BED BUGS ARE BAD IN PHILADELPHIA

We have been seeing a resurgence of BED BUGS all over the country and especially on the east coast. New York City is so infested that there are Government Task Forces working on the problem. Recently, Philadelphia was named the #2 most-infested city. Bed bugs are bad in your home but in cities like Philly, three of the worst places where they can fester, and spread are:

Bed Bugs are Bad for HOSPITALITY Business.

• Although they don’t spread disease, they do cause embarrassment about the “stigma” associated with an infestation. These places need routine inspections and regular treatments
  

Bed Bugs THRIVE at UNIVERSITIES

• With all the clutter and in and out of guests, dorms are a perfect home for Bed Bugs. Let Royal show you our plan for University housing that includes education of the students as well as treatments, regular inspections and prevention.

Bed Bugs can overtake an APARTMENT complex

• With so many common walls and tenants always changing you may never know WHO brought the bed bugs into the complex. Once they are there it only takes ONE person to not take care of them and everyone is stuck with them.

Call a Pest Professional and let them handle this problem. Bed bugs are very tough to eliminate, and with a thorough inspection a Certified Pest Professional will determine if direct treatment, heat or fumigation will be the most effective method to end your nightmare.
photos at top courtesy of Bayer

Royal Pest on 6 ACTION NEWS!

Channel 6 ACTION NEWS, Philadelphia, called us yesterday morning to ask if they could shoot video of us doing a STINK BUG treatment for a segment they were doing. That sent us into action. Deborah found two jobs scheduled for that day near the station, Eddie our Pest Professional doing the service, contacted the clients and one of them agreed, he changed his schedule to meet ACTION NEWS schedule. Ertell changed into a new Royal Pest shirt and met me at a McDonalds and within four hours all of us met at the house and got ACTION NEWS their story ... and Royal Pest Management a mention on the segment, video of Eddie spraying and Ertell walking the reporter around the house explaining what was happening and what Royal was doing, and our name (and his) on screen. Nice job!

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Bed Bugs go to college … sometimes on Backpacks!

Bed bugs are back…all across the US. And not just in dirty, city areas… Bed bugs are showing up in fancy hotels, apartment buildings, medical facilities and, college dorms and residence halls. I’m saying within two years almost every college housing facility will have had a bed bug reporting. There are a number of reasons housing at colleges is an ideal place for bed bugs: students come in and out of each others' rooms, they travel a lot, bring in old furniture and clothes, plus, there are many foreign exchange students on campus.

Here are a few simple suggestions to prevent Bed Bugs from getting into your dorm room;
1. do not bring any used or trash-picked items into your room… especially couches and chairs!
2. if you were somewhere that you think could have bed bugs, inspect everything you brought with you (suitcase, shoes, backpack, laundry bag.) LOOK CAREFULLY… especially in folds, the seams and zippers of bags, your pillow or stuffed teddy bear!
3. Clean up clutter in your room and closet. It provides a great hiding and breeding place for bedbugs
4. Wash your clothes and sheets often and dry them in a HOT dryer.

If you think you have bed bugs immediately contact the student housing office. Student housing departments take this problem very seriously and have a pest control contractor to deal with these issues.

Ear wax can protect you from pests

When I was in grade school, we had gym with our cool, jock guy gym teacher for three weeks and then he turned into our cool, jock guy HEALTH teacher for a week. One of his lessons I’ll never forget was on EAR WAX! He told us that while we are sleeping, bugs can crawl into our ear canals and get stuck. This causes pain and hearing problems. The lesson was that gooey, sticky ear wax, traps anything foreign that flies, crawls, or is blown into the ear canals. Dirt, tiny bits of plant material, small insects, bacteria, and so forth are immobilized by wax. It’s like having a NO PEST STRIP in your ear! The primary purpose of ear wax is to protect your ear canal and ear drum from such foreign materials ...including roaches.

So I did a little research on answerbag.com and found out roaches really do crawl into ears. Happens all the time. What else? Fly larvae, spiders, and earwigs with those scary pincers. Can they get to your brain? Not really … thanks to good ol’ gooky ear wax!

Flying Insects Invade Dreams

Q: In my dreams, my bugs are usually creepy green things with red eyes and sometimes fly. Elvis, you have anything like that?


A: Flying Insects in dreams are fairly common and I have had dreams with SOME of those things you describe but not all in one. Bugs in dreams, no matter what color or how creepy, suggest that you are worried about something. Because you dream of a bug that is GREEN, that signifies something that is positive…good health, growth, vigor, peace and serenity. Sometimes, GREEN in a dream tells you to move forward (like a traffic light saying it’s OK to GO.) Red eyes draw attention and are an open window to a soul of raw energy, intense passion and power. And flying represents being able to do things beyond your physical limitations...in your mind you can do anything and be anybody...and nobody can tell you what you cannot do and accomplish. It usually leaves you with a great sense of freedom. Now, to try and put this together for you I would say this: You are probably pondering a very important decision and are worried about it...your dreams are telling you it is a positive step...something new and to move forward, with passion and courage. It is something that you feel you will accomplish to bring you a greater sense of independence.

BEES AND WASPS DO MUCH GOOD BUT NEED CONTROL

BEES AND WASPS CONTROL AND PROTECTION WITH A PURPOSE

I just want to make sure that all you folk who want to know how to get rid of bees understand how important they are to our world AND OUR ECONOMY!!! According to The New Agriculturist online magazine: “To United States agriculture alone, the annual value of honey bee pollination can be counted in billions of dollars. Bees pollinate about one-sixth of the world's flowering plant species and some 400 of its agricultural plants. Poorly pollinated plants produce fewer, often misshapen, fruits and lower yields of seed with inevitable consequences upon quality, availability and price of food. One of the few farm activities that can actually increase yields, rather than simply protect existing yields from losses, is to manage bees to encourage good pollination.”

If you are allergic to bees and wasp stings, be careful and don’t stir them up. We understand your fear and to some people with severe reactions a bee sting can be dangerous. At Royal Pest Management, we have a bee and wasp control system that attracts bees away from the areas where people are getting together. They are free-flying insects and there is no way to eliminate them outside, but with a well-designed bees and wasp control system, we can keep them a safe distance away from you. Go to royalpest.com and click the NEED YA' NOW button and let us know if you are having problems with bees or wasps.

Middletown BBQ State Championship

This past Friday and Saturday in Middletown, De, the Delaware State BBQ Championship took place. Royal was one of the sponsors. Our butterfly Fran went around the event and put TATTOOS on kids of all ages. Many of them requesting ankle tattoos. She also flitted around to all the BBQ COMPETITORS handing out flyswatters and asking if they wanted tattoos...however most of the guys who were taking part in the cook off had arms full of tattoos and they declined. The did all take the flyswatters and then every time we asked to take their picture in front of their banners with Fran...they all wanted to swat her. LOTS of people came up to our booth and asked HOW TO GET RID OF TERMITES. That seems to be the pest this year. Lots of questions about STINK BUGS, too. Then we listened to THEIR stories of how they are all country folk living on farms and how they get rid of pests. It was an odd day but a lot of fun... especially putting tattoos on the kids... they loved them!

You can see the pictures at:

http://www.royalpest.com/component/rsgallery2/category/7.html