New Year, Same Pest – Termites Work Year Round New Year’s resolutions often include home renovations and improvement projects that range from full remodels to simple DIY fixes. Pest prevention can help homeowners to keep their investment intact especially when it comes to termites. It is estimated that roughly $5 billion dollars in property damages [...]
Where Oh Where Did The Little Pests Go? Do Pests Die Off In The Winter Months? While many species of birds migrate and bears and many other mammals hibernate, we are often asked the question, “Where do pests go during the winter?” The answer to this question is specific to the species of pest in [...]
How To Keep Your Dream Home From Becoming A Nightmare Your home is one of the largest investments in your lifetime. Protecting that investment includes monitoring your home for pest infestations. Of the infestations that homeowners commonly encounter, wood destroying insects are often the most feared and with reports indicating that termites alone cause over [...]
Home is Where the Heart is – The Importance of a Termite Inspection When Purchasing Your New Home Most commonly, when home buyers are initially considering what they want in a home they think of details such as location, number of rooms, garage, etc. When exploring the home itself buyers shift gears and begin looking [...]
Every year, we receive dozens of calls regarding the sudden appearance of swarmers within and around customers’ homes. The primary concern of many of our customers is that these swarmers being their first sign of a termite infestation. However, many times swarmers are instead a sign of an ant infestation, which although still a problem [...]
Finding out that your home is infested with termites can be a scary diagnosis when you don’t know what to expect both physically and financially from a termite treatment. Every home is unique and should be evaluated by a termite professional to provide an estimate and details for treatment to eliminate unexpected expenses or surprises [...]
Protecting your home against the potential for termite infestation is a process that can begin during the construction of your home. Soil treatments with termiticides are available for homes during the construction process. These treatments create a chemical barrier at the point of contact between the structure and the ground, the level at which termite [...]
Wood damaged by termites The cause of roughly $5,000,000,000 in property damage annually, termites are a major threat to homes and commercial structures as they silently eat their way through wood, flooring and any other products containing cellulose (wall paper, paper exterior of drywall are prime examples) along the way. A great [...]
Subterranean Termites (Worker on left - Soldier on right) Enlarged to show detail Part of nature’s clean up crew for dead wood and debris; subterranean termites lack the ability to distinguish between a dead tree and the structure of your home. Termites feed on products that contain cellulose, including: dead trees, lumber and [...]
Here at Mug-A-Bug we recognize the importance of protecting your home against termite damage and infestation. Each year Florida utilizes the month of February to educate residents about termite infestations and we would like to do the same. Over the next few weeks we will be providing information on the subterranean termites that infest structures in Colorado, [...]
