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Your Nashville yard is full of life. You can see the birds fluttering through the air and perching on branches. You can see squirrels scrambling up trees and chasing after each other. But there are a lot of animals you don’t see. When you flip a rock, you can find insects and invertebrates hiding underneath. […]

There are a lot of icky bugs on the outside of our Nashville homes. We don’t see them much, as most of them tend to hide under rocks, wood, leaves, and other things. It is only when they get inside that we notice them. Fortunately, most pests that get into Nashville homes are just a […]

Our Hometown Hero Award was created to celebrate all the good people in Middle Tennessee that keep our families, schools, churches and community safe and strong. For the third year in a row, we will select one deserving individual in Middle Tennessee to receive 10 years of free pest control, mosquito reduction, termite protection and […]

There are many pests that can get into your Nashville home. Most of them are just an unwelcome sight. While silverfish and firebrats are definitely an unwelcome sight, they can also damage your stuff. Here are a few things every Nashville resident should know about these tiny, shiny insects. Is There A Difference Between Silverfish […]

When a female mosquito goes looking for a blood meal, one of the ways she finds someone to feed on is by using her olfactory neurons—that is to say, she uses her sense of smell. A smell she finds favorable is the scent of carbon dioxide. She is drawn to CO2 emissions because she draws […]

We have several common pest ants in our Brentwood service area. The ants we find getting into homes most often are odorous house ants, pavement ants, little black ants, Pharaoh ants, Argentine ants, and acrobat ants. They range in size from 1/16 to 1/2 an inch in length. If you see ants that are larger […]

When we talk rodents, we’re usually talking about mice and rats. While we have another common rodent pest in our Nashville service area, namely squirrels, they don’t cause as much trouble as mice and rats. If squirrels get inside, they tend to stay in attic spaces. They don’t raid your pantry or kitchen and they […]