Posts By: Home Defenders Termite and Pest Management

It happened on Highway 18 at 50 mph. I was driving along when a wasp suddenly flew from a hiding place onto the inside front windshield. I knew the stinging insect wouldn’t bother me if I didn’t bother her, so I calmly rolled down my window and let her fly to freedom. Thinking over what… Read more »

“Those darn mice.” I thought. “Don’t they ever give up?” I was one frustrated pest professional last week, checking mouse traps in a dark crawlspace. I had squeezed through the little plywood entry door and, sure enough, once again, there were more mice in my traps. I had been catching them for a week, but… Read more »

 I was standing at the door of a vacation cabin, taking the heat. “Mike, your worker should have seen those mouse droppings on my bed and called me!” my customer said, his face red with anger. “My wife took one look at that poop and yelled, ‘We’re heading back home now, Bob!’ I practically had… Read more »

“Help Mike, it’s crawling up the screen. Quick, come get it!” My secretary Erika was eyeballing something scary and calling me for help. I ran into the main office and spotted the creature in question. It was climbing our screen door in broad daylight—at a pest control business of all places. Wow. You just don’t… Read more »

“Wow, look at that,” I’m thinking. “I can’t wait to write about this.” I’m hiking on a forest trail and I’m seeing a commonplace sight: bear, coyote, and raccoon prints. So why is that worth writing about? Because I made this short trail a month ago and these paw prints mean that wild animals—trail-hiking royalty—have… Read more »