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Bug Library - Unwanted Insects in Mississippi
An insect problem is easier to solve when you know what you are dealing with. Our Bug Library covers the pests that invade Mississippi homes and businesses most often, from bees, wasps, and hornets to ants, mosquitoes, fleas, and rodents, along with the warning signs of each.
These pests damage property, spread disease, and disrupt daily life. If you spot one of them, the local exterminators at Clanton Pest provide pest control in Waynesboro, Meridian, Quitman, Richton, and the surrounding communities.
Bees, Wasps, and Hornet Infestations
If you’re experiencing a high number of bees, wasps, or hornets near your home or garden, there is likely to be a nest nearby. In the south, we experience infestations from these insects, and they can cause severe grief. Distinguishing between a bee, wasp, or hornet can be tricky. However, while their appearances may be similar, their behaviors are not.
No Sting Zone: Bee Remediation
There are many types of bees in the southern area, and they provide many incredible benefits to our local environment. However, a nest near your home can cause property damage, bodily harm, and harm to these key pollinators.
Aggressive Wasps and Hornets
Unlike bees, wasps and hornets are significantly more dangerous because of their aggressive nature when disturbed. Additionally, these pests do not die after stinging.
Treatment and Prevention
The first thing to do if you’re stung by any insect is to leave the area to seek treatment. If stung by a bee, make sure to apply treatment immediately by removing the stinger and using a cold compress to lessen any pain and ease the swelling. Should your symptoms worsen, then seek emergency medical treatment, as you could be having an allergic reaction. Similar to bee stings, if you are stung by a hornet or wasp and your symptoms worsen, please seek emergency medical treatment.
Clanton Pest can inspect your home and deliver rapid, effective hornet, bee, and wasp removal and treatment services.
Ant Control Services
Aside from biting people and potentially causing allergic reactions, ants can damage your property or ruin your lawn. When dealing with ants, our expert ant exterminators employ specialized methods to deal with various types of ants more effectively.
Carpenter Ant Extermination
Active year-round, these large ants can be found inside or outside your home. Generally, carpenter ants will make their nests outdoors, making their homes in dead trees, telephone poles, porches, pillars, and roofs. However, they will come inside when searching for food and water.
Putting Out Fire Ants
Fire ants are small reddish-brown insects that become very aggressive when disturbed and can even damage electrical equipment. They generally prefer sunny areas preferring to make their mounds in these locations. The network of tunnels underneath allows them to forage unseen.
Expert Ant Solutions From Clanton Pest
Clanton Pest combines chemical and non-chemical solutions for exterminating workers, eggs, larvae, and queen of the colony to handle carpenter ant remediation.
Due to their aggressive nature, the best way to handle ant colonies on your property is to contact our expert Clanton Pest exterminators to devise an effective treatment plan.
Mosquito Control Services
While mosquitoes might be among the most annoying pests to encounter and may not seem to be the most severe pest to deal with, they are among the most dangerous. This is due to the number of diseases that mosquitoes can carry malaria, encephalitis, and yellow and dengue fevers.
Mosquito Extermination
The best approach to mitigating the mosquito population around your home is by draining any standing water. This provides them with the right environmental conditions to thrive. Examples of areas with standing water mosquitoes can use rain gutters, buckets, birdbaths, and swimming pools, to name a few. Taking proper care of your yard by mowing your lawn and pulling weeds along the fence line also helps. When using mosquito repellent, ensure that what you’re using is EPA approved.
Using these methods can help control the situation. For more permanent mosquito service needs, contact Clanton Pest to have our exterminators administer treatment.
Flea Problems in South Mississippi
Creating a lot of havoc for such a small insect, fleas are a nuisance for both humans and pets. They are able to jump high to gain access to food sources. These pests feed on the blood of humans, household pets, and various other animals. Along with itching, swollen red bumps, skin irritation, and flea allergy dermatitis, fleas can transmit diseases with their piercing bites. Pets, like dogs and cats, can experience hair loss, skin irritation, and contract tapeworms from fleas.
Flea Prevention and Treatment
Prevention is always the first line of defense when dealing with fleas. However, if there is an infestation, there are remedies to get rid of these insects. First, you’ll need to remove adult fleas from any infected people or animals using shampoos and treatments. Second, you’ll need to thoroughly deep clean your home, including all bedding and linens, to rid your home of flea eggs and larvae. A flea infestation can be challenging to tackle. Clanton Pest’s team can effectively treat and eliminate the issue with our expert flea control methods.
Cockroaches Infestations
Like most bugs, roaches infest a home looking for food, water, and shelter. They will use pipes, drains, and exterior cracks and gaps to gain entry to their new home. Once inside, cockroaches grow their nests until overcrowding forces them out of hiding, and the homeowner realizes the problem.
Roach Prevention and Treatment
Keeping food in sealed containers and eliminating clutter helps prevent and control possible roach infestations. To treat a cockroach problem, our technicians administer rapid and effective treatment methods.
Bed Bugs
Small, oval, brownish, and huge nuisances, bed bugs aren’t your typical pest. With many similarities to other insects, like feeding on animals and humans’ blood, bed bugs differ in their infestation. Unlike your common household invader, these pests are not a result of a dirty or unkempt home or office. Often entering undetected through luggage, clothing, used beds and couches, and other items, bed bugs infest your home and make a residence. Bed bugs tend to live in groups and are mainly active at night. Because they feed on blood, you may wake up itching or see dark spots on your sheets from their excrement if you have an infestation.
Treatment & Prevention
If you suspect an infestation, remove all bedding and carefully check for signs of their excrement. To treat bed bugs, clean all bedding, linens, and curtains in hot water, then dry them on the highest dryer setting. If items cannot be washed in the washing machine, put them in the dryer in the highest setting. However, while these treatments work, getting rid of bed bugs usually requires chemical treatments. These chemicals can be harmful, so it’s generally safest and most effective to hire the experienced pest control professionals at Clanton Pest.
Rodent Infestation, Prevention, and Treatment in Mississippi
As one of the southernmost destructive pests, rodents damage and destroy property by gnawing through wires, doors, floors, furniture, and much more. These creatures can cause flooding, fires, and other severe damages if they chew through your home’s wires and pipes. Additionally, they consume and contaminate food in your home and carry hazardous diseases like Typhus Fever, Trichinosis, Salmonella, and more.
Managing Bats in the South of Mississippi
While we may see bats as a nuisance, they play an essential role in the environment by eliminating disease-carrying mosquitoes and other insects. However, bats are carriers of rabies and other diseases, which is where we come in with our bat removal services.
What Are Signs of a Bat Infestation?
- Bat Droppings
- Urine Stains
- Oily Stains
Bug Library Crawling Creatures: Spiders
Weather, ease of access, and other insects can lead to a spider infestation of your home. Like the American house spider and wolf spider, most spiders are harmless; however, venomous spiders can be dangerous. The brown recluse spider’s bite causes small blisters and swelling around the bite and may result in restlessness, fever, difficulty sleeping, and infection. Another venomous spider in and around Mississippi is the black widow. If bitten, their venom is strong enough to compromise a person’s nervous system. Symptoms from a bite include stomach cramps, vomiting, difficulty breathing, and fever.
Prevention and Treatment
Medical attention is strongly recommended if either of these spiders bites you. Cutting shrubs and bushes away from your home’s exterior, sealing gaps and cracks, and removing excess debris piles from your home are ways to easily prevent a spider infestation. If your spider problem needs professional help, Clanton Pest can provide reliable and comprehensive pest control services to eliminate spiders.
Signs of an Infestation:
Termites are often drawn towards lights and can be spotted around windows or doors. The presence of dirt tubes on foundation walls is another sign of termites infesting a structure. You might notice signs of damaged wood along the grain or scattered pieces of soil around plaster and drywall.
While internal signs of termite infestation might be visible, the external signs aren’t always visible. These pests can go entirely unnoticed for years, feeding underneath the floorboards and behind the walls. That’s why our staff assists in providing the means to identify signs of termite activity and infestations.
Exterminate the Termite problem:
If an infestation is found in your home or building, our expert team of exterminators can help devise an effective termite treatment plan using the most effective Termite Bait Stations
When using liquid termiticides, the chemical is applied directly in the soil, creating a barrier between the termites in the ground and your home or building. The barrier created prevents any new termites from gaining entry and will prevent the existing termites in the walls from returning to the soil. When professionally applied, this method protects your buildings from termites for a minimum of five to ten years. At which point the property would have to be retreated to maintain protection.
When using Baiting Stations, there is a one-time installation, and yearly inspection when bait stations are serviced.
Baiting stations are a mixture of appealing foods, like paper or cardboard, and slow-acting chemicals lethal to termites that attract and eliminate these pests. When installed in areas around the building, the termites will come in contact with the bait and bring it back to the colony where it will be shared. Once distributed, over time, the termites will be exposed and die off.
Tackle termite pest control problems with the expert help of Clanton Pest Management, Inc.
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