An insect infestation can be troublesome, and once found, removing them can be a daunting task. From bees, wasps, and hornets to ants, mosquitoes, fleas, and many more, the pests that call our beautiful Kerrville home can cause damage, spread disease, and cause annoyances in our lives. If you have an infestation, your local expert exterminators at Asset Pest Management provide pest control services in Kerrville and the surrounding areas.
Flying Insects That Sting in the Texas Hill Country
If you're experiencing a high number of bees, wasps, hornets, or yellow jackets near your home or garden, there is likely to be a nest nearby. In our area, we experience infestations from these insects, and they can cause severe grief. Distinguishing between a bee, wasp, hornet, or yellow jacket 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 (carpenter bees, bumble bees, honeybees, and more) in Texas 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, Hornets, and Yellow Jackets
Unlike bees, these predatory flying insects are significantly more aggressive when disturbed. Additionally, these pests do not die after stinging.
Usually smooth and shiny, Wasps are narrow-waisted with four wings and often bright in color. Kerrville residents experience various wasp types, including:
- Paper Wasps
- Yellow Jackets
- Hornets
- Cicada Killers
- Mud Daubers
- Mexican Honey Wasps
What Is a Yellow Jacket?
A very common appearance in the Texas Hill Country during the Summer and Fall, Yellow Jackets have some noticeable and unique characteristics. Their tiny, segmented waist and yellow and black color are key ways to identify these insects.
Very territorial, Yellow Jackets become very aggressive when their nest is approached. Their very recognizable nests are built with paper-like material made from chewed cellulose.
While typically very slow to sting, a Yellow Jacket will aggressively defend their nest with their ability to sting multiple times.
What Does a Hornet Look Like?
Like a wasp, hornets have a thin waist that distinguishes them from bees. The most common type of hornet, European hornets, are brown with yellow-orange stripes. Additionally, they average an inch and a half in length. The bald-faced hornet is black with white-gray stripes and is much smaller than the European hornet at 3/4ths of an inch long.
Treatment and Prevention
The first thing to do if you're stung by any insect is 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.
How to Get Rid of Wasps, Hornets, and Bees
Asset Pest Management can inspect your home and deliver rapid, effective wasp, hornet, yellow jacket, and bee treatment services.
Ant Exterminator Services From Asset Pest
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.
What Are Carpenter Ants?
Like termites, wood ants (carpenter ants) are the second leading wood-destroying insects that destroy properties near and around Kerrville. Even though their numbers are much less than termites, these insects can cause a great deal of damage quickly to the structure of your home.
Carpenter ants are among the most recognizable ants found in and around homes. Typically, black and red, they may also be solid black or solid red and vary in size from 1/4 inch to about 3/4 inches in length. Using their huge mandibles, they can tear through wood or give a good pinch.
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
What Do Fire Ants Look Like?
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.
How to Get Rid of Fire Ants
There are many home remedies for killing fire ants. However, getting rid of these insects in your yard is not the same as getting rid of them in your house. Many outdoor ant control methods are not safe for indoor treatment. The most popular treatment methods include baits, mound drench products, and dust insecticides.
However, if you have been asking yourself, "How do I get rid of fire ants?", it is time to call Asset Pest Management to discuss your options for fire ant extermination.
Carpenter Ant Damage
Carpenter ants will infest any wood structure, preferring moist or partially decayed wood. However, unlike termites, which eat wood for nutritional value, wood ants discard the wood to make their nesting sites. They get their nutrition from a combination of plant and animal food.
The presence of carpenter ants can indicate problems with the building, such as moisture, rotting wood, or other issues conducive to infestations. Most commonly, trees touching your home can be used as a highway for wood ants; however, they will travel along the ground to find their ideal nesting site too.
How to Get Rid of Carpenter Ants
Trimming trees and keeping brush away from your house will help prevent an infestation, but in no way is it 100% guaranteed.
Asset Pest Management has many ways we can help prevent an infestation and/or rid your home of these insects. Our experienced technicians use a combination of conventional and baiting methods to eliminate the complete colony.
Expert Ant Solutions From Asset Pest Management
We combine chemical and non-chemical solutions for exterminating workers, eggs, larvae, and queen of the colony to handle ant remediation.
Due to their aggressive nature, the best way to handle ant colonies on your property is to contact our expert Asset Pest Management exterminators to devise an effective treatment plan.
Mosquito Control Services in Kerrville
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, yellow and dengue fevers.
Where Do I Find Mosquito Extermination Services Near Me?
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 Asset Pest Control to have our exterminators administer treatment.
Flea and Tick Problems in Texas
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.
What Do Fleas Look Like?
Small, wingless with thin bodies, fleas range from brown to reddish-brown in color. While they don't have wings, they can jump long distances - allowing them to get from host to host. Because fleas are very small, typically 2.5 millimeters long, they are difficult to notice.
How to Get Rid of Fleas
Prevention is always the first line of defense when dealing with fleas. However, if there is an infestation, there are remedies to get of these insects. First, you'll need to remove adult fleas and ticks 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 eggs and larva. A flea infestation can be challenging to tackle. Asset Pest Management’s team can effectively treat and eliminate the issue with our expert flea control methods.
What Does a Tick Look Like?
Like fleas, ticks do not have wings. Flat and oval, these pests can be grayish-white, black, brown, reddish-brown, or yellowish in color. Ticks can range in size from the size of a pin's head to the size of a pencil eraser.
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.
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 unsafe. 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 Kerrville is the black widow spider.
How to Get Rid of Spiders
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 prevent a spider infestation easily.
If your spider problem needs professional help, Asset Pest Management can provide reliable and comprehensive pest control services to eliminate spiders.
How to Get Rid of Ticks
There are various ways to help prevent a tick infestation, including:
- Trimming Overgrown Shrubs
- Removing Leaf Piles After Raking
- Mowing Frequently
- and Many More Preventative Methods
However, because ticks can cause serious issues, like disease transmission, it is best to call your local pest control professionals to implement a comprehensive course of action to remedy your tick problem.
Why Should You Choose Asset Pest Management for Your Insect Problems?
With our 100% satisfaction guarantee, you can trust us to provide exceptional pest control service. We take pride in our unparalleled commitment to our customers. We offer various treatment solutions to ensure each customers' needs are met every time.
Tackle Kerrville's Insect Pest Control Problems With the Expert Help of Asset Pest Control!
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