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Do It Yourself Pest Control
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Post Infestation Treatment
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Pest Control Phraseology
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Sugar Ants and Can You get rid of them?
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Do you need pest control services in the winter?
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Cockroaches- What a Pain
Cockroaches can live through almost anything including headless.…
Stink Bugs
While the stink bug can’t hurt you, they’re…
Bed Bugs - Ugh
Bedbugs in a home are a nasty nuisance and the best defense…
Cockroaches Again?
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Rat Infestation On Your Block in Delta?
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Mice are very cunning and rather difficult to catch, and…
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Just Get Rid of these Flies
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Winter Bugs
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Pest-Control Myths
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Acrobat ants
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The Roly-Polies
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Moles 101
Our local moles have large paddle-like front feet used for…
Raccoon Live Trapping
Raccoons invade your property in search of food, water and…
Pantry Moths
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House Spiders – What to do?
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Oh, just another Squirrel Splooting
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Garden Insect Pests - Series
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Slugs and snails are soft-bodied animals but snails…
The BC Provincial Government just updated their list of essential services and Pest Control is included as an essential service.
The BC Provincial Government just updated their list of essential…
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As We evolve - so do Rats.
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Biological pest controls include predatory or parasitic insects,…
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The rat lungworm, is a parasite of rodents that can infect…
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Rats have a variability of qualities that make them challenging…
Ambidextrous Squirrels are Smarter
Squirrels that favour one side of their body are…
The Opossum -top notch in pest Control
Like spiders and ladybugs, the opossum is your…
Rats play tit-for-tat
Rats play quid pro quo with each other, a form of tit-for-tat…
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Nutria -the Invasive Swamp Rat
Nutrias have been in North America for over 70 years and…
Book Lice a.k.a. Psocids
What is a psocid you ask, well they are also called book…
Firebrats
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Toys in the Attic – Or is it Pests
Okay, you keep your house clean and uncluttered, you maintain…
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Insect, those edible ones, are chocked full of protein, vitamins,…
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Feral cats are the offspring of house cats, often confused…
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Delta’s three main Rodent
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Warmer winters allow rats to breed into the previously too-cold…
And so another Wasp season begins
The most familiar wasps we encounter live in large cooperative…
The common House Flies
House flies are major carriers of disease transferring…
Suicide Aphids Explode to save their Nests
The colonial aphid fixes its house in a stunningly fatal…
Conditions are ripe for rats in South Delta
Factors include everything from open compost piles and bird…
Why do we hate Rats
The rats that reside in Delta for the most part are Norway…
Delta gets ratted out!!
Now that we are weeks into spring and the rain has forgotten…
Baby animals !! In your Shed!!
As the season for spring cleaning, gardening, lawn…
Fleas vs Ticks
No they are not super hero’s or villains but…
The Bottle Fly
Bottle flies or blow flies, are the large flies we see in…
Skunk Season is back again.
Skunk season is here again and words of wisdom…
The Raccoons Are Coming
The raccoon is a native animal to Delta, and is…
Delta’s most hazardous spine-chilling insects
Spring has sprung and the biting and stinging insects are…
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Ultrasonic deterrent for rodents
A new gadget has been designed to prevent damage…
Mason Bees Season Begins
Its officially mason bee season and its time to get last…
The Malodorous Dual – the Skunk and the Striped Polecat
Here we have two somewhat similar looking stinky…
Carpenter Ants Damage
Carpenter ants have become a widespread problem…
Odorous Ants
These insects create nests in wall or floor voids…
Rats – the secret sensory world
Everywhere rats go they leave a steady stream of…
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2019 Grease Ant Epidemic in South Delta
Well I’m calling this year a total epidemic of…
Silverfish – bite like sharks or sting like eels?
Silverfish are the same length as the carpenter ant, these…
Insect Extinction maybe coming
Insects are at the bottom of every food chain yet at the…
Well stocked real estate can be a squirrels jack pot
In the nutty world of squirrels, one squirrel can influence…
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Blog: Bird feeders – a neighbourhood smorgasbord
Randy…