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Unwinding at Sharp Mountain Vineyards: A Local Gem in Our Own BackyardHowdy, neighbors! Fred Talley here from Faith Pest Control.

If you’ve lived around Jasper or Pickens County for more than a minute, you know one of the best things about calling the North Georgia Mountains home is that you don’t have to drive for hours to find world-class beauty, rich local craft, and a quiet spot to kick back with family and friends. We’ve got fresh air, stunning mountain views, and right down the road on Rathgeb Trail, one of my absolute favorite local treasures: Sharp Mountain Vineyards.

Crafted with Precision right Here in Pickens CountyNow, in my line of work, I talk a whole lot about attention to detail—knowing the soil, understanding the environment, and doing things right the first time so you get quality results. The folks at Sharp Mountain Vineyards live by that exact same philosophy, just with a much sweeter outcome!

Established back in 1995, Sharp Mountain Vineyards was built on a simple guiding rule: the finest wines come from the finest fruit. Sitting at an elevation of 1,600 feet on five acres of well-drained, rocky soil, the vineyard takes full advantage of sunny, west-facing slopes and crisp mountain breezes.

Instead of chasing big commercial numbers, they focus on quality over quantity. Every single vine—from European Vinifera varieties to carefully tended specialty grapes—is handpicked and handcrafted in the old-world tradition. That kind of care and patience shows in every bottle they cork.

The Perfect Weekend Porch & Picnic SpotWhether you consider yourself a wine connoisseur or just somebody looking for a relaxing afternoon, their tasting room and gift shop welcome you like old friends.

One of the neatest things about visiting Sharp Mountain Vineyards is their open-air pavilion overlooking the vineyard rows and the rise of Sharp Mountain itself. You can pack your own picnic lunch, grab a bottle of estate-grown wine, sit under the shelter, and just let the stress of the workweek roll right off your shoulders.

Supporting local businesses like Sharp Mountain Vineyards is what keeps our Pickens County community strong, vibrant, and unique. Next time you’re planning a Friday afternoon outing or looking for something special to do over the weekend, take a drive down to Rathgeb Trail and enjoy what our mountain community has to offer!

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A North Georgia Gem Right in Our Backyard: Fred Talley’s Guide to Burnt Mountain PreserveHowdy, neighbors! Fred Talley here from Faith Pest Control, right here in our beautiful corner of Pickens County.

If you’ve lived in or around Jasper for any length of time, you know we are blessed with some of the finest mountain air, friendliest folks, and prettiest scenery in the whole state of Georgia. Whenever folks ask me what I love most about living and working up here in the mountains, I tell ’em it’s the fact that you can finish up a day’s work and be standing on top of a mountain ridge taking in a million-dollar view ten minutes later.

One of my absolute favorite hidden gems in our local community is the Burnt Mountain Preserve. Whether you’re looking to stretch your legs, take in the seasonal wildflowers, or just enjoy a quiet moment away from the hustle and bustle, this 900-acre county-owned treasure is tough to beat.

What Makes Burnt Mountain Preserve So Special?Located right off Route 136 heading east out of Jasper—just before you hit the main scenic overlook—Burnt Mountain Preserve sits at an elevation of roughly 2,500 feet.

What a lot of folks don’t realize is that this land isn’t just pretty to look at—it plays a huge role in protecting our community. The preserve covers the headwaters of the Champion Creek valley and protects the Long Swamp Creek watershed, which helps safeguard the clean drinking water supply for the city of Jasper. As someone who spent years studying engineering before getting into public health and pest control, I appreciate good stewardship when I see it. Preserving this valley keeps our water clean and keeps the native wildlife thriving.

Exploring the Trails: Something for Every HikerWhether you’re out for a breezy afternoon stroll or you want a workout that’ll make your legs burn, the preserve has three main trails built and maintained by the Mountain Stewards:

The Crest Trail (0.3 Miles – Orange Blazes):

If you just want a light, easy loop to stretch your legs or get a quick breath of fresh mountain air, start here. It loops through the upper portion of the preserve and offers great winter vistas across the valley. * The Preserve Trail (1.0 Mile – Yellow Blazes):

Graduating to moderate difficulty, this trail takes you along ridge crests with gorgeous western and southern views looking out toward Sharp Top Mountain and Grandview Lake. Keep an eye out for the educational signage along the path identifying local tree species and native plant life. * The Champion Creek Trail (Strenuous):

Now, if you’re looking for a true physical test, this is the one. The trail drops down 800 feet of elevation into the bottomland of the Champion Creek valley before reaching a wooden bridge over the creek. Just remember: every foot you walk down, you’ve got to climb right back up!

A Quick Tip from Your Local Bug Man Now, you knew I couldn’t write an article about walking in the woods without throwing in a little friendly advice from your neighborhood exterminator!

When you’re out enjoying North Georgia’s trails—especially during the warmer spring and summer months—nature is out there enjoying it, too. Ticks, mosquitoes, and chiggers love the shade of our hardwoods just as much as we do. Here are a few simple tips before you head out:

Tuck and Cover: If you’re heading down the Champion Creek Trail where vegetation gets a bit thicker, tuck your pant legs into your socks. It might not be a high-fashion look, but it keeps seed ticks and chiggers off your skin.
Use a Friendly Repellent: Spray an EPA-registered insect repellent containing DEET or Picaridin on your boots and lower pant legs.
Do a Post-Hike Check: When you get back home to Jasper, do a quick tick check on yourself, your kids, and your pets before settling in for dinner.

Get Out and Enjoy Pickens County!We are so lucky to call this area home. Places like Burnt Mountain Preserve remind us why North Georgia is such a special place to live, raise a family, and enjoy the outdoors.

The next time you have a free Saturday morning, pack a bottle of water, grab a pair of sturdy walking shoes, and head up Route 136 to check out the preserve.

And hey, while you’re out enjoying the wild bugs in their natural habitat, make sure the ones at home aren’t invading yours! If you ever run into termites, ants, mice, or anything else creeping around your crawlspace or attic, you know who to call.

Stay safe, enjoy the mountain views, and let me be YOUR bug man!

— Fred Talley

Owner & Certified Public Health Specialist, Faith Pest Control

Jasper, Georgia

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Howdy, neighbors! Fred Talley here from Faith Pest Control.

If you’ve lived around Jasper or traveled down Highway 53 in Pickens County for more than five minutes, you’ve probably caught yourself staring off toward the trees, admiring that stunning, glowing pink structure tucked into the foothills. I’m talking, of course, about the world-famous Tate House—or as a lot of folks around here like to call it, the “Pink Palace”.

Now, usually when I’m writing to y’all, I’m talking about termites, carpenter ants, or the sneaky mice that try to make a home in your crawlspace when the mountain weather turns chilly. But living and working right here in North Georgia, I believe in taking care of our community and appreciating the rich history we’re standing on. And folks, you won’t find a grander piece of local history than Colonel Sam Tate’s marble masterpiece.

Built on Solid Georgia Marble (And Built to Last)Construction on the 19,000-square-foot Neo-Classical mansion began back in 1921 and wrapped up in 1926. Colonel Samuel Tate—president of the Georgia Marble Company—didn’t build his home out of standard brick or pine framing. He went straight to the source right underneath his feet.

The mansion was constructed using rare, hand-picked pink Etowah marble. The story goes that Colonel Sam personally selected matching pink slabs for the exterior walls, floors, and interior fireplaces.

A Bug Man’s Take: When you build a house out of solid Georgia marble, subterranean termites don’t stand a chance against those exterior walls. Though I can tell you from experience as a Certified Pest Control Operator, even a marble palace has wooden roof rafters and grand gardens that need a watchful eye!

From Mountain Mansion to North Georgia GemOver the decades, the Tate House has worn a lot of hats:

The Family Era (1926–1955): Home to Colonel Sam Tate and later his heirs.
The Restoration Era (1974–1985): After falling into disrepair, it was saved and lovingly restored over a 10-year effort, securing its spot on the National Register of Historic Places.
Today: One of the premier wedding, event, and holiday tour destinations in all of Georgia, surrounded by century-old oak trees and flowing fountains.

It’s an absolute landmark for Pickens County. Whenever friends or family come to visit from out of town, driving them past the Tate House is always right at the top of my list.

Protecting Your Own Castle Right Here in JasperWhether your home is a 19,000-square-foot pink marble estate or a cozy mountain cabin in Jasper, Talking Rock, or Ellijay, your house is your castle. And just like the caretakers who preserve the historic Tate House, every homeowner around here needs to protect their investment from wood-destroying organisms and unwelcome pests.

If you ever suspect pests are trying to crash your home—whether it’s termites in the foundation or critters in the attic—you don’t have to tackle it alone. Give me a call or text at 770-823-9202 for a free inspection.

And remember Fred’s Personal Guarantee: If you hire us and you aren’t 100% HAPPY after 30 days, we’ll keep coming back and retreating for FREE until you are. If you’re still not happy, I’ll give you back every penny plus an extra $25.00 for your time and trouble. Period.

Enjoy our beautiful North Georgia mountains, take a drive past the Tate House this weekend, and as always—let me be YOUR bug man!

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Well, howdy neighbors! Fred Talley here again with Faith Pest Control, comin’ to you from right here in beautiful Jasper, Georgia.

Now, today we are going to talk about a place most folks in Pickens County avoid like the plague: the crawlspace.

Let’s be honest. Unless your water heater acts up or you need to shut off a water valve, you probably don’t spend a whole lot of time thinking about that dark, damp area under your floorboards. But just because it’s out of sight doesn’t mean it should be out of mind. Up here in the North Georgia hills, our red clay holds a mountain of moisture, and that dark, humid underbelly of your house is absolute prime real estate for some of the nastiest critters in Georgia.

I’ve been shimmying on my belly through the dirt under Jasper homes for decades, and let me tell you, I’ve seen it all. If you were to grab a flashlight and pop your head down there today, here are the most common bugs you’re likely to find hiding out.

Subterranean Termites (The Silent Destroyers)These are the kings of the crawlspace, and they cause more damage to Georgia homes than fires and storms combined. Because they have soft bodies, they can’t handle the open air—they need constant moisture to survive. They tunnel up through our red dirt and build those little pencil-sized mud tubes right up your concrete blocks to reach your wooden floor joists. Once they’re in, they eat your home’s structural framing from the inside out, completely silent and completely hidden.
Camel Crickets (The Creepy Jumpers)Folks around here call them “cave crickets” or “sprickets” because they look like a cross between a cricket and a spider. They love dark, damp, undisturbed places. They don’t chirp, but they have one incredibly unnerving habit: when they get startled by a flashlight, their defense mechanism is to jump directly at you. If you have a damp crawlspace, you can easily have hundreds of these leggy critters hanging upside down from your subfloor.
Wolf Spiders and Black Widows (The Hunters)Where there are crickets and small bugs, the predators will follow. Crawlspaces are a haven for spiders. The big, furry Wolf Spiders don’t spin webs; they run across the dirt floors hunting down their prey. They’re harmless enough, but they’ll give you a heart attack if you aren’t expecting them.

The ones you really have to watch out for are Black Widows. They love the quiet corners of a crawlspace, particularly near the access door or vents, where they build messy, tangled webs to catch unsuspecting insects.

“Waterbugs” (Oriental and Smokeybrown Cockroaches)Around here, folks love to politely call them “waterbugs,” but let’s call a spade a spade—they’re giant cockroaches. Unlike the little German roaches you find in kitchens, these big boys prefer high-humidity environments with plenty of decaying organic matter. A damp crawlspace is their paradise. The trouble is, when the crawlspace gets too crowded or the weather turns dry, they follow the pipe cutouts straight up into your bathrooms and kitchen sinks.
Powderpost Beetles (The Wood Borers)If you look up at your floor joists and notice tiny, perfectly round holes—about the size of a pinhead—accompanied by a fine, powdery sawdust, you’re looking at the work of powderpost beetles. Their larvae live inside the damp wood under your house, slowly chewing through it over a period of years until the wood loses all its structural integrity and turns to dust.

Fred’s Crawlspace Wisdom: Bugs don’t just stay under your house. The air inside your home is actually pulled upward from your crawlspace through a process called the “stack effect.” That means if you have a moldy, bug-infested crawlspace, you are breathing that same air upstairs. Keeping it dry and treated isn’t just about protecting the wood; it’s about protecting your family’s health.

Listen, neighbors… I want to be YOUR BUG MAN! You don’t have to strap on a headlamp and crawl through the cobwebs to see what’s living under your floors. That’s what my team and I are here for.

Give us a call or text today at 770-823-9202, and we will send an expert out to perform a FREE, 100% Complete Crawlspace Inspection and Pest Audit. We’ll take a look at the bug activity, check your moisture levels, and tell you exactly what it takes to protect your home.

And you know I back that up with my personal, ironclad guarantee: If you aren’t 100% happy with our service within 30 days, we’ll keep treating your home for FREE until you are. And if you’re still not satisfied, I’ll give you every single penny back, plus an extra $25.00 for your trouble.

(Make sure to mention you read this article, and I’ll take $25.00 OFF your very first service!)

Don’t let the bugs own your crawlspace, Jasper. Give us a call today!

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Well, howdy neighbors! Fred Talley here again with Faith Pest Control, comin’ to you from right here in Jasper, Georgia.

Now, we’ve talked about the warning signs to look out for, and we’ve gone over your backyard checklist. But today, I want to talk about how these little buggers are actually breaching your perimeter.

Think of your home like a fortress. Pests are the invading army, and believe me, they are excellent scouts. They will spend 24 hours a day looking for a weak spot, a crack, or a gap to sneak past your defenses. Up here in the North Georgia hills, our houses settle, our wood expands and contracts with the mountain humidity, and before you know it, you’ve inadvertently rolled out the red carpet for mice, ants, and spiders.

If you want to stop them, you have to know exactly where they’re breaking in. Here are the most common entry points I see everyday when I’m out inspecting homes in Pickens County.

The Gaps Under Your Exterior Doors (The Front Door Entry)Let’s start with the most obvious one, though it gets overlooked all the time. Walk over to your front door, your back door, or that side door in the garage. Look down at the very bottom. Do you see a sliver of daylight peeking through between the door and the threshold?

If you can see daylight, you might as well leave the door wide open. A field mouse can squeeze through a gap no bigger than a dime, and a cockroach or a spider needs only the thickness of a business card. If your door sweeps are worn out, brittle, or torn from years of use, that’s entry point number one.

Utility Lines and Pipe Penetrations (The Hidden Highways)Take a walk outside and look at the side of your house where your outdoor HVAC unit sits. See those copper refrigerant lines and electrical wires that go through the siding and head straight into your basement, crawlspace, or walls?

When builders install those lines, they often drill a hole that’s way bigger than the pipe itself. If that gap wasn’t sealed correctly with heavy-duty caulking or expanding foam—or if that old sealant has cracked and fallen out over time—it becomes a superhighway for mice, rats, and ants straight into your home’s interior skeleton.

Rooflines, Fascia Boards, and Eaves (The Attic Assault)Up here in the mountains, we get plenty of gray squirrels, flying squirrels, raccoons, and bats. They aren’t looking at your foundation; they’re looking at your roof.

Water often gets trapped behind our gutters, which rots out the wood on the fascia boards (that’s the long board running right behind your gutter). Squirrels and rats can smell that soft, rotted wood. They will chew a tiny hole into a giant entrance within a matter of days. Once they’re past the fascia, they are living large in your insulation, chewing on your wiring, and making a mess right above your head.

Crawlspace Vents and Foundation Cracks (The Underbelly)A huge number of homes in Jasper are built on crawlspaces. To keep moisture down, those crawlspaces have vents built into the block walls. Over time, the cheap wire mesh on those vents rusts out or gets torn open by a determined opossum or stray cat.

Once they tear that screen open, your crawlspace becomes a wildlife hotel. From there, bugs and rodents follow the plumbing pipes right up through the floorboards into your kitchen and bathrooms.

Firewood Stacks and Attached Garages (The Trojan Horse)I love a good, roaring fire on a chilly mountain evening just as much as anyone. But if you stack your firewood right up against the side of your house or inside your garage, you are literally carrying the enemy across your own borders. Woodpiles are prime real estate for carpenter ants, termites, mice, and black widow spiders. When you stack that wood against your siding, they just crawl sideways right into the nearest weep hole or siding gap.

Fred’s Field Note: Knowing where they get in is half the battle. The other half is having the right tools, the right materials, and the patience to seal them out for good. That’s what we call “pest exclusion,” and it’s one of the best investments you can make for your piece of mind.

Listen, neighbors… I want to be YOUR BUG MAN!

You don’t have to tackle this alone. My team and I know exactly what to look for because we do it every single day. If you think your home’s defenses have been breached, give me a call or a text at 770-823-9202.

I’ll send one of our expert technicians out to give your home a FREE Complete Termite and Pest Inspection and Entry-Point Audit. We’ll point out exactly where the critters are getting in and tell you exactly how to fix it. And remember my ironclad promise: if you aren’t completely happy with our service within 30 days, we’ll keep working for free, or give you your money back plus $25 for your trouble.

(Don’t forget to tell us you read this article so I can give you $25.00 OFF your first service!)

Keep those perimeter walls locked tight, Jasper!

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Well, howdy neighbors! Fred Talley here again from Faith Pest Control, right here in the heart of Jasper, Georgia.

Now, if you read my last article about those nasty warning signs, you know that pests can cause some serious, expensive headaches in our beautiful mountain homes. But today, I want to talk about how we can stop those critters before they ever get a foothold inside your house.

Living up here in Pickens County, we are surrounded by beautiful woods, red clay, and plenty of moisture. That means we have to be proactive. I always tell folks that pest control isn’t just about what we spray; it’s about changing the environment so bugs don’t want to live there in the first place.

To make it easy for you, I’ve put together a simple, straight-to-the-point Homeowner’s Pest Control Checklist. Walk around your house this weekend and check these off, and you’ll save yourself a whole lot of grief.

The Perimeter & Foundation (The First Line of Defense)Your foundation wall is ground zero for pests—especially termites and ants.
[ ] Maintain a 6-inch clearance: Make sure there is at least 6 inches of clear foundation visible between the ground and the start of your siding. If dirt or mulch is piled up against your siding, it’s an open invitation for subterranean termites to tunnel right in without being seen.
[ ] Keep mulch away from the walls: Mulch holds moisture like a sponge. Keep it pulled back at least a foot from your foundation. Better yet, use pine straw or crushed stone right against the house.
[ ] Trim the greenery: Tree limbs, shrubs, and ivy should never touch your roof or siding. They act like a highway bridge directly onto your home for carpenter ants, squirrels, and mice. Trim them back at least 2 feet.
Moisture Control (What Pests Crave Most)Bugs don’t just come inside for food; most of the time, they are looking for water.
[ ] Check the gutters and downspouts: Clean those gutters out! Blocked gutters cause water to back up, rotting your fascia boards (the wood behind the gutter). Roof rats and wood-boring beetles love soft, rotted wood. Make sure downspouts carry water at least 3 feet away from your foundation.
[ ] Inspect the crawlspace or basement: If you have a dirt crawlspace, it needs a proper vapor barrier. High humidity under your house leads to wood rot, which attracts termites like crazy. Look for standing water or leaking pipes under there, too.
[ ] Fix outdoor spigots: A dripping outdoor faucet creates a constant puddle that feeds entire colonies of ants and mosquitoes. Replace those washers!
Exclusion (Locking the Doors)If there’s a hole the size of a dime, a mouse can squeeze through it. If it’s the size of a pencil lead, an insect can get past.
[ ] Check door sweeps and weatherstripping: Turn off the lights inside and look at your exterior doors during the day. Can you see daylight peeking through the bottom or sides? If light can get in, a bug can too. Replace worn-out sweeps.
[ ] Seal utility penetrations: Look where your AC lines, water pipes, and electrical wires enter the side of your house. Use silicone caulk or stainless steel mesh (like copper stuff fit for stuffing holes) to seal up any gaps around those pipes.
[ ] Screen your vents: Ensure your attic vents, crawlspace vents, and chimney caps have intact, heavy-duty wire mesh screens to keep out squirrels, raccoons, and bats.
Food & Waste Management (Removing the Rewards)Don’t make it easy for them to throw a party at your expense.
[ ] Secure the trash cans: Use heavy-duty bins with tight-fitting lids. Wash them out occasionally with bleach water so the smell doesn’t attract midnight visitors like raccoons or bears.
[ ] Don’t leave pet food out: Feeding Fido or your outdoor cats on the porch? Don’t leave the bowls full overnight. That’s a free buffet for opossums, rats, and ants.
[ ] Store firewood properly: Never stack firewood against the house or inside your garage. Keep it elevated off the ground and stacked at least 20 feet away from your home. Only bring in what you’re going to burn right then.

Fred’s Honest Truth: You can do everything on this checklist perfectly, and because we live in the North Georgia woods, some determined pests are still going to try their luck. That’s where a professional protective barrier comes in.

Look, I want to be YOUR BUG MAN! I don’t want to just be a guy you call when things go wrong; I want to help you protect your biggest investment year-round.

If you want a professional set of eyes on your property, give me a shout. I offer an unmatched personal guarantee: If you use Faith Pest Control and you aren’t completely satisfied within 30 days, I’ll come back out and treat it again for FREE until you are. If you’re still not happy, I’ll give you a full refund plus an extra $25.00 for wasting your time.

Give us a call or a text at 770-823-9202 to set up your FREE Complete Termite and Pest Inspection. We will do a full audit of your home and tell you exactly where your vulnerabilities are.

(And don’t forget—tell us you read this article, and I’ll knock $25.00 OFF your first service!)

Stay safe and stay pest-free, Jasper!

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Well, howdy neighbors! Fred Talley here from Faith Pest Control, comin’ to you straight from our beautiful little corner of the North Georgia Mountains.

If you’re like most folks living around Jasper, Ellijay, or Pickens County, you love the fresh air, the mountain views, and the changing seasons. But let’s be honest—living up here means we share our neck of the woods with a whole lot of critters. Now, I’ve been crawling under houses in this red clay for a long time, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that most homeowners aren’t pest experts—and that’s okay. You’ve got plenty of other things to worry about.

But you do want to protect your home, your family, and your four-legged friends from damage and nasty diseases. The trouble is, bugs and rodents are sneaky. They don’t always walk through the front door and introduce themselves. Usually, they leave a trail of breadcrumbs.

If you notice any of these 5 warning signs around your property, it means the eviction notice is long overdue and you need to get a professional out there right now.

The Dreaded “Coffee Grounds” (Cockroach Droppings)If you open up your kitchen cabinets or look behind your toaster and see what looks like a spilled pile of black pepper or tiny coffee grounds, don’t reach for the mug. That’s cockroach frass (pest droppings). Roaches love dark, warm, humid spots near water. If you’re seeing their droppings out in the open, it means their hidden hiding spots are completely full and they’re expanding their territory.
Mud Tubes on Your Foundation WallUp here in Georgia, we have a major battle with Eastern Subterranean Termites. These sneaky little devils eat your home from the inside out. Because they need moisture to survive, they build pencil-sized tunnels made of mud and saliva to travel from the red dirt up into your wooden framing. If you see these little mud veins running up your concrete foundation or in your crawlspace, do not brush them away and forget about it. That is an active highway into your home’s structure.
Strange Noises in the Night (Scratching and Scuttling)When the mountain wind quietens down at night and you hear scratching, chewing, or tiny pitter-patter footsteps right above your head or inside your drywall, you’ve got roommates that aren’t paying rent. Mice, rats, squirrels, and even bats love to take advantage of small gaps in our mountain siding or rooflines. Once they get into your attic or walls, they start tearing up insulation for nesting material and gnawing on electrical wires—which is a massive fire hazard.
Mysterious Wood Shavings (Frass from Carpenter Ants)Unlike termites, carpenter ants don’t actually eat your wood for food—they chew through it to build giant galleries and nests for their colonies. As they hollow out your support beams or window frames, they push the leftover debris out of the nest. If you spot tiny piles of clean, powdery sawdust (often mixed with dead bug parts) at the base of your baseboards or out on the porch, you’ve got an active construction crew destroying your wood framing.
Hollow-Sounding Wood or Sagging DrywallIf you tap on a door frame, a windowsill, or a baseboard and it sounds completely hollow—or worse, your screwdriver easily pokes right through the paint—the damage is already done. Termites and wood-boring beetles leave the outer layer of wood or paint completely intact so they stay protected, completely hollowing out the inside. Similarly, if you notice your drywall looking slightly blistered or sagging, it can mean pests are tracking moisture right through your walls.

Fred’s Golden Rule: Termite and pest control work is serious business. It involves your home, your family, and your pets. If going with the cheapest price just to save a few bucks is all you’re looking for, we are definitely NOT the company for you. Cutting corners in this business can end up being something you seriously regret later on.

Listen… I want to be YOUR BUG MAN! I want the chance to earn your business.

If you’re noticing any of these warning signs, don’t wait until a small problem turns into an expensive nightmare. I am so confident in our team that I offer an unmatched personal guarantee: If you hire me to get rid of your pest problem and you aren’t 100% happy at the end of 30 days, I’ll keep treating your home for FREE until you are. And if you’re still not satisfied, I’ll give you every penny of your money back, plus an extra $25.00 for your trouble. No one else would dare make you that offer.

Give me a call or text today at 770-823-9202 and let’s set up a FREE Complete Termite and Pest Inspection and Audit.

(And hey, if you mention you read this article, I’ll take $25.00 OFF your very first service!)

Have a great day, neighbors!

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Well, howdy neighbors! Fred Talley here from Faith Pest Control, coming to you from right here in our beautiful corner of the North Georgia Mountains.

Living up here in Pickens County, we really do get the best of everything. We get the gorgeous changing leaves in the fall, the blooming dogwoods in the spring, and a front-row seat to nature all year round. But because we live right smack in the middle of all this beautiful nature, it means the local insect and rodent population is constantly knocking on our doors, looking for a warm place to stay and a free meal.

A lot of folks call me up and say, “Fred, I think I’ll just call you whenever I see a bug, and you can come spray. Why on earth would I need you out here every single month?”

It’s a fair question! But today, I want to share a little secret with you about how bugs operate up here in Jasper, and why a regular monthly pest control routine is the only real way to protect your home, your family, and your peace of mind.

The Myth of the “One-and-Done” SprayA lot of people look at pest control like taking an aspirin—you only do it when you have a headache. But true, professional pest control is actually a lot more like changing the oil in your truck or keeping up with your garden. It’s all about prevention.

When we come out and apply a high-quality, professional-grade protective barrier around the perimeter of your home, that treatment doesn’t last forever. The intense North Georgia summer sun, our heavy mountain downpours, and even the natural breakdown of the material mean that any protective barrier starts to naturally wear thin after about 30 days.

If you are only treating your home when you see a line of ants in the kitchen or a roach under the fridge, you are playing a game of “catch up.” By the time you actually see those pests out in the open, it means they’ve already established a hidden nest deep inside your walls, crawlspace, or attic weeks ago.

The Power of the Monthly Perimeter DefenseWhen you switch to a monthly protection plan, the entire strategy changes. Instead of chasing bugs around your living room with a can of spray, we focus almost all of our energy on the outside of your house.

We create a continuous, unbroken shield around your foundation, windows, and doorways. Because we refresh it every month, the barrier never breaks down.

Here is exactly what a monthly routine interrupts throughout the year:

The Pest Breeding Cycles: Insects lay eggs at an alarming rate. A single female roach or ant can spark a massive population explosion in just a few weeks. Monthly treatments ensure that as new eggs hatch outside, the young nymphs hit our barrier and die before they can mature and reproduce.
The Changing of the Guard: Pests don’t take vacations, they just change shifts. In the spring, we’re fighting termites and carpenter ants. In the summer, it’s wasps, mosquitoes, and fleas. In the fall and winter, the mice and scorpions start looking for a warm spot near your heating vents. A monthly service adapts to what is actively trying to get into your house based on the exact time of year.
Constant Inspections: Every time a technician from Faith Pest Control steps onto your property, they aren’t just spraying. They are inspecting. We look for early signs of termite activity, active wasp nests forming under your eaves, or a new crack in the foundation where a field mouse could squeeze in. Catching these things early saves you thousands of dollars down the road.

Keepin’ the Tail Waggin’: Safe for the Whole FamilyI talk to a lot of neighbors who worry that monthly service means their home will be constantly filled with harsh chemicals.

Let me set your mind at ease: that is simply not how we do things. Because our monthly program is so effective at keeping the bugs outside, we rarely ever have to spray a drop of liquid pesticide inside your living spaces after the initial cleanup.

We use targeted, low-toxicity products precisely placed where bugs live, and our exterior treatments are entirely pet and family-friendly once dry. My goal is to protect your home while keeping the environment completely safe for your kids and your four-legged friends.

Fred’s Pro Tip: Think of pest control like a castle moat. If you let the moat dry up for a month or two, the invaders walk right across. Keeping that moat full every single month means the inside of your castle stays completely secure.

My Iron-Clad “Make You Happy” GuaranteeTermite and pest control work is serious business. It involves the safety of your structure and the health of your family. I have never believed in cutting corners just to save a buck, and I never will. That’s just not how I do business.

I want the chance to earn your business and be your regular bug man. That’s why I back up our monthly service with the absolute best guarantee in the industry:

If you hire me to protect your home and, at the end of 30 days, you are not 100% HAPPY, I will come back and retreat your home for FREE. And I’ll keep on treating it for FREE until you tell me you are satisfied. If you’re still not happy, I will promptly and politely give YOU back every single penny of your money, plus an additional $25.00 for your time and trouble. Period.

You shouldn’t have to live in fear of what’s scurrying behind your baseboards. Let us handle the bugs so you can get back to enjoying life up here in the mountains. Give us a shout at 770-823-9202 today, and let’s get a protective shield around your home!

Ready to stop chasing bugs and start preventing them? Call Faith Pest Control today at 770-823-9202 to schedule your Free Complete Home Pest Audit!

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Well, howdy neighbors! Fred Talley here from Faith Pest Control, right here in our beautiful corner of North Georgia.

If you’re sitting in your kitchen here in Pickens County, enjoying a quiet evening, and you suddenly flip on the light to grab a glass of water and see something scurry across the counter—I know exactly that sinking feeling you get in your stomach. We take a lot of pride in our homes up here in Jasper, and seeing a cockroach feels like a personal insult.

Your very first instinct is probably to head straight to the hardware store, grab the biggest aerosol can of “Max Force Mega Killer” spray you can find, and blast the living daylights out of your baseboards.

But I’m here to tell you why that “spray and pray” method is actually the biggest mistake you can make, especially if you’re dealing with the notorious German Cockroach. Instead, let’s talk about a much smarter, safer, and entirely more effective technology: professional cockroach baiting systems.

The Big Problem with Liquid SpraysTo understand why baiting works so well, you first have to understand why standard liquid sprays fail.

When you spray a heavy chemical barrier along your baseboards, you are only killing the few roaches that happen to walk directly across it while it’s fresh. But cockroaches—especially those small, light-brown German roaches with the two dark stripes on their heads—don’t spend most of their time out in the open. They live deep inside your walls, behind your refrigerator coils, inside your microwave panels, and inside your electrical outlets.

Even worse, many over-the-counter sprays act as a repellent. The roaches can smell them. When they detect that chemical barrier, they panic and run deeper into the cracks and crevices of your home. It scatters them. Suddenly, a problem that was just contained to one side of the kitchen island has spread into your bathrooms, your laundry room, and your bedroom closets.

How a Baiting System Works: Using Their Habits Against ThemProfessional cockroach baiting is a complete 180-degree turn from traditional spraying. Instead of trying to chase the roaches with a chemical they want to avoid, we use a specialized, highly attractive gel or station bait that they actively seek out.

We use their own biology and nesting habits to destroy the colony from the inside out through a process called the domino effect.

Here is how the system works step-by-step:

1.The Attraction:Step 1.

A technician precisely applies small dots of professional-grade gel bait in hidden areas where roaches naturally forage—like hinges on cabinets, gaps under appliances, and wall voids. The bait contains a slow-acting ingredient combined with a high-protein food matrix that roaches find irresistible.

2.The First Meal:Step 2.

The foraging roaches find the bait, eat it, and because it is slow-acting, they don’t die right away. This is crucial. If it killed them instantly on the spot, the other roaches would get smart and avoid it.

3.Returning to the Nest:Step 3.

The roach travels back deep into the hidden voids and nesting areas where the rest of the population is hiding out. It begins to succumb to the active ingredient back in safety.

4.The Domino Effect:Step 4.

Cockroaches are natural scavengers, and they are notorious for eating the droppings (feces) and the carcasses of their dead nestmates. Because the bait remains potent inside the roach’s system, the hidden nymphs (baby roaches) and adults that never leave the nest consume the dead roach and get eliminated too.

The Benefits of a Professional Baiting ApproachAside from completely wiping out the hidden pockets of an infestation, professional baiting systems offer a few massive advantages for your North Georgia home:

No Mess, No Fumes: Unlike heavy liquid broadcast spraying or old-school bug bombs, professional baiting doesn’t require you to empty your kitchen cabinets, pack up your pets, or leave your house for four hours to avoid breathing in airborne fumes.
Targeted and Safe: The bait is placed precisely into micro-cracks, crevices, and structural areas that are completely out of reach for your children and your four-legged friends.
Long-Lasting Protection: High-quality professional baits don’t dry out instantly. They stay palatable and effective for a long period, continuously working in the background to catch any new roaches that might hitchhike into your home inside a cardboard Amazon box or a bag of groceries.

Fred’s Pro Tip: A cockroach can live for a month without food, but only a few days without water. If you want our baiting system to work at lightning speed, starve them of options! Fix that leaky faucet under the kitchen sink, dry out your sink basins before bed, and don’t leave pet water bowls overflowing on the floor overnight.

The Faith Pest Control Unmatched GuaranteeTermite and pest control work is serious business. It involves the health and safety of your home, your family, and your pets. Cutting corners or buying cheap retail fixes can end up being something you seriously regret later on when a small problem turns into a massive, structurally rooted infestation. That’s just not the way I do business. Never have and never will.

I want the chance to earn your business and be your bug man.

That’s why I offer my personal, unmatched guarantee: If you hire me to get rid of your pest problem and, at the end of 30 days, you are not 100% HAPPY, I will come back and retreat your home for FREE. And I’ll keep on treating it for FREE until you tell me you are happy. If that still doesn’t make you happy, I’ll promptly and politely give YOU back every penny of your money, plus an additional $25.00 for your time and trouble. Period.

If you’re tired of seeing things scurry when you turn on the lights, give us a shout at 770-823-9202. We’ll come out, perform a thorough inspection, and get those critters packing!

Ready to reclaim your kitchen? Give Faith Pest Control a call today at 770-823-9202 and ask about our Complete Pest Analysis!

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Hey there, neighbors. Fred Talley here from Faith Pest Control.

If you live up here in Pickens County, you know that spring and summer in Jasper are absolutely beautiful. The weather warms up, the trees fill out, and unfortunately, the local insect population decides it’s time to move indoors.

Lately, the phones have been ringing off the hook with folks saying the exact same thing: “Fred, I woke up, went into the kitchen to pour a cup of coffee, and there is a solid line of ants marching straight across my countertop!”

If you’ve seen that tiny, marching army in your kitchen or bathroom, you are looking at an ant trail. To help you understand what you’re dealing with, let’s look at how these trails work, why they choose your home, and what you can do about it.

The Science of the “Invisible Highway”Ants don’t just wander onto your counters by accident. They are master communicators.

When a single scout ant leaves the nest looking for food, it wanders around randomly. But the moment it finds something tasty—like a drop of spilled sweet tea on your kitchen island or a forgotten crumb of dog kibble—it hits the jackpot.

As that scout ant runs back to the colony to tell the family, it presses its abdomen to the ground and leaves behind a chemical scent trail made of pheromones. Think of it like a high-tech GPS navigation system. The other worker ants smell that trail with their antennae, follow it straight to the food source, and leave their own pheromones on the way back. Before you know it, you have a busy, invisible highway running right through your baseboards.

The Two Most Common Trail-Blazers in JasperWhile there are dozens of ant species around North Georgia, two main culprits usually cause the trails you see inside Jasper homes:

1. Argentine Ants & Odorous House Ants: These are those tiny, fast-moving brown or black ants. Their colonies can be massive, and they love sweets. If you squish an odorous house ant, it actually releases a distinct smell that folks say reminds them of rotten coconuts. They create massive, highly organized trails.
2. Black Carpenter Ants: These guys are much larger. Unlike the small sugar ants, carpenter ants don’t actually eat wood, but they chew through damp, decaying wood to build their nests. If you see a trail of large black ants leading toward your porch, deck, or window frames, you need to act fast before they cause structural damage.

The Big Mistake Most Homeowners MakeWhen folks see a trail of ants, their first instinct is to grab a can of heavy-duty bug spray from the hardware store and blast the line.

Please, don’t do that.

Spraying a visible ant trail with a standard contact killer only eliminates the workers you can see. It doesn’t touch the queen or the thousands of ants waiting back in the nest. In fact, with species like Argentine ants, spraying them can trigger a survival mechanism called budding. The colony panics, splits into multiple smaller groups, and suddenly you have three ant infestations instead of one.

Instead, you want to use the ants’ behavior against them.

Fred’s Tips to Stop the MarchTo get rid of ant trails for good, you have to break their communication and cut off their access. Here is how you can protect your Jasper home:

Wash away the scent: If you see a trail, wipe it down with soapy water or a mixture of white vinegar and water. This doesn’t just clean the surface; it completely erases the chemical pheromone trail so the remaining ants get lost.
Seal the entry points: Take a walk around the outside of your house. Look for tree branches touching your roof, gaps around utility pipes, or cracks in your foundation. Use a good silicone caulk to seal up those tiny doorways.
Keep it dry: Ants need water just as much as food. Fix leaky faucets under the sink, don’t leave pet water bowls spilling over, and make sure your gutters are redirecting water away from your crawlspace or foundation.

When to Call in the ProsIf you’ve wiped down the counters, sealed the cracks, and those marching lines keep coming back week after week, the colony has likely established itself deep inside your walls or right up against your foundation.

That’s where we come in. At Faith Pest Control, we don’t just spray the line; we use specialized, non-repellent treatments that the ants can’t detect. They walk right through it, carry it back to the hidden nest on their bodies, and eliminate the whole colony from the inside out.

If you are tired of sharing your kitchen with a thousand uninvited guests, give us a call here in Jasper. We offer a free consultation and a clear, honest plan to get your home back to normal.

Got an ant problem that won’t quit? Give Faith Pest Control a shout today, and let’s get those critters hitting the road!

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Well, howdy neighbors! Fred Talley here from Faith Pest Control, comin’ to you straight from our beautiful little corner of North Georgia.

Now, if you’ve listened to my podcasts or read my articles before, you know I’m usually talkin’ to you about things that scurry, buzz, or try to eat your home from the inside out—like those sneaky subterranean termites or attic-dwelling bats. But today, I want to talk about something else that’s been dug deep into this red clay for a long, long time: the history of our very own hometown, Jasper, Georgia.

You see, I’ve been in the pest control business around here for years, and one thing you learn when you’re crawling around under old structures is that a town’s history is a lot like a good foundation. If you don’t understand what it’s built on, you’re missing the whole story.

So let’s take a little stroll down memory lane and look at how Jasper became “The First Mountain City.”

The Early Days and Foundational StonesLong before any of us were here, this beautiful land at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains was home to the Cherokee Indians. They stewarded these hills and valleys until the tragic events of the Trail of Tears in the 1830s.

Fast forward a bit to December of 1853, and the Georgia legislature decided to slice off pieces of Cherokee and Gilmer counties to create Pickens County. Now, the folks in charge needed a county seat, and they picked a spot right in the exact geographical center of the county.

In 1857, that little spot was officially incorporated as the town of Jasper. We were named after a real-deal Revolutionary War hero, Sergeant William Jasper, who famously lost his life saving his regiment’s flag at the Siege of Savannah in 1779.

A Little Fun Fact: Our county, Pickens, was also named after a Revolutionary War hero—General Andrew Pickens. So we’ve got patriotism baked right into our names!

A Town Divided: The Civil War EraNow, here’s a piece of history that a lot of folks don’t know, and it shows the independent streak of our mountain ancestors. When the Civil War rolled around in 1861, Pickens County was deeply divided. We didn’t have the big plantations or the slave economy of south Georgia; we were mostly independent mountain farmers.

In fact, local leaders actually voted against secession. To show you just how stubborn and brave those mountain folks were, when Georgia decided to leave the Union, a group of local citizens raised the U.S. Stars and Stripes flag right in front of the county courthouse in Jasper. And get this—they guarded it day and night, keeping it flying for nearly a month after the state seceded!

Throughout the war, Jasper was occupied by both Union and Confederate troops at different times, and it was a rough, rocky road for the citizens living here.

The Two Booms: Rail and MarbleAfter the war, Jasper grew pretty slowly. By 1880, the census recorded only 146 people living here! If you walked down the street back then, you’d see a log jail, a couple of churches, a brick courthouse, and a lot of log cabins.

But then came 1883, and two massive things changed Jasper forever:

The Marietta and North Georgia Railroad chugged into town.
The Georgia Marble Company started booming over in nearby Tate.

Suddenly, we weren’t just an isolated mountain village anymore. The railroad gave us a way to ship out the local timber, cotton, and most importantly, that world-famous Pickens County marble.

The Capital of Pure StoneOur local marble isn’t just any old rock. It’s some of the purest, most beautiful stone in the world. If you’ve ever been to Washington, D.C., you’ve probably looked right at a piece of our home—Georgia marble from our county was used to build the Lincoln Memorial, parts of the U.S. Capitol, and more than half of the monuments up there!

Locally, you can see it everywhere, from our historic 1949 courthouse to the famous Tate House built out of rare pink marble.

[ THE JASPER TIME-LINE ] 1853 ── Pickens County formed out of Cherokee/Gilmer. 1857 ── Jasper officially incorporated as a town. 1861 ── Union flag flown at courthouse in defiance of secession. 1883 ── Railroad arrives; the marble industry explodes. 1920s── Expansion of Georgia Marble Co. keeps Jasper afloat. 1940 ── Amicalola EMC brings rural electricity to the hills. 1990s── GA 515 expansion connects Jasper to Atlanta. Keeping the Heritage AliveThrough the Great Depression, the collapse of the cotton industry, and the turning of the centuries, Jasper held onto its small-town heart. We went from a tiny mountain outpost to a bustling city of over 4,000 residents today.

We celebrate that rich history every single year during the first full weekend of October at the Georgia Marble Festival. If you’ve never been, you’re missing out on great music, incredible stone carving, and some of the finest folks you’ll ever meet.

A Message From Your Local “Bug Man”You see, neighbors, knowing where we come from helps us appreciate what we’ve got today. Jasper has survived wars, economic crashes, and changed from a tiny railroad stop into the beautiful, thriving community we love. It’s a tough, resilient town.

But you know what isn’t resilient? A house that’s being eaten up by pests!

While we’re proud of our historic wood and marble buildings, those old-growth timbers are exactly what Eastern Subterranean Termites look at and think, “Mmm, buffet!” And with our high humidity and warm mountain summers, those critters are looking for a place to set up their own historic homestead right inside your crawlspace.

Listen… I want to be YOUR BUG MAN!

I’ve been protecting the homes and history of Jasper, Ellijay, and Blue Ridge for a long time. I don’t believe in cutting corners, because cutting corners just means the bugs come back—and that’s not how I do business.

My “Make You Happy” Personal Guarantee:

If you hire me to get rid of your pest problem and, at the end of 30 days, you are not 100% HAPPY, I will come back and retreat your home for FREE. And I’ll keep treating it for FREE until you tell me you ARE happy. If that still doesn’t do it, I’ll promptly and politely give YOU back every penny of your money, plus an additional $25.00 for your time and trouble… period.

So, let’s keep Jasper beautiful, historic, and completely bug-free. If you hear something scratching in your walls or you’re worried about termites invading your home’s foundation, give me a call today at 770-823-9202. Tell ’em you read my history article, and I’ll even take $25.00 OFF your very first service!

Until next time, neighbors, take care of your home, enjoy our beautiful mountain history, and let’s keep those tails waggin’!

— Fred Talley

Owner/Operator, Faith Pest Control

Jasper, GA

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I chose this topic today because a customer of mine in Woodstock recently sent me a
message telling me that he was having some plumbing repairs done and one of these
beetles just showed up in his bath tub. He has hardwood floors and he didn’t really
know if these beetles were re-infesting and if he needed to have some kind of
preventive treatment or not.
The ivory-marked beetle is a European species that prefers to inhabit deciduous forests,
particularly those with a mix of oak and beech trees. These particular trees provide the
ideal habitat for their larval development as they feed on the decaying wood.
The beetles rely on trees that are already in advanced stages of decay, providing a
suitable food source for their larvae.
They favor areas with ample sunlight, which helps to accelerate the decomposition
process and provides warmth for their development.
They need areas with low humidity as high humidity can lead to fungal growth, which
can harm both the beetles and their food source.
Overall, the ivory-marked beetle is well-adapted to live in mature, undisturbed forests
where there is a healthy supply of decaying trees.
These beetles are attracted to dead or decaying wood, so once the initial infestation is
dealt with and the infested wood is removed, there's generally no need for further
treatment. They won't lay eggs in healthy wood.
However, if there are other sources of dead or decaying wood nearby, such as firewood
or fallen trees, it's possible that new beetles could be attracted to the area. It's a good
idea to eliminate any potential breeding grounds to prevent future infestations.
The Ivory-Marked Beetle is a striking and fascinating insect found predominately
throughout Europe. With its long, slender body and distinctive white markings, it's a
sight to behold. However, this beetle's beauty is more than skin deep.
The ivory-marked beetle plays a crucial role in the ecosystem by feeding on dead wood.
As larvae, they tunnel into decaying trees, accelerating the process of decomposition.
This helps to return nutrients to the soil, promoting plant growth.
One of the most interesting aspects of the ivory-marked beetle is its ability to blend in
with its surroundings. Its coloration and markings often mimic the texture and patterns of
the tree bark it inhabits, providing excellent camouflage from predators. This adaptation
ensures its survival in a world full of threats.
Despite its impressive defenses, the ivory-marked beetle faces several challenges.
Habitat loss due to deforestation and urbanization is a major threat. Additionally, the

introduction of invasive species can disrupt the beetle's ecosystem and compete for
resources.
To protect the ivory-marked beetle and its habitat, conservationists are working to raise
awareness about its importance and promote sustainable forest management practices.
By preserving old, decaying trees, we can ensure that this unique and valuable insect
continues to thrive for generations to come.
At Faith Pest Control, we offer a free consultation and a 100% “Make You Happy”
“Money Back Guarantee”: If you hire Faith Pest Control to get rid of your bug problem
and, at the end of 30 days, you are not 100% Happy…..we’ll come back and retreat
your home for FREE…..and we’ll keep on treating it for FREE until you tell us that you
ARE Happy. If that still doesn’t make you happy we’ll give you back every penny you
spent on the original treatment…..PLUS…..we’ll pay you an additional $25.00 for your
time and trouble just for fooling with us. Bottom line is this: You will be happy with the
service we provide or you won’t pay a penny…..period. If you feel like what I’ve said
makes sense, call Faith Pest Control today at 770-823-9202 and ask to speak to me,
Fred Talley. I will be more than happy to speak with you and answer any questions you
may have.

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Odorous house ants are a common household pest known for their distinctive odor. They are small, dark brown to black ants that often invade homes in search of food and shelter. Their presence can be both annoying and embarrassing, especially when they congregate in large numbers.

Odorous house ants are typically 1/16 to 1/8 inch long and have a slender, elongated body. They are often confused with other ant species, but their characteristic odor is a reliable way to identify them. When crushed or disturbed, they emit a strong, unpleasant odor similar to that of rotten coconuts or decaying fruit.

Odorous house ants are omnivores and will eat a variety of foods, including sweets, meats, and greasy substances. They are particularly attracted to sugary foods and can often be found in kitchens and pantries. These ants are social insects that live in colonies, often nesting outdoors in rotting wood, under stones, or in the soil.

While odorous house ants may not pose a direct health threat, their presence can be a nuisance. They can contaminate food and surfaces, and their strong odor can be offensive. Additionally, their foraging behavior can lead to damage to plants and property.

To prevent and control odorous house ant infestations, consider utilizing some of following ideas and techniques.

Inspect your home for any cracks or gaps in the foundation, walls, or windows that could allow ants to enter. Seal these openings with caulk or silicone sealant.

Store food in airtight containers and clean up spills promptly. Avoid leaving crumbs or food particles on countertops or floors.

Odorous house ants are attracted to moisture. Repair leaky pipes, faucets, and gutters to minimize damp areas.

Ant baits are a popular and effective way to control ant populations. These baits contain a slow-acting poison that is carried back to the nest by worker ants, killing the entire colony.

If you have a severe ant infestation or are unable to control the problem on your own, consider contacting a professional pest control company.

By following these tips and techniques, you can help prevent and eliminate odorous house ant infestations and enjoy a pest-free home.

At Faith Pest Control, we offer a free consultation and a 100% “Make You Happy” “Money Back Guarantee”: If you hire Faith Pest Control to get rid of your bug problem and, at the end of 30 days, you are not 100% Happy…..we’ll come back and retreat your home for FREE…..and we’ll keep on treating it for FREE until you tell us that you ARE Happy. If that still doesn’t make you happy we’ll give you back every penny you spent on the original treatment…..PLUS…..we’ll pay you an additional $25.00 for your time and trouble just for fooling with us. Bottom line is this: You will be happy with the service we provide or you won’t pay a penny…..period. If you feel like what I’ve said makes sense, call Faith Pest Control today at 770-823-9202 and ask to speak to me, Fred Talley. I will be more than happy to speak with you and answer any questions you may have.

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Pharaoh ants, while small in stature, can cause significant problems in homes and businesses. These tiny insects are known for their ability to rapidly infest structures and their resistance to traditional pest control methods.

Pharaoh ants are typically 1/16 to 1/8 inch long and have a yellowish-brown color. They are social insects and live in colonies, often with multiple queens. These colonies can be difficult to locate as they can nest in a variety of places, including walls, voids, and electrical outlets.

Pharaoh ants live in large colonies with multiple queens. This allows them to reproduce quickly and spread rapidly.

They prefer warm, humid environments, often nesting in cracks, crevices, and voids within structures.

These ants are omnivores and will feed on a variety of foods, including sweets, meats, and grease.

Pharaoh ants use pheromones to mark trails, allowing them to efficiently find food sources and return to their nest.

Pharaoh ants are considered a pest for several reasons. First, they can contaminate food and surfaces with bacteria, potentially causing illness. Pharaoh ants can be a nuisance by virtue of crawling over food and surfaces and causing discomfort. In large infestations, pharaoh ants can cause damage to insulation and wiring.

Preventing and controlling pharaoh ant infestations can be challenging, but it is possible. Here are some tips to help you control pharaoh ants. Keep food and drink areas clean and free of crumbs. Store food in airtight containers. Eliminate sources of water by repairing leaks and eliminating standing water. Prevent ants from entering the building or house by caulking or otherwise sealing all the accessible cracks and crevices at the exterior. If you have positively identified a pharaoh ant infestation, it may be helpful to consult with a professional pest control company as they can use specialized techniques to eliminate the infestation and prevent future problems.

Controlling pharaoh ants can potentially present some challenges. Pharaoh ants can be difficult to control due to their ability to rapidly reproduce and their resistance to certain pest control methods. Additionally, they can often spread to neighboring buildings, making it challenging to eradicate an infestation completely.

By understanding the habits and behaviors of pharaoh ants and taking proactive steps to prevent and control infestations, you can help protect your home or business from these tiny but troublesome pests.

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Tawny crazy ants are a small but mighty invasive species that has wreaked havoc in various parts of the world. Native to South America, these ants have spread to numerous regions, including Australia, the United States, and the Caribbean, causing significant ecological and economic damage.

Tawny crazy ants are relatively small, typically measuring around 1/8 to 1/4 inch long.

They are usually brown or tawny in color.

These ants are known for their erratic and unpredictable movement, often appearing “crazy” as they run in circles or zig-zags.

Tawny crazy ant colonies can be extremely large, with millions of individuals.

They are aggressive predators that can prey on a wide variety of insects, including beneficial species like honeybees.

Tawny crazy ants can disrupt ecosystems by outcompeting native species for resources and destroying their habitats.

These ants can cause significant damage to agricultural crops by attacking plants and pollinators.

They can also infest buildings, causing damage to electrical wiring and other structures.

Tawny crazy ants are particularly harmful to honeybee populations, as they can invade and destroy beehives.

Controlling and preventing the spread of tawny crazy ants is a challenging task. However, several strategies can be employed.

Identifying infestations early can help limit their spread.

Integrated Pest Management, a combination of methods, including physical removal, chemical control, and biological control.

Educating the public about the dangers of tawny crazy ants is crucial for prevention and control efforts.

Tawny crazy ants are a formidable invasive species that poses a significant threat to ecosystems, agriculture, and human infrastructure. By understanding their characteristics, impacts, and control measures, we can work towards mitigating their negative effects and protecting our environment.

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Welcome again to the Faith Pest Control podcast. Hi, I’m Mike Stewart, your host and we’re here today with pest expert Fred Talley of Faith Pest Control, Faith Pest Control services all the fine folks in Jasper, Georgia, Blue Ridge, Georgia Ellijay, Georgia and pretty much anywhere in the North Georgia mountains. If you have a pest problem, Fred Talley is the man to take care of those problems. And now here’s Fred Talley.

So today I’d like to talk to you about the misconceptions of termite letters. I did record a podcast on termite letters about three years ago. But this episode speaks of a couple of the misconceptions is associated with the termite letter. And I think it’s worthy of sharing. So this past week, we had a customer call and our office, our admin was taking a personal day off. And so I just happen to be the one that feels the call, the customer was calling to schedule their annual termite renewal inspection. And for those that do not know an annual termite renewal inspection is generally an inspection of the property to detect the presence of any active subterranean termites is normally a requirement of the pest control company that the perform the treatment in order to maintain the their guarantee the customers guarantee. The next the customers next comment those what really prompted the subject of the podcast comment was they wanted to make sure that they made that maintain their termite letter for good, and for those that don’t know in the state of Georgia in the home buying selling financing world, there is a document that some lenders demand or that prospective purchasers will request. It’s generically called termite letter. Some people in the pest control industry in some in the real estate industry use this term to refer to what is officially in the state of Georgia known as the official Georgia wood infestation inspection report. And this is a written instrument this report is a written instrument that’s created by the Georgia Department of Agriculture. Quoted directly from the rules of the Georgia Structural Pest Control Commission. The official Georgia wood infestation inspection report shall be the written instrument for the purpose of certifying that a structure is apparently free from wood destroying organisms as a basis for transfer of real property, and shall be issued only by pest control operators certified in wood destroying organisms. Such an instrument shall carry a guarantee that if an infestation wood destroying organisms from which apparent freedom is certified is found, within 90 days from the date of issuance, the investor structure shall be treated by the licensee free of charge, subject to the following I didn’t go into the subject to the following, it’s inconsequential due to what we’re going to talk about. There are some exceptions listed within rules and regulations. But as a general rule, those of us in the industry assume that have an active infestation is found. We’re providing a free treatment. What I wanted to convey in that is that the official would infestation inspection report is an instrument for the transfer of real property. Also, it has a finite life, the life of it is only 90 days. To this official Georgia wood infestation report Report lists five organisms rest recognized by the state of Georgia is wood destroying organisms, only one of which are subterranean termites, the five are subterranean termites, powderpost beetles, wood boring beetles, dry wood, termites, and one decaying fungus. Granted some subterranean termites are by far the most traded wood destroying organism by most pest control companies in this state. But still there only one of five organisms listed on this letter. I said all of that, to convey the message that the annual termite renewal inspection has absolutely nothing to do with the Georgia wood infestation inspection report. Another subject that’s often misunderstood by homeowners is that they they may have a subterranean termite guarantee or any other wood destroying organism guarantee for that matter. With a company that is treated the property has a valid guarantee on the on the property. The company is under no obligation whatsoever to offer to issue this official Georgia would in in section report, official Georgia would infestation inspection report. All of that is to say the annual termite renewal inspection and the in fish the official Georgia wood infestation inspection report or art are totally independent of each other issuance of the Georgia wood infestation inspection report Work is solely up to the discretion of the pest control company. The Georgia Department of Agriculture is typically not going to force the company to issue that inspection report. We offer a free money back, make you happy guarantee, if you hire faith pest control, get rid of your bug problem. At the end of 30 days, you’re not 100% Happy, we’ll come back and retreat your home for free. And we’ll keep on trading it for free until you tell us that you are happy. That still doesn’t make you happy. We’ll give you back every penny you spent on the original treatment. Plus, we’ll pay you an additional $25 for your time in trouble just for fooling with us. Bottom line is this. You will be happy with the service we provide or you won’t pay us a penny period. If you feel like what I’ve said and makes sense. Please call faith pest control today is 770-823-9202 and ask to speak to me Fred Talley. I’ll be more than happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you may have.

Well, Fred, that’s great information. Hey, if you’re in the north Georgia mountains in Jasper, Blue Ridge, Ellijay, Georgia, or anywhere in the north Georgia mountains and you have problems with bugs, just listen to this podcast over and over again and share it with your friends, so you’ll know what to do. And then of course, if you’re like me, and you just don’t want to deal with it, call Fred. Fred will take care of you and make sure you get the problem solved. We do this podcast as a community service for all the fine folks in Jasper, Georgia, Blue Ridge, Georgia, Ellijay, Georgia, and anywhere in the north Georgia mountains. You can get this podcast from our website, or you can get it from any of the fun podcast services like Apple, Google podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon. Even if you just ask your Alexa Hey, play the faith pest control podcast latest episode, it will start playing and you can listen right there on your speaker devices. So until next time, this is Mike Stewart for the Faith Pest Control podcast.

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So, we recently received our May issue of the farmers and consumers market bulletin, which is a publication of the Georgia Department of Agriculture. And there’s an article excellent on the front page that I found quite intriguing. And that was the presently emerging cicadas. So I thought I’d talk to you guys about that today is as well as share what little bit of knowledge I’ve gained about cicadas since they’re not considered to be passed by the standards we operate under in the Structural Pest Control industry. So my knowledge of cicadas is actually pretty limited. Most of the information here not all of it, but most of it that I’m sharing with you is retrieved from the article in the Georgia farmers and consumers market bulletin by Jordan powers is as well as an article by Joyce Luciani, from Fox five Atlanta. So this year, periodical cicada brood, 13 and brood 19 will emerge in 17 states. An event that has actually not occurred since 1803, which was 221 years ago, and will reportedly not happening again for another 221 years. The state of Georgia will only see one brewed which is brewed 19 in that emergence will predominantly be in the west northwest area of the state. During the last emergence in 2011 brewed 19 cicadas were verified in 75 of George’s County, so almost half 47% So almost half the counties. So according to Nancy Hinkle and she’s a professor quoted in the in the article in the market bulletin, and she is an entomology, a professor in the Entomology Department at the University of Georgia, Georgia. Trillions of periodic cicadas are set to emerge from the Georgia Soil this month actually, actually it should have occurred about predominantly about two weeks ago. Now there are annual circadence cicadas is we will briefly touch on in just a few minutes, and there are periodic cicadas in Georgia, that is the this current emergency is being called the Great Southern brood. As brood 19, Georgia is only 13 years cicada is the largest periodical cicada brood in North America, covering at least a dozen states in the southeast. These are since they only occur on a 13 year cycle they’re considered periodical insects are periodic insects. And these have black bodies. Their eyes are red and they have an orange tint in their wings which are translucent. They’re harmless. They don’t bite they don’t stain. They’re not poisonous, and other than very small young trees that are harmless to plants. Ironically, I find it ironic or unique periodical cicadas are unique to the eastern United States. Annual cicadas are pretty common throughout the US. And yes, we do have annual cicadas here in Georgia as well. But like I mentioned earlier, the brood was expected to emerge mid May, which was about two weeks ago. I personally have not seen any. We are in Pickens County, which actually is classified as North Central Georgia, so we may not even see any here this year. For those that don’t know much about the lifecycle, the periodical cicada brood emerging this month began their life in 2011. When the female later eggs, the female cicada will typically lay a range of two to 400 eggs in tiny holes that they make in branches of trees and then shrubs and they’ll kind of they’ll deposit those eggs under under the bark. And about six to 10 weeks. The egg after the eggs have been laid. They’ll hatch in the young juvenile is our nymphs will they’ll fall to the ground, burrow underground and attach to tree roots because that’s where they will acquire their nutrition. So the current emerging brood has been underground for almost 13 years. Researchers do know that the adult lifespan of the emerging cicada is actually measured in weeks, and they will most likely nearly all be dead. By the beginning or middle of June. In an effort to avoid predators, then then the nymphs actually emerge from the ground at night, and they will climb the tree trunks the skin along their backs, has a split. And that split is what allows the adult to emerge. And the byproduct of this is the exoskeleton which is pretty common for people to find. But they if you see if you happen to be under a tree that had a cicada of population of females that deposit is their eggs. They’re 13 years ago, you will think there stout hundreds of 1000s of cicadas as the their exoskeletons are laying everywhere. The newly emerged adults will spread their wings out, you know, and allow them to dry and after they’re able to fly. After they dry, their wings are able to fly. By Daylight, most of the adults will have flown up into the treetops. And as they begin to warm up by the rising of the sun, the males will begin to sing their I guess their mating cadence or whatever to attract the females after after mating the female deposits or eggs at the end of the tree branches under the the flexible bark. As you recall, I said a few minutes ago she’ll bore a tiny hole in the bark. And after that the adult cicada dies. After a month or so the after the adults have died, the the eggs will hatch from under the tree bark and again fall to the ground burrow into the soul. Find a tree root and begin sucking the SAP waiting another 12 plus years to emerge. Starting the sock cycle all over again. Periodic cicadas are not considered pest as we said earlier. So normally there’s there’s little to no need to control them. Most will be dead in just a few weeks anyway. As always, here at fates pest control, we offer a free consultation, as well as 100% make you happy Money Back Guarantee few higher fates pest control to get rid of your bug problem at the end of the 30 days, you’re not 100% Happy, we’ll come back and retreat your home for free. And we’ll keep on trading it for free until you tell us that you are happy. If that still doesn’t make you happy, we’ll give you back every penny you spent on the original treatment. Plus we’ll pay you an additional $25 for your time in trouble just for fooling with it. Bottom line is I want you to be happy with the service that we provide, or you won’t pay a penny period. If you feel like what I’ve said make sense please call fate pest control today is 770-823-9202 and asked to speak to me Fred Talley. I’ll be more than happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you may have.

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So Mikey southern flying squirrels that actually pretty much in the eastern half of the United States, from southeastern Canada all the way down into southern Florida, and they’re pretty much nocturnal animals. It’s actually pretty rare for humans to have any kind of meaningful interaction with flying squirrels. Because they are almost exclusively nocturnal animals. They mostly live in the forest, which have either acorn and barren trees, as well as some source of water. Their habitat must also have some kind of some scattered dead trees and some dead trees that kind of remain standing. Flying squirrels will sometimes nest in attics of of human homes, if you will. That’s when pest control Wildlife Control professionals get involved. Flying squirrels generally are less active during the colder months However, here in North Georgia, we typically don’t have winters cold enough for them to be totally inactive. Nighttime in the fall is considered one of the best times to be able to see see the flying squirrels because they’re they’re busy at that time of year, gathering and storing food for the winter. As far as sound goes, you can identify a flying squirrel by they have a high pitched, cheap, if you will, that in often can be heard around the first two or three hours after sunset. The Flying squirrels use these cheeps or chirps and various other sounds in with the sounds, they are able to keep track of each other as well as to warn each other of some type of impending danger. Sometimes the sounds are so shrill that they are they exceed the upper limits of the frequencies that humans can hear. In warmer weather. Flying squirrels feed on multiple forms of vegetation, notably mushrooms, persimmons, wild grapes and the bark of many hardwood trees. They also feed on hickory nuts and acorns and the pits of wild cherries to include other seeds as well in that flying squirrels do not hibernate. However, they will nest together during during the winter and they will nest together in groups. They have the ability to reach reduce their metabolic rate, as well as their body temperature in order to conserve energy. And they also rely on each other’s body heat that radiated in their friend group if you will. Female flying squirrels are actually very attentive parents to their young. The mothers will will maintain several secondary nests, which are available to them to take their young in order to keep them safe from predators, even if the predator is larger than the female or the mother. And even if she is outnumbered, she will not hesitate to defend her young a flying squirrel mother has been observed moving her young during a forest fire in which during that process and moving them she was actually sin singed herself, I guess, goes to saying hell hath no fury. Flying Squirrel nests in the wild are typically made of shredded bark and and or Spanish moss. As you can imagine, these squirrels do not actually fly but they are excellent gliders. They have a membrane that grows between their legs and their body, which allows them to spread their body out almost like a parachute and they’re able to glide. They can quite easily climb out on tree limb that’s higher than the roof of a house and just glide right over to the roof and land slay safely. Flying squirrels the baby flying squirrels are typically weaned from their mother when they’re six to eight weeks old. When when they are initially born. The young are typically about two and a half inches long as that’s measured from the top of their head to the tip of their tail. And usually way less than a quarter of an ounce. You they’re born blind, pink, and hairless. they will open their eyes in approximately three weeks. The membrane as we were talking about earlier that grows between their body and their legs. That allows them the ability to glide. It’s fully developed at birth. In the wild flying squirrels have the ability, and I guess in typically live about five years when in captivity, they have been known to live as long as 12 years, their ability to glide actually develops rather quickly. by about the age of eight weeks old, they can already execute. I guess, technically difficult. maneuvers, they can make 90 degree turns, lateral loops and other difficult maneuvers just like the adult skin. It’s not uncommon for and for adults to glide up to 160 feet. The longest observed Glide is actually about 100 yards, which would be 300 feet. Their major predators are after dark, or owl, snakes and raccoons. And their peak breeding seasons are February through March, and then again in August through October. So here at fates pest control, we offer a free consultation as well as a 100% make you happy money back guarantee. Do you hire fates pest control to get rid of your problem, bug problem, and at the end of 30 days, you’re not 100% Happy, we’ll come back and retreat your home for free. And we’ll keep on trading it for free until you tell us that you are happy. That still doesn’t make you happy will give you back every penny spent on the alleged original treatment. Plus, we’ll pay you an additional $25 for your time and trouble just for fooling with us. The bottom line is this. I want you to be happy with the service that we provide, or you won’t owe us a penny period. If you feel like what I’ve said makes sense, please call fetes pest control today at 770-823-9202 and ask to speak to me Fred Talley. I’ll be more than happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you may have.

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So pantry moths are actually pretty common household pests. They are small, flying insects that they will infest or can end or contaminate what we referred to as stored products. In the pest control industry we refer to it as stored products. But it’s stuff like grains cereal, flour, beans, nuts, other dry foods. They’re also known as grain moss or Indian meal moths because they commonly infest pattern Indian corn or corn meal in America. pantry moss are are attracted to food sources which they eat and and they lay their eggs in that food source. Small worms or larva emerge and feed on these food sources after they hatch. From the eggs and they make the food and inedible pantry moss can cause a nuisance in your home. They can be difficult to get rid of once they infest the food in your pantry. pantry monitors are six legged with antenna and wings. They are grayish brown Moss with copper or reddish colored markings on their outer wings. The bodies are about a half inch long and oval shaped and adult pantry moss wingspan from the tip of one wing. To the tip the other wing can be between five eighths and three quarters of an inch. Like I said earlier pantry Paul’s pantry mouths feed on dry dry foods stored in your pantry like cereal grains flour, beans, seeds, nuts, dried fruits, spices, chocolate candy, dry pet and bird food and powdered milk. A pantry moss lifecycle lasts from 27 to 305 days. So basically a month to what’s at 10 months. A female pantry moth may lay about 400 Eggs after mating. The stages of the pantry most life will include the egg, their eggs or have a lack of grayish white color and they’re very small, three tenths to five tenths of a millimeter. They will be they can lay the females can lay eggs singularly or in clusters but they will lay them directly on the food source. The hen eggs will hatch dependent on environmental conditions in three to eight days. The larvae are an off white colored they’re about a half inch long. Dependent on the food source the eggs are laid in. They may appear pink, brown, or greenish is once they hatch, they’ll disperse and infest the food stores. The larvae will develop in about six to eight weeks. The larvae will form a silky cocoon in order to change or metamorphosis metamorphose into a pupa the pupa are pale brown quarter inch up to about three eighths of an inch long. The larva move away from the infested food source to become pupa they may even climb other sails in your pantry in misdirect you as you’re trying to look for an infestation. This stage the pupa stage lasts from seven to 20 days, again dependent on environmental conditions. Adults will emerge from the cocoons and flutter around the room they’re attracted to lie and may move to other rooms in the house which is why you mistake may mistake them for clothing. Moth adults or do not feed on the food source they emerge emerge from they begin mating and lay eggs three days after emergence. So the larva is what is feeding on the food source the the grain or cereal, whatever. There are two I guess you’d call them mostly common pantry POS pantry moths and onesie Indian meal moth and it is actually the most common pantry moth these Moszer As small as a grain of Cook dry, so by about a half inch long they have brown wings with a tan stripe and copper colored tips on the wings. Pretty common to see them at the junction of the wall and ceiling or in cracks and crevices. And Gomes grain moth is the next most common. They’re about three eighths of an inch long, kind of yellowish brown Moss with lighter front wings and fringed rear margins of the wings. pantry moths are found worldwide. They’re seen in kitchens, pantries, grocery stores, other places where food is stored. They infest food and lay their eggs on and around the food source. They also contaminate food products. pantry moths are also attracted to light and may even other enter other rooms in your house. Like I said earlier, possibly confusing you with some type of clothes clothes mouth. If you find tiny miles fluttering in your pantry or resting on shells, you may have pantry moss. You may also see warm like larva crawling on stored food in the ceiling ceilings or walls your home. That indicates that your house may be infested with the pantry Moss, adult moss or assignment of infested food items in your home. Female moths lay 100 to 400 eggs on or near stored food. The larva chew through and damaged food sources and their packaging like plastic bags or thin cardboard. Sealed packages can also become infested. The larva feed on the foods surface they will spend silky webs well which clump seeds or grains together they also leave droppings shed skin and egg shells on stored food and contaminated if you see food covered with droppings or webbings and find holes in plastic bags, you have a pantry Malte problem. pantry miles can be found inside any stored food areas female pantry moss lay their eggs own whole grains, like corn, oats, barley or rice. packaged food may be contaminated with eggs and may not be detected until much later. You may unknowingly bring contaminated food into your home from the grocery store. Bringing infested foods from the grocery store. Pet food or bird seed can lead to contamination of other stored food in the house. pantry miles can bore through packaging or enter through small holes in it. The infestation can and may spread from package to package. pantry miles are not harmful and do not transmit human diseases. They contaminate food with their droppings, egg shells, skin sheds, and webbing. It doesn’t affect the food’s flavor, but is off putting visibly pan three moss don’t bite or staying they only infest the food sources. Here’s some Do It Yourself tips that will help you. Inspect dried food products carefully for signs of pantry moth infestation, and throw away infested foods in bins outside the home. Clean, infested shelves and cabinets with a vacuum to remove spilled food, eggs and larva. Clean the shelves and cabinets with soapy water. Store food in sealed or airtight thick glass or plastic containers. pantry moth larva can’t penetrate these materials avoid using thin plastic bags is pantry moth larva can enter them. Place Nan infested food in the freezer for a week or heat in a pan at 150 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes. This will stop the growth of eggs or larva in the food. Use pheromone traps are sticky traps to monitor the population of Petri moss and infested areas in your home in void using moth balls and specify pesticide sprays. In areas where food is stored or prepared. They release gases that can be harmful for consumption by pets and humans. insecticides and pesticides can control panfry moth infestation but in reality, they aren’t very effective. The
I have had the customers get very angry with me because they will swear they have gone through their Whole Pantry checked all dried goods in their pantry In have thrown away everything that was infested, but they still seem to have an infestation. And inevitably, if I go to their home and go through their pantry, I will find some other stored product, dry food product that has miles in it or some other type of store product past. So it’s a fresh can be a frustrating experience. But you have to be very diligent in examining the stored food products in your pantry and getting rid of ones that have the I would get rid of even if you just think it has an infestation. But here at Faith pest control, we offer a free consultation as well as 100% make you happy money back guarantee. If you hire faith pest control to get rid of your pantry mouth problem, the end of 30 days you’re not 100% Happy, we’ll come back and retreat your home for free. And we’ll keep on trading it for free and till you tell us that you are happy. That still doesn’t make you happy will give you back every penny you spent on the original treatment. Plus we’ll pay you an additional $25 for your time in trouble just for fiddling with us. Bottom line is this. You’ll be happy with the service we provide or you won’t owe us a penny period. If you like if you feel like what I’ve said makes sense, please call fetes pest control today at 770-823-9202 and ask to speak to me Fred Talley. I’ll be more than happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you may have.

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Welcome again to the Faith Pest control podcast. Hey, I’m Mike Stewart, your host here. And today we’re with pest expert Fred Talley of faith, faith, pest control, pest control services, all the fine folks in Jasper, Georgia Blue Ridge, Georgia Ellijay, Georgia and pretty much anywhere in the north Georgia mountains where you have a pest problem. And if you have a pest problem, Fred is your man to take care of those problems. He’s been in the business for many, many years. He’s the expert who can make your home bug free if you’ll just call out and reach out to him and just ask him and take it he guarantees his work. So give him a call. So Fred, tell us about trapdoor spiders

So trapdoor spiders are actually close relatives to tarantulas. The general appearance they kind of look similar. However, the trapdoor spiders is much smaller than the trance flow and much less hairy. Also the trapdoor spider their legs have a unique, polished look to them, I guess you’d say. The trapdoor spider on average is approximately an inch long, but they can be up to two inches long. have eight eyes, one pair in the middle of their head and three on each side of their head. And they kind of range in color from a yellowish brown to reddish brown than to a black. They have very powerful jaws as well as sharp fangs that stab downward into their prey have eight legs that are short and thick, two fangs, two body parts which are the abdomen and the cephalothorax. And I guess you could look at the cephalothorax is a fusion of the head and the thorax. trapdoor spider spiders are stocky looking spiders and have very thin covering of hair on their bodies. They are actually very fast when in movement. trapdoor spider, they don’t have a web, like you would expect from a conventional spider if you will, as the name would imply, though, they create a trapdoor on top of a burl their little rule literally throughout most of the United States, from Virginia, south all the way to Florida, and west to California. They sill trapdoor spiders live in silk on burrows in the ground, which are often on the sides of like a forested ravines, normally about four to six inches deep. Their trap doors are about one inch in diameter, hinged on one side and made of silk, and that is camouflaged with soil and plant debris. trapdoor spiders are nocturnal. They will kind of peek out their door at night and wait on unsuspecting prey to come along and then ambush them. Males typically wander in search of a mate in the summer, while the females seldom if ever wander far from burrow. In Georgia, there are eight different species of trapdoor spiders that belong to three families. The Female of one of these species can be up to two inches long, which makes them the largest model of morph spiders in our state. trapdoor spiders are considered Michael amorphous spiders. And what that means is their fangs work more like those of a rattlesnake so their fangs would penetrate their prey as opposed to holding their prey I guess. Because a true spider, their fangs work more like a pair of pliers. The trapdoor spiders can also be very shiny black to a point that they look like they’ve been varnished. trapdoor spiders that construct their burrows directly in the in the ground, approximately four to six inches deep. At the entrance to the burl they will build a hinge silken door. They’re very impressive looking as they are solid, have a core clock of parents and blend in with the immediate surroundings. And again, they’re about an inch in diameter. The trapdoor spider at the female depends on her brute strength actually to protect themselves. Spider wasps are the major Praiser predators of trapdoor spiders. And when the trapdoor spiders burrow has been probed by spider wasps, and or other predators, the female worker will insert her fangs into holes in the trapdoor, and then holds on to the size of the burrow with her eight legs. The venom of the trapdoor spiders in the United States, generally speaking, is not particularly strong. Most people would equate the pain of the bite of a trapdoor spider, literally to that of a bee sting. fates pest control we offer a free consultation and a 100% make you happy money back guarantee. If you hire fates pest control to get rid of your bug problem. And then at the end of 30 days, you’re not 100% Happy, we’ll come back and retreat your home for free and we’ll keep on trading it for free. And till you tell us that you are happy If that still doesn’t make you happy, we’ll give you back every penny you spent on the original treatment. Plus, we’ll pay you an additional $25 for your time in trouble just for fooling with us. The bottom line is this. I want you to be happy with the service we provide or you won’t pay a penny period. If you feel like what I’ve said makes sense call fetes pest control today is 770-823-9202 and asked to speak to me Fred Talley. I’ll be more than happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you may have

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So, what does it mean? If I see winged termites, just for full disclosure, the material I’m about to discuss was gathered from publication 1241 of the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service. So the most common signs of termite activity that property owners are more than likely to encounter are number one, the sudden appearance of wing termites emerging from a structure. Number two, may be termite infested wood or wood products like a board or something laying on the ground or a lamb that’s laying on the ground. Or the presence of termites shelter tubes, excuse me on or within the building your home, especially if they’re in our own wood. All that being said, we’re going to focus our discussion today on the sudden emergence of the wing termites. So, the frequently the first sign of a termite into infestation is going to be the sudden appearance of wing termites are simply wings and that like bodies, and like the bodies inside the home. This is a phenomenon most commonly referred to as swarming. The wing termites are a combination of both male and female adults produced by mature and a focus on the word mature here mature termite colonies in an attempt to establish a new colony. Now, I emphasize the word mature to let you know that an immature or a young colony does not typically cast a swarm is typically a has to be a colony that has substantial resources, that they can take some of those resources and redistribute them if you will, to produce the the reproductive cast to the society. During a swarming event, hundreds if not 1000s, of wing Termites will emerge within a very short period of time. And that time duration can normally be measured in just minutes. If you find evidence of swarming termites and around your home, that tells you that there is a mature column the relatively close to your home. Now side conversation, if you will about termite biology, Eastern subterranean termite was predominantly what we deal with here in North Georgia are considered eusocial insects. Now you social insects at the colony level are insects that show an advanced level of social organization in which a single reproductive female produces the offspring and non reproductive into individuals cooperate and caring for the young. So the of course, the the there’s the Queen, which is the reproductive in in that society, and then they have workers which are which identify the food source for the colony, harvest it and retrieve it bring it back to the colony. And there are of course, the queen lays eggs, which are non fertile. And there is a cast in the society that takes care of the young and as well as a we commonly refer to him as soldiers, but I guess it’s a defense mechanism for the society but the soldier termites so the worker cast of the subterranean termite colony are the ones that do the damage to your home, because as I just said, their job is to locate, harvest and retrieve the food for the colony, the reproductive swarmers the swarm that you find, inside or around your home, do not have the ability to do any damage to your home. They’re simply trying to mate and create another new termite colony that can damage your home, or can produce the cast that can can damage your home. The wing termites that swarm are a cast of that colony level organization that are capable of reproduction. But if successful, will produce a new colony. They will not go back and rejoin the call and they were they were produced all of the newly emerged swarmers if they’re not successful in their efforts to mate and get to a suitable nesting place will die. Fortunately, wing termites and emerge indoors are themselves not a threat to the structure, because they’re unlikely to find a suitable location to establish a new home inside typical customer draw the environments not correct. These wing termites, they don’t bite you, they don’t sting you. And they can actually be easily removed by just simply vacuum in them. But their lifespan is typically measured in hours, not much more than a day if that normally, a termite swarm inside your home, or from a part of a structure represents the who’s telling you that they’re in the immediate proximity there is a mature termite colony, it can be inside a wall void in your home, which is not in in my experience, not typical, they can also have one in an attic, but what you have to have for that to occur especially for the Eastern subterranean is an an artificial moisture source, I say artificial, you can have a leaking roof and that can give them enough moisture. You know, if if a queen decides to build there to sustain the colony, the colony Other than that, what you’re typically going to find is you have a mature colony either under your house, and it can be under a basement slab. But typically, you know, maybe inside the crawlspace or next to the foundation wall somewhere a swarm that is seen outside of the home but but in the yard say it can be from firewood, stumps, molt, railroad ties, railroad trust railroad ties are notorious for termite activity. Railroad ties are coated, typically with creosote but they’re not pressure traded, so the creosote doesn’t penetrate to the middle. It’s like I said, it’s it’s very common to find subterranean termites in cross ties. Swarms that occur outdoors, are simply telling you that termites are living near the site of the flight, not not necessarily that your home is infested or even likely to be infested, that they may never even approach the home. But at the very least, I think it’s prudent as a home owner to have your home at a minimum visually inspected by a professional for termites if any type of storm has occurred inside or out in the immediate proximity outside your home. When swarming the wing, termites disperse by flying, but because they’re poor fliers, they only travel short distances. Termites will begin their mating ritual after losing their wings, which actually occurs soon after they land on the ground or any other surface. To begin the mating process. The new wingless female will emit a pheromone that attracts the male termies. After pairing with suitable partners, the termites will search out an area or location where they will mate and lay their eggs. The vast majority of the wing termites die within a day or so swarming. Evidence that I’ve read suggests that a pair of swarmers that are successful in mating and establishing a new new colony that it can take five to 10 years to achieve a colony population in excess of 10,000. Termite conditions that trigger swarming are a combination of successive days of warm temperatures, interspersed with periods of rain. Here in the north Georgia mountains. The typical scenario is an early spring, late February through early April, I would say if you get a pretty decent rain shower in the morning, and then the temperature gets up to about 70 degrees Fahrenheit before noon, and maintain 70 degrees for a few hours. You can almost count on as a as a pest control operator, you can almost count on getting a call from someone that has seen termite swarm and
like I said a minute ago we typically get our first calls the last of of February, and they’ll go on through March and sometimes we’ll get some the beginning of April. Now. The Eastern sub trainings that we have here can and do swarm throughout the year, but early Spring is the most active time that we encounter as a business. Now mature termite colony can swarm multiple times during swarming season if you will, over a period of days or months, but the secondary swarms as we refer to them or not, they don’t typically have the intensity of the near the initial swarm, you may not even realize that a secondary swarm has even occurred. It can be fairly common for termite colonies in the same area to swarm on the same day, which makes it difficult but best unless you actually witnessed the swarm to pinpoint the exact location of the exit hole where the swarm has emerged. Meaning you don’t you really don’t know where the mature colony is the winged reproductive termite here in North Georgia is typically back black. Other parts of the country and probably in South Georgia they can be brown or caramel color, but up here they’re typically back black. They can be distinguished from winged ants by three specific things. The presence of straight antenna termites have straight antenna. Ants have elbowed antennae not it’s a very easy thing for the non entomologist non insect oriented person to see the lack of a waist termites have. I believe they refer to it as a cephalothorax. They have a combined abdomen and thorax they have a head than a combined abdomen and thorax. An ant has three distinct body parts head, abdomen, and thorax, the and each body part has a distinct waist, if you will. And the other way is the presence of two pair of equal length wings. Termites have two pairs of wings for wings all together. And they’re all the same size. Ants have two pairs of wings for wings all together. But the each pair is a different length. On, on, on planning their exit strategy, termites do not have the ability to determine if they’re going to emerge inside of structure or into the great outdoors. So it’s not that uncommon early on, it’s not that common to actually witness a swarm. So it seems to be more common is for a homeowner to find shed wings and possibly somebody’s waiting den wingless bodies inside their home either on a windowsill or on the floor in front of a window or a door that has a window in it. It’s their natural instinct to go to the light. If you witnessed this form, or discover the evidence of swarming around your home, I think it’s extremely prudent to call your pest control provider or professional and request a termite inspection. That fake pest control, we offer a free consultation, and 100% make you happy money back guarantee. If you hire faith pest control, to get rid of your bug problem. And at the end of 30 days, you’re not 100% Happy, we’ll come back and retreat your home for free. And we’ll keep on trading it for free. Until you tell us you are happy. That still doesn’t make you happy. We’ll give you back every penny you spent on the original treatment. Plus, we’ll pay you an additional $25 for your time in trouble just for fooling with us. The bottom line is this. I want you to be happy with the service that we provide her you won’t pay us a penny period. If you feel like what I’ve said makes sense, please call fetes pest control today is 770-823-9202 and asked to speak to me Fred Talley. I’ll be more than happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you may have.

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Welcome again to the faith pest control podcast. Hey, I’m Mike Stewart, your host here. And today we’re with pest expert Fred Talley of faith, faith, pest control, pest control services, all the fine folks in Jasper, Georgia Blue Ridge, Georgia Ellijay, Georgia and pretty much anywhere in the north Georgia mountains where you have a pest problem. And if you have a pest problem, Fred is your man to take care of those problems. He’s been in the business for many, many years. He’s the expert who can make your home bug free if you’ll just call out and reach out to him and just ask him and take it he guarantees his work. So give him a call. So have you ever been in your pantry and looked in your canister of flour or sugar and seen little bitty bugs or something that looks like worms are we I know my wife has screamed a couple of times over the years finding that in the pantry. Well those are pantry bugs. Those are pantry paths. Fred, tell us about those pesky little bugs that can show up in your in your food.
The pantry pest is covers a large, wide variety of bugs but what we’re going to talk about today are specifically the weevils and weevils are actually small beetles, which they have a kind of a long narrow snout that’s visible. Many species A weevils can be agricultural as well as household pests. And they they’re found plants and crops or or in stored grains. They’re very small bugs, an eighth to a quarter of an inch long. With the long the long, slender, stout, the snout that sticks out in front of their head, which is I mean, even at a quarter inch long, the snouts is very visible to the to the naked eye. They’re their body’s kind of light bulb or pear shape. Some weevils have wings but not all of them do. But like all insects have six legs. In their antennae are folded somewhat. They’re usually reddish brown to black in color. And some hat do have various patterns or colorations on their wings. And again, you’ll most commonly find them in the garden and or fields because the adult is not what well, we’ll get into that we will surpass that feed on crops as well as roots of plants. But they may grow in cereal grains, like rice, rye, wheat, buckwheat, corn, oats, but they can also feed on things like beans, peas, nuts, wheat products, such as flour. They too can can feed on cotton actually. Strangely enough, they might also feed on some fruits like pears, grapes, apples, we will go through what’s called a complete metamorphosis. Now I’m not telling you this to to totally bore you with bug biology but that you kind of need to understand this to be able to know what you might be seeing in your in your pantry, a complete metamorphosis. bugs don’t grow and have birth like humans do. And then the complete metamorphosis means that the insect goes through four different stages to get from egg to maturity in the stages are they there an egg that they developed from an egg into a larva from a larva to pupa A and then into adult. Now this is going to be an important part to understand here. Female weevils will lay their eggs inside and all I want you to pay attention to the words inside a grain kernel, like a grain of rice, a kernel of corn, A, the the seed that would be inside of a vein inside a nut the they can also lay their eggs a female can also lay their eggs on plants, but we’re concerned with this podcast is is the eggs that are laid inside the grain kernel. She’ll lay small white lay eggs that are in clusters. And at maturity, the eggs will hatch and to weave a larva which will feed on the grain. This is an important part to understand that the eggs will hatch inside the grain kernel into a larva which will in turn feed on the contents of that grain. When they exit they We’ll make a hole in that funnel that grain. As the larva grows inside the kernel it will mature into a pupa in the pupil forms a cocoon changes undergoes metamorphosis and within about a month, the wave will eat through the seed coat and emerge as an adult. This is important to remember in that the we will each through the seed coat as this, this process will leave a hole in that grain kernel. So you will see holes that don’t look they don’t look normal. You know, you’d say well, why why are the holes there? If that’s the only evidence you see, the adults will have a hard exoskeleton and most likely will fly they mate and lay eggs to begin the cycle all over again. The weevils lifespan can vary dependent on environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, the availability of food sources. Some some weevils only live for a few months but on average, their life cycle lasts about a year. There are many species like I said in of weevils, but in this podcast, what we’re primarily talking about are called rice weevils and granary. weevils. Rice weevils will infest stored grains. They’re kind of a reddish brown color and have four reddish or yellowish markings on their wings. The important thing to remember here is the the adult rice weevil is attracted to light and they can fly granular granary weevils resemble rice weevils in that they will infest stored grains and grain products however they can. They can be longer in body size than a rice weevil in our January reddish brown to black and color. granary weevils also had do not have markings on their wing covers as rice weevils do. They are not attracted to light as rice weevils are and they cannot fly as rice weevils can. North Georgia is not unique and its problems with weevils. weevils are found worldwide. It’s very common to see them in your garden. They often will crawl into your home through cracks, crevices and openings in around doors and windows your home. They normally come inside looking for shelter. In very hot dry weather conditions they prefer. They like warm weather, but they don’t like hot weather and they prefer prefer moist places but not dry. Sometimes you’ll find them in your sinks and bathtubs. Occasionally, I don’t see it very often but it does happen. A weevil infestation may occur in your pantry if you bring in foods that may already already be infested in your home. My experience is that most of the grand new granary weevils and rice weevils that we deal with are brought into the home, they don’t come into the home on their own under their own power. It’s actually fairly easy to detect a weevil infestation as the the infested grey may have a white kind of like a solid us like appearance due to the weevil droppings and also grain and grain products damaged by weevils will have holes in them like we were discussing about when the toupee develops emerges from the the the the carnal. weevils are attracted to again warm, moist environments and they emerge typically in the late spring. In the hot dry months of summer, they will seek out shelter in places suitable for reproduction and lay their legs they’re there. If they happen to enter your home they may become attracted to grains and grain products there and possibly infest them but I really haven’t found that to be the what happens. We wills are not harmful to humans, they don’t carry disease. They don’t sting you they won’t bite you. They’re primarily a nuisance pest but they can also cause damage to your store food products. You know if weevils infested garden or field they can damage the plant and reduce the yield of crops. Otherwise they’re harmless in generally go away on their own out in the field to to control rice or granny granary weevils. The best method is just to destroy or dispose of the infested grain. Keep the uninfested food in sealed airtight containers then you may also store the food in the refrigerator or freezer to keep it fresh. Freezing Oh, the uninvested grain at zero degrees Fahrenheit for three days can prevent weevil growth. as sick as it sounds the in our country we can have a certain level of impurities in our food and those impurities can be these can be these waves weevils. Typically, insecticides or pesticides are not a big benefit if Wheedle weevils are already infesting your stored grains or food products, unless the problem is originating from the exterior, and the weevils are getting inside. Like I said before, I personally never encountered a problem with weevils coming in from the outside, on their own of their own power. But they’re generally brought in in grains purchase at the grocery store.
I’m very well aware the process of going through all your everything in your pantry to define what is infested. But in reality, that is the solution, you’re first time or two through the pantry 90% of the time, you’re probably going to miss an infested product. But if you continue to have a weevil problem, go through your pantry or cupboard again 100% of the time that I’ve ever had a customer call me and say they’ve thoroughly gone through their pantry, totally gotten rid of all their infested food products, but they’re still having a problem. I go to their house, I go through their pantry pretty meticulously, and I’ll find something that’s still infested, it can be stocked with crackers, you need to look at everything in your pantry and be very thorough in the process. It fates pest control, we offer a free consultation, and a 100% money back make you happy guarantee. You hire faith pest control to get rid of your bug problem. And at the end of 30 days, you’re not 100% Satisfied, we’ll come back and retreat your home for free. And we’ll keep on trading it for free until you tell us that you are happy. That still doesn’t make you happy. We’ll give you back every penny spent on the original treatment. Plus, we’ll pay you an additional $25 for your time in trouble just for fooling with us. The bottom line is this. I want you to be happy with the service that we provide, or you won’t pay us a penny period. Do you feel like what I have said makes sense. Please call fate pest control today is 770-823-9202 and asked to speak to me Fred Talley. I’ll be more than happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you may have.
Or Fred informative as always, thank you so much for being the pest expert of North Georgia. And more importantly, folks, we do this as a customer service. This podcast is to educate you on pest problems and to know what to do. Sometimes it means calling Fred sometimes it’s just taking precautions yourself. But either way, we want you to have a pest free home. Tell folks about this subscribe, share this podcast with your friends ran apple. We’re in Google. We’re in pot, Spotify, we’re in Amazon, and we’re online at Faith pest control.com So until next time, we’ll see you on the faith pest control podcast.

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Welcome again to the faith pest control podcast. Hey, I’m Mike Stewart, your host here. And today we’re with pest expert Fred Talley of faith, faith, pest control, pest control services, all the fine folks in Jasper, Georgia Blue Ridge, Georgia Ellijay, Georgia and pretty much anywhere in the north Georgia mountains where you have a pest problem. And if you have a pest problem, Fred is your man to take care of those problems. He’s been in the business for many, many years. He’s the expert who can make your home bug free if you’ll just call out and reach out to him and just ask him and take it he guarantees his work. So give him a call. So have you ever been in your pantry and looked in your canister of flour or sugar and seen little bitty bugs or something that looks like worms are we I know my wife has screamed a couple of times over the years finding that in the pantry. Well those are pantry bugs. Those are pantry paths. Fred, tell us about those pesky little bugs that can show up in your in your food.
The pantry pest is covers a large, wide variety of bugs but what we’re going to talk about today are specifically the weevils and weevils are actually small beetles, which they have a kind of a long narrow snout that’s visible. Many species A weevils can be agricultural as well as household pests. And they they’re found plants and crops or or in stored grains. They’re very small bugs, an eighth to a quarter of an inch long. With the long the long, slender, stout, the snout that sticks out in front of their head, which is I mean, even at a quarter inch long, the snouts is very visible to the to the naked eye. They’re their body’s kind of light bulb or pear shape. Some weevils have wings but not all of them do. But like all insects have six legs. In their antennae are folded somewhat. They’re usually reddish brown to black in color. And some hat do have various patterns or colorations on their wings. And again, you’ll most commonly find them in the garden and or fields because the adult is not what well, we’ll get into that we will surpass that feed on crops as well as roots of plants. But they may grow in cereal grains, like rice, rye, wheat, buckwheat, corn, oats, but they can also feed on things like beans, peas, nuts, wheat products, such as flour. They too can can feed on cotton actually. Strangely enough, they might also feed on some fruits like pears, grapes, apples, we will go through what’s called a complete metamorphosis. Now I’m not telling you this to to totally bore you with bug biology but that you kind of need to understand this to be able to know what you might be seeing in your in your pantry, a complete metamorphosis. bugs don’t grow and have birth like humans do. And then the complete metamorphosis means that the insect goes through four different stages to get from egg to maturity in the stages are they there an egg that they developed from an egg into a larva from a larva to pupa A and then into adult. Now this is going to be an important part to understand here. Female weevils will lay their eggs inside and all I want you to pay attention to the words inside a grain kernel, like a grain of rice, a kernel of corn, A, the the seed that would be inside of a vein inside a nut the they can also lay their eggs a female can also lay their eggs on plants, but we’re concerned with this podcast is is the eggs that are laid inside the grain kernel. She’ll lay small white lay eggs that are in clusters. And at maturity, the eggs will hatch and to weave a larva which will feed on the grain. This is an important part to understand that the eggs will hatch inside the grain kernel into a larva which will in turn feed on the contents of that grain. When they exit they We’ll make a hole in that funnel that grain. As the larva grows inside the kernel it will mature into a pupa in the pupil forms a cocoon changes undergoes metamorphosis and within about a month, the wave will eat through the seed coat and emerge as an adult. This is important to remember in that the we will each through the seed coat as this, this process will leave a hole in that grain kernel. So you will see holes that don’t look they don’t look normal. You know, you’d say well, why why are the holes there? If that’s the only evidence you see, the adults will have a hard exoskeleton and most likely will fly they mate and lay eggs to begin the cycle all over again. The weevils lifespan can vary dependent on environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, the availability of food sources. Some some weevils only live for a few months but on average, their life cycle lasts about a year. There are many species like I said in of weevils, but in this podcast, what we’re primarily talking about are called rice weevils and granary. weevils. Rice weevils will infest stored grains. They’re kind of a reddish brown color and have four reddish or yellowish markings on their wings. The important thing to remember here is the the adult rice weevil is attracted to light and they can fly granular granary weevils resemble rice weevils in that they will infest stored grains and grain products however they can. They can be longer in body size than a rice weevil in our January reddish brown to black and color. granary weevils also had do not have markings on their wing covers as rice weevils do. They are not attracted to light as rice weevils are and they cannot fly as rice weevils can. North Georgia is not unique and its problems with weevils. weevils are found worldwide. It’s very common to see them in your garden. They often will crawl into your home through cracks, crevices and openings in around doors and windows your home. They normally come inside looking for shelter. In very hot dry weather conditions they prefer. They like warm weather, but they don’t like hot weather and they prefer prefer moist places but not dry. Sometimes you’ll find them in your sinks and bathtubs. Occasionally, I don’t see it very often but it does happen. A weevil infestation may occur in your pantry if you bring in foods that may already already be infested in your home. My experience is that most of the grand new granary weevils and rice weevils that we deal with are brought into the home, they don’t come into the home on their own under their own power. It’s actually fairly easy to detect a weevil infestation as the the infested grey may have a white kind of like a solid us like appearance due to the weevil droppings and also grain and grain products damaged by weevils will have holes in them like we were discussing about when the toupee develops emerges from the the the the carnal. weevils are attracted to again warm, moist environments and they emerge typically in the late spring. In the hot dry months of summer, they will seek out shelter in places suitable for reproduction and lay their legs they’re there. If they happen to enter your home they may become attracted to grains and grain products there and possibly infest them but I really haven’t found that to be the what happens. We wills are not harmful to humans, they don’t carry disease. They don’t sting you they won’t bite you. They’re primarily a nuisance pest but they can also cause damage to your store food products. You know if weevils infested garden or field they can damage the plant and reduce the yield of crops. Otherwise they’re harmless in generally go away on their own out in the field to to control rice or granny granary weevils. The best method is just to destroy or dispose of the infested grain. Keep the uninfested food in sealed airtight containers then you may also store the food in the refrigerator or freezer to keep it fresh. Freezing Oh, the uninvested grain at zero degrees Fahrenheit for three days can prevent weevil growth. as sick as it sounds the in our country we can have a certain level of impurities in our food and those impurities can be these can be these waves weevils. Typically, insecticides or pesticides are not a big benefit if Wheedle weevils are already infesting your stored grains or food products, unless the problem is originating from the exterior, and the weevils are getting inside. Like I said before, I personally never encountered a problem with weevils coming in from the outside, on their own of their own power. But they’re generally brought in in grains purchase at the grocery store.
I’m very well aware the process of going through all your everything in your pantry to define what is infested. But in reality, that is the solution, you’re first time or two through the pantry 90% of the time, you’re probably going to miss an infested product. But if you continue to have a weevil problem, go through your pantry or cupboard again 100% of the time that I’ve ever had a customer call me and say they’ve thoroughly gone through their pantry, totally gotten rid of all their infested food products, but they’re still having a problem. I go to their house, I go through their pantry pretty meticulously, and I’ll find something that’s still infested, it can be stocked with crackers, you need to look at everything in your pantry and be very thorough in the process. It fates pest control, we offer a free consultation, and a 100% money back make you happy guarantee. You hire faith pest control to get rid of your bug problem. And at the end of 30 days, you’re not 100% Satisfied, we’ll come back and retreat your home for free. And we’ll keep on trading it for free until you tell us that you are happy. That still doesn’t make you happy. We’ll give you back every penny spent on the original treatment. Plus, we’ll pay you an additional $25 for your time in trouble just for fooling with us. The bottom line is this. I want you to be happy with the service that we provide, or you won’t pay us a penny period. Do you feel like what I have said makes sense. Please call fate pest control today is 770-823-9202 and asked to speak to me Fred Talley. I’ll be more than happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you may have.
Or Fred informative as always, thank you so much for being the pest expert of North Georgia. And more importantly, folks, we do this as a customer service. This podcast is to educate you on pest problems and to know what to do. Sometimes it means calling Fred sometimes it’s just taking precautions yourself. But either way, we want you to have a pest free home. Tell folks about this subscribe, share this podcast with your friends ran apple. We’re in Google. We’re in Spotify, we’re in Amazon, and we’re online at Faith pest control.com So until next time, we’ll see you on the faith pest control podcast.

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So today we’re going to talk about Indian meal moths. Any male moths are actually very common household pests and they feed mainly on stored food products. There is a school of thought that the Indian meal moth is one of if not the most important pest of stored food products. In the United States. The larvae are general feeders are referred to as general feeders and they feed on grains, grain products, seeds, dried fruits, nuts, cereals, dog food and spices. The Indian meal moth has actually saved its common name from the United States where it was found to be a pest of meal made from Indian corn. The Indian meal moth is found and stored products and food stores facilities around the world and in a wide range of climates. And again, it’s a very common pest here in North Georgia. Then you mail moth with its wings expanded can be as much as about three quarters of an inch wide. It’s actually pretty easy to tell it apart from other grain pest. primarily due to the markings on it’s four wings there are reddish brown on the rear two thirds of the wings but a whitish gray on the front 34 They connect to the body. The hind wings do have distinctive marten markings. The hand wings do not have distinctive markings, or pretty much just the uniform gray. Adults can be seen, you know resting on the surface of the grain. But generally you’re going to see them on the walls of your pantry, up around the ceiling in your kitchen around the light fixtures in your kitchen because the adults fly mainly at night and with as a lot of other insects that are attracted to the light. The eggs of the Indian meal moth or a whitish color but they’re very small and oval in shape. Because of their small size they’re very difficult to see without using a microscope. The eggs can be deposited on the surface of the grain as a single egg or in groups of eggs. Newly hatched larva very small can be very difficult to see. The larger larvae our use are usually either a yellowish greenish or sometimes a pinkish color. The fully grown larvae are normally about a half to five eighths of an inch long and have a brownish kind of head capsule the the larvae will have three pair legs near their head and five pear towards their abdomen. As they become fully grown the larva they will spin away in like a cocoon and leave behind silken threads actually where they crawl. Most times there are enough of these thread pieces. For you know for somebody to notice that there’s a problem with they open up a bag of spaghetti or some type of pasta or rice, loosely clinging webbing on the grain is very characteristic of Indian meal moth. As long as the temperature stays above 50 degrees Fahrenheit inside a home, the Indian meal moth can survive and reproduce. The typical lifecycle from egg to adult is completed in 40 to 55 days depending on environmental conditions. Therefore the potential for up to nine generations per year exists and can be very common in a home with with conditioned air. Under ideal conditions, the entire lifecycle from egg to adult can be completed in as little as just 28 days. After a mature female lays her eggs, the larvae will begin to hatch in a couple of days two to a couple of weeks depending on again the environmental conditions. The newly hatched larva feed on the fine materials from the grain. The they can be very small, they are very small can be hard to see, because they they they’re so small they actually pass through a screen mesh that measures point 001 inches that’s one one thousandths of an inch. Because of this microscopic size, it’s difficult at best to keep the larva out of the package foods and grains. The larva however, cannot chew through the packaging so they will either enter through a hole in the packaging or through the scene. This larval stage can last from two weeks up to a year. The larval stage is also the stage is responsible for the loss of food products. Actually, that’s probably they’re responsible for the consumption of the food products. Just the presence sometimes of these insects is responsible for the loss of that food product. When they mature, the larva spends a silken cocoon and transforms into a pupae. The cocoons and pupate can be seen on the ground surface, the dirt adults emerge. Depending on environmental conditions in a week to four weeks, typically, they will mate and then the females lay the next generation of eggs. The adults live from about five days to up to about 25 days. It would be a very wise idea to examine any and all store food stored food products brought into the home from the grocery store for the tail tail white worms and webbing evident in the infested product. Otherwise, the infestation can most likely will spread to the other stored products in your pantry. in warmer climates, since we have here in North Georgia, it’s probably not a terrible idea to store all your meals and flowers inside the refrigerator. Typically, insecticides or pesticides are not a big benefit. If Indian meal moths are already infesting your stored grains or food products, elimination and exclusion are the keys to controlling Indian meal moth infestations if you discover an infestation of Indian male moths at home, the simplest and probably realistically the least costly solution is to either discard the infested food products or put those products in the freezer and freeze them at zero degrees Fahrenheit for four days. Any uninfested foods that are susceptible to infestation should be placed in saleable airtight containers. Oftentimes, pet food and bird seed are overlooked as a possible infestation side. These two should be kept in sealed airtight containers. Typically, the solution to getting rid of an Indian meal moth infestation is to go through your pantry and examine every item one at a time and determine if that particular product is or is not infested, and either discarding or freezing it for four days to get rid of the infestation. I am very well aware that the process of going through all of your stored grains and grain products is a pain. But in reality that is the cheapest and best solution to you’re most likely going to miss and infested products in your pantry the first and sometimes even your second time through. But if you continue to have an Indian meal moth infestation, go through your pantry or cupboard again 100% of the time that I’ve ever had a customer tell me they have thoroughly gone through their pantry and totally gotten rid of all their infested food products. I will go through their pantry and find something that is still infested that you have to be extremely thorough during this process. At fates pest control, we offer a free consultation and a 100% money back make you happy guarantee. If you hire faith pest control to get rid of your bug problem. And at the end of 30 days, you’re not 100% Happy, we’ll come back and retreat your home for free. And we’ll keep on trading it for free until you tell us that you are happy. If that still doesn’t make you happy. We’ll give you back every penny you spent on the original treatment. Plus we’ll pay you an additional $25 for your time in trouble just for fooling with us. Bottom line is I want you to be happy with the service we provide. Are you owe us a penny? If you feel like what I’ve said makes sense, please call fetes pest control today is 770-823-9202 and asked to speak to me Fred Talley. I’ll be more than happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you may have.

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So I guess you could really label today’s discussion is more of a public service announcement than anything else. But today we’re going to talk about the impact that spray foam insulation can have on your pest control company’s ability to protect your home from insects and rodents, as well as the pest control companies ability to perform an adequate inspection. Most importantly for the presence of wood destroying organisms. There are others however, the wood destroying organism that we most commonly inspect for today is termites. The Pest Control industry in Georgia is regulated by the Georgia Department of Agriculture, the Structural Pest Control division, there is some but not a tremendous amount of information available to the general public about the advantages and or disadvantages of insulating our homes with spray foam insulation. And the information I’m talking about is as it relates to pest control. So our discussion today is going to be almost verbatim however, I will do some paraphrasing from a publication created by the Structural Pest Control Commission to the Georgia Department of Agriculture called spray foam insulation and pest management, which was issued on June 20 2018. And just so everyone understands what’s Georgia Pest Control Commission is, I will the Georgia Structural Pest Control Commission is just so everyone understands what the Georgia Structural Pest Control Commission is, I will read directly from their rules and regulations. So the Georgia Structural Pest Control Commission shall consist of seven members as follows the head of the department of Entomology of the University of Georgia or some qualified person of that department designated by them, the Commissioner of the Georgia Department of magical agriculture or some qualified employee of that department designated by them, the Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health or some qualified employee of that department, designated by them. Three residents of Georgia who are currently certified under the Georgia specimen Pest Control Act and who are actively engaged in pest control industry, and one person having a recognized interest in Consumer Affairs and protection, who has who has no connection whatsoever with the pest control industry. The last for the three members of the industry and the citizen at large, if you will, are appointed directly by the Commissioner of Agriculture. So the Georgia Structural Pest Control Commission serves the public by adopting regulations and policies to protect the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of Georgia. And as part of their mission. The Structural Pest Control Commission works with the Georgia Department of Agriculture to educate the public about Structural Pest Management. This document this specific document was created to provide a background on spray foam insulation and issues related to pest management. The Georgia Department of Agriculture does not regulate spray foam applicators. My off the cuff guests would be the Department of Consumer Affairs, but I’m not exactly sure who regulates the spray foam industry in Georgia. However, the Department of Agriculture is responsible for regulating the pest control industry in Georgia. At this point, and I’m talking about in 2018. During routine inspections for wood destroying organisms, pest control industry noticed an increase in spray foam insulation installations and it was brought to the attention of the the Structural Pest Control Commission. This specific publication is an effort really to inform consumers how spray foam insulation products could adversely impact the ability to inspect for and control termites, carpenter ants, wood boring beetles and other pests including rats and mice. So if you’re considering the installation of spray foam insulation in your home, or you’ve already installed this product in your home, this may be a beneficial discussion for you. To help you to understand, really the unintended consequences associated with trying to make your home more energy efficient. There are advantages and disadvantages of spray foam insulation, as one would expect the primary advantage is energy cost savings. Some people may or may not really expect the disadvantages included but the two of the, I guess the primary disadvantage may be higher insulation costs, but you can get undetected water leaks as well. The Structural Pest Control Commission also notes that other disadvantages of spray foam insulation are that it prevents copper a comprehensive performance of inspections for wood destroying organisms and creates possible conditions that may invalidate your termite warranty. spray foam insulation can also hide evidence of pest activity. insects such as termites, carpenter ants, and rodents, rats and mice can easily chew through the spray foam insulation, which also provides insulation benefits to those pest populations. The presence of such pest within or behind the spray foam insulation makes visual inspection and control problematic at best, if not literally impossible. spray foam insulation impairs the ability of pest management inspectors from performing a visual inspection for evidence of a pest and fists, infestation intrusion or damage. There are currently no inspection tools that can overcome how spray foam insulation prevents visual inspection for pests. George’s Structural Pest Control regulations require pest management inspectors to determine the current presence or previous presence of infestations, and report these findings on what we refer to as the official wood infestation inspection report. The general public would call this a termite letter. These inspections include a visual inspection and the sounding and or probing of accessible areas. Well, well obviously if it has spray foam insulation insulation is not accessible for any type of pest inspection. pest management companies will typically include language in their contracts that the installation of products that prevent visual inspection may negatively affect or void a termite warranty. And the Structural Pest Control Commission’s Commission recommends that homeowners contact their pest management provider or consult with one for the view of how installation of spray foam installation could impact their pest or termite control contract. The state of Georgia has modified the model energy code which general contractors or I guess, insulation applicators have to abide by to include a termite inspection trip above and below the foundation wall to expose the sill plate and the lower band rim joist for visual inspection. Now, at Faith pest control, we offer a free consultation and a 100% make you happy money back guarantee. Do you hire faith pest control to get rid of your bug problem. And at the end of the 30 days, you’re not 100% Happy, we’ll come back and retreat your home for free. And we’ll keep on trading it for free until you tell us that you are happy. That still doesn’t make you happy. We’ll give you back every penny you spent on the original treatment. Plus, we’ll pay you an additional $25 for your time and trouble just for fooling with us. The bottom line is this. I want you to be happy with the service we provide or you won’t pay us a penny period. If you feel like what I’ve said makes sense. Call faith pest control today at 770-823-9202 and asked to speak to me Fred tally. I’ll be more than happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you may have.

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So I have just returned home from a two day continuing education conference for Georgia pest control operators. And one of the presentations was by an employee the Georgia Department of Agriculture. I think his name was Mike Evans. I’m not positive about that. But anyway, he discussed the discovery by Savannah Georgia beekeeper of the yellow legged Hornet. He said that the beekeeper noticed and unusual be around that was hanging around his beehives and reported this to the Georgia Department of Agriculture. I do not know who who got the specimen. I don’t remember if it was the beekeeper, or representative from the Department of Ag. But anyway, a specimen was retrieved and it has been identified as a yellow legged Hornet. And that’s what we’ll be talking about today. Now, according to Mr. Evans, the Georgia Department of Agriculture has a trapping program in place around the area where the beekeepers discovered what was identified as the yellow legged Hornet. And there have been four positive identifications and or eradications of nest in that geographic area which is down around Savannah Thunderbolt more specifically, I believe. Mind you, though, the initial discovery of the yellow legged Hornet in our state was just a couple months ago is August of 2023. I don’t know what you would really call this maybe a public service announcement or something similar. But anyway, I found this information. And I’m quoting this not necessarily exactly but pretty close to word for word from an article on the Georgia Department of Agriculture website, if you’d like to see the pictures attached and I strongly encourage you to do it, that are attached to this article. The pictures that are attached to this article, though, the web addresses agr.ga.gov/yellow legged Hornet that’s AGR ga.gov/yellow legged Hornet, and the pictures may be helpful to you for for to help you identify what you might think as the yellow legged Hornet, and August 2023. Again, the Georgia Department of Agriculture in coordination with the United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, and the University of Georgia confirm the presence of the yellow legged Hornet near Savannah, Georgia. This is the very first time that a live specimen of this species has been detected in the open United States. The problem is the yellow legged Hornet poses a threat to honey bees, as well as other pollinators in the state. The pollinate these pollinators play a significant role in Georgia’s agriculture industry, which is the state’s main economic driver. And it’s imperative that these invasive invasive pests are tracked and eradicated. The Georgia Department of Agriculture is working with the USDA, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and University of Georgia trap track and eradicate these bees. And it will continue to or Hornets, if you will, will continue to assess the situation as needed. Information become as new information becomes available and allocate the necessary resources. The public does play an important role in in all of this. And the Department of Ag is asking the Georgia Department of Agriculture is asking all Georgians to report sightings of the yellow legged Hornet using an online reporting form. I started to put that website on here but there was a string of letters and numbers probably 20 or 30 long and I knew I’d mess it up. So to find this form, you can go to the Georgia Department of Ag website, which is AGR ga.gov. And in the search bar, just type yellow legged Hornet and you’ll be directed to the article that I’m referring to, and the online reporting form is embedded in the article. The article does States Department of Ag urges the public to be cautious in the event they come across a suspected yellow legged Hornet. Mr. Evans, in his discussion, said that none of them have none. None under the Department of Ag, people that have worked with this program have been stung. And he said there have been plenty opportunities for them to be stung so they don’t appear to be an aggressive species. But the article goes on to say that if you can, if you feel safe and doing it take a photo of what you believe may be the yellow legged Hornet and so the because of the photo can help them weed out things that they know aren’t the yellow legged Hornet. This again is the first detection of a live specimen in the open United States. It is a native to tropical and subtropical areas of Southeast Asia. The yellow legged Hornet is generally smaller than the northern giant Hornet. The workers can be about half the size of the Northern giant Hornet and the Queen’s can be around three quarters the size. Their legs are partially yellow, so hence the name yellow legged Hornet. What we learned in class is the legs have three segments and the bottom segment or the last segment away from the body is generally yellow, and then on the thorax, which is the rear end the pointy end of the Hornet. It is segmented on the fourth segment from the body, it’s yellow. The other three segments may have bits of yellow, but they’re primarily black in the fourth segment is primarily yellow. The body and the head coloration can vary. This is a social wasp that constructs egg shaped paper nests above the ground. In trees, the nest can become large housing an average of 6000 workers. Based on pictures we saw at the conference there, their nests can be as large as or larger than a five gallon bucket and at least one of the pictures we saw the nest was approximately 90 to 100 feet off the ground. The yellow legged Hornet feeds on a variety of insects but their primary source of nutrition is the honeybee during Mr. Evans presentation he had a video of the yellow legged Hornet is hanging around the entrance of a honey honey bee hive and it saw and we saw the the Hornet capture a honey bee. Mr. Evans shared with us that the honey bee was the primary source of nutrition for yellow legged Hornet larva. If allowed to establish in United States this this invasive species could threaten honey production is well is a native pollinators. Honey bees aren’t native to even the United States. I believe they are a European thing that came from Europe. But we do have native pollinators and the yellow legged Hornet can can threaten their population. These native pollinators play a vital role in the state’s agriculture industry. If you believe you’ve seen a yellow legged Hornet in your area, the Georgia Department of Ed ag encourages you to complete the online reporting form. And again, you can go to the US the Georgia Department of Ag website, which is a gr ga.gov. And in the search bar, just type yellow legged Hornet and you’ll be directed to the article and the online reporting form is embedded in the article. There are many domestic look alikes that are that are native to the United States and that do not pose a threat to honey bees. In many of these are valuable pollinators as well. If you are happen to be listening to this podcast, and you are not in the state of Georgia, in youth site what you feel like because a yellow legged Hornet please report your sighting to your local extension office or the Department of Agriculture in your state. At faith pest control, we offer a free consultation and a 100% make you happy money back guarantee. If you hire faith pest control, get rid of your bug problem. And then at the end of the day, 30 days you are not 100% Happy we’ll come back and retrieve your home for free and we’ll keep on trading it for free. And you until you tell us that you are happy. That still doesn’t make you happy.

We’ll give you back every penny spent on the original treatment. Plus we’ll pay you an additional $25 for your time and trouble just for fooling with us. Bottom line is this you’ll be happy with the service we provide or you won’t pay a penny period. If you feel like what I said makes sense, please call faith pest control. today. It’s 770-823-9202 and asked to speak to me Fred Talley. I’ll be more than happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you may have.

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Welcome again to the Faith Pest Control podcast. Hi, I’m Mike Stewart, your host and we’re here today with pest expert Fred Talley of Faith Pest Control. Who services all the fine folks in Jasper, Georgia Blue Ridge, Georgia Ellijay, Georgia and pretty much anywhere in the North Georgia mountains, if you have pest problems. Fred Talley is the man to take care of those problems for you. When it comes to bugs and talking about bugs. There is a stinky bug, stink bugs people have been asking about.

So Fred, are you here to tell us all about stink bugs?
I am here Mikey.
Well, what are these stinkbugs? And I’m sure they don’t smell good. Or they leave an odor that lets us know they’re there. You’d think by the name they would? What kind of problems do they cause? And what do you guys do to solve that problem?
So if you’ve ever seen a it’s a rather large bug, I say large probably as big as is big as the end of your thumb, a greenish, oval type man, but the telltale sign is it looks like it has a shield on its back. And they’re found. Well, they’re found almost totally throughout the United States. Not quite, but they’re definitely in North Georgia. Current Prime conditions for stinkbugs are warm summers, and mild wet winters. Thank North Georgia here. That’s exactly the climate we have. They get their common name due to the odor that they produce they if it’s smashed, or they feel threatened, they emit this. They have a gland on their abdomen and they emit this scent that’s horrid. Climate change really has been blamed for their their recent spread. And a new study shows that I looked up that the invasions are actually expected to get worse. They are a huge nuisance to homeowners and business owners whom have the misfortune of having them come inside their home or office you know to overwinter. They don’t truly infest, I guess the Merriam Webster definition of infest the home or office as because they don’t feed. They don’t make or they neither do they lay eggs inside. They’re simply coming inside where it’s warm and just hanging out until spring. They don’t bite, they don’t stain they’re not harmful to humans or pets. Actually, they’re not dangerous at all. They can be noisy, or they although they don’t reproduce or cause physical damage inside. Again, they can emit their classic odor, if crushed or even threatened or irritated by humans. If you’ve smashed them, which I do not recommend they can. It’s possible they can stain you know, whatever surface that you smash them on. Once they discover how to get inside your home, they they stage a what I would call a slow motion invasion. All winter long coming inside is seemingly in overwhelming numbers. The technical name is actually the barn barn, brown marmorated stink bug. And they’re native to eastern Asia, China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, that area of the world. They were first found in Pennsylvania in the in the late 90s. And they’re you they got here purely accidentally, as in just in the introduction of most other non native bugs. Primarily, they are a an agricultural problem. They will infest plants and fruit trees. But for homeowners business owners, they’re more a nuisance. They enter your home really looking for a warm place to hang out. As is fairly normal for other nuisance insects like ladybugs or boxelder bugs on warm days. They’re attracted to the southern side or southwestern side of houses. And really all they’re searching for is places to go protected places for them to be able to overwinter out in the wild in their natural setting, they spend their winters in cracks under like if you’ve seen dead trees still standing in the woods the bark looks like it’s peeling away from the trunk. And they’ll get up in that crack into to overwinter in there. They begin their hunt for overwintering sites in the fall before it gets so cold that they need to be overwintering. It’s very common to find them on the exterior surface of your home as well as in the shrubs. In in the like leaf litter on your on your on the ground. And other types of vegetation like trees fruit trees are pretty bad as well. They will often get inside your home through cracks in the in the foundation, and roof as well as gaps around windows and doors and screens just same place every other bug gets in where pipes and or wires penetrate through an exterior wall that holes not sealed up well. They’ll get in there. When they enter your home. They will normally congregate around or close to their entry points such as windows and doors. They will they can or do seek out narrow cracks in spaces that they’re able to hide in such as under or behind the baseboard the door and when to trim the base of light fixtures for the meet to ceiling or wall around exhaust fans in the house. They seek out these areas preferring high in cool but but not cold locations after they come into have made their way into the interior of your home. That they’re extremely hard to control at that point. This is because they’ll they will stay tucked away inside mostly inaccessible areas. If they do come out of their hiding places, the best way to eliminate them is to vacuum them up. And I would highly recommend that you do not use your good to vacuum for this don’t don’t use the rainbow, I would invest in a cheap shop vac type unit to use. Because what’s going to happen is your inevitably going to crush some of them just during the vacuum and process them going through the suction and the hose getting beat around inside the canister area. And it’s going to it’s just going to stain it’s going to stink terribly. In the recent past the stinkbug has actually seen as an agricultural problem, not a structural problem. But they’ve caused the production of one of George’s Lord largest exports, which is hazelnuts to drop in the number I thought I had heard or read was 60% but I’m not 100% sure about that. So I didn’t wasn’t even actually even going to mention that part. They have spread rapidly in Georgia and have damaged millions of dollars worth of hazelnuts as well as other crops, grapes, corn, peaches, apples, vegetables. That really is the biggest threat that stinkbugs pose for us is the is the agricultural market. They’re a nuisance. Nobody wants them in their house. But after getting established inside, it can take up to a couple of seasons to to get them out of the inside. Just a few points some major points just to go over about the bugs. They’re not native here there are native eastern Asia. Accidental Denley imported into Pennsylvania in the late 90s. In the sad or the bad part for us is there are no natural predators for them in the United States. They have spread to almost all 50 states the smell the smell is been described because I’ve never crushed one I don’t want to find out the smell. But it’s been described to me is anything from like smelling like a skunk to dirty socks. They are again they’re creating havoc for the for commercial agriculture. They can cause scabs on On bruising, scabs and bruising on fruit and vegetables. Now the scabs are more like I guess you’d call it a rust on on the on the vegetables and fruit so they can’t sell it as is number one grade product it has to be a lesser grade product so they can’t charge as much for it. They’re very creative about getting in your home. There are cracks in screens door jams, roofs, walls around your house stinkbugs will find them and and penetrate them.
If you live in or near a wooded area or you have vegetable garden, you may have a higher risk of getting stink bugs in your house. If you get them in your house, and you have potted plants in your home, that may be where you find them congregating. They will not buy they won’t bite you they won’t bite your pets they pose no danger to humans. They will not destroy indoor, non plant material such as rugs, upholstered furniture, your clothes, carpet draperies, all they want to do is hang out and stay warm. Again vacuuming is the is the most efficient way of getting rid of them once they get inside. Just remember use a cheap shot vac not the prize Kirby stinkbugs Black Light is in luminescence and they cannot swim. So you can you can make a an improvised stinkbug trap is just sticking a small bowl of soapy water underneath a desk lamp. But there are commercial traps available to the general public that you just Google them. There’s there’s plenty available in Fallout sales call an exterminator. There are products on the market that are effective against them. But this is not going to be a one and done situation is going to take time to eliminate all that are their fates pest control, we offer a free 100% make you let me start that over at Faith pest control, we offer a free consultation and a 100% make you happy money back guarantee. Do you hire faith pest control to get rid of your bug problem, the end of 30 days you’re not 100% Happy, we’ll come back and retreat your home for free. And we’ll keep on trading it for free. Until you tell us that you are happy. That still doesn’t make you happy. We’ll give you back every penny you spent on the original treatment. Plus, we’ll pay you an additional $25 for your time and trouble just for fooling with us. Bottom line is I want you to be happy with the service we provide. Or you won’t pay a penny period. If you feel like what I’ve said makes sense. call fate pest control today 770-823-9202 and asked to speak to me Fred tally. I’ll be more than happy to speak with you and answer any questions you may have.
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s always, Fred, hey, if you’re in the north Georgia mountains in Jasper, Blue Ridge, Ellijay, anywhere in the North Georgia mountains and you have problems with stinkbugs. Listen to this podcast over and over again and share it with your friends. So you know what to do. And then of course, if you’re like me and you just don’t want to deal with it, call Fred and Fred will take care of it for you to make sure that you get the problem solved. We do this podcast as a community service for all the fine folks in Jasper Blue Ridge, llj north Georgia mountains anywhere the surface area of fight pest control, and you can get this podcast on our website. Or you can get it where you get your podcasts like Apple, Google podcast, Spotify, and Amazon even just you can ask your Alexa Hey, play the faith pest control podcast latest episode, and the latest episode will start playing and you can listen right there on your speaker devices. So until next time, this is Mike Stewart for the faith pest control podcast.

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Welcome again to the Faith Pest Control Podcast. I’m Mike Stewart. I’m your host today for a another episode of the Faith Pest Control podcast a public service for all the fine folks of Jasper, Georgia, Blue Ridge, Georgia, Ellijay, Georgia and pretty much anywhere in the North Georgia mountains. If you have pest problems you want to know about fate pest control. You want to know that they can solve your problem and the man that solves the problem. The Pest expert Fred Talley is here today to talk about something I always had an interest knowing more about grand daddy long legs. grand daddy long leg longlegs spiders. I used to see them when I was a kid, they had these big, long, thin legs and little, I think that little brown tannish brown bodies. And for some reason, as a kid, I wasn’t ever scared of them. I actually liked them play with. But I want to know what’s going on with them? Are they a problem? Are they a nuisance? Some people don’t want you you definitely don’t want them crawling around your house. So Fred, tell us all about the grand daddy long legs.

All right, Mikey. I’m sure most people are aware of the many things that have been said about granddaddy long legs. You’re you’ve most likely heard or you may believe that these strange looking creatures are spiders and that they’re so venomous, that we’re actually lucky that their fangs aren’t long enough to penetrate our skin to do us harm. This actually begs the question though, are they really poisonous? Or are they dangerous? And are they even really spiders? Not not knowing really where the the mists came from or originated from? One thing I do know for sure is that granddaddy long legs as we know them. They are arachnids, but they are not spiders. They are known as harvest men. And they are not poisonous. They are venomous, but not poisonous. They’re not really known to bite humans, and they’re not actually a threat to you inside your home. They can bite humans. But the reality is the chance of them doing so is so limited, that it’s almost zero, and their venom is really not that harmful. Like I said they’re called harvestman, and as a harvestman, as opposed to spiders, they only have one pair of eyes spiders have six or eight pairs of eyes. The harvestman is incapable actually of weaving a web and they do they actually don’t have the built evens ability to even spin silk as Potter spiders do. harvestman ambush their prey as opposed to catching him catching them in a trap. They do have eight legs like a spider. However, one of the unique features of the harvest men is that they can self amputate one or more of their legs as their protection against predators. The tragedy and those that the the the the legs that they self amputate do not regrow once they’ve been amputated. They are called harvestman, because they are most often seen in large numbers during the fall around harvest time. I have been asked in the past, if a granddaddy long legs in the daddy long legs are like father and son, but they’re actually one and the same. There’s no difference. Some people call them the granddaddy long legs, other people just call them daddy long legs. Now in reality, you, you might as well just be more afraid of being bitten by a ladybug or stinkbug than being bitten by granddaddy long legs, they are most likely more afraid of you than you are of them. As I said earlier, they have no means of subduing their prey, such as venom glands, or they are using their fangs. They don’t spin away. They don’t trap their prey. They they actually feed mainly on rotting animals in rotting plants. Occasionally, they will kill some tiny species when an opportunity presents itself but typically it’s the rotting animals in rotting plants. They do will however use their Fang like math mouthparts to grasp and chew their food Food. I’m sure you’ve heard math and granddaddy long legs is one of the most venomous spiders out there. However, their fangs are just, they’re just too tiny to penetrate the human skin. That’s as far as being the most venomous is actually a myth. It is possible, like I said, how we’re very unlikely to be bitten by granddaddy long legs. They may be unsightly, and an annoyance. But granddaddy long legs are not dangerous to humans, they cause no noticeable damage to your home, or its contents thinking fabric hear stuff like carpet, rugs, curtains, clothes, linens, they don’t damage those at all. In certain I’m certain this will come as a shock to you. harvestman is sometimes referred to as the granddaddy long legs or Daddy Daddy Long Legs, because they’re because of their long legs. This, their long legs actually allow them to move quickly and to be able to readily avoid their predators. If you pick one up, one of the most frightening things that will probably happen is that while trying to flee or free themself, one or more of their legs are probably going to fall off. This is the process is known as autonomy is which Webster definition means the casting off of a body part by an animal that’s being threatened. Think of a lizard here shedding their tail to escape a predator. The act the legs of harvest, men are actually vital sensory organs. And so because of this, the loss of any leg can be devastating. If fleeing the harvest woman does have a last ditch defense mechanism. If trying to flee fails, they can. One is they can relate to foul smelling and foul tasting. Compound this and very unappealing to their predators. But the other thing is they can stop and kind of curl up into a ball. They are actually very beneficial in your home, around your home and or garden because they’re omnivores, and they’ll eat spiders, insects, worms, snails, and fungi. Like I said, the rotting plants and bird droppings. They’re primarily nocturnal, so they’re more active at night. And they prefer to hang out in your in the house they prefer to hang out in your basement, or your cellar or crawlspaces garages. place where people aren’t there all the time. So I do want to address the subject here of poisonous versus venomous. This actually, most people confuse it a lot. Most spiders may be venomous in the sense that they can harm you by injecting their venom into you. But they are not poisonous because they do not affect you. When you touch or ingest them. Yes, there are creatures or cultures I mean, that will enjoy a tasty spider snack on occasion. Harvest men have the fang like mouthparts but they do not inject any type of venom into their prey as a spider does. And and they’re you know, they’re just not poisonous. I occasionally will get a call from a distraught customer telling that telling me that their pet has eaten Daddy Long Legs. There’s typically nothing to worry about. If this happens harvest men are not poisonous to mammals, so it’s unlikely your pet will have any negative reactions. These they however, do have some unusual protection mechanisms against predators. Like I said earlier, they have the stink glands that they use to deter a predator as well as a tendency to curl up in a ball and play dead. In general granddog long legs are harmless harmless to humans, but can become a nuisance when they tend to cluster to totally avoid any type of bite it’s normally best to just leave them alone. If you’re not causing if they’re not causing any issues. It fate pest control we offer a free consultation and 100% make you happy money back guarantee. If you hire fast pest control to get rid of your bug problem at the end of 30 days. If you’re not 100%, happy, we will come back and retreat your home for free. And we’ll keep on trading it for free until you tell us that you are happy. That still doesn’t make you happy. We’ll give back every penny you spent on the original treatment. Plus, we’ll pay you an additional $25 for your time and trouble just for fooling with us. Bottom line is I want you to be happy with the service we provide or you won’t pay a penny period. Do you feel like what I’ve said makes sense. Please call faith pest control today to 770-823-9202 and asked to speak to me, Fred tally. I’ll be more than happy to speak with you and answer any questions you may have.

Well, thank you, Fred. Now I know that daddy long leg was okay for me to play with as a child and he wasn’t dangerous. We used to we used to love to see those. Those was the one spider or we thought it was a spider now we know it’s a harvestman that we weren’t scared of the little the little black real spiders whatever the different ones we saw. They did scare me But Daddy Long Legs was always felt like he was my friend. And it was a it’s it looks like it’s a useful arachnids to have around your home because it eats all of those other pests. So great information about the granddaddy long leg or the daddy long legs. And it’s a harvest one, it’s not a spider. And we do this podcast as a public service for all the fine folks in Jasper Georgia. Blue Ridge, Georgia Ellijay, Georgia, you know, anywhere in the north Georgia mountains. Hey, share this podcast. It’s it’s so that you can be educated but water pests and water not pest and what to do if you do have a pest. You can actually call Fred and ask him questions anytime. But be sure to share like and subscribe to this podcast. You can find this podcast and in Apple, Google of Spotify or Amazon. And like I say we do it to help you be educated about what pests are going on in the north Georgia mountains. So until next time, this is Mike Stewart for the faith pest control podcast.

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Welcome, everybody to another episode of the faith pest control podcast. Hi, I’m Mike Stewart. It’s another episode that we do for as a community service for all the fine folks in Jasper, Georgia, Blue Ridge, Georgia, Ellijay, Georgia, and the north Georgia mountains if you live in that area, that’s the areas that pet faith pest control services. And the pest expert that you all know and love is Fred Talley. And Fred today gets the question quite often from his customers, or the treatments that faith faith pest control does for their customers. Is it safe for the pets in the family? And, Fred, this is your opportunity to tell people that what’s going on with these treatments and you know, that they shouldn’t be concerned or what concerns you have you listen, Fred, you know what you do? So want this your chance to tell the folks what’s going on with the treatments that you do and that they’re that they are safe? Okay, my key. I can’t count the number of times I get asked the question. Is that stuff you’re using safe? Is it going to harm me? My children or my pets and literally probably twice or three times a week? I’ll get the question. Now I’ve seen and heard multiple arguments, defending and condemning most every pesticide insecticide imaginable. I’ve never seen it. But I’ve heard tales from years ago in the industry of chemical manufacturers, like drinking a teaspoon of their product just to prove that it’s safe or a manufacturer’s rep eaten, biting off a block of rodent bait just so they can see. The people that are watching can see that it’s not harming them. On the other. The total other side of the spectrum, though, I’ve seen people so terrified and paranoid about the use of any pesticide around their home, they’d rather let termites totally destroy their home, then even consider for a second applying insecticide to control them. So you know, I understand the answer doesn’t lie on the extreme end of either side of that. But in reality, I don’t know for sure that there is a single totally indisputable, precise answer that will suffice for for everybody. In reality, insects and people are different. Some things that are deadly to insects may be totally harmless to people and some things that are deadly to people may be totally harmless to insects. It one of the things that pops in my mind, right off the bat is in rodenticides, which are the products you use to control mice and rats. Basically, it’s they ingest a hyper dose of blood thinner, they hemorrhage internally and that’s how they die. Well roaches love it. But roaches don’t have blood. So they eat, they will eat the rodent bait and love it and they don’t die from it. So insecticides are have are designed specifically to have an effect on the chemistry and physiology of of insects, not warm blooded animals rodenticides, which would be the rodent baits. They’re designed to have an effect on the chemistry and physiology of rodents, not insects. So there are definitely some products on the market today that that are more potent than others, especially where warm blooded animals are concerned. But here in the household pest control business will normally use those. Just about all the products made for our industry today are odorless. We actually try not to even use products with any detectable odor so that we don’t upset a customer who might be sensitive, sensitive, sensitive to certain odors. I do have some customers that tend to have migraines and some odors will set them off. And of course since we use products that are virtually odorless, we do get the occasional comment from some people that were you know saying something to the fact Well I can tell you’re just spraying water because I can’t smell anything. So really, there’s not a no one easy, definitive answer. I’m a pretty down to earth, common everyday guy. So I kind of approach life. I try to approach life a little bit a common sense. Sometimes maybe too simplistically, though. But anyway, if somebody asks me, is that stuff you’re using safe? This is kind of the conversation I have with them. I will I will repeat the question to him, is it safe and then as well? Now, just think about it, if you drank the cup full of it or get it in your eyes, I’m pretty sure that it would cause some sort of reaction in you. But what if you drank a cup full of shampoo you use for your hair? Or if you get that into your eyes? What happens then? What about the stain or the polyurethane on your hardwood floors? Or your cabinets? You know, I would bet if you drank paint on your walls and trim or even got it in your eyes, it would likely cause some problems to or if you drank nail polish remover. Got it in your eyes? Well, you know, that could be very harmful to you. What about the common everyday items that 99% of homes in United States have under their kitchen same household bleach, ammonia. In the laundry room, you have a laundry detergent in you wash your clothes in this detergent and put them on and wear them various things throughout the house like that that you come in contact with. On a daily basis. You wash your bed linens, then you sleep on them. Think about this borax. It Borax is a naturally occurring mineral mined out of the earth. However, it’s deadly to most insects, but we use it to wash our clothes 20 mule 20 mule team Borax is and it can be I guess, considered an insecticide. But it’s manufactured as a laundry detergent and it makes our clothes clean and smell clean. How about the gasoline you use in your lawn more? If you drank it, it’s going to kill you. If if you don’t drink it, but another negative thing It killed exploded or you know the fumes explode and burn down your house. The more times than not the comment I will make is that I will tell people No, it’s not safe. But the amount of active ingredient in the product is designed to kill an insect that only weighs you know a couple of grams at most, where even a baby is, you know, is measured in pounds. I don’t want to give the impression that no precautions are necessary. So I don’t want to say it’s 100% safe. But if you follow the label directions, the risk, you know to anybody is actually pretty low. And my point is saying this is when used according to label directions, which includes most of them include the statement, do not come in contact with a product until it has sufficient time to dry. There shouldn’t be any problems. Is that a poison? Yes. And again, the act, the amount of active ingredient is designed to kill a bug that generally weighs only a few grams. I don’t say I don’t want to say this part with a flippant attitude. But if if you’re that concerned and worried about it so much that it’s going to cause you a great deal of anxiety. You know, it would be my recommendation that you probably shouldn’t even use it have a pest control treatment done. And that’s okay. You know, there are natural products that are available to the general public. I have experimented with some of them and have had short term decent results not spectacular but long term they’re they’re just not where they need to be those products aren’t where they need to be to be to enter I

think the commercial pest control world. Anyway at Faith pest control. We offer a free consultation and a 100% make you happy money back guarantee. If you hire fates pest control to get rid of If your bug problem, and at the end of 30 days, you’re not 100% Happy, we’ll come back and retreat your home for free. And we’ll keep on trading it for free until you tell us that you are happy. That still doesn’t make you happy, we’ll give you back every penny you spent on the original treatment plus will pay you an additional $25. For your time in trouble just for fooling with us. Bottom line is I want you to be happy with the service we provide or you won’t owe us a penny, period. If you feel like what I’ve said makes sense. Please call fake pest control today 770-823-9202 and asked to speak to me, Fred tally, I’ll be more than happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you may have. Well, Fred, thank you for all that great information. Folks. I know you can feel assured that Fred is going to do everything he can to make it safe for your family and your pets. And he wants you to have a pest free home with a state of the art technology that takes care of your home and prevents the damage that insects can do you know, such as termites and and we just don’t want pests in our home. So you’ve got to have pest control to have a pest free home. We do this podcast as a public service for all the fine folks in Jasper, Georgia Blue Ridge, LJ and surrounding areas in the north Georgia mountains. And you can subscribe to this podcast and apple. You can subscribe to it in Spotify, Google and Amazon. You know, subscribe to this podcast share this podcast. Listen to this podcast like this podcast comment on this podcast. But more importantly call Fred Talley at Faith pest control, which all you got to do to find the phone number is Google faith pest control, or Fred. Give out that phone number one more time. It’s our office number is 770-823-9202 and you’ll get to talk to Lily. Well that sounds great. And until next time, this is Mike Stewart for the faith pest control podcast.

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Welcome, everybody. Again, it’s another episode of the faith pest control Podcast. I’m Mike Stewart, your host. And we do this as a community service for all the fun folks in Jasper, Georgia, in Blue Ridge, Georgia. Ellijay, Georgia, anywhere in the north Georgia mountains. If you have a pest problem, Faith pest control is the solution to that problem. And the man behind the solution is my good friend Fred tally. Fred, are you there?

I’m here, Mikey.

Well, you’re gonna go fishing today. But it’s not for fish. It’s not for a bug. It’s for silver fish. Now, I know silver fish. I’ll tell you where I’ve seen them. I’ve seen them in the shower and the bathtub and in the sink. So you maybe explain to me why they show up there. What are they and what can we do to take care of that pesky fish that’s in the house.

So Mikey silver, Smith, silversmith, silver fish are actually they’re small insects. That obviously just like you said, they they infest homes. They’re not particularly dangerous. Actually, they’re harmless, but they can damage your property. And in some people like trigger allergies, they’re kind of a shiny, silvery gray. And they have scales, and I guess that’s for they get to term silver fish. And then 10 I would guess 90% of insects have antennae in there literally, globally found they’re found everywhere. silver fish like the dark. They’ll typically hide during the day avoiding direct sunlight. If you happen to move an object that they might be hiding under, they’ll just dart out and then find another hiding hiding spot relatively quickly. The see the female actually lays eggs almost constantly after they reach maturity. They’ll lay their eggs and cracks and crevices around the home. And the eggs hatch in about three weeks. And then the young reached full maturity in four to six weeks. So you can see the propensity for reproduction is in building numbers is pretty high. The juveniles look just like the adults, they’re just smaller and white instead of the silvery gray color. silver fish actually live a fairly long life. They can live anywhere from two to eight years, which for an insect that’s they years, that’s a long time. They they have the ability to live a long time without food, sometimes as much as a year without food, but it’s like most living creatures, they’re sensitive to moisture and need at a minimum a high humidity to be able to survive. silverfish exist in damp, dark, cool places large populations can actually develop and brand new buildings that have like wet brick or stone so that because they need that moisture. They’re commonly found in basements, sinks, bathtubs, showers, just like Mike was saying. They’ll be they can be in closets. There’ll be behind the baseboards, inside bookcases. The gaps are around the windows and doors. They are chewing insects, and they eat both carbohydrates and proteins like flour, oats, meats, paper, cardboard, books, glue, vegetables, cereals, other dead insects. Sometimes, new homeowners unknowingly bring them into their new home inside cardboard boxes. Among their you know important paper documents that they have in books that may have been stored in an infested area. Generally, they’re silverfish are regarded as just a nuisance pest but they won’t hurt you, but they can contaminate your food supplies. silver fish will also leave their droppings behind and foodstuffs. They’ve infested so especially if you knowingly have had an infestation you might want to check your other food products just to make sure there’s no dead bugs or insect droppings in those food products. Well silver fish will not make you sick or bite or stain you they can literally destroy your home. Since they’re chewing insects, they have the ability to eat through your department your belongings, if you will, and their fecal deposits we’ll call staining. As I mentioned earlier, cerebral silver fish like to eat glue and they will eat the glue off the wallpaper and your bookbindings curtains furniture coverings, they like starchy materials to like paper and wood. I have read some literature that says they prefer glazed paper that has a starchy coating or a glossy smooth finish. They can potentially eat literally eat some of your books and magazines because they like to start so well. Any any linens are clothes that you use starch on when you clean or or iron them can be a prime target for silverfish, they can eat your linens, clothes, curtains, furniture, fabrics, anything made of silk or cotton. You know homeowner can try several methods to get rid of silverfish prior to contacting a professional pest control troll service. And these are silverfish are almost as common as cockroaches. Here in North Georgia, it can be very difficult to manage that infestation it but if you’re trying it yourself, it’s best to utilize all but at least some of the following tips I’m going to give you so reduce food sources for the silverfish by keeping all your food products and sealed airtight containers and store all of your food in only one area of the house. Not in in in various areas. Vacuum your carpets floors furniture regularly. Meaning probably every other day is not a bad idea, as well as clean up food debris and crumbs. silverfish love humidity and water. reduce those water sources by installing a dehumidifier in the basement or crawlspace. Keep your showers bathtubs, sinks, laundry room areas clean and dry. And in the crawlspace use a plastic sheeting or vapor barrier on the bare dirt and inside the crawlspace. Make sure that your yard is properly graded so that water flows away from the house and not to the house. And and as well keep your house in good repair specifically around the windows and doors. The the the seals and the trim exterior trim especially make sure that it’s caught. So that to keep them out of the females out of the cracks and crevices where they like to lay their eggs. At faith pest control, we offer a free consultation and a 100% make you happy money back guarantee. If you hire faith pest control to get rid of your silverfish problem, and at the end of 30 days, you’re not 100% Happy, we will come back and retreat your home for free. We’ll keep on trading it for free, until you tell us that you are happy. But that still doesn’t make you happy. We’ll give you back every penny you spent on the original treatment. Plus we’ll pay you an additional $25 for your time and trouble just for fooling with us. Bottom line is I want you to be happy with the service we provide or you won’t pay a penny period. If you feel like what I’ve said makes sense. Please call faith pest control today at 770-823-9202 and asked to speak to me Fred Talley. I’ll be more than happy to speak with you answer any questions you might have.

Well, thank you, Fred. Once again, the pest expert explained to us what silver fish is the fish we don’t want to catch in the house. They want to go fishing for him. We want him gone. And we do this podcast is a public educational service for the community of all the fine folks in Jasper Blue Ridge, Ellijay, Georgia, North Georgia mountains. Faith pest control are the pest experts. And you know what you what I want you to do a few things for me one. If you like this podcast, subscribe to it in Apple, Amazon, Google or Spotify. wherever you get podcasts, you can subscribe to it. It’s a it’s a good way to learn about what pests there are in north Georgia mountains and what to do about them. share us with your friends like us. You know and in fact, if you do talk to Fred because you can call Fred and ask him anytime. Tell him that you listen to the podcast and you shared the podcast because you know Lots of times we put this information out there and we know that it gets found in Google and it may be the way you find it, but we’d like for you to benefit from it and make sure that you get some good from learning what pests are going on and what you can do about it. So till next time, this is the faith pest control podcast.

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Welcome again to another episode of the faith pest control Podcast. I’m Mike Stewart and I’m here with pest expert Fred Talley. And we’re going to be talking about wood decay. Fun wood decay fungus. Now wait a minute fungus. Is that a pest? Is that a insect? You know, why would pest control be concerned about wood decay fungus? Well, we’re going to talk about it because I’m guarantee and the north Georgia mountains especially Jasper, Georgia, and Blue Ridge, Georgia and Ellijay, Georgia, and big canoe, there’s a lot of wood that’s decaying, and it’s got fungus on it. So Gee, Fred, I’m confused. clear this up helped me understand what is wood decay fungus? Well, Mikey, I guess from a technical aspect in the state of Georgia only recognizes five organisms, if you will, as wood destroying organisms. Subterranean termites is what everybody is aware of. And but that’s only one of the five wood decay fungus, it takes up one other of those spaces. Now. You know, it’s not an insect at all, it is a fungus that gets in the wood due to the moisture content. So what decay fungus is, is really any species of fungus that that will digest moist wood and causing it to rot. Some species of wood decay fungi, attack dead wood and some can be parasitic and colonize on living trees. Our discussion here is limited to one to one wood this wood decay fungus specifically associated with our homes which will be dead wood, we don’t build our houses out of Live wood, it’s dead with that point. So we’re going to talk about the wood decay fungi that attacks dead wood. Wood decay fungus in and of itself is not a bad thing, as this process will cause the breakdown of the nutrients and molecules you know there that are that still exist in the dead wood and allows those nutrients to return to the soil. Just like for subterranean termites. in and of themselves. They’re not a bad thing. We just don’t want them in our in our home, because they help the human race if you will, the human population by cleaning up are the forest floors. You know, if we didn’t have termites, we would have dead trees and lambs and roots and stuff piled up everywhere. So that’s kind of the same idea. The the wood decay fungus will attack moist wood, it’s just laying on the forest floor, as well as wood that may be in your house. The strength and integrity of the wood can be affected by wood decay fungus, one decaying fungus in moist humid parts of the world. Such as North Georgia that kg of dead wood and buildings can be a huge problem. Moisture, in some form or another is mandatory for the growth of the Tonga which which is what causes the wood rot. A fungus will send money threads is called mycelium through the wood taking its food from the wood as the fungus grows, the visible body if you will, or the fruiting body is on the outside of the surface of the wood. But when the fruiting body when mature can produce these tiny spores that are present in in the air in the soul. So two major types of fungi can attack the wood their surface molds, also known as surface mildew, SAP stain fungi or blue stain fungi that will color the wood various colors. But these these do not reduce the strength of the wood, you know where they’re growing. There is also a rot fungi and that’s what we’re here to talk about. Which is also known as a decay fungi which either bleached the wood or make it brown and crumbly. This these rot fungi do reduce the strength of wood and can be as destructive as Turmel is termites and other wood destroying insects. Surface molds will grow rapidly and and then the K will find guy will often appear on wood the the surface mold fungus I will often appear on wood during the construction process after would draw it dries out. The fungus grows we’ll grow the fungus growth canning talk today, the fungus growth will stop. However, the the presence of the surface mole is an indication that the conditions at least at some point in time were suitable for decay. Most wood decay fungi only grow on wood that is subject to moisture, moist soil, rainwater, faulty plumbing and plumbing leaks. There is one specific fungus it’s called Perea and Kasara that can actually conduct would conduct water to the wood, causing this the severe damage to the wood, even though that particular wood may not be exposed directly to the moisture. The wood decay fungi that we deal with here in North Georgia is known as white rot, brown rot and Perea and Kasara white rot will give the wood like kind of like a bleached appearance. In the dust, the strength of the wood actually decreases over time, until it becomes spongy to the touch. And when broken apart. It’s kind of it’s kind of real stringy, the brown rot, also commonly referred to as dry rot, but it’s not dry rot turns the wood Brown and breaks it into like little brown squares or cubes if you will, with cracks that are perpendicular to the woodgrain This is the principal cause of building decay in the United States is brown rot and it causes a very rapid loss of strength in the infested wood. Now the Perea interesada also referred to as would conduct a wood water conducting fungi are recognizable by bull by a slike a why these two yellowish looks like a look kind of looks like a paper fan. But it’s the mycelial that I was talking about earlier is kind of a that you’ll see on the surface of the wood but then there’ll be a kind of a dirty white almost black looking root like structure is called Horizon more and it is connected to the ground somewhere and it can conduct water into the wood from up to as far as 25 feet from the wood. Therefore this this particular fungus can attack wood that other wood destroying fungi cannot destroy it but it can destroy large large amounts of wood in just one or two years. So it’s a fairly quick acting only by eliminating the moisture source can wood decay fungi be completely controlled a chemical application is really a it’s sometimes almost useless in the in the management of wood decay fungus. The first step in correcting wood decay fungus problem is to identify the source of the moisture and laminate it if possible. Sometimes it’s not possible to eliminate the moisture source of the moisture if you’re in a situation where it’s not possible to eliminate the source of the moisture you know the really the only option you have is to remove all the badly rotted wood and replace it with dry lumber but that dry lumber needs to be treated pressure treated with a wood preservative you know before you install it the wood in an ventilated crawl spaces. And I mentioned that now because it’s very, very common anymore to have the spray foam insulation in in these in crawl spaces. It’s probably not a terrible idea if the if the crawlspace is encapsulated, because here in Georgia when a crawlspace is encapsulated you you have to have a conditioned air in that space. So that is a moisture control in and of itself the condition there. But if you’re in an unventilated crawlspace and it’s not encapsulated, where the under the House is very subject to high levels of dampness and moisture.
condensation of water after evaporation from the soul is actually the most common source of water. And subsequently the wood decay problems that comes with that I have been in crawl spaces where the, you know, in the ground would just be damp, it wouldn’t be like sitting, having water standing on top of it. But some of the wood would literally be dripping with water. moisture content in the wood above, above 20% can lead to decay. Now most like most framing lumber, I believe the the, the requirement for that is 19% or less moisture content when they you know when it comes off of their yard. Hardwood flooring is in single digits like 545 6% moisture content. So 20% It’s actually pretty high. You know, water. As far as preventative things that one can do, the water around your home should drain away from your home. And you know, the the way to handle that properly is is in the beginning is in the grading process to make sure the water flows away from the house not to the House have proper roof overhang. And you know, gutters and downspouts obviously, are something that needs to be taken into consideration because you can pipe that water off and get it away from the house. But in a crawlspace proper ventilation is crucial. It’s not really that difficult to accomplish, you can do it with the critical placement of foundation vents so that you provide cross ventilation in that area, as well as the installation of a vapor barrier. Now this isn’t homes that don’t have a n and k encapsulated crawlspace. The installation of a vapor barrier on the crawlspace. What that does is cause the soil moisture to to condense on the underside of the vapor barrier. That way, it just goes right back to the soul rather than condense on the floor joist above it. Now the the one big mistake I see most people that try to do this themselves, they want to cover 100% of the surface of the soil. Tape every joint in the plastic because you’re not going to get one solid piece of plastic down there. But that’s really not what you want to do. Because you don’t you really only want to cover about 90% of the soil surface you you’ve heard the term that a house needs to breathe. And in my opinion, you one can prevent that by by trying to cover too much area with a vapor barrier. Anyway, here at Faith pest control, we offer a free consultation and a free and 100% make you happy money back guarantee. If you hire faith pest control, to get rid of your drug problem, and or your fungus problem in 30 to 30 days, you’re not 100% Happy, we’ll come back and retreat your home for free. We’ll keep on trading it for free until you tell us that you are happy. That still doesn’t make you happy. I’ll give you back every penny of the money you spent on their original treatment. Plus, pay you an additional $25 for your time and trouble just for the fact that you filled with bottom line is I want you to be happy with the service we provide or you won’t pay a penny period. Do you feel like what I’ve said makes sense. Please call fates pest control today 770-823-9202 and ask to speak to me, Fred Talley. I’ll be more than happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you might have. All as always, Fred, you’re very thorough and explaining today would decay fungus is a problem people need to pay attention to if they have any questions. Definitely call Fred to get clarity. Don’t let that destroy your home. Especially if you live in the Jasper, Georgia area the north Georgia mountains llj Blue Ridge and big canoe. We do this podcast as a public service for all the folks that those areas. You can find them on your favorite places to get podcasts, Apple, Google, Amazon and Spotify and we are continuing to do that. share this podcast with your friends if you want to know just how to have a pest free home. There are over 50 episodes right now covering all kinds of problems that you can have with pass. And of course, obviously you have a pest expert living amongst you. They’d be more than happy to take your phone call and explain and solve those problems for you. So until next time, Mike Stewart for the faith pest control podcast.

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Hello, everybody and welcome to another episode of the faith pest control Podcast. I’m Mike Stewart, I’m your host. And today we’ve got pest expert Fred Talley, who’s going to talk about Pharaoh ants. Pharaoh ants. I don’t think they’re from Egypt may be free, it’ll tell us if they are from Egypt, but they’re called Pharaoh ants. And they’re everywhere, especially in Jasper, Georgia, in Blue Ridge, Georgia, Ellijay, Georgia, big new in all over North Georgia, Pharaoh ants are crawling, and they’re, they’re making their home here. And I’m sure they’re a nuisance. So Fred, tell us all about the Pharaoh. And all right, Mikey, Pharaoh ants are actually pretty small. The workers, the ones that you and I will see, in our day to day activities are normally about a 16th a little bit over a 16th of an inch long. So that is extremely small kind of a light yellowish to a reddish brown in color, in some of them actually can be almost like transparent. They do have a non functional Stinger, they actually use it to generate the pheromones and for those that may not really be familiar with pheromones, that’s a type of chemical substance that relieves really, that leaves a I’ll call it an odor, I don’t necessarily think it’s an odor, but we can, as humans, we can relate to that. So that the workers can communicate with each other among themselves. And primarily they use the pheromone, to because the ants are social insects, so the workers are out foraging, you know, finding food, harvesting the food and bringing it back to the colony. So they use the pheromone to identify the trail that the other workers need to follow to find the food source for that day. The Pharaoh and in I should say that is a lot of times is can be confused for fire ants. They’re smaller than fire ants. But for whatever reason they get they people get confused with them. It’s common, very common household and which has been carried just due to Commerce to virtually all inhabited regions of the world. But the primary areas that are affected are is Europe, Southeast Asia, the Americas, North America, Central America, and in Australia and the the what’s not, I think now more referred to as Australe Australe, a Australia Asia, I can’t pronounce that too well, but the islands and countries that surround Australia. They’re their major pasts, and Australia, Europe and the United States. And regrettably, they have the unique distinction of being known as one of the most, if not the most difficult household and to control. They’re notorious for being a major indoor nuisance, and especially in hospitals. These ants do not nest outdoors, typically, except in warmer climates. In colder climates, they they come established, inside of, you know, heated buildings. Pharaoh ants are considered to be a tropical species. But they do thrive in buildings almost anywhere, even even in temperate regions, they will get in buildings, given the fact that there’s central heating is there. One of the features of the pharaoh ant that contributes to its difficulty, the level of difficulty of what should control it, is the fact that have multiple queens in the colony. And on the surface that really doesn’t sound like it’s such a big deal. But what happens is that having multiple Queens when people well, I guess I should preface this by saying simply spraying in insecticide is actually a terrible idea to try to control Pharaoh ants because of this phenomenon with the malt More queens, in their colonies, when I guess when they feel threatened, or when they realize something is different in their environment, they will it’s called budding but they will split the split off into smaller different smaller colonies. And since they’re social insects, each of these little sub colonies if you will, has to have a queen. So they’ll distribute the brood which is the, the eggs, larvae pupate within the in their major colony, in in they’ll just split up into into have smaller colonies to I guess to spread out the the pressure they think that may be there. So even in the absence of a queen, if some workers get separated from the Queen, they can dislike in a honeybee colony they can raise their own queen from the brood they have available in bees as they feed them a special diet to develop into a queen I really don’t know how it operates and ants, I would assume it’s something similar nesting generally occurs in inaccessible warm and humid areas roughly 80 plus degrees and 80% Humidity they are typically near sources of food and water in such places wall voids the size of the colony can be very large, can be very small from the committee from just a few dozen members to several 100,000 members in in large and larger colonies there are can be as many as several 100 reproductive females which says that they can grow at a pretty fast pace. Being tiny that can be found in diverse places the nest are normally well hidden. Actually, it’s pretty unusual to find a nest they they’re typically inside like we said earlier, and in warmer areas they do have the ability to forage far away from the nest. Outside they didn’t they can live outside. in warmer climates like we said that they will nest and shaded areas like under debris such as leaf litter or mulch. Pharaoh ants cannot survive you’re around outside in the northern climates. I don’t even know that they could survive outside here I mean, you know we have we can have days in a row that are that are below freezing. Indoors they prefer to Nason recessed areas like wall voids in and around wall outlets under the dishwasher under refrigerators, ovens under the carpet. If the colony becomes too large, or if they are disturbed, they will sometimes move their nesting spot. They’re normally found in the kitchen and or bathrooms. But to workers can be called commonly seen trailing along the baseboards and when to sales like if you’re familiar with Argentine ants, they do the same thing. They’ll use plumbing pipes and electrical wires they’ll trail on them to get from room to room. They can and will nest in wall and cabinet voids wall voids behind the baseboard, behind winter moldings inside of curtain rods inside cardboard boxes outside in the expansion joint and in your concrete driveway. Interestingly enough they can be found in the folds of bed sheets. In fold clothes that are folded up in a drawer. They in paper bags that are folded up in newspapers that are folded up and laying around. You you might see trails for water or food sources may be available. But that’s not an indication that their nest is nearby because typically, it can be far away from that. Like I said earlier it’s fair it’s very rare to find the nest. They can do nest outdoors here in Georgia. Given they have a constant
supply of more moisture such as like around the AC unit in the summertime for sprinkler systems. The Queen’s actually can lay hundreds of eggs in our lifetime takes about dependent on environmental conditions five to seven weeks to go from egg to mature adult. They breed continuously throughout the year especially if they’re living inside heated buildings. The meeting actually occurs in the nest. And these ants do not swarm at all. Multiple I mean mature colonies will contain multiple queens, they have wing males workers, eggs, larvae and pupae. It’s a major pest major indoor passing United States regrettably, it has the ability to survive most conventional household pest control treatments. And the which allows them to establish colonies throughout a home more than just the food they may consume or spoil. They’re considered a serious pest simply because of their ability to get into things like they can nest in a sofa. You know, you’d be sitting on the sofa trying to watch TV and you have ants crawling all over you. They’re a major pest in factories, more commercial, in my experience than in residential, but bakeries, office buildings, hospitals are a big, they’re big problems in hospitals, anywhere really where food is handled. For whatever reason, and I don’t I don’t really even even know why but they’re in hospitals burn victims is in as well as newborns are subjected to an increased risk. I guess and because this ant can transmit over a dozen pathogens, like salmonella staphylococcus streptococcus. Feral ants, infest almost all areas of a building where food is available. But they will also inhabit areas that aren’t because they can get this as long as they can get to the food. They actually have a fairly wide palette and the types of food they eat. They’ll eat sweets, they’ll eat fatty foods, le oily foods, anything left uncovered for a short period of time, if they’re in that area, it’s not uncommon to find a trail of feral ants going to the food. Consequently, especially in in food service settings, there’s a lot of food that ends up being sent being thrown away just simply because it’s contaminated at that point. As always, at bats fates pest control, we offer a free consultation. If you feel like you might have a pharaoh and Pharaoh ant problem, we offer a 100% make you happy money back guarantee, if you hire fetes pest control to get rid of your bug problem. And then at the end of 30 days, you’re not 100% Happy, will come back and retreat your home for free. And we’ll keep on trading it for free until you tell us that you’re happy. That still doesn’t make you happy, we’ll give you back every penny you spent on the original treatment. Plus, we’ll pay you an additional $25 for your time and trouble just for fooling with us. The bottom line is I want you to be happy with the service we provide. Or you won’t pay a penny period. If you feel like what I’ve made have said make sense. Please call us today at fates pest control 770-823-9202 and asked to speak to me Fred tally. I’ll be more than happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you may have. Well, Fred, thank you so much for that detailed explanation of what a pharaoh ant is and does. And while we need to be aware to call you to help us solve that problem at something I don’t think a residential or business customer can do on their own. We do this podcast as a customer service for all the fine folks in Jasper, Georgia and surrounding areas in north Georgia mountain you can you can subscribe to this podcast, and all the favorite places like Apple, Google, Amazon and Spotify. But more importantly, come to the website and and review all the past episodes and share them with your friends like them. And more importantly when you have any kind of pest problems call the pest expert Fred Talley to let him help you solve your pest problems today. And until next time, this is Mike Stewart for the faith pest control podcast.

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Welcome to another episode of the faith pest control Podcast. I’m Mike Stewart, your host and we’re here today with pest expert Fred Talley, the faith pest control services all the fine folks at Jasper, Georgia, Blue Ridge, Georgia Ellijay, Georgia big canoe, Georgia, really anywhere in the north Georgia mountains, but mostly based in the Jasper area. And Fred is the expert, the go to guy when it comes to taking care of your pest problems. And today he’s going to talk about something we’ve all heard about, but I don’t know a lot of information about it. So Fred is going to tell us all about the brown recluse spider, the brown recluse spider, Fred, what is this guy? Do we have him in North Georgia? And what do we need to be aware of? Well, Mikey, the brown recluse spider is actually found throughout the south central and kind of Midwestern United States. They are, we are on the fringe, I would guess you’d say in North Georgia, there have been cases, I personally only know of one in the last. I’ve been in this business for 22 years. And I’ve only knowingly seen one case of brown recluse spiders, but the according to literature I’ve read they are here. They’re actually it’s fairly rare to find them outside of their native range. In general, the brown recluse is a spider that’s widely over reported, and is actually less than common than the public perceives it to be. You know, occasionally a few spiders could possibly be transported to a non native area, you know, inside boxes or furniture. However, infestations, you know, as a result of that infestation seldom become established. Despite how famous the brown recluse spider bite may be, as well as the large number of client claims of supposed brown recluse bites, they’re surprisingly very little information regarding it’s those occurrences in many states and these spiders, as well as their distribution have been studied at length, the southeastern margin of their ranges crudely align east and west through Georgia separating what’s called the northern Piedmont from the central coastal plain, but the southern coastal plain. They’re readily found in Tennessee to the north and Alabama to the west, but they are not native to nor they often found in Florida. The brown recluse spiders are the likelihood is very good that they’re native to North Georgia but not native to South Georgia. And with that comes a zone of attrition not a finite line, but a very wide zone, you know of somewhere in between. Though variable in size. Adult brown recluse spiders, for the most part, with their legs extended are about the size of a US quarter. They can range from a dark brown color to a tan color, but they’re typically uniformly colored, meaning no stripes, no bands, no modeling. Their legs are long and thin have no noticeable spines or hairs on them. For lay people the most distinguishing feature of a brown recluse is a dark violin or fiddle shaped mark on its back with the neck of the violin pointing towards the rear. That’s common for people around especially local people to call it a fiddle back. This fiddle or violin shape is consistent and adults, but it’s less obvious in juveniles. A more definitive feature of the brown recluse is their eye pattern. Now most spiders have eight eyes. The brown recluse extra has six eyes, they have three pairs of two eyes each kind of arranged in a semicircle on the front of their face. However to see this you did you will have to have a pretty decent hand lens in order to be able to see it because their body is so small. So I mean you can could understand why this would be a more definitive feature. And due to this feature alone, you can see why many harmless brown spiders are mistaken for brown recluse in nature brown recluse spiders live outdoors under rocks, logs, wood piles, other debris firewood piles, however, they are also very well adapted living indoors within the And they’re resilient enough to withstand the winters in unheated basements and the suffocating heat. In the summer temperatures here and attics. They can go many months without food or water. They haunt typically at night or in the dark in their praise is typically in safe and they don’t care if they’re dead or alive. They do not use a web to catch their food. The Suspended webs you might see strong long walls and corners, ceilings in outdoor shrubs and stuff in are almost always associated with other types of spiders such as cobweb or sour spiders. During the daylight hours, the brown recluse typically retreats to dark, secluded areas, they’ll often line their daytime hiding places up with regular webbing, irregular webbing, which is used they will use that to form their egg sacs, the adult the females will, adult females seldom move far from their retreat during the day. However, the males and juveniles are more mobile and tend to travel further and consequently, they’re more likely to, you know, wander into shoes, get in your closet, get on your clothes, get in your bed at night, stuff like that. They can at times be seen crawling on floors, walls, and other exposed surfaces. If you generally it’s an issue of overcrowding, hunger, a recent pesticide application or some other environmental factor, the brown recluse will mature in about a year have an average lifespan of two to four years, the females produce up to five egg sacks and a lifetime in so infestation levels can vary greatly ranging from from one or a few spiders to several 100. The the the egg sacks contain about 40 to 50 eggs. When the tiny spiders emerge they’ll gradually increase in size in a mold in that first year. It takes them a year to get from juvenile to adult. They molt five to eight times to become an adult. In the shed skins of the juveniles are actually very distinct. They have very distinct outstretched parents, but they’re almost image immeasurable help in determining if you have confirming the infestation. As with most other spiders, a brown recluse is not as not aggressive. It’s very common to live in a building that’s heavily infested with them and never be bit. Actually we have a house. That is their main problem is brown recluse spiders, and I have not made personally but my company has serviced it. I know since 2017. And I’m I’m not aware that they’ve ever been bitten but that’s the only case of brown recluse that I’m aware of. Most bites occur in response to the human body pressure. When a spider it gets inadvertently trapped against your bare skin, whether it be in the chair or the bed, whatever however there we stick in your sheet foot into a shoe with no sock on. Some people are bitten when they when that pressure is exerted. That’s when they’ll buy it. Other bikes can occur, moving stored items putting on a piece of clothing that a spider may have chosen for its daytime retreat like inside is your shirt, brown recluse have very small things and cannot bite through clothing. So they have to get to your bare naked skin in order to bite you. In reality, the initial bite is actually painless. Oftentimes, whomever is bitten is unaware until three three to eight hours later, when the bite side you know becomes red, swollen and are tender. The majority of brown recluse bites He’ll then about three weeks without serious complication or the need for medical help and other cases the person bitten may develop an A new necrotic lesion destroying some of the body tissue.
Often there can be a central blister in In that lesion, and as the venom continues to destroy the tissue, the wound can expand up to several inches over a period of days or weeks. The ulcer can persist for several months actually leaving a deep scar. Sometimes, but not often, bites in early stage will produce systemic or localized reactions. Along with fever, chills, dizziness, rash or vomiting. The severe reactions are actually more common in children and in geriatrics in in patients that are in poor health. If you are bitten by a brown recluse, you should seek medical attention immediately. spider bites are difficult to diagnose even by physicians without actually seeing the spider as it bites. They don’t know and you don’t know if it’s a spider bite or not. It’s difficult to diagnose a brown recluse bite from the wound alone. Many many medical conditions mimic the necrotic looking sore from a recluse by including bacterial and fungal infections due to diabetes, pressure ulcers, gangrene, brown recluse are difficult to eradicate largely because of their sacred habits. Virtually any dark undisturbed area can serve as harborage There are many such places inside homes barns, garages, warehouses. Likely hiding spaces, though include cracks and crevices, corners, wall floor junctions, especially behind clutter, furniture and stored items in the house. reducing clutter allows fewer places for them to hide, and can enhance the effectiveness of treatments that can also live behind walls meaning in the wall void. Inside the void of concrete block foundations and infested garages, attics, basements crawl spaces, the spiders in sacks and shed skins are often found along the joist, the seals and rafters as well as under the role in insulation. And living areas they’re there sometimes inhabit crevices behind beneath beds, furniture, inside closets and clothing inside shoes and other kinds of stored items. As always, at Faith pest control, we offer a free consultation we offer 100% make you happy Money Back Guarantee you higher faith pest control to get rid of your bug problem. And at the end of 30 days, you’re not 100% Happy, we’ll come back and retreat your home for free. And we’ll keep on trading it for free and tell us until you tell us that you are happy. If that still doesn’t make you happy, we’ll give you back every penny spent on the original treatment. Plus, we’ll pay you an additional $25 for your time in trouble just for fooling with us. Bottom line is this you’ll be happy with the service we provide or you won’t pay a penny period. If you feel like what I’ve said makes sense. Call fake pest control today 770-823-9202 and asked to speak to me Fred tally. I’ll be more than happy to speak with you and answer any questions you may have. Well, Fred, that cleared up the mystery of the brown recluse and I appreciate all your great information. You know, we do this podcast as a community service for all the fine folks in Jasper, Georgia and surrounding areas in North Georgia. You can subscribe to this podcast and all your favorite places, mostly like Apple, Google, Spotify and Amazon. And you can also go to the faith pest control website to listen or read this information. So until next time, this is Mike Stewart for the faith pest control podcast.

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Hello everyone and welcome to the faith pest control Podcast. I’m Mike Stewart, your host and today we have pest expert Fred Talley, who’s going to tell us all about the spotted lantern fly. Now, I don’t know if the spotted lantern fly has made it to Jasper, Georgia or Blue Ridge, Georgia, or Ellijay Georgia or big canoe or really I don’t know if it’s in the north Georgia mountains but I do know it’s in Carolina, and I know it started up in the Pennsylvania area and I bet you anything before you know it. You’re going to be wanting to know what to do about the spotted lantern fly so Fred, what’s as the kids say the 411 on spotted lantern fly. Oh, mais Mikey, the spotted lantern fly spotted lantern fly seems to be the latest non native species of insect to kind of get a foothold in the United States. And you’re correct is first found in Pennsylvania, around 2014. And since then, active infestations as one would expect kind of spread or out around that area. They’ve been found in Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, but now in the recent past, they’ve been found in one county in North Carolina, in that it’s kind of the West Central northern part of the state is where it’s actually found. But as far as I’m aware, they’re not the spotted lantern fly has not been found in Georgia yet. But it’s definitely we need to be on the lookout for it. It’s the spotted lantern fly is originally from the Far East China Vietnam area is it’s fairly large, probably about an inch long. And although technically it’s not a fly. The name is fly but it’s not a fly. It’s considered what’s called a plant hopper and a plant hopper is in this giant group of insects, probably 12 over 12,000 identified species worldwide that that feed on foliage and shoots and stems of many different plant species but then they they have what’s called, we call it Pearson sucking mouthparts. So they pierce the plant cells or stems and suck out the liquid elements for nutrition. The areas of which a spotted lantern fly are currently found generally have one generation per year. They overwinter is eggs which are late in the fall and hatch in the spring. Eggs are deposited in in bunches of 30 to 50 and recovered in a grayish waxy deposit. The eggs can actually be hard to spot on plant material, but they can also be found on non plant material like rocks, cars and trucks. And equipment tractors implements tractor implements which actually increases the risk of increasing their distribution. After hatching, the immature stages of the spotted lantern fly go through several developmental stages, but only in about an eight week period in during the immature stages. They’re initially black with white spots developing the red spots during their final stage before coming becoming adults. Adults are normally present from midsummer on through till colder weather and fall when they will mate and they lay their eggs in the fall. They’re fairly large, as I said before, about an inch long and a half inch wide, normally with a blackhead and mostly black stomach, but they may have yellow bands on their stomach. their hind wings are black. With white banding towards the front and deep bread banding towards the rear. The adults can can fly from tree to tree. They tend to be strong jumpers as well. Hence the name plant hoppers and the adults feed throughout the summer then mate and lay their eggs in the fall. The Spotted lantern fly has 75 to 100 plus hosts meaning different plants that they will visit. They seem to prefer to feed on fruit trees like Apple, plum, peach, cherry, as well as grape vines and since they like grape vines, I’m gonna assume they like most Ghanaians as well. And I mentioned the grape vine And muscadines. Now because in our immediate area we’ve had several vineyards pop up. When I say immediate, you know in the 50 yard 50 yard 50 mile radius around Jasper, we’ve had several vineyards pop up in the last 10 to 15 years and muscadines for local people here. It’s pretty common fruit that they grow in their home gardens. With the exception of conifers, just about all trees planted in Georgia for forestry are potential hosts for the spotted lantern, lantern and fly. They all feed on Walnut birch, maple, oak, Willow Sycamore, as well as many other hardwood species. Interestingly enough, they seem to have an affinity for what’s called a Tree of Heaven, which itself is an invasive species. They also like to will feed on some vegetable plants and shrubs. They like I said before the spotted lantern fly feed by inserting its piercing mouthparts in the host plant and extracting the liquids. But after after consuming the liquid the unused liquid the liquid they consumed but don’t use is eliminated from their posterior and is waste and this is significant is the waste because the waste material is high in sugar. And it’s referred to as honey do and honey do will coat whatever’s below the feeding insect leaving that surface sticky. And then sooty mold which is a horticultural problem grows on the honey do which will then track bees and wasps. The honey view also tracks aphids, which is a bad problem with the apple trees in our in our area. Again, the spotted lantern fly as far as I’m aware has not been detected in Georgia. It is however very possible that Georgia treebo growers and horticultural crop producers will be impacted as they continue to spread is that they meaning the spotted lantern fly continued to spread and become established in the southeastern United States. If you suspect that you may have a spotted lantern fly infestation, you should report it to the University of Georgia extension office or the Georgia Department of Agriculture Plant Industry division. As always here at fake pest control, we offer a free consultation and a 100% make you happy money back guarantee. If you hire faith pest control to get rid of your bug problem, the end of 30 days you’re not 100% Happy, we’ll come back and retreat your home for free. And we’ll keep on trading it for free until you tell us that you are happy, that still doesn’t make you happy will give you back every penny you spent on the original treatment. Plus, we’ll pay you an additional $25 for your time in trouble. Bottom line is this. You’ll be happy with the service we provide you where you won’t pay a penny period. If you feel like what I’ve said makes sense. Call fake pest control today that 770-823-9202 and ask to speak to me Fred Talley. I’ll be more than happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you may have. Well, thank you there, Fred. We know a whole lot more about that spotted lantern fly. And we do this podcast as a customer service for everybody in Jasper, Georgia, in the north Georgia mountain area. And so it’s probably inevitable the spotted lantern fly is going to make it to Georgia. And when they do, you’ll know to call Fred at Faith pest control to take care of that problem because they are a nuisance. I work with some PCSOs in Pennsylvania, and they can do some pretty big damage to your trees and your plants outside your home. So you want to be prepared that if we get invaded by the spotted lantern fly, you will know what to do and until next time. This is my store for the faith pest control podcast.

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Hello again, it’s a faith pest control podcast. I’m your host, Mike Stewart, we are the Public Service pest podcast for all the fine folks in Jasper, Georgia, Ellijay, Georgia, Blue Ridge, Georgia, and pretty much anywhere in the north Georgia mountains. If you got a pest problem, my guest, Fred Tally is the pest expert to get you pest free. And of course, one of the things that we deal with in Georgia is termites. And there’s lots of ways of treating termites. But today, Fred is going to talk about the Trelona Bait Stations that they’re going to be using as their system for the North Georgia termite treatment. So Fred, why don’t you tell us all about Trelona Bait Stations ?

I will do that Mikey. But first I’m gonna, I’m gonna explain a little bit about termites are the termites actually love feeding on on your home. And for most people, that’s generally the largest investment they’re making their life. Statistically, there’s about $5 billion worth of damage every year, and this is throughout the country, not just in Georgia. But despite this most termite damage is not covered by a homeowner’s policy. In North Georgia specifically, we are in some under some of the highest termite pressure that exists in the United States. It’s generally not a question of if you will get termites in your home it’s merely a question of when most anyone that knows me and has listened to my podcast actually know that I’m, I’ve historically been a proponent of a chemical barrier type treatment. In for just a quick crude description, that simply means we place a liquid chemical into the soil around the exterior perimeter of your home that we’re trying to protect. However, some homes just simply do not lend themselves to chemical barrier treatment, there’s we have to drill holes through slabs to get to the soul beneath the slab. Most guys don’t care what you do, most ladies don’t want the holes there. So, some places are just inaccessible to us to get the chemical to the soil, that or the process is some people find to be too intrusive. So now faith pest control is going to start offering it’s called Trelona Bait Stations .

Advanced a TBS stands for Advanced termite bait system. It’s just an advanced termite baiting technology to protect your home. Baiting has been around for several years, I’ll probably 20 years maybe even a little longer than that. What sets Trelona Bait Stations apart from that, is there’s only there are only two baiting systems licensed in the United States that carry a label that you’re all you only have to inspect the cartridges once per year, as opposed to if if you use another system other than the Trelona Bait Stations. Sentricon is the other product that has an annual inspection cycle and there’s nothing you know, there’s nothing wrong with tree Lona My personal opinion is that the tree loan ATBS is a superior system. But termite baiting stations, the technology has been around for like I said 2025 years, but typically that the system is a monitoring system because you it calls for a quarterly inspection cycle which is every three months. There’s nothing inside the canister when it’s placed in the ground. That will eliminate the termite once they once they start feeding on it. Consequently they have to be inspected quarterly. When the technician detects termite activity inside the canister. That is the point that they place you know they will place an active ingredient cartridge inside then it it will eliminate the the termites with this with this tree Lona in Sentricon actually is the same way. When the car when the canister is installed in the ground it already Hey, it’s already full of active ingredient. So if if when the termites hit on that particular canister, they’re going to die.

Both systems use the Trelona Bait Stations and the Sentricon use a it’s a growth regulator. It’s called a chitin inhibitor. As most all other insects termites have to molt, that’s their process of growing older, if you will. And the chitin inhibitor prohibits them the It interferes in that molting process and they can’t exist. If they don’t mold molting is, most insects have an exoskeleton, the molting process is, is when their body grows, and they actually outgrow the exoskeleton. So they shed that skeleton and grow a new skeleton in the chitin inhibitor actually, that’s the process that it interferes with. So in this in the tree loan debating system, not unlike any other system base stations are they’re strategically located around the exterior perimeter of your home, generally, three to 10 feet off of you know, out and up from the foundation in intervals, roughly 10 to 20 feet apart. Research has shown that the that termites when they’re out foraging now, termites are truly social or use social insects is I believe, is the proper term. So the the the forest sting cast of the termite society, they’re out, I said, forecasting for a gene cast of the termite society, they’re out hunting food sources for the colony. So in this in their quest, you know, they’re they’re subterranean, so they’re down in the soul. So in their quest to find a food, a food source, they’re there. It’s it’s, it’s kind of a random act out that they’re searching for. It’s not quite that simple, but kind of kind of that way. But if you look at it, like from an aerial photograph, it would look like tree branches. They’re the tunnels that are forging tunnels look kinda like tree branches. So in their their tunneling activities in search of food, the termites intersect the trail on a bait station, and they’ll feed on the bait matrix. And then what happens is the foraging term is the one that’s discovered the base station, they will leave a pheromone trail from that station back to their colony. And this is like a roadmap for the other foragers to come and harvest that food source to bring it back to the colony. What determined termites do not realize is that the bait contains an active ingredient that it’s the chitin inhibitor that prevents them from molting, which is is a vital process for them. As a company, we chose to use this system instead of the competitors. You know, actually for several reasons. The tree Lona system uses a larger bank matrix, which means that there’s more active ingredient inside the canister for the termites to consume the there are studies that show that the the bait matrix in the tree lawn ATBS system is very palatable to the termites. So they have they consume it faster compared to other food sources. And there’s actually a study that has shown that Termites will actually they’re more attracted to the tree Lonna bait matrix and they’ll go to a quicker and consume it faster. In one control study that I found it took termites only eight days to discover the tree Loma ATBS station, where it took termites over 30 days to find it with from the leading competitor stations. As I mentioned earlier, both of both of the annual both of this bedding systems that are labeled for annual inspection. They both use the cotton inhibitor as their method of control. Just my M and my personal opinion is that they the Trelona Bait Stations ATBS is a superior product. That’s why we decided to to utilize it.

As always here at faith, we offer a free consultation, we will come out inspect your home for termite activity. We will draw a diagram indicating all the areas that might have conducive conditions to termite activity that you know they can be addressed. We can discuss that.

But bottom line if you hire fake pest control to get rid of your bug album, the end of 30 days, you’re not 100% Happy, we’ll come back and we’ll retreat your home for free. We’ll keep on trading it for free until you tell us you are happy. That still doesn’t make you happy, we’ll give you back every penny you spent on the original treatment. Plus, we’ll give you an additional $25 Just for your time in trouble for fooling with us. Bottom line is we want you to be happy with the service that we provide or you won’t pay a penny period. If what I’ve said to you today, makes sense you feel comfortable about it. Call faith pest control today is 7708239 to 02 and asked to speak to me Fred tally, I’ll be more than happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you may have. Well, thank you, Fred. Folks, you need to check out Trelona Bait Stations . I’m sure that it’s the best option or Fred wouldn’t be using it. I know he does his research and he is a pest expert. And it’s all about you having a pest free home termites are a problem. And Jasper, termites are problem and Ellijay. Termites are problem and Blue Ridge and turtle termites are a problem in Georgia. And faith pest control can make sure you have a termite free home and protect your most valuable investment which is your home. So until next time, be sure to like us, share us and subscribe to us. We do this podcast as a community service for all the folks in north Georgia and read every wherever their podcasts are found the big popular for our Apple, Google, Spotify and Amazon and we’re in all four places. And we invite you to share us with your friends because we want you to know and have the knowledge of what it takes to have a pest free home. So until next time, this is Mike Stewart for the faith pest control podcast.

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Hello again and as the faith Pest Control podcast I’m your host Mike Stewart. I’m here with pest expert Fred Talley. And we’ve got a great subject today. It’s the Beatles one of my favorites. Now it’s not the Beatles, not the music group, The Beatles, it’s the powder post beetles. So I don’t know what in the world that is Fred. But if that’s a problem you solve, tell us all about it.

Alright, my key a, the cartlett there’s really three kind of related families and the was powderpost beetles that the common name for them together is powderpost beetles. And it’s appropriate because the larvae of these beetles tunnel into wood timbers and they make a very fine powder like substance in their tunnelling adventures and it’s probably about the consistency of talcum powder or flour is extremely fun. Now the adults actually do very little of the damage to the wood. Their primary function in is basically reproduction. of, of the many different kinds of insects that attack wood powderpost beetles come in second only to termites and the amount of destructive, destructive and destructiveness that they actually produce. They cause me tons of dollars in damage every year in the United States that they invest in reinvest dry, seasoned wood was interior the wood being completely full of holes or galleries. In fact, with wood dust or as we an industry call it frass. pinhole openings perforate the surface of the infested wood the size of the holes varies depending on the family and species involved. But basically, you have elected powderpost beetle Abbas stricted in a bid hardwoods and softwoods are both attacked. Although the lichten powderpost beetle is specific to hardwoods. The hardwood varieties generally include ash, oak, walnut and pecan. And the soft Woods generally include pine fir and a few Maple varieties. powderpost beetles will infest flooring studs, rafters ceiling joist floor joist. Any wooden part of the structure can be infested with powderpost beetles. crates that some product is delivered to a new home. The pallet that’s in that used to haul something to a new home can have them the paneling in an old house, the furniture, tool handles, gun stocks, anything made out of wood. in faith infested, I’ll get this right in a minute infestations are actually often built into a structure as a result of unknowingly using lumber that’s already infested. Sometimes beetles are brought into homes in infested firewood. beetles that attack soft Woods will often can and will often fly into crawl spaces beneath buildings and they’ll lay their eggs on the exposed wood they’re the first evidence seven instead infestation is usually piles of very fun sawdust or frass as we call it beneath the wood as well as the small holes in the wood surface. At the point of finding the frass the infestation has been present for months, sometimes years depending on the species of wood and the environmental conditions predominantly temperature and humidity. In hidden areas such as crawl spaces. We call them hidden they’re not hidden but you don’t go down there very frequently like you just walk through your house. So very serious damage can be done by an infestation before it’s actually even discovered. Adult the liquid powderpost beetles on to infest the hardwoods. They lay their eggs in the surface pores of the wood there and just as an FYI, for those that have any curiosity About powderpost beetles though do go through a complete metamorphosis meaning they have an egg a larvae or pupae and then on the adult the liquid eggs are kind of long and cylindrical. So they need a

actually a larger place in which to lay their eggs. When when the egg hatches, the larvae will bore into the wood just as soon as they hatch. Now the larvae will live inside that piece of wood, creating galleries or tunnels if you will, as they eat the wood. When they are nearly fully grown. When the larva is nearly fully grown and they’re ready for the pupil stage they will bore near to the surface of the wood and then and then they will pupate. The adult bore out through the surface soon after the the pupating phase in in that’s when you will see the fine powdery wood stout of the wood. This one they’re emerging. The adult activity is greatest in in our area in early spring, and they remain pretty active throughout the summer seasons spring and summer. They’re primarily inactive during the day, they’ll hide in cracks and crevices or holes in the wood. It’s at night is when their activity is really prominent when they lay their eggs. So when you can see a pattern here when they lay their eggs eggs hatch, the larvae bore into the wood and they complete it starts the cycle back over again. under ideal conditions, lifted powderpost beetles can complete a life cycle in in in one year. If the temperature the woods starts content in the moisture conditions are all prime. It can happen in a year however they use for usually require more than a year to complete that cycle. As you know something is not all conditions are prime at the same time generally. And most of the times it’s due to the dryness of the wood. In an unoccupied or poorly heated building they will off they can and will often reinvest for many generations. The link to damage is characterized by the presence of the flower like frass fallen out of the holes. Liquids have the I guess you’d call it the smoothest frass the finest frass. Other the other two beetles in the that are considered powderpost beetles actually have a more of a coarse frass. The Ana bee is is another one of the primary ones that will invest in houses they lay their eggs in the cracks and crevices of season the wood they follow much the same pattern is the liquid metal. As soon as eggs hatches and larvae burrows into the wood where they live. And they’ll Tunnel Tunnel for a year or more when mature. burrow towards the surface of the wood where they’ll pupate, and after changing from poupee to an adult they bored of the surface of the wood and escape. Now Anna beards infest all types of seasons with both hardwoods and softwoods. All they’re normally a larger problem in the sapwood of soft Woods as the as a result of that infestations of Anna beads are more common in crawl spaces and basements. Because most framing lumber is made out of pine cabinets freestanding furniture other word works such as trim can also be infested but if you don’t, don’t typically find them in the attics. The Anna beard infestation can be characterized by the small round holes on the surface of the wood just like the lectins they have they do have a fine to medium coarse I guess you call it powder coming from the the holes and their frass is characterized by the kind of the bun shaped pellets with the frass. And actually those are fecal pellets.

The antibiotic life cycle can take more than one year depending on the environmental conditions again, the adults for the anNabi is emerging greatest numbers here from general April May June and July and will reinvest it for moisture content is high enough. So in generally in crawl spaces reinfestation occurs most frequently if the moisture content is too high because of they have they have poor ventilation or their wood members that are you know absorb the humidity. attics and wall voids are rare very rarely infested with Anna beads because you know we are we live in controlled environments in our home anymore there the ventilation temperature control, you know removes unnecessary moisture. So the problem the house does not have typically have a problem with with extra moisture but they enhance central heating and cooling and generally all the windows and doors are closed 24 seven, pretty much that so but powderpost beetles in the last last two years for me anyway had become a huge issue. If you hire us to control your your powderpost beetle problem, at the end of 30 days, you’re not 100% happy with the service we’ve provided to you. We’ll come back and we’ll retreat your home for free. And we’ll keep on trading it to you tell us that you are happy. That still doesn’t make you happy will give you back every penny you spent on the original treatment posts will pay you no additional $25 for your time in trouble just for fooling with us. We want you to be happy with the service we provide for you don’t pay a penny period. If you feel like what I’ve said makes sense. Please call faith pest control the day 7708239 to 02 and ask to speak to me Fred tally, I’ll be more than happy to speak with you and answer any questions you might have.

Or Fred, thank you so much for all that information. The Beatles to me saying I want to hold your hand. But these guys seem like they make powder in a tunnel. So we’ll have to make sure that these guys don’t show up singing at your doorstep. So anyway, this is the faith Pest Control podcast. We have a lot of fun and lightning all the folks and Lj and blue j and Jasper on what to do about pest control. And of course if you have any issues with pest control, all you got to do is call 770-823-9202 or go to faith pest control, calm and more importantly subscribe to our podcast and Apple, Spotify, Amazon, you name it. We’re everywhere we’re podcasts are and share this podcast with your friends to have a pest free home. We’ll see you next month on the faith Pest Control podcast.

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Hello, and welcome again to the Faith Pest Control podcast. I’m your host, Mike Stewart, and I’m here with pest expert, Mr. Fred Talley, the man who takes care of all the bug problems in Jasper Ellijay, and Blue Ridge, Georgia, anywhere in the North Georgia mountains. And I’ll tell you something about the North Georgia mountains. My wife and I love going visiting the wineries and staying at Airbnbs and B and B’s and you know, vacation rental properties in the North Georgia mountains, I’m telling you, it is a if you’re even if you live there, it’s fun to go visit those places. But I’ll tell you what a lot of people do. There’s a lot of people t

hat own those properties. And you need to think about making sure that you know the last thing my wife wants to see when we go to a vacation rental in the North Georgia mountains or anywhere for that matter is any kind of bugs.

So Fred, are you here on today’s interview?

I’m right here Mikey.

Well Fred, I’m going to be the the visitors in North Georgia mountains and I want to ask you questions. Let’s say I own a property that I am a long distance owner or I’m a local owner, but But what I’m doing is I’m having guests Find me on the internet and you know, some of the big websites or Airbnb, and there’s vacation rentals and all there’s all kinds of ways that people find out about the beautiful North Georgia mountains and they come and stay at these vacation rental spaces. But the last thing we want to find are bugs. So are you seeing an opportunity to explain to the owners of these properties what they can do to make sure that they don’t upset a potential client with bugs of any types what are the things that you’ve been seeing and one of the things that you’ve been doing to help these vacation owners?

Probably the biggest thing in the recent past would be rodent activity mice rats the you know a lot of times the problem is the investor is not there the majority of the time they will they will they will either manage the property themselves as you said Airbnb or VR BOor some other vacation rental site they go through but they’re they’re the predominant manager of the property they make sure everything that’s broken gets fixed blah blah blah. But they don’t necessarily think about especially in the North Georgia mountains they’re these rental houses are out in the middle of the woods predominantly that you know they people don’t want to go on vacation and in vacation house in a subdivision unless they’re just using it to sleep in anyway you know they want a little bit of privacy and so they’re they’re out in the woods and the bigger problem I see right now are mic

e and rats and from what from the calls I’ve been getting the doesn’t seem to be a really another property management companies that that I’ve seen are Oh say they’re not addressing it but they they don’t I guess they don’t necessarily have the investment in that the you know that the real estate investor does in the investor unless they’re a seasoned vacation rental investor they don’t they really don’t know what to look for. So they really you know, they rely on the the PC, the pest control operator to tell them what they need in these situations, but the biggest biggest thing right now is rats and mice. And you know one thing that I know that the investor doesn’t want to hear or the property owner doesn’t want to hear is get a phone call it you know, seven o’clock in the morning say I hear scratching in the attic right here scratching in the wall behind my bed. That’s the that’s the biggest thing that I see now.

Well, you know, as a vacation rental owner, you know you’re either live near the property in a lot of cases, sometimes investors factor the home I live in, I’ll be honest, right now we chose not to buy it first. And our owner lives in California. And I know for a fact he has a Pest Control Agency for all of his properties. You know, in other words, this is not a vacation rental, this is a permanent rental. Full Time rental. But you know, it doesn’t matter whether it’s a full time and especially with Vacation Rentals because you know, I’m a great runner. But there are bad ones out there I was a landlord one time. And it’s amazing what people will do when they don’t own the property. And if you got people coming and going with little children, there could be Cheerios under the refrigerator. There can be food, things that are going to attract, roaches, rats, mice, and bring these, these critters want water and food. And and these insects want water and food. And so when you you know you don’t have a permanent resident, you’ve got residents coming and going. So all the more reason if you are a landlord of vacation rentals. And it’s a income producing property, one of the best investments you can do is get a reliable experienced vacation rental Pest Control Agency like faith pest control. So you know, we’re going to have another podcast, where you’re going to go into detail of the services that you do for vacation rental owners, because I hope no one even questions that this is a needed service, you cannot own a piece of property, whether you live five miles or 5000 miles from it, and ignore it, especially if it’s a vacation rental near mountains, woods, and mountains and Woods equals there’s lots of critters, there’s lots of there’s lots of lots of things that want to live in your home. And you don’t need to have a disgusted renter come and say, You know I want my money back, we’re going to a hotel, forget it. I’ll never refer you to somebody else again, because you ignored. One of the most important things is keeping that rental property pest free. So we do this as a public service for everybody in the North Georgia mountains area, especially Jasper, Lj and Blue Ridge, when you can listen to this podcast or read the transcription at faith, pest control, calm. And Fred tell people how they can get in touch with you if they have any pest problems ever.

Please call us at 770-823-9202 and when you make that call, please ask to speak to me, Fred Tally. I’ll be able I’ll be able I will be able but I’ll be happy to talk to you. Even if you just have questions. I’ll be glad to try to help you.

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Filippo Turetta, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons It’s the Faith Pest Control podcast. Again, I’m your host, Mike Stewart, and I’m here with pest expert Fred Tally. This has been the month of the Hornet. In our last previous podcast, we talked about murder Hornets. We found out murder Hornets don’t really exist in Georgia. But you know what, when you see a big Hornet or a stinging insect, if you’re a consumer like me, you’re going to go I don’t want a nest of those guys on my home, in my backyard around my kids, my grandkids. So that’s why you need to hire a professional like Fred Talley at fake pest control. If you live in Jasper, if you live in North Georgia, anywhere in the North Georgia area, they are the pest experts. And today we’re going to talk about something that I don’t know if it’s in Georgia. We’re going to find out from Fred, the European one. It’s Fred tell us all about European Hornets. Alright Mikey, European Hornets are actually first discovered in in, in the States or North America, in the middle 1800s in New York. Met since then they’ve kind of spread the most of the eastern United States. They reach as far west as the central United States, Louisiana and in the Dakotas. That kind of area of the country or that area of our country. European harmony Hornets are commonly called brown or giant Hornets, but the generally speaking they’re mistakenly referred to as Japanese Hornets. And when people are speaking of Japanese horns, what they’re trying to really say is Asian giant Hornet, which we do not have in this country at all. The European Hornet excuse me is the largest and technically the only true Hornet found or commonly found in the United States. We have especially here in North Georgia, very common. We call it the bald faced Hornet it’s not actually a hornet it’s in the wasp family. So the European Hornet is really the only true Hornet that was commonly found in North Georgia although the Asian giant Hornet was found one dead one was found in Washington state but that that they do not exist in the United States that I am aware of. As far as on the European Hornets the adults do resemble our yellow jackets you know in in in this part of North Georgia most everybody’s familiar with the yellow jackets are very common ground nesting insect and you know, probably half to three quarters of an inch long. So the the European corn Hornet fully grown is about an inch and a half long so they’re you know, three times as big as two to three times as big as the yellow jacket. And they are colored roughly the same way you would you would look at it and think my god what a yellow jacket I’ve ever seen one that big. They have the same habits someone is is the yellow jackets. The Queen is kind of the workers are kind of a brownish were Yellow Jackets yellow and black the the worker European Hornet is more of a brownish but it’s a dark brown. You’d really have to look at it to to say all that’s not black that’s brown the Queen’s kind of a more reddish brown in our in our larger than the workers. The thorax is dark the body or the wings that’s the thorax is the body section where the wings and legs are attached and the abdomen is dark brown and black bands. The like I said before the head of the European Hornet at some point reddish brown becoming kind of yellowish near the face. They European Hornets typically, probably in my experience 75% of the time nest in the halls of trees. I get calls all the time where the European Hornets are, are bothering people at night because they they are attracted to light they are the only

insect stinging insect that I’m aware of that flies at night if there are others that fly at night. I am totally unaware of them but European And Hornets do fly at night they’re attracted to the light. So if you’re trying to sit out on your porch and enjoy quiet evening, you know you can be again they won’t necessarily stay even less provoked but if you’ve got a flyswatter or badminton ragged trying to kill them, they will sting you. But, so I will if I get calls and we get them not daily but weekly we’ll get several calls during the week about the especially this time of year for European Hornets. If somebody knows where the nest is, or can follow Him and find the nest, yes, we can kill them but there’s nothing that the US or any other pest control company can do to keep them from coming to your house of this. If you can’t find the nest, you can’t eliminate the colony they like I said they typically build in the hollows of trees, I have found them in barns sheds, the attics or houses wall voids of houses in between floors in the house I actually had them one time building in an in an exhaust fan vent sell them I don’t know that I’ve ever even seen a free hanging European Hornet nest generally speaking, the nest is built right at whatever cavity opening they find whether it be hollow of a tree or a knot hole out of a wall and they end up building inside that wall. And then you know the the nest starts at that point and then just goes deeper inside that void. The outside of the nest, what you can see of it is generally covered with a coarse thick paper like material in men they make this out of this decayed wood fibers. One thing that that struck me as odd and when I when I first discovered it, but especially if they build in a wall void or between floors of a house or in the attic of a house sometimes all this happened to me one time out of ignorance on my part, but I know better now, there was a nest in between two floors of a house and I sprayed insecticide in the nest to kill them. And they can’t they I mean they were obviously mad they were the buzz inside was very audible. But inside the house, it the odor was terrible, extremely offensive. And it kind of hung around for several days. The lady actually ended up spray in a probably a case of for breeze to finally get the odor out of owls so that they do emit a noticeable stench when they get when they get riled up. Again like all of the other stinging insects or the social stinging insects in the spring, the individual Hornet queens, they kind of emerged from hibernation, they’ll begin they’ll build the nest or begin to begin building a nest and she’ll start producing workers and then when when she gets enough workers to take over the next building duty and the nursing duty for taking care of the offspring. She will just begin to have off began to have young and that’s it. The workers of course all of which are female, you know they’ll go out forage for the food, they’ll feed the young they’ll they’ll continue building the nest. their diet, the European Hornet diet mainly consists of large insects, grasshoppers, flies, bees, Yellowjackets. their nest is generally three to 500 residents, if you will three to 500, Hornets they can get up to 1000. I don’t, you know, I don’t sit there and count them. I don’t know that I’ve ever encountered a nest of that magnitude. I think three to 500 would be a reasonable nest to encounter. They do have a somewhat seemingly longer seasonal cycle because they will.

They’re reaping reproductive the reproductive casts of their colony are produced well into the fall. When the reproductive is made, the females become the net regeneration of Queens the following spring in those males die off. As winter approaches the nest workers die off the future queens will abandon the nest and seek out shelter and some other type of some other protected place. In rotting stumps, tree hollows, even attics. The Queen like I said earlier she’ll overwinter overwinter individually all by herself, but you might find large numbers of Queens using the same hibernation site if you will. The the abandoned yes nest are not normally reused the next year in the spring each Queen starts their own, you know nest building process totally over. Like I mentioned earlier, unlike most other stinging insects European Hornets do fly at night they are attracted to bright exterior lighting or light shining through windows. That’s a common complaint is the the Hornets will actually bump into the wind to make you think they’re trying to break in the house with quite a lot of force causing some people to panic because they think that glass will break the eye and I have never encountered that that they broke the glass but they do will fly into the into the wind the lights and stuff. Sometimes you see workers collecting oozing SAP from trees, they can girdle a tree and what that means is they’ll they’ll knock through the mark all the way around a tree. Said kinda like oh, I’ll in particular dogwoods, birch rhododendrons and fruit trees. I’ve seen all of those with where they’ve been girdled by the European Hornets. Probably more for the sap than the wood fire, fiber, not fire. And there there are they can be considered a minor pass to beehives by preying on the honeybee workers but not not to the extent that the Asian giant Hornet is but of course, we don’t have them there. So that’s not generally a problem. But as always here at faith pest control, we offer a free consultation and as well as a 100% make you happy money back guarantee, if you hire fetes pest control to get rid of your bee or Hornet problem, or yellow jacket problem at the end of 30 days, if you’re not 100% happy with what we’ve what the service we’ve provided, we’ll come back and retrieve your home for free. We’ll keep on trading it for free. Do you tell us that you are happy, that still doesn’t make you happy, we’ll give you back every penny of the money you spent on the original treatment. Plus, we’ll pay you an additional $25. For your time in trouble this referral mothers, we want you to be happy with the service we provide or we won’t charge you a penny period. If you feel like what I’ve said makes sense. Please call fetes Pest Control today at 7708239 to 02 and ask to speak to me, Fred Dally. I’ll be more than happy to speak with you and answer any questions you have. Well, Fred, that lets us know that the European Hornets are a problem and you have the solution. Be sure to call Fred if you have any questions about any pests in North Georgia, Jasper, and anywhere in the cities like Alaska. You know, if it’s a North Georgia fight Pest Control conserves you. So be sure to subscribe to our podcast, it’s available online, you can get it on your phones, you can get it on your voice speaker systems like Alexa and Google Voice. You know, we do this as a public service for the residents and business owners of North Georgia so that you know what to do when you see pests that you want to get rid of and eliminate. And make sure to do the right thing you know, hire a professional, and Fred tally is the professional that you need to call at faith pest control. Until next time, this is Mike’s door for the faith pest pest control podcast. We’ll see you next time.

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Welcome everybody. It’s Mike Stewart and welcome to the Faith Pest Control podcast. And I’m your host, Mike Stewart, and we’re here today with pest expert Fred Talley. The man who takes Jasper Georgia and makes it bug free the guy if you’re in North Georgia, Fred Talley is your man you can call him You can ask a question and he will take care of your bug problems. And the bug problem I understand Fred wants to talk today is something pretty sounds like something out of a horror movie. Murder Hornets. Fred, what is a murder Hornet? Why are they bad? Why do people want to get rid of them? And what do you guys do to make that happen? Well, actually, Mikey, I’ve had a couple of calls this well as a couple of weeks ago about the murder Hornets. And so I thought it would be a good time

By NUMBER7isBEST – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48723605 to address this issue on our podcast. According to the University of Georgia Extension Service, we do not have murder Hornets in Georgia. The media is somewhat sensationalized murder Hornets last year, not so much this year. But we don’t have them in Georgia, not it. You know, anytime you get an invasive species you need to be you need to take it serious. But right now there’s a lot of misinformation spread in the media, about the murder Hornets and the murder Hornet. What they’re referring to is a murder born it’s actually called an Asian giant Hornet. They have been they were discovered in Vancouver Island in Canada. And there was one dead Asian giant warning found in Washington State. No live Asian Hornets have ever been found the United States, the colony of Asian giant oranges that were found in Canada were destroyed, destroyed sometime in the ones in Canada I believe or August of 2019. So there it’s it’s not an issue in Georgia but people think that it is. One of the things most promoted in the media has been the danger of this giant Hornet. It is actually the world’s largest but they call true Hornet. They can be an inch and a half to two inches long. If you think most people have seen especially in North Georgia mountains have seen a yellow jacket the yellow jackets half inch up to maybe three quarters of an inch long. So the Asian giant Hornet is what two and a half well, three to four times as big as a yellow jacket. Kind of one of the identifying markers is I have an enlarged yellowish orangish colored head but then a brown thorax or body but they do have the yellow stripes that kind of look like a giant Yellow Jacket. They kind of follow a typical wasp lifecycle you know with a solitary females emerges in the spring from hibernation establishes and they asked she goes out and forges in an incubator the young and then as the colony grows the the workers in the colony take over those duties and of course the Queen just produces offspring at that point. After encountered though, the Asian giant horn is not aggressive towards other creatures but creatures, but if provoked just like any other stinging insect, they will stain. Due to its size though, the Hornet will typically deposits more venom in each thing than then other bees and wasps powervr. One or more stings should not be life threatening to the average individual. Of course, those who are prone to anaphylaxis reactions, or who receive a large number of stings are probably gonna have a big major problem. The bigger concern about the Asian giant Hornet with plumbing into the United States as the impact it has on honeybee colonies the Asian giant Hornet can annihilate entire colony within a honeybee colony and a large honeybee colony can have 5060 70,000 residents and they can destroy it in just a matter of hours. And there interestingly enough, there are three phases to a honeybee colony invasion by the Asian giant on it.

The first stage is the Hornets will capture individual honeybees at the entrance to the colony and just to capitate them, then they’ll text their bodies and make what make what they refer to as a meatball from the bees store x and feed that to the to the young Asian Hornets. Then the Hornets we use pheromones them mark the honeybee colony and then various are numerous Hornets from their colony will descend on the honeybee colony and they’ll kill all the workers and dump their bodies on the ground. And finally, they just take over the the hive, collect their you know, their pupae and larvae and use those to feed their children. So key identifier of the Asian giant on it would be the seeing that honeybee colony had been invaded with decapitated and ripped apart bees sitting in front of the entrance to the colony. There have been no sightings ever have the Haitian giant or anywhere outside of Washington State. And like I said earlier, that was one dead Hornet that was discovered in I believe it may have been around the Seattle area. I’m not 100% sure about that. But I do know is Washington State. So there’s really no concern about it here. There are a variety of bees and wasps species in Georgia that can be confused with the Asian giant hoard it but including, right now we have the cicada killer in invasion. So they look kind of similar to the Asian giant Hornet. A lot of people here what we have and what we’re going to talk about in a few minutes is the European Hornet said actually it’s going to be on our next podcast is the European Hornets because they look very similar. Again, they look similar to our southern Yellow Jackets have a little bit of similarity to the bald faced Hornets that we have here. But there are multiple resources that you can use to identify if you think you see an Asian giant Hornet. The the the my go to would be if if I was an individual not associated with the best control industry. And thought I saw one would be to get the county extension agent out there to take a look at it to get the University of Georgia involved because the Extension Service is an arm of the University of Georgia. wasps, Hornets, bees, and other insects can all contribute to the pollination of plants, flowers and food sources. The the more important of those three would be the food sources. Because without pollination, we have no food supply in our in our country. But I want you guys remember that in faith pest control, we offer a free consultation and offer a 100% make you happy money back guarantee. Do you hire faith pest control to get rid of your bee or Hornet problem? net danza 30 days you’re not 100% happy we’ll come back. And we’ll retreat your home for free. And we’ll keep on trading it for free. And until you tell us that you are happy. That still doesn’t make you happy, we’ll give you back every penny spent on the original treatment plus an additional $25 for your time in trouble just for fooling with us. Bottom line is you’ll be happy with the service that we provide or you won’t pay a penny period. If you feel like what I’ve said makes sense. Please call faith Pest Control today 770-823-9202 and asked to speak to me Fred Tally. I’ll be more than happy to speak to you and answer any questions you may have.

Or Fred there is interesting that people will call about something that’s not in the area but I’m sure they find big stinging insects there in Jasper and in North Georgia. And you guys have the education and expertise and experience of what to do to keep people safe from stinging insects and the murder Hornets. They’re not in Georgia. But if you think you see a murder Hornet you call faith pest control. And be sure to share this podcast we do it as a community service for people and residents and business owners of North Georgia and more importantly You can subscribe to us and Apple, Amazon, Audible, Google podcasts and Spotify. You know, wherever podcasts our faith Pest Control podcast is there you can read it at our website at faith, Pest Control calm and until next time when we talk about another type of Hornet the European Hornet. This is Mike Stewart for the faith Pest Control podcast.

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Welcome again everybody to the faith Pest Control podcast. I’m Mike Stewart, your host with the pest expert Fred Talley here in North Georgia. You have a home in Jasper you have a home and Ellijay you live in Blue Ridge ball ground can’t no Waleska. Did you know millipedes are a problem millipedes are there millipedes are something you don’t want and we’re getting calls more and more every day of people wanting to get rid of them? Fred, tell me what’s the problem with millipedes? What do they do and I know they’re yucky. People want to get rid of them. What do you do to get rid of them?

Yes, Mikey. I wanted to talk about millipedes today just because I’ve had I believe it’s been six calls this week. disconcerting millipedes. Now here in North Georgia millipedes are relatively common around structures, both commercial and residential. They can become past when they move inside the buildings from their usual habitat which is outdoors. Sometimes they’ll enter in large numbers. But even if they come in the building, they don’t buy. They don’t stain, nor do they transmit diseases. They don’t infest food. They don’t damage your clothing or wood. They’re merely a nuisance, but they can be a big nuisance. millipedes are kind of a brownish, blackish color. And or, you know half an inch to maybe two two and a half inches long. A lot of people think they’re worms they are very small. So they can’t without picking them up. They don’t see their legs. But they will they they have a hard exoskeleton they have a hard shell on the outside and when you step on them, they definitely make crunch in nature, or their natural habitat millipedes live exclusively outside they do not live inside they’re scavengers, and they will mainly feed on decaying organic matter. So mulch beds beneath rocks. Because at the earth where the rocks meet the earth there will be an area of decaying organic matter matter. There they have to have a lot of high moisture and very high moisture requirements. And for the most part, they’ll remain hidden during the day you’ll never see them outside. We’re very seldom see them outside during the day. You can frequently find them around the building under mulch, leaf litter flowerpots, stones more laying on damp ground, they can also be found at the grass edge where like next to a sidewalk or foundation while they’ll kind of get in that little area between the grass and the in the concrete. The adult females can lay up to several 100 eggs in the soil at a time or the leaf litter at night is when the middle of beads will be generally move around or leave their protective daytime habitat and crawl about over the sidewalks patios foundation walls, especially during the fall. And they will migrate into buildings or can migrate into buildings in great numbers. And this is the this is the bigger issue is they move in mass and it’s just it creates a huge nuisance. You can’t build a building I don’t think tight enough to keep them out. This migrational movement actually appears to be somewhat accidental. And it’s thought that there that what they’re doing is searching for human overwintering sites. During the spring and summer this mass migration can also happen during times of excessive excessively wet or dry weather, whether it’s excessively wet or excessively dry, but we have in the last week or so had excessively wet weather probably in the last two or three weeks here in North Georgia. They millipedes can and will invade crawl spaces and damp basement. The first floor of houses at the ground level especially slab houses, they will commonly enter your home to the door threshold expansion joints in through the voids of concrete block walls. Frequent sightings of metal pedes indoors is an indication there are large numbers braiding on the exterior in the lawn or beneath the mulch or leaf litter close to the foundation. Due to their high moisture requirements, they do not survive indoors more than just a few days. A lot of times around here. They won’t even survive a day. They

Unless they have a very moist or damp condition, like in a crawl space in crawl spaces aren’t normally bone dry. Some basements especially older houses, the basements can get down so they can survive in there. But if they get upstairs in the living space or in the living space, they’re not going to survive long because of their, the humidity levels too low for them to survive. The most effective long term solution for keeping millipedes out of your house is the minimize the moisture and they’re hiding places, leaves, grass clippings, heavy accumulations of mulch, stones boards or similar items laying around the ground beside the foundation should be removed. Since these things will often attract and harbor the millipedes. Since metal pads often thrive in moist, dense layer of poorly maintained turf grass dethatch in the lawn and keeping the grass mowed close should make the long list suitable for them. Over watering your lawn or watering during the evening may also contribute to the problems. Here fake pest control, we offer a free consultation and we offer a 100% make you happy Money Back Guarantee. If you hire faith pest control to get rid of your metal paid problem. And at the end of 30 days, you’re not 100% happy, we’ll come back and retreat your home for free. And we’ll keep on trading it for free until you until you tell us that you are happy. If that still doesn’t make you happy, give you back every penny spent on the original treatment. Plus, we’ll pay you an additional $25 for your time and trouble just for fooling with us. Bottom line is you’ll be happy with the service we provide. Or you won’t pay a penny period. That’s how serious we are in our commitment to doing the job right. If you feel like what I’ve said makes sense to you. Please call us today Faith Pest Control 708239202 and asked to speak to me, Fred Tally, I’ll be more than happy to speak with you and answer any questions you may have. Well, thank you, Fred. You know, people find problems in their homes and millipedes is something you go well What is this thing? What can I do? I don’t want them I don’t want them in my home. And I know you are the professionals to get rid of that problem of millipedes. And we do this podcast as a community service for all the fine folks in North Georgia. You can subscribe to this podcast, and Apple you can subscribe to it and amazon music you can subscribe to Google podcasts and in Spotify and all the fine places where podcasts are able to be subscribed, please share us. Tell your friends about us. It doesn’t cost anything. It’s all about being helping you keep a pest free home. And that’s what Fred is the expert at doing. So until next time, I’m Mike Stewart for the Faith Pest Control podcast.

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