Another Pest Control Season is Here

In actuality the tri-state area around Evansville, Indiana, the season for pests of all kinds is a year around situation.  However, spring brings all of the hibernating bugs out for the summer and fall until winter.  Usually sometime in January after a snowfall and the temperature rises a little to melt the snow, water floods the ant colonies and with the slightly warmer climate the ants begin looking for dry shelter, food and fresh water.  This past week the mercury has risen to balmy weather that has brought on lots of rain that will drive ants out of the ground and into our homes or other shelters.  March is the time of the year that all sorts of bugs start their spring cycle followed by spiders.  All kinds of insects will soon be everywhere – wasps, worms and beetles of all kinds.  Honey bees and bumblebees will find the newly blossomed flowers as we begin to enjoy the renewed spring weather.

Sadly, all of these spring pests become problems for most of us and we begin to attempt to get these unwanted insects and spiders under control.  Nature helps a lot with predators like birds, spiders and other insects, but, often it is not enough!  It is time to get professional help to eliminate those stinging paper wasps and all of those flying bugs coming into the house every time a door is opened.

The best solution is to get the professionals on the job before the spring invaders take over.  ACCA Pest Control Professionals can provide a spring preventative outside-treatment that can head off most of these pesky bugs and spiders into the summer months.  Call ACCA at 812-879-8905 to schedule a spring exterior service.

Busy Ants!

When I was a kid, I noticed that ants traveled around on trails going like crazy back and forth… busy, busy ants.  They were fascinating to me as an 8 year old!  For some childish reason, I decided to smash them with a nail hammer all along their trail.  I guess it was my bad side thinking I was doing some good to rid the world of these ants. 

So, I crawled along this very long line of ants, not paying any attention to Mom watching me nearby.  Mom called out to me: “What are you doing?”  While still hammering I retorted, “I am killing ants!”  Mom did not like me doing this.  She told me that these ants were not doing anything wrong and that they were beneficial to the world.  I said: “you do not like them when they come into the kitchen.”  She explained that sometimes beneficial insects become pests when they get in our way, but these insects are not in the way and not being a pest at all – they are just part of nature being productive to their colony.  She said that I was just wasting time, not doing anything productive. 

I am not sure I totally understood what she meant that day, but I have not killed any more ants unless they are being pests to people!  This brings to mind a quote from Henry David Thoreau who used ants to make a point about being productive: “It is not enough to be busy, so are ants.  The question is: What are we busy about?”