Declutter
Pests love nooks and crannies and fun places to hide among your clutter. The holidays typically bring a massive amount of clutter into the home and outside of it. From gift boxes to wrapping paper, packaging to recyclables to food waste, and more, your property can become a haven for pests of all types. Roaches and rodents love clutter, so getting rid of breeding grounds is key.

Inspect
Another way to facilitate holiday pest control is by inspecting things that come into your home over the holidays. From bedding to boxes, pests can hitch a ride straight into your house on lots of different things especially if those things were being stored outside before they got to you. Cracks, holes and crevices make perfect entryways for unwanted visitors. Be sure to check your home regularly for these passageways and block them or fix them to prevent pests from coming in. Don’t forget, doors, windows and chimneys should be checked as well.
If you happen to find a bug or other sign that your home has pests, it’s time to bring in the professionals. Call Southern & Sovereign Pest Control and take care of that pest problem now (833) 952-1599.

Organize and Repair
During the colder months, pests are seeking shelter from dipping temperatures. Some of the most bothersome pets in January are rodents, and cockroaches – none of which you want to take up residence in or around yours.

Store your garbage in sealed containers and dispose of it regularly. Don’t keep stacks of broken-down cardboard laying around garages as this makes the perfect home for an opportunistic pest looking to get in out of the cold. Also, be sure to store your firewood at least 20 feet away from the house or any structure and 5 inches off the ground to avoid an infestation.Store your garbage in sealed containers and dispose of it regularly. Don’t keep stacks of broken-down cardboard laying around garages as this makes the perfect home for an opportunistic pest looking to get in out of the cold. Also, be sure to store your firewood at least 20 feet away from the house or any structure and 5 inches off the ground to avoid an infestation.

Since rodents and other pests can enter your home through the smallest of spaces, be sure to repair fascia and soffits. If they’re rotted, pests can access these areas and enter your home quite easily. Once pests, like rodents, get inside your home, not only will they seek out food, rodents can also chew through wiring, insulation, sheetrock and many other areas of your home.

Benjamin Franklin famously advised fire-threatened Philadelphians in 1736 that “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Clearly, preventing fires is better than fighting them. As is the case with most things which is why the saying has stood the test of time.

It is more more cost effective to prevent an infestation. Southern & Sovereign Pest Control can help you eliminate an infestation or stop one before it starts.
Call SPC today! (833) 952-1599

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• Ladybugs are attracted to pollen.
• A single ladybug can eat up to 50 aphids a day.
• Fire Ant colonies can grow 18 to 24 inches in height.
• Spiders are the best garden predators to have around.
• Stink bugs emit a deterring odor whenever they feel threatened or injured.
• Researchers believe that primitive grasshoppers existed even before dinosaurs.
• Praying mantises eat flies, crickets, moths, caterpillars, locusts and some other insects.
• Dragonflies control the insect population by preying on midges, gnats, and mosquitoes.

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• Except Antarctica, Bees are found on every continent.
• The walking stick has the ability to regenerate lost limbs.
• Grasshoppers are herbivores, which means they eat only plants.
• Carpenter Ants originate from large nests in dead or dying trees.
• Approximately 2,000 silkworm cocoons are needed to produce one pound of silk.
• Ants communicate with one another by using pheromones (chemical signals) on their trails.
• Rumor is the Earwig got its name from crawling into your ears while sleeping on the ground.
• Using its highly toxic venom to kill insects and other small animals, the “Death Stalker” scorpion is one of the most dangerous scorpions.

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• Spiders are not insects.
• Insects are cold blooded.
• All insects have two antennae.
• Crickets have ‘ears’ on their legs.
• Insects don’t have bones or a backbone like us.
• Insects have two antennae. They also have six legs.
• All insects hatch from eggs. The babies are called larva.
• Dragonflies are known to travel at the speed of 35 mph.
• Cicadas can make sounds around 120 decibels.
• Some species of cicadas can be heard for a quarter of a mile.

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• A snail can sleep for three years.
• A snail’s reproductive organs are in its head.
• The average housefly lives for one month.
• A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
• A dragonfly can spot an insect moving 33 feet away.
• The blood of insects is yellow, green or blue due to lack of hemoglobin.
• The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
• Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
• A bee must visit several thousand flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
• In order to collect enough nectar for a pound of honey, a honeybee will travel an average of 43,000 miles.

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• While gathering food, a bee may fly up to 60 miles in one day.
• Ants can lift and carry more than fifty times their own weight.
• The queen of a certain termite species can lay 40,000 eggs per day.
• Ticks can grow from the size of a grain of rice to the size of a marble.
• Insects have been present for about 350 million years, and humans for only 130,000 years.
• There are nearly as many species of ants (8,800) as there are species of birds (9,000) in the world.
• Honeybees have to make about ten million trips to collect enough nectar for production of one pound of honey.
• Male mosquitoes do not bite humans, but rather live on plant juices and other natural liquids from plants and decomposing organic material.
• To survive the cold of winter months, many insects replace their body water with a chemical called glycerol, which acts as an “antifreeze” against the temperatures.
• The term “honeymoon” comes from the Middle Ages, when a newly married couple was provided with enough honey wine to last for the first month of their married life.

(Source: Department of Systematic Biology, Entomology Section, National Museum of Natural History, in cooperation with Public Inquiry Services, Smithsonian Institution)

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