Do outdoor pest treatments keep bugs from coming inside?
They help significantly. Outdoor treatments reduce the insect population around your home, and a lower population outside translates directly to fewer pests finding their way indoors through doors, windows, and gaps.
For most Kansas City homes, year-round pest control is worth it because different pests are active at different times of year. Continuous service handles the mosquitoes and ticks of the summer and the rodents and insects of the fall and winter.
What's the difference between carpenter ants and termites?
Termites eat wood, and carpenter ants only excavate it for nesting. You can tell them apart by their body shape: ants have pinched waists, elbowed antennae, and unequal wings, termites have straight waists, beaded antennae, and equal wings.
Rain creates the standing water they need to breed. Plus, floodwater mosquitoes lay eggs in soil that, once soaked, allows all the eggs that were already there to hatch at once.
