Our Suite of Pest Management Services
Pests are not just interfering on your premises; they eat your health slowly. They cause many hazardous effects and diseases that you need to eliminate. At Hawkeye Pest Control, we kick and kill all these pests from your nests with professional pest management services.
Our Extermination Services
- Carpenter Ant Control:Our carpenter ant control service effectively eliminates and prevents infestations, safeguarding your home from structural damage.
- Cockroach Control: Experience a cockroach-free environment with our cockroach control, utilizing advanced methods to eradicate these resilient pests.
- Mice Extermination: Mice Extermination ensures a rodent-free space, employing humane yet highly effective techniques to protect your home and belongings.
- Rodent Control: Our rodent control services provide comprehensive solutions, addressing and preventing issues related to rats and mice invasion.
- Mosquito Control: Our mosquito control safeguards your outdoor spaces, creating a comfortable environment by significantly reducing mosquito populations.
- Tick Control: Our tick control service focuses on eradicating ticks from your surroundings, minimizing the risks associated with tick-borne diseases.
- Wasps Control: Our wasp control ensures a safe and wasp-free environment, utilizing strategic methods to eliminate nests and prevent future infestations.
Ants
- Size: Workers: 1/4 inch (6.4mm), Queens: 3/4 inch (19.1mm)
- Color: Typically black, sometimes red and black.
Description
Carpenter ants are active indoors, particularly in the spring and summer. The nest is likely indoors if sighted indoors in late winter or early spring. In spring and summer, they're probably outdoors, seeking food like honeydew, insects, and plant juices.
Habitat
Nest in live and dead trees, rotting logs, and human-made structures. Begin nesting in deteriorating, moist wood, commonly found in porch pillars, roofs, and wooden areas touching soil.
Life Cycle
- The colony starts with a fertilized queen.
- The queen nurtures the first brood, then workers forage for food.
- The colony reaches maturity with 2,000+ workers, producing winged queens and males annually for mating flights.
Type of Damage
While not causing immediate structural damage, long-lived nests can harm buildings over time. They can also damage foam insulation.
Control
Locate and remove or chemically treat infested wood. Address the underlying moisture issues. Use aerosol insecticides labeled for control.
Fascinating Insights
Carpenter ants carve galleries in wood for nests but do not consume it. They meticulously maintain these galleries, unlike termite galleries, keeping them smooth and free of moist soil linings.
Combatting Cockroaches
Cockroaches transmit diseases like food poisoning, salmonella, and E. coli. German roach feces contribute to increased asthma in children in infested apartments.
- Habitat Preference: Thrives in warm, humid areas indoors, especially kitchens and bathrooms.
- Physical Description: Light brown or tan, about 1/2" long, with two distinctive stripes behind the head.
- Reproductive Prowess: Females can produce around 50 eggs simultaneously, carrying the egg capsule until hatching.
Effective Control Methods: Baiting Approach
Employing a baiting approach, our roach control and cockroach treatment techniques concentrate on eradicating roaches from their hiding spots, with baiting serving as the prevailing method in inhabited residences. Though baiting may take a week or two to effectively address the issue, it provides a more enduring solution while minimizing chemical usage.
Sanitation Tips
- Store food in airtight containers. Avoid cardboard or paper bags.
- Dispose of garbage daily and maintain cleanliness in storage areas.
- Clean stovetops and ovens regularly, focusing on greasy residue areas.
- Keep dishware clean and seal cracks and openings to prevent entry.
Fleas
- Adult Fleas: Measure about 1/8 inch long, brownish-black, flattened, with hind legs for jumping.
- Flea Larvae: Less than 1/4 inch long, legless, dirty white, commonly found in infested pet bedding.
Lifecycle of Fleas
Fleas undergo four life stages—egg, larva, pupa, and adult, preferring to wait and jump onto passing animals for transportation. Adult fleas, surviving only a few days to two weeks without a host, lay eggs within two days of their first blood meal, producing about 27 eggs per day. Flea larvae feed on adult flea excrement, developing in 5 to 11 days, and are typically found in shaded areas near pet resting spots indoors. The pupa stage acts as a transition between the larva and adult, while outdoor survival is hindered by high soil temperatures or low humidity.
Preferred Environments and Transition Stages
- Poor survival outdoors thrives in shaded, moist areas indoors.
- Larvae develop in 5 to 11 days.
- Pupae transition between larvae and adults indoors.
The Prolific Cat Flea
Cat fleas, common on dogs, cats, raccoons, opossums, and coyotes, undergo pupation inside a cocoon, maturing into adults in a week or two. Despite potentially lingering in the cocoon for up to 5 months, the adult flea quickly emerges within seconds when triggered by a passing animal, causing a sudden infestation in long-vacant homes when new occupants arrive.
Impact on Animal and Human
- Causes discomfort and potential disease transmission.
- Flea-infested pets show scratching and may develop flea allergy dermatitis.
- Flea bites on humans cause itching, redness, and allergic reactions.
- Fleas from rodents can transmit plague and murine typhus.
Effective Flea Control Strategies
- Regularly change pet bedding, vacuum thoroughly, and dispose of vacuum bags weekly.
- Avoid close contact with wild rodents to prevent disease transmission.
- Employ a flea comb and give your pet a thorough bath as the first defense against fleas. Soap acts as a gentle insecticide, aiding in flea removal.
- Vacuum diligently under furniture, cushions, beds, and along walls, and dispose of vacuum cleaner bags weekly.
Mice Infestations
Mice pose severe threats to human health and property, necessitating prompt removal. In businesses, they can cause inventory loss, property damage, and health risks. Rodents are found on every continent except Antarctica, thriving in diverse habitats ranging from snow-covered tundra to hot deserts.
- Species: 2,277 species, 41% of known mammals.
- Vary greatly in size and habitat, from the hefty capybara to the tiny Baluchistan pygmy jerboa.
Health Risks Associated With Mice
- Spread of diseases
- Presence of parasites like ticks or fleas
- Fire hazards from wire-chewing
- Disease transmission through urine and feces
Property Damage
Rodents can damage homes and businesses significantly, making them a severe concern for property owners.
Professional Rodent Removal
Hawkeye Pest Control offers professional rodent removal services to address infestations and prevent their recurrence, safeguarding homes and businesses. We specialize in identifying and eliminating mouse infestations. We seal entry points, locate and remove nests, and implement preventive measures tailored to your long-term eradication and prevention needs.
Rodents
Certain rodent species are common invaders of human environments, posing additional challenges for pest control.
- Rats.
- Mice.
- Voles.
- Squirrels.
- Gophers.
- Porcupines.
- Rabbits.
Specifications
- Abundant Species: Over 200 in North America, 70 in Malaysia and India, and 10 natives to the British Isles.
- Distinctive Feature: Constantly growing incisor teeth.
- Various Habitats and Behaviors: Arboreal, burrowing, semi-aquatic; employ different locomotion methods; some nocturnal, others diurnal.
- Social Structures: Typically social, forming colonies of various sizes, rapid breeding poses challenges during infestations.
- Dietary Habits: Most herbivores, some omnivores, and some carnivores.
- Infestation Challenges: Exploratory nature leads to damage, posing concerns for homes and businesses.
Impact of Rodent Infestation
- Inflicting harm by consuming, damaging, and contaminating food at various stages of the food chain—from production to storage and within homes.
- Causing destruction to structures, including buildings, bridges, sewers, and cabling, through gnawing and burrowing activities.
- Resulting in damage and contamination of various goods, such as packaging, clothing, and furniture.
Signs of Rodent Infestation
Droppings, scratching sounds, gnawing damage.
How to Control
- Immediate Action Required: Address infestations promptly to prevent further damage.
- Preventive Measures: Reduce access, eliminate nesting spots, and seal entry points.
- Professional Assistance: Leave rodent control to professionals like Hawkeye Pest Control.
Mosquitos
These blood-sucking flies have existed for millions of years, feeding on various mammals, including humans, making them ubiquitous across the planet. Despite their small size, mosquitoes, notorious for itchy bites, are statistically the deadliest creatures on earth due to their role as vectors for diseases like West Nile Virus, malaria, and Zika virus.
Breeding Ground and Habitat
Preferring warm, humid weather and needing still water for breeding, mosquitoes lay eggs even in small containers. While mosquitoes are active during dusk and dawn, they rest in cool, damp areas during the day, often in thick vegetation.
Mosquito Control Methods
A vital approach to mosquito control is preventing their breeding, emphasizing the importance of a comprehensive control program. Effective mosquito control by Hawkeye Pest Control involves a thorough property examination by pest control professionals, like, targeting both daytime resting spots and breeding grounds.
Ticks
Ticks pose a significant threat by transmitting various diseases to both humans and animals, making them the broadest disease-carrying arthropods. Diseases like Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and Tick Paralysis can be transmitted when ticks feed on human blood.
How Do We Prevent Ticks
To prevent tick bites, Hawkeye Pest Control offers a comprehensive season-long tick control service. Our technicians possess expertise in tick biology and behavior, allowing them to apply the most effective treatments for ticks and other pests by leveraging a thorough understanding of their habits. Our technicians create a protective barrier against ticks by focusing on common tick habitats such as perimeter vegetation, overgrown grassy areas, frequently traveled footpaths, and yard sections bordering forests.
Wasp Infestation
- Paper wasps, recognized for their distinctive nests, often inhabit residential areas, nesting in attics, deck floors, porch ceilings, and window/door frames.
- Hornets, the largest wasps, construct nests on trees, utility poles, sheds, and shrubs, with painful stings despite being less aggressive.
- Yellow Jackets, known for their aggressive nature and distinctive coloration, have 16 active species in the U.S., building nests aerially and on the ground.
Our Wasp Control Services
Hawkeye Pest Control's licensed technicians are expertly trained in industry-leading wasp control and removal methods. As newly mated queen wasps seek shelter in fall, nesting on homes' exteriors or interiors, the potential danger to humans increases in spring. Attempting DIY removal is strongly discouraged, given the risks. Instead, Hawkeye Pest Control technicians, equipped with specialized gear, ensure safe and effective wasp nest removal. Our technicians, with expertise in the biology and behavior of these wasp species, efficiently address infestations in residential properties.
Our Method
- Identification: Accurate wasp species identification is crucial for effective removal, with Hawkeye Pest Control technicians skilled in differentiating between wasps and bees.
- Recommendation: Following identification, technicians recommend a treatment method based on factors like wasp type, nest location, regulations, and infestation severity, providing a quoted plan upon agreement.
- Treatment: Applying aerosols, dust, or liquid treatments with protective gear, technicians use a stinging insect pole for nest application.
Connect To Get Rid of Pests
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