Innovative Pest Solutions Blog

In an earlier post we learned about the yellow jacket and the paper wasps that we encounter in the Raleigh/Durham area. For this pest control blog post we will focus on hornets and bees, specifically the Bald Faced Hornet and the common Honey Bee. Bald Faced Hornet The Bald Faced Hornet is a bigger and bulkier insect than both the paper wasp and yellow jacket. hornet nest in tree It i...

Fruit flies are a common pest here in the North Carolina Raleigh/Cary/Durham triangle area. The can show up from seemingly out of nowhere within a few days of placing a bunch of bananas on your kitchen counter. How do Fruit Flies get into my Raleigh home? Well, here’s an interesting fact: although a fruit fly has no nose, they have an incredible sense of smell by using their antennae ...

As a general rule repellant liquid treatments kill mostly the workers and foragers, but not the reproductives or the larvae, inside the ant colony. When using baits, the foragers bring the bait into the colony to be given to all as nourishment. It can take a few weeks for there to be a noticeable decrease in ant sightings when using only baits. But in the long run it can be the most effective p...

This summer seems to be the year of the copperhead and copperhead snakebites in Raleigh, NC. Many of our customers have reported seeing copperhead snakes in and around their Raleigh homes in the last several weeks. We have also been reading about copperhead snakebites occurring throughout the Triangle, with the N.C. State Baseball coach and even our own SEO expert from StudioRTP having both o...

Yesterday we had a customer from Raleigh, NC who had some house plants that were not only covered in odorous house ants, but there were also many tiny puffs of what looked like cotton on the plants stems and leaves. These tiny puffs of cotton were actually mealybugs. Mealybugs are common to the Raleigh Triangle area and are very similar to scale insects. They suck juices from the plants (cau...

Ten years ago it would be a little unusual to find stink bugs in the house, though these pests were commonly found in the yard or garden in Raleigh, NC. But in the 1990’s a new species was accidentally introduced into Pennsylvania and the pests have made their way down to North Carolina, popping up in several locations around the Raleigh area. This new species is called the Brown Marmor...