Bringing up the back at the PestWorld 5k

We are up early at PestWorld national conference to walk a 5k to raise money for breast cancer research. As you may see, Erin, myself & the Brooks are bringing up the back.

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Mole Spears!

Ran across four of these mole spears I peoples homes today. Not sure what this is? Imagine sitting in your lawn watching patiently for ground to start bumping up in random lines. That's a mole, and this is some contraption someone created where, once you've located to mole in it's tunnels you stab into the ground hoping to score a direct hit on the mole. There is an easier, less violent, way to rid your home of moles. We can help, but if you want to stab a mole here's your spear.

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Termites to Look for: How To

Ever wonder what termites look like? Here's a bit of a glimpse of some old termite damage on a wood post. You can see an open tunnel on the left and part of an intact tunnel at top of picture. If this tunnel were active you would see the little critters crawling around. What you don't see is some hundred thousand more that are part of the whole colony. Even smaller colonies make up a few tens of thousand termites. That's why we do what we do.

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Let me outta here!!

Brooks wants to go home after a long day. I'm thinking that's a great idea.

suppose Jesus can find you anywhere

as I've been doing the pest control work I've seen alot of middle Tennessee that I've not been privy to. it was nice to find out that Jesus can find people in the stall of the mcdonald's in hartsville.

Don't just start spraying stuff all over the house

When you find termites (such as we did with this home) you don't want to go rampant with bug killing sprays and such. They can give you some immediate comfort but it doesn't take care of the root problem. The Sentricon system we provide baits the grimey chewers who once located get baited & go back to the colony (which can be in the millions) to kill off significant members and cause the whole colony to die and thus stop chewing on your stuff. Note: this is a rather simplistic explanation but you get the idea I'm sure.

Cool thing for you of the green mindset. Sentricon is completely green (before there was a green) option for keeping your house safe from these pests.

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Watch what you lay down on the ground

Termites in the Middle Tennessee area (and the southeast for that matter) are subterranean, which means they stay underground. You need to watch what stuff you put on the ground around or under your house. Termites will crawl up from the ground and start eating and you may never know till it's to late. Here's some termites chewing on the boxes of some flooring behind a house in south Nashville.

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This looks ominous

Wasn't too excited to have to crawl into here. Thank goodness found a little bigger (not much) hole on the otherside of home. Still, had to psyche myself up to crawl the home, first time I had to do that.

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Gross!

Crawling to check out a house I found a furry friend who had an u timely demise. My best guess is big chimpmunk or squirrel.

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Mystery Solved

Had a call yesterday for a swarm of termites. Usually in our area termites do not swarm around this time of year, but turns out we stumbled upon a not to often seen Dark Southeastern Subterranean termite. They are smaller in size and colony and do little damage compared to their Eastern Subterranean termite counterparts. Put together a plan to make sure we are handling the problem. Mystery solved!

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