They can show up nearly anywhere and everywhere: in public transportation locations, hotels, schools, offices, even in our own homes. On any given day you can likely find a bed bug report pop up in some parts of the country. For people with limited education concerning bed bugs, it’s no wonder they fear them. Letting your mind run wild with dangers and uncertainties is easy when you know little about something, even more so with their increasing resurgence in the news. But to what extent should you let your anxiety bed bugs go? How much is too much? If you dread the day you could need a bed bug exterminator, take a deep breath; this fear doesn’t need to control your life.

Summer months are the optimal time of the year for lawn grubs to take full control of your lawn. Grubs, the young forms of various types of beetles, feed on grass roots from underneath the soil, causing the lawn above to wither and die. It’s a repairable problem, but in order for you to find the best lawn care options and prevent further damage, you need to know what to look for in the first place. Here are some of the biggest signs that grubs are wreaking havoc in your yard.