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All-Star Pest Services, provides quality service and expertise at a reasonable cost, while remaining abreast of the latest pest control products and methods, as well as state and federal regulations, and guidelines from the Environmental Protection Agency.

We employ an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach in each setting to determine the most effective and safest combination of methods and products to eliminate a particular pest problem. The IPM approach is based upon knowledge and understanding of insect and rodent biology; familiarity with host environments for pests; use of beneficial organisms improving sanitary, landscaping and structural conditions to exclude pests; and selection of baits, traps, sprays and products that pose the lowest risk to humans, pets and the environment.

All-Star Pest Services provides a comprehensive array of services, each of which is tailored to your specific needs and the requirements of the setting.

Services include:

Inspection: We will thoroughly inspect your home or business. The inspection will identify your particular pest problem, conducive conditions for pests, evaluate structural and sanitation issues, and will include recommendation of treatments to prevent and eliminate pests.

General Household Pest Service: prevention, elimination and/or exclusion of pests in residential settings using Integrated Pest Management, including condominiums, office settings, etc.

 Perimeter Treatment: prevent pests from establishing a foothold at the base of your structure. Treatments include the base of the building footprint, windows, doors, tree bases and other key areas at the perimeter of a home or business.

Advantages of having All-Star Pest Services handle your pest needs include:

• Use of environmentally friendly products in such a way as to ensure your safety, and the safety of your family, customers and pets, as the case may be.

• Targeted pest elimination techniques using baits, and limiting chemicals in the equation, for sensitive persons.

• Reliability: We will be there when we say we will, and we will do the job we agree to do.

• One-time, monthly, bi-monthly and quarterly services are available.

 Call All-Star Pest Services today at 877-603-6911 for a free survey and quote or simply email us at: info@allstarpestservices.com

Featured Pest: The Bed Bug

- Bed bugs are flat, tiny insects, oval in shape and brown until after they feed, when they turn brownish-red. An adult is about 3/16ths of an inch long or about the size of an apple seed. During the day they disappear in mattresses, sheets, furniture and behind baseboards, picture frames and wallpaper if torn. At night, they come out to feed, attracted by breath and body heat.
- Adult bed bugs can live for more than one year without feeding. They can also tolerate extreme temperatures.
- Female bed bugs lay from 10 to 50 eggs every 3 to 15 days, with 70 degrees and above being the insect's ideal temperature. No eggs are laid at temperatures under 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Coated with a sticky substance, the eggs are deposited in clusters, near the crevices where the bugs hide. Eggs typically hatch in six to 17 days at 70 degrees and above, but at lower temperatures, hatching can take as long as 28 days. While nymphs can survive about two months without feeding, with a good food supply, they develop into adults in two to six weeks.

The origin of bedbugs in your home or business likely hitch-hiked from places you or a visitor have traveled. Likely candidate are summer camps, vacation rentals, international travel, or even from staying at hotels. They are not an indication of poor sanitation, but they will reproduce much more quickly if there are many people in a small area. A single bedbug from your luggage can begin the infestation. The common signs are waking up with bites on your body, noting blood spots on the sheets, a distinct sickly sweet odor upon entering the room, seeing clusters of reddish brown to dark brown dots on the braiding of a mattress or box springs, at baseboards, or a crack in the wall. It is possible for one person in a bed to be bitten and the other not. Also some persons are more sensitive to the bite than others*. If you suspect bedbugs but don't see these signs, place aluminum pans with a little soapy water under all the legs of the bed. When you wake up you may find a bedbug or two floating in the water. They come out at night because they detect the carbon dioxide as you breathe and this attracts them to you while you are sleeping. If you were to wake up in the wee hours and turn on the light you may see a dark brown to reddish brown insect with an oval body and tapered abdomen. If they are engorged with blood they will be distinctly more red and larger. Those which have not had a recent feeding will be paper thin. Because of this thin body they can hide in very slender cracks. They can move in between threads of fabric, disappear into a seam of the mattress, or hide between the grain of porous wood or cracks. Treatment is extensive because bedbugs have so many hiding places. We begin at the infested bed treating the mattress, box springs, bed frame and headboard with appropriately labeled materials. We will continue to move outward in the room to include the flooring, both carpets and wood floors, baseboards, night stands, behind picture frames, chest of drawers, and dressers. Since wood is a favored harborage area, any wood which is not sealed must be treated. Any bedding which can be washed or dry cleaned, should be. The material used to treat objects that touch humans kills bedbugs on contact but does not leave a residue, therefore it is not harmful to humans once it is dry. The good news is that they can be eliminated and you will not have to replace your mattress and box springs. It is important not to delay. As you try on-line remedies or home cures, the bedbugs can spread. A child who is getting bitten solves her problem by taking her pillow and blanket into another room but unfortunately she doesn't see the bedbug on her blanket and the infamous hitch-hiker has invaded another habitat. Many do-it-yourselfers successfully battle ants or mice but this is one of the insects you should trust to a professional.

*All-Star Pest Services, LLC. will not treat without confirmed evidence of bedbugs. There are some skin conditions (scabies) or other parasites such as mites which may be the source of bites. If bedbug evidence is not present, we may suggest that you see a dermatologist.