East Longmeadow, MA Pest Control 

Tips To Prevent Ticks In East Longmeadow, MA

Having ticks living on your East Longmeadow property in large numbers is dangerous for you, your family, and your pets. Ticks feed on the blood of many different hosts, meaning that they have the ability to carry and spread many different, potentially dangerous, diseases, including Lyme disease. To make your property less attractive to the wild animals that often carry and introduce them to your property and to the ticks themselves, we want to offer the following prevention tips.

• Keep your grass mowed, and cut-back overgrown vegetation from the edges of your property.

• Under the guidance of a veterinarian, use tick control products on your pets.

• Remove piles of leaf and yard debris from your yard that ticks like to hide underneath of.

• Keep woodpiles away from the exterior of your home.

• Do not feed birds or other wild animals on your property.

For added protection against ticks, contact the tick control experts found at American Pest Solutions. After a thorough inspection of your property we will develop a plan of action that is specific to your East Longmeadow property and which will work to help reduce the numbers of blood-feeding ticks found living and breeding in your yard.

What Do Bed Bugs Look Like In East Longmeadow, MA

Bed bugs are parasitic pests whose favorite food source happens to be human blood. While their eggs and young nymphs can be hard to spot, the adults can easily be seen with the human eye if you know what you are looking for. Adult bed bugs grow to be about 1/4 of an inch in length. They are reddish brown in color, although if they have recently fed they may be a more purplish color. Along with knowing what they look like, it is important to know what the common signs of their presence are. Finding rust colored spots or dots of blood on bedding, mattresses, bed springs, carpets or walls is a very common sign of a bed bug infestation, the blood spots are left behind as they feed. A bed bug infestation can also be discovered after noticing piles of molted skins along the seams or underneath of mattresses and box springs, or after finding dead or live bed bugs on mattresses and box springs, in upholstered furniture, in the cracks of wooden furniture or walls, or even inside of computers or keyboards. If there is a bed bug infestation you or family members may also discover bed bug bites, however, this is not a reliable indicator of an infestation because not everyone will have a reaction to their bites.

If you ever see bed bugs or their signs in your East Longmeadow home, immediately contact the bed bug control experts at American Pest Solutions. We always begin with a K-9 bed bug inspection. Our K-9 inspections are fast, non-invasive, and extremely efficient. After the inspection, our professionals will develop a plan based on the specifics of the infestation. In most cases, we use a combination of non-chemical controls and chemical pesticides. To get the best results 3 treatments are usually completed within a one month period. To learn more, give us a call today.