A cockroach, mouse, or rat infestation can be a horrible mess for any commercial business.  Restaurants and hotels can suffer terribly from these disgusting pests because these creatures love to hang out where food, water, and shelter sources are a plenty.

A pest infestation is bad for business in many ways.  Infestations will not only drive needed customers away, they are also known to shut businesses down completely as well.  Having an unwanted pest infestation at your restaurant can easily destroy your food supply.  Mice and rats carry dangerous diseases in their urine and feces.  They contaminate food preparation areas and chew into food supplies.  Cockroaches transmit bacteria and can bring disease into your environment.  No food source is off-limits to a cockroach.  They will eat anything, including another cockroach if need be.

The presence of mice, rats, or cockroaches can easily tarnish or destroy completely a company’s professional reputation.  Once patrons hear about a cockroach infestation at a restaurant or hotel, they are likely to head for the hills!  Customers often remain leery for a long time after the reported pest problem has been taken care of, in fear that it could return at any time.

Businesses would be wise to consider having a pest control specialist perform pest inspections and treatment at regular intervals to keep unwanted pests at bay.  Commercial pest control services are a small price to pay in comparison to a business losing its long standing good reputation.

Stern Environmental Group has been providing expert pest control services for over 10 years to businesses in Secaucus, New Jersey, the Greater New York City Metro and the Connecticut Regions.  If your business is experiencing rats, mice, cockroaches, ants, spiders, bees, or other problematic pests; give us a call and we will send our trained technicians out to get rid of your pests!

Stern Environmental Group offers the most up-to-date products, services, information, and articles to help you with your bed bug infestation issues.

Stop by our website to view the vast amount of information that we have collected about bed bugs.  We are often asked what bed bug bites look like.  Click on our photo link to see how these painful and itchy welts can affect you if you are unlucky enough to encounter the bugs.  You will also find valuable photographs of actual bed bug infestations that will assist you in your travels so that you know what you should be looking for when you check into your hotel room or if you think you might have a bed bug infestation at your home.

Many people think that having bed bugs means that they must throw out their bed bug infested mattress.  Stern Environmental Group and Protect-A-Bed allows you the opportunity to save your expensive mattress instead.  Click on the Encasement Info link on our website to find out how these state-of-the-art mattress encasements will seal bed bugs, and their eggs, in forever so that you will not have to go through the expense of purchasing a new mattress!

Stern Environmental Group offers the best bed bug services as well.  Cryonite is the newest and most effective treatment in bed bugs.  This innovative product is non-toxic and will kill pesky pesticide resistant bed bugs (and other bugs too) by rapidly freezing them!  This amazing treatment even works on bed bug eggs!  Another great tool in Stern’s arsenal is the bed bug sniffing dog.  Sniffer dogs work fast and with incredible accuracy.  Bed bug sniffing dogs are able to detect large amounts of bed bugs, bed bugs eggs, and even just one single bed bug that is hiding in the most obscure location.

Stop by our website to see how Stern Environmental Group can help you!  We are a licensed pest control specialist who provides services to Secaucus, New Jersey, the Greater New York City Metro and Connecticut Regions.  Give us a call today!

The bed bug epidemic that is occurring over the past couple of years across the United States is prompting quite a bit of media outlets to focus their attention on the problems that are affecting so many American’s.  The resurgence of the nocturnal nibblers has caused entomologists to work day and night to try and find a magic cure for the bugs that are causing extreme emotional distress, constant itching, and sleepless nights.

Pick up any national newspaper on any given day and you will likely find a bed bug related story.  Surf the internet and you will absolutely find an endless amount of stories about unfortunate souls who are suffering with their own bed bug infestation problems.  Query the internet for information on bed bugs and you will find a vast array of information about how to avoid bed bugs, treatment plans, pesticide information, legislation information, pending bed bug lawsuits, bed bug behavior, bed bug life cycle information, bed bug photographs, bed bug products, and bed bug services.  Simply put, there is an endless amount of information available online, but unfortunately, some of the information that is published is not always correct and it can be confusing to consumers.  The great news is that you can always rely on the incredibly accurate bed bug and pest control information on the Stern Environmental Group’s website!

Douglas Stern, of Stern Environmental Group, is considered to be an expert in the treatment of bed bugs and other types of pest control, for both homes and businesses.   As such, he is often contacted by media outlets to share his expertise.  Stop by our “News Room” webpage to view articles where Douglas Stern has been quoted in.  Douglas Stern would be happy to provide you with a personalized interview as well.  You may contact him at 1-888-887-8376.

While visiting the Stern Environmental Group’s website, be sure to take a look at all of the fantastic pest information that we have available.  We strive to provide you with the most up-to-date information, products, and services to make your home or business pest free.  You can easily stay connected with the most current information by following us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and our blog as well.

Much to the delight of the residents of New York, it was recently reported that Ohio has slipped into the number one slot as the most infested bed bug state.  The bed bug situation is so out of control in Cincinnati, Ohio that some people who are living in apartments are so frustrated with their constant nighttime blood draws that they are sleeping in city streets!  Many residents are suffering, and like so many other states, Ohio is looking for a magic cure for their bed bug infestation problems.  Some people think that no cure is available …or is there?

In October of 2009, the Governor of Ohio asked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for an emergency exemption that would allow the use of propoxur to be used in Ohio homes.  Currently, the insecticide is only allowed to be used in commercial buildings, on crops, and in flea and tick pet collars.  It should be noted that propoxur was used in homes prior to being removed from the market in the 1990’s.

Laboratory testing has revealed that propoxur is quite effective at killing bed bugs.  According to testing done at the University of Kentucky, propoxur killed 100 percent of the bed bugs that it was exposed to within 24 hours.  Additionally, once the bed bug eggs hatched, the nymphs died too.  This is great news…perhaps we have a magic cure after all.  These results are far better than typical chemicals that are used in current bed bug treatments which have a 16% kill rate after 72 hours.

But the bad news is that the EPA said “NO” to Ohio’s request for an exemption to use the insecticide in June of 2010 because there are concerns about the dangers of nervous system effects in children who spend time in rooms that are treated with the pesticide.  Despite the rejection, on August 18, 2010, there was a gathering in Ohio to discuss the matter further.  In attendance were representatives from Ohio, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, pest control, and even the Department of Defense.  People were hopeful that a solution would be reached for those that suffer from bed bug infestations.  Sadly, federal officials offered little hope for the residents of Ohio…and therefore for the rest of the United States.   But the great news is that Fido and Fluffy won’t likely be bitten by bed bugs if they are wearing their flea collar!

Continuing from Wednesday…

On the inside of your home, carpet beetles can be found invading a variety of different substances.  In the kitchen you could find them inside of cake mixes, cereals, grain, seeds, flour, powdered milk, or dog and cat foods.  You can also find carpet beetles eating fur, wool, feathers, silk, velvet, hair, leather, book bindings, dead insects, cotton, linens, and rayon inside your house.  Linens that are stained with food particles are a particularly yummy treat for carpet beetles. You may also experience a carpet beetle explosion in your attic or eaves if you have any wasp nests as carpet beetles are attracted to the nests with or without the wasps inside. Bird and rodent nests that are abandoned, or those with dead and decaying animals remaining, will also attract these scavengers in droves.

Bed bugs will typically hang out where they can obtain an easy blood meal.  You will usually find them within about 10 feet of the bed, hiding in all sorts of locations, not just the bed, despite their name.  Being that they are hitchhikers, it is easy to take a bed bug or eggs with you from room to room, or furniture piece to furniture piece.

With carpet beetles, the larvae stage is when you will see serious damage to items in your home.  A female carpenter beetle can lay up to 100 eggs which takes approximately 8 to 15 days to hatch when the weather is warm.  The larvae goes through several life stages, is hard to detect, and eats constantly.  Depending on the temperature, the larval stage feeding can last from 60 days to up to a year.  Carpet beetle larvae are often found in the dust bunnies, hair, and lint that accumulate in the corners and edges within a room.

Like bed bugs, carpet beetles like to hide in dark, protected, and undisturbed areas in your home. Look for carpet beetle infestations under baseboards, in air ducts, under pianos, stored food items, wall voids, and under heavy furniture, and other places where they will be unnoticed.

As with any pest that is invading your home, you should always contact a pest control expert who is trained to provide safe and proper pesticide treatment.  Stern Environmental Group has been providing professional pest control services to Secaucus, New Jersey, the Greater New York City Metro and Connecticut Regions for over 10 years.  Give us a call today for all of your pest control needs.