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Stern Will Send Residential Pests Packing

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There is nothing like a few unwelcome guests invading your home to make life miserable. Occasionally insects or wildlife may decide to come calling and, charmed by your gracious hospitality, decide to stay awhile. Stern Environmental Group provides expert residential pest control and pest management services guaranteed to send such unwelcome guests packing in a hurry.

Your home is one of the single largest investments you’ll make in your lifetime. Protecting it from the destruction and health hazards caused by invading insects or wildlife is a job for the experts at Stern Environmental Group. Utilizing the most effective products and methods available, our highly trained and experienced professionals will ensure that your family and home are safe and secure from unwanted pests.

Stern Environmental Group provides bed bug extermination, carpenter bee control, nuisance wildlife control, capture and removal of squirrels, raccoons, skunks, feral cats, and many other insects and nuisance urban wildlife. If it creeps, crawls, skitters, scampers or slinks, we can get rid of it for you. We are a member of the New Jersey and New York Pest Control Associations and provide insect and wildlife control and management services in most of New Jersey, all of New York City, most of Long Island, and parts of New York State and Connecticut.

Visit our website for complete information on the services we offer. Click the post title to learn more about our residential services. We also provide commercial pest control and pest management services. You’ll sleep well tonight when you get “Stern” with your pests!

Commercial Services, Pest Control, Pest Management

Stern Provides Effective Commerical Pest Control Services

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Nothing drives customers away faster than a few bugs skittering about or some stray four-legged critters running amok at your business. At Stern Environmental Group we understand your need to rid your establishment of these pests as quickly, efficiently and economically as possible. Our licensed and trained pest control technicians can provide your business with effective quality pest control and pest management services at a level that is appropriate to your needs. We serve businesses of all sizes, large and small. Numbered among our clients are restaurants, hotels, motels, hospitality properties, retail stores and office buildings. We service all kinds of commercial accounts.

At Stern Environmental Group we use the most up-to-date equipment and chemical supplies to provide the most effective pest control or extermination treatment. To insure the safety of your employees and customers, we use Integrated Pest Management (IPM) techniques in most commercial establishments. Stern Environmental Group complies with all local, state and federal laws.

To find out more about our superior commercial services, click the post title or link. Stern Environmental Group also provides residential pest control and pest management services. Visit our website for a complete guide to all the services we provide. Get “Stern” with your pests!

Cockroaches

Squish, squash, SPLAT! The Only Good Roach Is a Dead Roach!

I keep a gigantic size 15 man’s shoe in my basement. It’s sole purpose is to squish bugs. Like many people, I’m squeamish about bugs, but cockroaches are my particular nemesis. My daughter lives in Brooklyn where, like in any big city, roaches seem to be a fact of life. If I think one might be lurking in her kitchen, all my senses go on high alert and I’m poised to flee at the slightest skitter.

I know it’s ridiculous. I’m what? at least a thousand times bigger than a common city cockroach? Doesn’t matter. They’re ugly and creepy and quick and don’t belong in my house. Like many people, cockroaches send me into panic mode.

Cockroaches were here long before man came on the scene and will probably still be here long after we’re gone. They have an annoying sense of entitlement and can be found nearly everywhere on Earth. Prolific producers, there is no such thing as one roach. As they forage for food they leave chemical trails for their buddies to follow until, before you know it, the whole clan has joined the party and your kitchen is crawling with the nasty buggers. And they eat anything. They’ll eat your cereal and when it’s gone, make of feast of the glue on the box!

Roaches pose a serious health threat. They are known to spread 33 types of bacteria, 6 varieties of parasitic worms and at least 7 other human viral and bacterial pathogens. They spread germs as they crawl through decaying garbage and sewage, picking up and depositing bacteria and viruses on their legs and bodies.

Their excretions combine with molt carcasses to create a biological dust that has been shown to trigger asthma and allergies. They are considered a significant contributing cause to the increase of asthma among city dwellers, particularly children. My own daughter developed serious asthma in part because of a horrendous roach infestation caused when an elderly neighbor became mentally incapacitated and allowed garbage to accumulate in her apartment. At least the roaches did alert my daughter and other neighbors to the problem so they could get help for the unfortunate woman, but at what a price to all concerned. Living with the infestation was a nightmare and extermination seemed to take forever. I wish her complex had called Stern Environmental Group, but they didn’t. It was months before my daughter could sleep peacefully. And that’s one of the big issues with cockroach and other insect infestations. Not only do they create a serious physical health threat, but the mental anguish can be extremely upsetting.

The highly trained professionals at Stern Environmental Group understand both the health/safety and emotional need to control cockroach and other insect infestations quickly and effectively. Stern Environmental is a fully licensed and insured pest management company providing insect control services to residential and commercial customers in all of New York City, most of Long Island and New Jersey, and parts of Connecticut and New York State. Bed bugs are our specialty. Click the post title to learn more about our insect control services. We also provide wildlife control services. Visit our website for a full explanation of our pest management services. If you have a pest problem, call Stern Environmental Group today. You’ll sleep well tonight when you get “Stern” with your pests.

Bed Bugs

Bed Bugs! Invasion of the Blood Suckers

Just the thought of them makes you itch all over. Bed bugs! The ICK factor is extreme.

My daughter was unfortunate enough to share a bed with the little buggers at an Australian hostel during her wandering college years. My nephew was nibbled on recently when his family stayed at a small Pennsylvania motel and, choosing the short straw, he had to sleep on the roll-away. Nearly eliminated as a worldwide scourge after World War II, bed bugs are a rising problem in America and around the world. They don’t play favorites, visiting the rich and poor, college grad and high school drop-out, mansion and hovel alike.

Contrary to common belief, bed bugs are not caused by dirt, poor housekeeping or too few showers. They are a creature of convenience like lice and fleas. Bed bugs spread easily –hitching a ride on clothing, cardboard boxes, suitcases and used furniture; crawling through ducts and wall voids — making an outbreak difficult to contain, particularly in hotels, apartment buildings, long-term care facilities, cruise ships, etc.

Classified as a nuisance bug, bed bugs do not spread disease, though they can cause considerable discomfort and, in some cases, severe allergic reactions. It’s the psychological toll — repeatedly finding yourself on the menu — that pushes many victims over the edge. The rice-grain size bugs lurk in bedding and hide in tiny crevices near sleeping areas, sneaking out while their victims are comatose to feast on their blood, vampire-like, for as long as 5 to 10 minutes. Victims can become nervous and jumpy, constantly feeling phantom bites and crawling skin. Sleeplessness only exacerbates their anxiety and paranoia.

If you think you have a bed bug problem, call Stern Environmental Group now. Bed bugs are easily confused with other insects and may be difficult to diagnose if you are among the many who do not develop welts in response to their bites. There is no such thing as a few bed bugs. Unbelievably prolific, a pair of the critters can turn into a major infestation in no time at all. Their size and penchant for hiding in the tiniest crevices, behind wall paper and molding, inside furniture and mattresses, makes them extremely difficult to eradicate.

Stern Environmental Group has developed highly successful techniques to make your home or business bed bug free. We are the bed bug extermination experts. Click the post title to find out more about bed bugs and read testimonials from our many satisfied customers. Visit the Stern Environmental Group website to learn more about our full range of affordable and efficient pest management and pest removal services. Contact us today and be pest-free tomorrow! You’ll sleep well tonight when you get “Stern” with your pests!
Squirrels

Give Squirrels the Heave-Ho

From your ring-side seat at the kitchen window it’s entertaining to watch their amazing feats of derring-do — high-wire acts on the phone lines, death-defying leaps from tree branches, intricate contortions as they hang from your bird feeder to steal a few seeds. Squirrels are nature’s daredevils, but they can also be little terrorists, capable of sneaking into your home to create mayhem and destruction.

“Squirrels aren’t just mean — they’re vicious,” said Thomas Barnes, professor of forestry at the University of Kentucky-Lexington, in a recent New York Times article. “Heck, they can chew through hardware cloth and chicken wire. Vinyl’s not even a challenge.”

Usually entering homes along the roof line, squirrels squeeze through small holes or gaps, enlarging them easily with a little tooth-driven excavation. They’ve been known to gnaw through shingles and wood soffits to get into your cozy attic to build their nests. The pitter-patter of little feet across your ceiling is not a good sign!

Unfortunately, squirrels do not make good house guests. They sharpen their teeth on your beams, chew your electrical wires creating a fire hazard, and tear up your insulation to build a toasty nest (bathroom included). They bring along unwanted friends: fleas and ticks that can infiltrate your house. And come spring, the kids appear, loud and noisy, chattering and bickering, scampering and rolling acorns across the floor — all in stereophonic sound. You might think your problems are over once the last squirrel finally leaves in the summer, but come fall they’ll be back! If you haven’t been diligent about sealing their entry points with gnaw-proof materials — thick plywood, heavy-gauge aluminum flashing or steel mesh — the determined critters will gnaw their way back in, seeking those comfy accommodations you provided last year!

How do you get rid of these pesky interlopers? It can be a serious problem. Trapping generally works; but if there is a litter, the nest will also have to be located and the babies removed by hand. The nauseating odor of decomposing squirrels, not to mention the maggots and beetles that accompany the process, is something you definitely do not want to experience. Squirrel removal is a job best left to professionals. Mother squirrels are fierce and formidable protectors and their vicious bites carry rabies.

Common gray and black squirrels are difficult enough to dislodge, but “we’re seeing more problems with flying squirrels,” said Daniel Stern of Stern Environmental Group, a pest control expert quoted in the New York Times article (click the post title to read the full article). Smaller, nocturnal cousins of the common ground squirrel, flying squirrels exhibit mouse-like behavior, making them particularly tricky to trap. “Eliminating flying squirrels can take a while because you’re basically catching them one at a time,” Stern explained. Trapping is difficult and time consuming and you may need professional help to assure complete removal of this obnoxious pest.

The nuisance wildlife experts at Stern Environmental Group can rid your home or business of these determined and annoying pests. We provide complete removal services, including clean-up and sanitation, for your peace of mind and the health of your family. For more information on squirrel and wildlife removal, visit our website and go to our Wildlife Control page.

Stern Environmental Group provides emergency service 24 hours a day, seven days a week to most of New Jersey, all of New York City, most of Long Island, and parts of Connecticut. If you have any kind of pest problem — bed bugs, insects, bees, spiders, roaches, wildlife — do not put your family at risk, call the experts at Stern Environmental Group today. We provide affordable and efficient pest management and pest control services. You’ll sleep well tonight when you get “Stern” with your pests!

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