Landlock Pest Control would love to say we could come out to your home just once and eliminate all your pest issues for the year, but that simply isn’t possible with any pest control service or product. To maintain a pest-free environment year-round, we always recommend our quarterly pest control service to keep you covered every season for all the bugs and pests that appear at different times during the year.
The fact remains that different bugs and rodents emerge during different seasons. You might need professional pest management to maintain a pest-free environment during both the warm and cold months.
Seasonal pests are predictable, and that’s a positive thing for both pest control companies and homeowners. Just like those seasonal pests, Landlock Pest Control offers seasonal treatments to help combat them all!
Spring
Spring brings warmer weather and beautiful blooming flowers, which also means bugs, bugs, and more bugs. Over the winter, insects have been waiting out the cold by hiding in your home, crawl space, under rotting leaves, or by hibernating, but now it’s time for them to feed, breed, and repopulate our yards and homes.
Bees & Wasps
With no flowers or vegetable gardens to pollinate during the winter, bees and wasps remain dormant, but come spring, it’s time for them to get busy feeding and building new nests, often in your eaves and window sills.
Termites
March is termite awareness month for a reason! Termite swarmers leave their colonies to find a mate and start colonies of their own, which may end up being in your home. Termites love moist environments, so help prevent them from colonizing your home by repairing any leaks that may have occurred over winter.
Ants
By the time spring arrives, ants have depleted their food stores over the winter and need to start replenishing their pantry. Conveniently for them, your fully stocked dry pantry provides easy access. Help keep them out by vacuuming often and storing your food in airtight containers.
Mosquitoes
Spring showers create ideal conditions for mosquito breeding grounds. Maintaining proper drainage around your home is the best way to help keep them away. Standing water, old flower pots, and even clogged rain gutters make perfect spots for female mosquitoes to lay their eggs.
Summer
Who doesn’t love summer? Family barbecues, beach trips, pool parties—you name it, the activities are endless! Unfortunately, bugs feel the same way. Our hot and humid summers provide ideal opportunities for many insects to feed and breed.
Mosquitoes
As mentioned before, mosquitoes thrive in hot, humid summer months, and you can become the perfect meal. Standing and stagnant water is a definite attraction for breeding.
Bed Bugs
If you have ever dealt with bed bugs, you know what a nightmare they can be. The increased heat and summer travels make bed bug infestations a real problem during this time. Bed bugs are opportunistic pests that hitch a ride on your clothing, shoelaces, and luggage when they can. To help prevent bed bugs in your home, always inspect the mattress and room any time you travel or after you have house guests.
Flies
Flies are yet another opportunistic pest, and summer is party time for them. Flies are attracted to our delicious-smelling barbecue plates, steaming piles of garbage, and even yard waste left by our furry family members. To help limit their numbers around your home, properly seal your garbage cans and clean up pet waste as often as possible.
Termites
By the time summer arrives, those newly established termite colonies have been hard at work expanding, and that’s a lot of mouths to feed. Help protect your home with a termite prevention treatment and keep moisture levels low around any wood sources in or under your home.
Fall
Fall is such a beautiful time of year. Hopefully by now, the humidity is more tolerable, and leaves are starting to change, making outdoor hikes and sightseeing that much more enjoyable for us. Unfortunately for us, fall for bugs means it’s time to start preparing for winter, and your home looks 'oh so inviting.'
Rodents
Mice, rats, and even squirrels have spent the summer running amok outside, but as food sources become scarce and the air turns chilly, they know it’s time to head indoors. Unfortunately, our homes are perfectly stocked with accessible food. To help prevent rodents from invading, seal up any possible entry points and store food in airtight containers.
Cockroaches
Roaches of any species are susceptible to frost, and your home looks like the best place to bunker down. Water bugs and wood roaches aren’t concerned with how clean your home is—if it’s warm and there’s food, they’re moving in. Storing food in airtight containers, vacuuming, and decluttering can make your home less inviting to them.
Beetles
With a chill in the air, it’s time for overwintering bugs like boxelders, stink bugs, and ladybugs to prepare for hibernation. These bugs are often resistant to traditional pest control methods, so it’s important to have an action plan in place. Sealing cracks around windows, doors, and crawl spaces will help keep them out of your home.
Winter
Just because the freezing cold weather has arrived doesn’t mean all those bothersome pests are going to freeze and die. Most insects are dormant in winter or hunkered down in their colonies with their stockpiles of food, but not all pests disappear.
Rodents
With freezing temperatures and depleted outdoor food sources, your warm, well-stocked home is extremely inviting for mice, rats, and even squirrels to huddle up. To help keep rodents out, store food in airtight containers, empty trash frequently, and seal up any cracks and crevices they might use to get inside.
Cockroaches
Roaches can live in almost any environment and feed on just about anything, including the glue in cardboard boxes. Your home provides everything they need to survive and thrive during the winter. During winter, be sure to open cardboard boxes outside your home and keep your space clean and clutter-free.
To stay on top of these bothersome pests year-round, Landlock Pest Control recommends quarterly pest control treatments and proper maintenance for your home. But you don’t have to handle all of this by yourself. Give us a call today to discuss a treatment plan with one of our pest control professionals in Virginia and North Carolina to help keep your home pest-free all year long.
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