When you hire a pest control service, you are relying on someone to provide you with a responsible and effective means of controlling a specific pest. It’s essential to hire a professional who employs the right pest control methods best for you, your family, home, and the environment.

Our professionals are highly trained and skilled in identifying pests, their behavior, and how they impact a structure (home or business.) Here at At Ease Pest Solutions, we invest in the best products and equipment on the market today for pest management for our clients. However, we understand the most valuable tool in our arsenal for any pest management program is the flashlight! You see, IPM only works when the technician can correctly identify a pest and understand which conditions are conducive to that specific pest's existence in a particular habitat. Understanding how those conditions impact pest biology helps us recognize how they are gaining entry and what control methods we should utilize. We will help to educate homeowners and business owners on measures they can take to mitigate areas of known entry for pests and assist in eliminating conducive conditions. Our experts will go even further in letting you know if a particular pest is a beneficial insect that may not necessarily need control.

Before selecting a control method(s), we carefully consider the environment and the best approach. We look at an array of factors to list a few; the pest's life cycle, conducive conditions, and how they impact the environment is only a small part of what we take into account. A thorough inspection enables us to target problems in a way that is the most effective and as responsible for our environment as possible. Methods we utilize include the following: Sanitation Solutions, Physical Changes, Mechanical Mechanisms, Biological Control Measures, and lastly, Chemical Applications. Our experience and expertise in using some of these methods above set us apart from our competitors. Simply put, some companies do offer IPM, but we do it better! 

Sometimes, a situation may not require aggressive chemical treatment. It may be as simple as adjusting an environment; luckily, we utilize integrity first. That's why we maintain trust in the communities we work in and a 5-Star rating online. We'll never recommend a neighbor or a client a method of control that isn't needed. We prefer to earn your trust and possibly your potential business later on if need be. Honestly is always our best policy!

When an environment is conducive to pest infestations, there are ways to remove or alter that environment to deter pests. Such things might include not allowing rubbish to build up. Dumpsters, garbage cans, or other trash should be sanitized regularly and placed as far away from structures.

Air curtains and bug zappers do very little for gnats and small flies through drains in cabins, vacation homes, or basement plumbing. Sanitation is the most vital method for controlling any species of flies. Dry P-Pipes (these are the drains beneath your sink, tub, or toilet designed to prevent fungus and odor) is also an ideal place for drain flies to thrive. To prevent this from occurring, run the water throughout your home, cabin, or basement often. Pay attention to that one guest sink, tub, or toilet within your home rarely used.

On the other hand, mosquitoes are attracted to pooling and stagnate water. Just a few square feet and a depth of only a 1/2 inch of water and a single female mosquito may lay up to 300 eggs per day. That said, properly draining, grading, and dumping accumulated water will significantly reduce the mosquito population in and around your outdoor living spaces; this is a physical mechanism of IPM. If you have small water bodies in your landscape, some common top feeding pond fish or even bottom-feeding catfish may consume mosquito larvae; this is an example of a biological mechanism of IPM. Also, fountains create a movement which drowns larvae in ponds or lakes, this being a mechanical mechanism of pest management.

Another way to prevent pesky insects from breaching your home is through the use of air curtains. A forced airflow from a fan unit above a doorway provides an invisible shield that deters a host of insects from gaining entry. Additionally, bug zappers help control flying pests in a patio or porch area. Insects are drawn to the UV light rather than you or your home.  

While practicing all of the above, mechanical, physical, biological, and sanitation methods for control, many situations and pests may require chemical controls to eradicate an infestation. Our professionals have specialized training to know how to pick the right chemical for the right pest. Proper identification of a pest and their conducive conditions is essential for taking the next steps for gaining control. Unskilled pest control professionals lack this essential training causing them to use a more “generalized” treatment that can be harmful to beneficial insects, you, and the environment.

At Ease Pest Control doesn’t send someone out to “spray” and be done. We give you everything we’ve got that encompasses the pest, the problem, and the environment. Our plan of attack is done through strategic planning that can only come through expert training. Honesty and integrity are part of our mission. We are military veteran-owned and operated, and you have our guarantee that we will give your enemy (the pest) our full, complete attention until it is vanquished. North Carolina let’s get your pest problems taken care of! Give us a call today.