The temperature’s rising and so are bug populations. Sensitive to temperatures, insects are more active and prolific in the summer when heat and humidity increase. Busily multiplying inside your home, if left unchecked, the obnoxious pests can make your life miserable, spread disease and cause significant structural damage to your home. The bad boys of summer are back!

• Termites are the terminators of the insect world. The most destructive of insects, termites will actually eat your house, chewing up and digesting the wood as they tunnel through it, leaving an unstable and unsafe shell. Termites do $2.5 billion in damage each year, destroying more homes than fires or floods.
• Ants trail across kitchen counters, swarming over jelly smears and grease splatters, trekking their dirty little feet across the area where you slather peanut butter on the kids’ sandwiches. There are more than 20 kinds of ants that may invade your home, but carpenter ants are the most destructive. They’ll chew through the wood that holds your house together like little buzz saws, hollowing out galleries in the foundation boards, struts and bearing beams to build their nests.
• Number 3 on the summer pest hit parade, roaches spread germs and are a leading cause of children’s asthma. Picking up germs on their spiny legs and bodies as they crawl through decaying garbage and sewage, cockroaches spread 33 kinds of bacteria, 6 kinds of parasitic worms and at least 7 other human pathogens. They leave their nasty calling cards everywhere they crawl, including in your kitchen cupboards, inside food boxes, across your counters, sinks and tables.
• Bed bugs may not be first in the insect rouges’ gallery but that’s only because they don’t spread disease or cause destruction, they just make your life miserable. Bed bugs hide in tiny cracks and crevices near your bed, coming out at night to feed like voracious vampires, sucking up your blood and leaving itchy, red welts all over your body.

If summer pests are bugging you, call the pest control experts at Stern Environmental Group. When your insect problems are too big to be solved with a shoe, it’s time to call in the pros. Click the post title to learn more about our insect control services. Give us a call and we’ll rid your home of whatever pesky bug is bugging you. You’ll sleep well tonight when you get “Stern” with your pests.