The Eco Zone

What Sets Us Apart?
• When you ask us to provide you with a Green pest service, we will first begin with a non-chemical strategy. This means that as opposed to initially using chemicals inside and outside your home, we will first investigate the source of the problem and attempt to eliminate it before applying pesticides.
• In addition, we can make recommendations that will help eliminate your pest problem or potential for problems in the future by making recommendations such as repairing screens, replacing damaged windows, and caulking cracks and crevices.

Green Pest Control is to only use pesticides when absolutely necessary and when doing so, will take a targeted approach to eliminate your pest problem.

Why use a Green Professional Pest Control Service?
Reasons to use a green professional include: [Read more →]

Welcome mats not needed to invite these guys in.

I read in the paper just the other day. It said there is nothing I can do for the invasion of Lady Beetles now descending upon my home.”

This is true to a degree. There is nothing you can do to keep them out. The reason is they are already in. In your walls that is. Only small percentages actually come out at any given time during the winter months. This all changes whenever we see 70 degree temps in the spring. The Asian Lady Beetles actually spend the winter inside your walls, overhangs, attics and even basement sill box areas. Anywhere there are cooler temps. They cannot freeze. This will kill them. If they stay at room temperature they will starve to death.
Every time the outside temps or sunlight warms them up, they look for food and water. Unless you have plants with a serious aphid problem, the beetles will die within a few days.
The down side to having Asian Lady Beetles in your home or even the walls is up to 90% will die over the winter. This can sound like a good thing until you realize that what you don’t see is the problem. If you have hundreds of thousands of beetles dying in your walls every year, this could mean millions of dead bodies in just a few years. Most allergic reactions are to proteins. The exoskeleton of Lady Beetles is primarily made up of proteins. As these proteins break down, air circulation in the walls will blow these proteins throughout the house. This is why children may have elevated asthma on windy days.

Is it too late to do something this time of year?

No. It is never too late. [Read more →]

MICE AND RATS
Mice and Rats are commensal. That is, they prefer to share food and shelter with man. Mice and Rats and their parasites share our workplaces, restaurants, hospitals, schools, food processing plants and especially……..our homes.
IN OUR HOMES, they share the food we eat and the furniture where we sleep, relax and store our belongings. They will use plumbing voids as well as circulation vents to travel from one part of a home/building to another. It is this habit that assures the spread of contaminated nesting material, feces, and urine and body hairs.
IN JUST ONE MONTHS TIME, [Read more →]

By Brent T Towle Spectrum Pest Control
www.SpectrumPestControl.com
Pesticides and what you need to know about them.
Plus introductory to Green, Organic and IPM methods
This quick course should actually be called what’s bugging what’s bugging you.

Pesticides used to control the problem

CHEMICALS are classified by two major groups. Organic and Inorganic
• ORGANIC chemicals are any that contain the carbon molecule. The molecule can be of either natural or synthetic origin.
• INORGANIC chemicals are any that lack the carbon molecule. Usually are of mineral origin.
THERE ARE different ways in which both of these chemicals work. [Read more →]

Facts About the Pennsylvania Carpenter Ant:

• Most common large black ant in S.E. Wisconsin
• Have multiple sizes up to ½ inch long
• Smaller ¼ inch size referred to as “minor”
• Largest worker ant called “major”

Multiple nest locations with satellite nest up to 300 feet from main nest with queen
Main nest with Queen, prefers higher moisture, usually in water damaged wood such as rotten logs, railroad ties, old trees, water damaged over hangs or window and door Sills. [Read more →]

QualityPro’s advice. IPM

As a QualityPro company, we have taken many steps to provide you with a higher quality, more worthwhile service. One of the most important things about being a QualityPro company is our commitment to provide environmentally responsible pest management. This means using integrated pest management, or IPM, to solve your pest problem. An IPM approach is focused on the removal of the three key elements pests need to survive: food, water, and shelter. By concentrating on eliminating the sources of these elements, your home becomes a less desirable destination for pests, and greatly reduces the likelihood of an infestation. More importantly, IPM aims to correct the root cause of the pest problem, providing you with a longer-term solution to your pest problem in the least intrusive manner possible.

The IPM Approach
Six basic steps make up an IPM program and they include:

1. Inspecting the area
2. Identifying the pest problem
3. Selecting control methods based on the size and type of the pest.
4. Employing two or more control measures in combination
5. Applying pesticides judiciously
6. Evaluating effectiveness

Specific IPM actions include:

• Structural repair and maintenance to exclude pests (replacing screen with holes or adding door and garage stops, etc.)
• Behavioral modification (properly storing garbage, moving wood away from house, etc.)
• Precise pesticide applications (injecting a non volatile pesticidal gel in a wall where we have detected pests)

Participation is the Key to Success
Our knowledge of pests and our experience managing them allows us to develop an effective IPM plan. Yet, IPM is always more effective when our customers are actively involved. Your knowledge of your home and surroundings, your observance of pest problems, and your cooperation with us, your pest management company, will ensure that the IPM program successfully rids your home of pests in the most environmentally responsible way.