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How to Get Rid of Sugar Ants When They Take Over Your Home
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How to Get Rid of Sugar Ants When They Take Over Your Home

Every spring and summer, your home seems to get taken over by sugar ants. The ants love to eat human food, and in most homes, they easily find a free resource. Sugar ants like to congregate in kitchen spaces, marching into cupboards and pantries to find food for their colony.

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Handle Business Pest Infestations with Quality Office Pest Control
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Handle Business Pest Infestations with Quality Office Pest Control

As a business owner, you want to make sure your office space remains neat and presentable. Over time, a commercial space can easily become overrun with pests, at no fault of your own. Pests like spiders, ants, mice, and rats can easily gain entry into your facility and build a home.

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How to Get Rid of Fleas in Your Home
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How to Get Rid of Fleas in Your Home

Fleas are more than just a nuisance, especially if they have gained entry into your home. They can affect the health and well-being of your pets and perhaps even you and your loved ones.

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What Are Boxelder Bugs, and Can They Infest Your Home?
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What Are Boxelder Bugs, and Can They Infest Your Home?

Homeowners are often faced with pest infestations, from mice and rats to cockroaches and bed bugs. However, there are also other pests that must be dealt with, but most homeowners are unaware of their existence. One such example is boxelder bugs.

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Pest Control Tips You Can Count on to Avoid an Infestation
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Pest Control Tips You Can Count on to Avoid an Infestation

Be There Pest Control deals with a number of pest control issues on a daily basis. We have seen it all and want to help our customers avoid infestations in the first place. With our following pest control tips, you can keep your Brooklyn Park, MN, business or home free from pests like rats and mice, ants, bed bugs, and more.

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Pest Know-How: How to Deal with Common House Spiders
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Pest Know-How: How to Deal with Common House Spiders

The term “common house spider” is used to describe a spider that is most often seen indoors. This pest is a nuisance due to creating webs inside the home as well as on the outside. The spider is common in the U.S. and can take over your home if left unchecked.

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Is It Bad to Have Silverfish in Your Home?
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Is It Bad to Have Silverfish in Your Home?

Silverfish are tiny insects that are gray or silver in color that can infest your home. They’re active at night and can scare a homeowner if they awaken and find this bug crawling around in the kitchen or bathroom. Having any pest inside your home is a nuisance, and with silverfish, you run the risk of belongings being destroyed.

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How to Get Rid of Sugar Ants in Your Home
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How to Get Rid of Sugar Ants in Your Home

In warmer months, sugar ants (aka sweet ants) looking for food and water typically invade Minnesota homes. Although these ants aren’t harmful to humans or pets, having them invade your Edina, MN, home can be annoying, to say the least.

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How to Rid Your Home of Carpenter Ants
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How to Rid Your Home of Carpenter Ants

Carpenter ants are quite common in Minnesota, with several species found in homes and other buildings across the state. Sometimes homeowners mistake carpenter ants for termites. While carpenter ants and termites both nest in wood, they look distinctly different, and termites are uncommon in Minnesota.

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How to Spot Mice in Your Home and Get Rid of Them for Good
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How to Spot Mice in Your Home and Get Rid of Them for Good

It’s not a matter of if it will get cold in Minnesota; it just will. And as the temperatures drop, mice may begin to enter Bloomington, MN, homes to seek warmth and possibly food. Therefore, it’s not uncommon for Minnesota homeowners to see a mouse or two here and there during the winter months.

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How to Rid Bed Bugs from Your Minnesota Home
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How to Rid Bed Bugs from Your Minnesota Home

In the not-so-distant past, bed bugs (Cimex lectularious) were almost eradicated from North America due to the use of extremely toxic insecticides. However, after these insecticides were banned, there has been a steady resurgence of bed bugs.

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How to Know You Have a Flea Infestation
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How to Know You Have a Flea Infestation

Not too many situations stir as much squeamishness as a flea infestation in your yard or home. The fact that fleas feed on animal blood alone is enough to cause you uneasiness, but their negative effects don’t end there.

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How to Get Rid of Ants in the Kitchen
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How to Get Rid of Ants in the Kitchen

Having ants in your kitchen can be extremely frustrating. Not only is it difficult to determine where they’re coming from, but it’s also quite a challenge to eradicate them once they’ve moved in.

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Everyday Habits That Can Act as an Ant Deterrent
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Everyday Habits That Can Act as an Ant Deterrent

Many of our readers commonly ask about things that can be used in St. Paul, MN as well as the surrounding areas as an ant deterrent. Believe it or not, there are actually quite a few effective methods of keeping ants out of your home and off your property!

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