Cream Ridge, NJ Expert Pest Control & Attic Insulation

As this homeowner in Cream Ridge, NJ, was sitting outside on his deck, he was suddenly attacked by several aggressive yellow jackets. He quickly ran inside and called Cowleys for help! Yellow jackets are dangerous and aggressive stinging insects that will not hesitate to attack anyone or anything that comes within close proximity to their nest. Using that knowledge, after equipping our protective bee suit, we inspected the area where the homeowner was sitting and found a small, but dangerous yellow jackets nest underneath one of the couches!

We immediately treated the nest with a knockdown aerosol application, which quickly exterminates the yellow jacket. A short while later, we removed the nest, disposed of it, and then applied a residual application to the area. This product will eliminate any yellow jackets that return to this area as well as prevent them, and any other stinging insect, from building another nest.

After we safely and successfully removed all the nuisance birds from the soffit area of this home in Cream Ridge, NJ, we're now going to exclude them from the property. 

Before we do that, we had to remove the massive amount of nesting debris inside the soffit. So we carefully removed all the nesting debris and then disinfected the area with a solution that targets bird mites. Bird mites are parasites that feed on the blood of birds. When birds leave their nests, the mites are left behind without a suitable host for their next blood meal. They will make their way into a home, and once inside they will take over, climbing all over your walls, ceilings, and beddings. To make matters worse, bird mites are tiny and semi-transparent, so they are extremely difficult to detect.

Afterward, since the birds were infesting the home via the soffit-return, we installed Ridge Vent under the soffit-return and then installed sturdy metal flashing over the soffit return. Lastly, we installed Pest-Blok over the soffit area. Pest-Blok doesn't restrict the airflow to the attic, undergoes a silicone-protected polyester coating process that makes it last longer, and guards the home against nuisance birds, pests, squirrels, and all other nuisance wildlife.

I was recently sent to one of our commercial properties, an apartment building in Cream Ridge, NJ where we handle all of their pest control needs, including both preventative treatments and to handle any emergency insect or wildlife infestation. We were contacted by the property manager after tenants informed them that a yellow jacket nest had formed in a bush that was nearby a building. Fortunately, no tenants had yet been stung, and I immediately went out to resolve the problem and keep it that way. 

An active yellow jacket nest is an especially challenging situation where there is a high risk of being stung, even for a pest control technician wearing protective gear. Of all the different types of wasps, yellow jackets have earned a reputation as being particularly aggressive and territorial when it comes to their nests. These predatory social wasps can have colonies that may contain thousands of workers. Suffice it to say, of all the stinging insects that can invade your property, attempting to remove an active yellow jacket nest is not a good weekend DIY project. The risks are far too great without the right products and the right protective gear.

This particular nest was located in the root system of the bush with the path of the foraging wasps about chest high. Often, I can safely treat a nest safely without using a protective bee suit and just using the equipment I have at my disposal. In this case, because of the location of the nest, there was no way to treat the hive without getting in the direct line of a small army of angry yellow jackets. There was a high probability of being stung. These wasps are fierce defenders of their colony, and large numbers will swarm and follow an invader a great distance from the nest. Even when you are far enough away to no longer pose a threat, these insects just won’t stop. So, my first course of action was to protect myself as much as a could and don a protective suit. I was then able to the approach the nest safely, without the fear of being subjected to a massive wasp attack (there is always the risk that one or two of these relentless insects will find a way to sting you despite the protective gear).

I used a slow-acting non-repellent product on the nest that affects not only the wasps in the nest, but also the foraging wasps returning to the nest. This way, the entire colony is eliminated. I returned a few days later to give the application time to work. The nest was dormant and the comb was dug up by a wild animal that was attracted to the honey.