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Black Widow Control- Where Are Black Widow Webs Found And What Do They Look Like

bulwarkpestcontrol — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:35:20 +0000

Transcript From Black Widow Spider Control:

Black Widow Control Professional:

“Today we’re going to talk about black widows. The most common place to find them are right down by the J-rail, just all crazy mixed up down here by the J-rail, okay? Why? Because the J-rail offers goes into, inside of the wall, offers a lot of cool air coming out, cool, moist air coming out. Also is a great place for crickets to breed. Remember that crickets breed in these plants because there are water drippers on the plants, so there’s a huge population of crickets in the yard, therefore, that which preys on crickets will also do well, which is black widows, okay?”

“So, the black widow, if you walk around the foundation of the house, you’ll find a web like this purple web I have here, at the base down by the J-rail. Very common to find them right at the entryway, right at the entryway here or there, the other place.”

“So, how do you know it’s a black widow’s web if there’s no black widow in the web? Number one, they’re chaotic, okay? A chaotic web means that it has no order to it. If you remember the story Charlotte’s Webb, a lot of spiders create a pattern to their web, you know, a design in their web. Black widows have no pattern to their webs, none at all. It’s just all chaotic. Often times, you’ll find leaves and debris in the black widow’s web because the web is so strong; it’s the strongest web of any spider here in Arizona.”

“And, so it’s a very strong, sticky web. It’s low to the ground. Sometimes you will see severe infestations black widows with webs up in the eves. And you’ll actually be able to see her sometimes in the very corner; she’s trying to hide as much as she can, but usually it’s down by the ground because their number one food source is crickets, okay? So, if the web is low to the ground and it doesn’t have any spider out in it, other spiders don’t usually recluse back into a lair, they don’t recluse back into a dark space. Most of them don’t.”

- Bulwark Exterminating Spider Control

Las Vegas Exterminator Earns 4th Angie’s List Super Service Award

service@bulwarkpest.com — Tue, 01 May 2012 23:50:58 +0000

Las Vegas Pest Control Reviews Earn Bulwark an Award!

Super Service Award 2011

Bulwark Exterminating has been awarded the 2011 Angie’s List Super Service Award in Las Vegas for the fourth consecutive year for the branch’s exceptional service and customer service rating.

Angie’s List, the pay-for consumer review website, awards its annual Super Service Award to approximately five percent of its listed businesses. Business operators are rated each year on aspects such as customer reviews, maintaining a limited number of reports and abiding by operational guides.

“It’s a real testament to the hard work and dedication of each of our technicians,” said Branch Manager Wayne Bryant. “We treat every customer like our best and most loyal customer, and they notice the difference.”

Bulwark’s Las Vegas exterminator branch has won the prestigious award since 2008. Since then the branch has seen consistent growth from year to year not just in customer base, but employed technicians and office staff. The Las Vegas valley also presents unique pest problems which are not easily eliminated.

“Scorpions in Las Vegas are the hardest household pest to eliminate,” said Bryant. “It’s quite satisfying to be recognized for our ability to successfully treat the homes of our customers, knowing they have some one of the most challenging pest problems.”

Bulwark Exterminating has been the center of attention in recent online marketing events for their insights on turning satisfied customers into online reviewers. Back in March of this year at the Search Marketing Expo in California, Thomas Ballantyne of Bulwark Exterminating spoke on the correlation between online reviews, customer satisfaction, customer retention, and customer referrals. “The type of behavior that is required to earn an online review is the same behavior that improves customer satisfaction which improves referrals. Our Las Vegas branch scored high in all of these areas. Wayne Bryant is a fantastic leader and motivator.”

Bulwark Exterminating LLC is based in Mesa, AZ and is an industry leader in providing high quality pest control service. Bulwark is fully operational in seven states, including the eleven U.S. cities of Charlotte, Raleigh, Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Atlanta, Tulsa, Mesa, Phoenix, St. George, and Las Vegas. While Bulwark provides pest management for common insects such as ants, roaches, crickets and spiders, the company’s differentiating specialty is scorpion control. To do this, Bulwark uses the finest and most effective products in the world to solve common pest problems. Bulwark is privately and family owned, has approximately 250 employees and services over 50,000 customers nationwide, providing pest control in North Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada. Local offices in Las Vegas are located at:

Bulwark Exterminating, 3932 Octagon Road, North Las Vegas, NV 89030

Bulwark Exterminating, 2129 Industrial Rd #203, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89102

Bulwark Exterminating,, 2707 East Craig Road, North Las Vegas, NV 89030

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TylerS — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:03:28 +0000

Scorpion Control-How Do You Get Rid of Scorpions

bulwarkpestcontrol — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:07:59 +0000

Transcript From How Do You Get Rid of Scorpions-Scorpion Control:

Scorpion Control Professional:

Adam: “I’d like to welcome everybody out to correlation. We’re going to talk about scorpions today.”

“Scorpions are not insects. Scorpions are not insects, okay? Scorpions and spiders are called arachnids and they are not insects. Now, why is that important? Insects groom their body all the time, if you’ve ever watched a fly up close, it’s doing this thing all the time, okay? They always like and clean their body, okay? Just like a dog does.”

“Okay, let’s go over a few more details. This is a make-shift scorpion here. We’re looking at it upside down, okay? Pretend that it’s upside down, laying on its back, okay? Scorpions do not breathe like human beings breathe. They don’t have lungs, they don’t have a circulatory system, *breathes in and out*, they don’t inhale, exhale, no insects do. Scorpions, spiders, arachnids, no invertebrates, anything that crunches when you step on it, it has a skeleton on the outside of its body called an exoskeleton, anything that crunches when you step on it does not have any lungs or any method of breathing. Now, what they do have are little, tiny holes on the bottom side of their body. And those holes allow air to go into their body. And their organs, the bodily organs, are just floating in like, blood. There’s no pump, there’s no heart, there’s nothing. There’s just floating and what. And the oxygen exchanges through these holes, okay?”

“Now, in addition to the underside of the body, there are also little hairs, very small hairs called cilia. These holes are called spherical, little hair’s called cilia. And what the spider or more specifically the scorpion does with these hairs is, scorpions are almost completely blind, they can’t see hardly anything. But, they rest their body right on the ground so that the little hairs are just touching the ground just barely. And when a cricket hops by, it’s a form of sonar. They actually can tell where the cricket is and how big the organism is that’s coming after them by the vibrations in the earth. Scorpions can live for six months without water or food. Six months.”

“Scorpions can live five to fifteen years, okay? Five to fifteen years, that’s a long time. Most people, that fact will shock people, okay? They’re like, oh my gosh. This isn’t a problem that’s going to go away in the wintertime, is it? Okay, now if you have one female inside your wall have twenty-five to forty-five baby scorpions, she births those scorpions alive. She doesn’t lay eggs. She births them alive; if you can zoom in on this picture, I’m not sure, it might be too small. She births those scorpions alive, they climb up on her back, and they piggyback, you can see them on her back, all around inside your walls. And as they get bigger and bigger, they fall off. So, she spreads them around in your walls. In a couple of months, they can start breeding and they will breed with sisters and brothers.”

- Bulwark Exterminating Scorpion Control

Bulwark Pest Control – Initial Service

bulwarkpestcontrol — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:49:45 +0000

Transcript From Bulwark Exterminating Pest Control Service

Tyson: “Hey, how’re you doing today?”

Matt: “Good, how are you?”

Tyson: “I’m good. I’m Tyson from Bulwark. Just here to spray the house for you.”

Matt: “Okay.”

Tyson: “I’m here to do the initial service on your house. I’ll spray the inside and outside. Any issues or anything I should really know about?”

Matt: “No, um, it’s been good so far, so…”

Tyson: “Okay, good. Well, I’ll just do my thing. I’ll do the outside and then I’ll just come in and take care of the inside for you.”

Matt: “Okay.”

Tyson: “Alright?”

Matt: “Thank you.”

Tyson: “Yeah, no problem.”

Thomas: “So, Thomas Ballantyne.”

Matt: “Matt Siltar. How’s it going?”

Thomas: “And Matt is the man we met a few months ago at a conference, and I’ve been thoroughly impressed with Matt. So, since I’ve seen his mad skills, I thought I’d come out and try to impress him with some of our mad pest control skills.”

“So, a couple of things about scorpions, most people like to know how scorpions get inside the house. And that’s one of the main things people ask us whenever they call us up. Well, how’re they getting side the house? You know, I don’t see them very often. Why are they coming in? Scorpions feed on other insects. They walk around the house. They’re really, really sensitive to moisture because, living in the desert, that’s how they have to survive. So, they’ll walk by your house and all along these stucco walls, you’ll get, you have what’s called a J-rail. And if you look at this, if you zoom in here, you see that, see that crack in there? You can actually stick a pen all the way up in here, that’s your J-rail and it goes all along the bottom of your house. So, and what they use that for is they use that let the moisture out of the house, out of the walls. So you don’t build up mildew and all that inside your walls. Because inside your house, you’ve got the AC running, it’s cool inside the house, and so when the scorpions walk by, they can actually feel this moisture coming out of the house and they’re drawn into the house. In fact, that’s one of the main areas, besides under the J-rails and getting up into your walls, the other main areas they come through is under your doors.”

“If you would close the door here. You know how secure we think our houses are. I’m not going to break into the house. I’m not going to show you that trick. But, as secure as we think that houses are, you can slide a credit card straight through there.”

Matt: “I’d imagine so basically what you’re saying is if you can stick a credit card through, the scorpion can fit through.”

Thomas: “Exactly, they can fit through; I think its one-sixteenth of an inch. So, think if it’s one-sixteenth of an inch, a scorpion can slide through that. They can collapse and just slip right on in.”

Tyson: “Alright you’re all set.”

Matt: “Excellent, thank you very much.”

Tyson: “Everything outside and in and should be taken care of. Anything else I can do for you?”

Matt: “No, excellent. You know, things have been good. Just want the bugs gone.”

Tyson: “Oh yeah. Well, that should do the trick. If you see any issues or anything in a few weeks after everything’s been settled, you know, you might see a little bit of activity, but you know, if you’re still seeing some bugs inside or outside, just feel free to give us a call and we’ll come back out and take care of it.”

Matt: “Thank you very much”

Tyson: “Alright. Yeah, no problem. Have a good one.”

Matt: “You, too.”

-Bulwark Exterminating Pest Control & Scorpion Control

Scorpion Control Family Interview

bulwarkpestcontrol — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:01:09 +0000

Transcript From Bulwark Exterminating Customer Family Interview

Bulwark Exterminating Scorpion Expert, Thomas Ballantyne, explains Bulwark Exterminating’s scorpion treatment, and interviews Lee and Kathra about their concerns with having scorpions in their home, especially with their child crawling around the house:

Thomas: -And…

Kathra: Kathra

Kathra, thanks. Sorry, had to double check on that. Kathra and Lee.

Lee: Yes.

Thomas: Thomas, Bulwark Exterminating. We just want to follow up with you; we’d like to kind of, you know, get some feedback from you guys on the service we provided the other day and get your story, actually, as well, on the scorpions because your main concern was scorpions.

Lee: Yeah.

Thomas: And interestingly enough, of course you’ve got a little one, so most parents are really concerned about their kids around scorpions.

Kathra: Exactly, and that was my biggest fear for her, her being in that stage where she’s crawling around on the floor, and not far from where she usually sits, we found a scorpion, so we definitely knew we had to do something.

Thomas: Fortunately for you guys, the scorpion that you showed me was not a bark scorpion, the Arizona bark scorpion, which is the most deadly. So, there should be some relief, anyways,

Kathra: I was very thankful to hear that news because I was prepared to put glass jars under her crib and, I mean, you know, I was prepared to do whatever it took to keep her safe, so to know that they weren’t the most deadly was a relief.

Thomas: Yeah, yeah, which is also odd, as well, because the desert hairy’s actually don’t come indoors that often. They actually make holes out in the desert and they live in the holes and so I would assume that they were coming in because the season’s changing and they probably were looking for food or what not and came up close to the house, felt the ventilation coming out of the house. I don’t know if you’ve seen that before, but you have a J-rail on the bottom of your house so the moisture from your house actually escapes, and scorpions are built to last, but they sense the moisture and so feeling that moisture and that water, which is something they need…

Kathra: Right.

Thomas: It’s hard to find in the desert, that desert hairy probably just walked right up into that, the house. They can actually fit through a width the size of a credit card, so…

Kathra: Wow.

Thomas: Yeah, it’s pretty…There are treatments, there are treatments you can do where you can seal the bottom of your house, but the house is supposed to breathe…

Kathra: Right.

Thomas: … so in your situation, especially since the desert hairy’s are not bark scorpions, not something I would recommend. It’s costly and again, your house is built to breathe, it’s supposed to breathe. Does that make sense?

Lee: Yeah.

Thomas: So, bark scorpions will take a lot longer to get rid of. And again because of the way they’re built and because they walk on their toes, the surrounding neighborhood, especially if there is a problem, I don’t know, did you go to the website, scorpionreport.org?

Lee: Yeah, we did.

Thomas: What did you find on the website when you…

Lee: They didn’t have any on this area when we typed in our address, um…

Thomas: Okay.

Lee: But, I put mine in that I had found one. *Laughs*

Thomas: I bet. Perfect.

Lee: So now if somebody has…

Kathra: I have a question. We know we have the desert hairy. Can more than one species of scorpion be in the same proximity?

Thomas: Same area?

Kathra: Yeah.

Thomas: Yeah, yeah, they’ll … we haven’t tested whether they’ll actually fight each other or not. But, there’s nothing to say that a desert hairy is going to make its territory and a bark scorpion isn’t going to enter it, no. You could have both.

Kathra: Okay.

Thomas: But, the report is given, it’s fairly new. Scorpionreport.org. is built so that you guys can report on it and we add our information to it, as well. If we don’t have services in your area, we haven’t had calls in your area then it may show nothing right now. Especially because your house, it’s probably fairly new. How old is your house?

Lee: Um, I think its five years old.

Thomas: Five years old?

Kathra: Yeah.

Thomas: Okay. Well, five years, if the area was bad with scorpions, you probably would know.

Lee: Yeah.

Thomas: So, you guys are good.

Lee: Yeah, good, good.

Kathra: Phew.

Thomas: So, and you feel a lot better now?

Lee: Yeah.

Thomas: So, yeah, but again, if there ever is a problem with the service or if you ever see any bugs, you call us back up and we have a forty-eight hour guarantee that we will make room in our schedule to come back out within the next forty hours to service your house, no extra charge, if you’re on a regular monthly or bi-monthly service. Now, he recommended one or another when he was done. Did he put you on a monthly or bi-monthly, do you remember?

Thomas: Yeah.

Kathra: I think we did bi-monthly, but I’m not sure.

Lee: Yeah.

Kathra: He recommended monthly though. I’m not sure what we did.

Thomas: Again, in your case, I think bi-monthly would be fine. It’s not a, you know, if it’s bad enough, I mean, if you were seeing three or four a month…

Kathra: Oh yeah.

Thomas: Then you’d want to be on a monthly service.

Lee: Yeah. We didn’t see…

Thomas: Your brother referred you, right?

Lee: Yes.

Thomas: How did that work out?

Lee: He was extremely pleased with what you guys did for him…

Kathra: Oh yeah.

Lee: I think his problem was a little more severe than ours so again, he has three kids and doesn’t want to take any chances of, you know, getting them bit…

Kathra: Right.

Lee: Or stung. Um, so he was very pleased and he wouldn’t have referred you guys to me if he didn’t think you guys could do, you know, what he promised, so that’s good.

Thomas: Yeah. That’s excellent. We make sure everything we use inside the home is on a caution level, and I know that’s a chemical term, a pesticide term, but when you think of warning labels, you have your caution, your warning, and your danger label. Caution is the lowest of the three. Your toothpaste, if you pull out your toothpaste, is actually a warning label.

Lee: Hmm.

Thomas: So, we’re using things in the caution label, your toothpaste is a warning label.

Lee: Yeah.

Thomas: Your Ajax could even be a danger label.

Kathra: Right.

Thomas: I don’t remember on the Ajax or not, but your detergents, your chloride or, chlorine, sorry…

Lee: Sure, sure.

Thomas: …is going to be much more toxic than the stuff we use.

Lee: Yeah.

Thomas: In addition to that, we try to use products that are outside the home the same way. So, we actually try to put the safety of our technicians first…

Lee: Yeah.

Thomas: …thinking that these are the guys that are using it all day.

Kathra: Right.

Thomas: If they’re okay, if we can feel confident that we’re not going to affect them on a long-term basis in any shape or form, then we feel more comfortable having it in the home for other people.

Kathra: Right.

Thomas: And having a little one, I’m sure that’s a concern.

Lee: Oh, absolutely. Yeah, and we also have dogs, as well, so we have two little Teacup Yorkies and they’re always sniffing around everywhere, so we want to make sure they don’t get sick. And they were just fine, you know?

Thomas: Yeah, that’s actually, the sniffing around part of it, that’s actually one of the reasons that dogs get bitten by black widows a lot in the area. I don’t know if you guys have ever seen black widows in the area. Your brother had some black widows.

Kathra: We did, too.

Thomas: Did you have some black widows? Yeah, black widows are really, they stay back. They don’t really go out and hunt. You know, scorpions goes out and hunt, black widows will stay back and so they’re in their webs and there’s not that many encounters with people with black widows because, you know, they’re more reclusive. But, your dogs will run around, and they’ll sniff in and around the edges, and they’ll get right up there, and the fleshy part of their nose is the part they’ll stick right up into the black widow’s nest, and that’s where they get bit, so there’s probably a lot more, and they typically don’t diagnose dogs, but there’s probably a lot more dogs getting bit by black widows in Arizona than getting stung by scorpions.

Kathra: Wow.

Thomas: The dogs, that’s a fun…

Lee: Well, and I also have questions like what are some common things that people can do, um, besides having you guys come out and spray, but are there things around the house that you can do like seal up vents or if there’s any holes, like behind my refrigerator where the water line comes in, the plastic cover that goes in the back is kind of lose, and yeah, one time I replaced the filter and I noticed that when it pulled away, I mean, I can see inside the drywall, so, I mean, there’s a crawl space in there, and should we try to seal that up? Do they ever come in through the walls and down through electrical outlets if they’re loose or holes, you know, or…

Thomas: Right, that’s a great question. So, what can you, as a home owner, to seal up these gaps and holes in the wall? You can, sure enough. I mean, you can take some caulking if you wanted around those and seal those up. The products that we put into your walls, we actually aim for those because, just what you said, there’s space around there, there’s gaps around there, and the moisture points under your sinks is where they’re going to come in. They’re going to be looking for water. So, we aim for those areas and put the product back into the wall with the little duster. You probably saw them go into the wall when he said he was checking the outlets.

Kathra: Right.

Thomas: He’s going into the wall with product and putting them back behind the wall.

Lee: Okay.

Thomas: As far as the electrical outlets, that’s a primary entry point.

Lee: Uh huh.

Thomas: Because if you think of the studs in your house…

Lee: Yeah.

Thomas: Like, they built it; they drill holes all the way through your house with studs, right?

Kathra: Right.

Lee: Yeah.

Thomas: And then they put the electrical wire all the way through your house. The rest of the wall is pretty much filled with your insulation. So, those bugs aren’t going to be moving around a whole lot typically, you know, up and down, but research has found actually at the University of Arizona ,they’ve researched it and they found that bugs will travel along those wires.
Kathra: Wires, yeah.

Thomas: So, the product when we come into the house, that’s why we target that area.

Lee: Okay.

Thomas: It’s because we want the bugs to come across the product and die off.

Lee: Yeah.

Thomas: So we’re hitting their highways and…

Lee: Yeah.

Thomas: ..and their more frequent areas. And the nice thing about it, too, is again since you have a little girl, we’re putting the product where the bugs are and where the bugs live instead of where you live.

Lee: Yeah.

Kathra: Right.

Thomas: And then once we flush out the house in that initial service, as long as we’re maintaining the barrier around that exterior wall…

Lee: Yeah, and keeping them out.

Thomas: …the bulwark; yeah, the word bulwark actually means barrier, so as long as we keep the bulwark up…

Lee: *Laughs*

Thomas: …those bugs won’t come back in the house.

Lee: Nice.

Thomas: And the products typically last for thirty to sixty days, so effective, really effective for the first thirty days. Arizona heat kind of gets to them so they’re less effective for the last portion of those thirty days, but the products we use, according to the EPA, don’t last much longer than that. They’re not allowed to. They put regulations on products that leach into the soil and things like that.

Lee and Kathra: Yeah.

Thomas: So that’s why regular service is required so that we keep them flushed out of the house.

Lee: Yeah.

Thomas: We don’t want them ever to want to come back in the house.

Kathra: Right.

Lee: Well, we noticed that, I mean, if you live in Phoenix or in the desert, you’re going to see bugs from time to time, you know, and you see them, and you go ugh, and you take care of them, but when you get a scorpion in your house, I mean, it changes everything that you do. You’re paranoid about putting on your shoes, you have to get up in the night to check the baby and you’re wondering, am I going to step on one. I mean, it alters your entire…
Kathra: It’s amazing how that little bug, or whatever you want to call it…

Lee: Yeah.

Kathra: …can change everything about your life.

Lee: It’s horrible.

Kathra: It’s cleared out.

Lee: Yeah, so it is not fun and you’re worried all the time, you’re always looking around, you’re not comfortable, you’re not relaxed, I mean, you should be relaxed in your home. You’ve got that thing running around and you see one on the floor and it’s…

Kathra: I know a lot of people are probably like us where we wait until we actually see one and then we panic.

Thomas: Yeah.

Kathra: And then we actually know now that we need to have the service, but really people should probably just have the service and then…

Lee: Yeah, not worry about it.

Kathra: …not have to worry. And take a chance, especially when you have a baby.

Lee: Yeah.

Thomas: Right.

Kathra: I mean, if it was just us, maybe it wouldn’t be such a, you know, but…

Lee: Yeah, it still would be bad because it really, I mean, you check your bed sheets, you don’t know where they are. Are they in your clothes? Are they going to bite you and sting you, or whatever? So, we’re glad to have you guys come over and help us with it.

Kathra: Yeah, absolutely.

Thomas: Yeah, honestly, I had three different homes in the valley and the most recent one we moved into, it was the only home I’ve seen scorpions in.

Lee: Yeah.

Thomas: And so on my level and on my wife’s level, I can relate, and when we moved in, we were seeing three to four a month…

Lee: Yeah, scary.

Thomas: Inside our house.

Kathra: Oh, man.

Thomas: And we got the service, we got done, here I am, you know, an employee of the company, so I’m like, you know, let’s see how it works. And after, we saw a few, again your earlier question, they actually come out of your wall, they can be there for a while, they still live in the area, you know, you can find regions where there are scorpions…

Kathra: Right.

Thomas: That’s why, again, scorpionreport.org will let you know if you have scorpions around you. But, the, having the service, going from three to four a month down to like one or two every odd month to every sixth month after that, because I couldn’t see any. And it was like a year and a half before we saw another one inside the house.

Lee: Right.

Kathra: Yeah. I think you just panic when you see them, there’s such a stigma about them and they’re just so creepy looking.

Thomas: Yeah.

Lee: They’re upsetting. And you don’t know as your sitting down, is there one on the cushion?

Kathra: Yeah.

Lee: I mean, you don’t want those in your house.

Kathra: We actually found one in between our couch.

Lee: Yeah.

Kathra: And we reach down there because she drops her toys all the time and we reach our hands down there, and when I found the scorpion, I’m like, okay, so I took all the couches out and we vacuumed and shampooed, and we found a dead one, but we reach our hands down there between the couch cushions all the time.

Thomas: In between the couch cushion.

Kathra: Yeah, it was on the floor, but she drops her toys down our sectional and I reach down there all the time and grab her toys out.

Lee: Yeah.

Kathra: It was pretty freaky to know that that thing was down there.

Lee and Thomas: Yeah.

Thomas: And lucky for you guys, you don’t have the deadly, the poisonous, toxic ones, and with the desert hairy’s, it’s typically about as bad as a bee sting. So, unless there’s an allergic reaction, then you’re not going to see as much. Oh, speaking of the dogs…

Kathra: Yeah, there’s our other baby.

Thomas: There’s your other baby. She’s even got a little heart collar and everything.

Kathra: Yeah.

Lee: She doesn’t like scorpions, either.

Kathra: She has clothes, you know.

Thomas: Oh, does she really?

Kathra: No, she just needs a jacket when she’s outside when it’s really cold because she’s so little.

Thomas: Cold, it doesn’t get cold in Arizona. What are you talking about?

Kathra: *Laughs* When you’re three pounds, it is.

Thomas: *Laughs* That’s fun.

Lee: Again, we can’t thank you guys enough for coming out and taking care of this problem. It’s been a big weight off our shoulders and we’ve seen the results and uh, we’re very happy with what you guys did and thank you.

Thomas: You’re welcome.

Insect Repellent Preventing Bed Bug Bites

bulwarkpestcontrol — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:46:26 +0000

Bed Bug Professionals Test If Insect Repellent Prevents Bed Bug Bites prt1

Bed Bug Professionals:

Thomas: I’m Thomas Ballantyne with Bulwark Exterminating. This is A.J. Richards with K-9 Bed Bug Inspectors.

A.J. Richards: Yes.
Thomas: And it’s K-9BedBugInspectors.com. We have in front of us live bed bugs.

A.J.: Yep. He’s alive.

Thomas: So bed bugs do exist in Arizona. We had a home we treated, or inspected yesterday. A.J. actually does inspections for bed bugs with his dogs. His dogs have been trained to sniff out bed bugs, their scent, a very effective way of determining whether you actually have bed bugs or not. So, this little guy here is ready to feed and so he’s moving around pretty quick. A.J. actually has an allergic reaction to bed bugs. He‘s let them feed on him before. Do you have a, where’s your arm? Is it still…

A.J.: Yeah, you can still see the scarring. This is all scarring right here, the brown, that’s about two months old, these patches. Over here on this side, that’s the latest feeding, actually by this guy about two, three weeks ago. So, he’s hungry. So that’s what’s left.

Thomas: He hasn’t been fed for two or three weeks, and you’ve got to keep him alive so you can continue to train your dogs.

A.J.: Yep.

Thomas: Yep. That’s what all these little vials are for. So, at any rate, I know when you go into these houses, you’ve got to be a little freaked out, you know, thinking you might be able to pick some of these up with your shoes…

A.J.: Yeah.

Thomas: …or what not.

A.J.: Yeah, always, always. So, I mean, I’ve got to be very careful, not only myself, but my dogs…

Thomas: Right.

A.J.: …because they hide in their fur, that kind of thing. So, we’ve got to be real cautious that we don’t take them home. I’m, I’m, I can tell you that my wife wouldn’t be satisfied with living conditions if I brought these guys to the house.

Thomas: *Laughs.* You don’t want to do a video on how fast a home gets infested.

A.J.: Right.

Thomas: So, in my infinite wisdom, I decided to recommend to A.J. that he protect himself. And I believe this will do it. This is bug repellent. Nothing fancy, but…

A.J.: Over the counter, typical stuff.

Thomas: …over the counter, typical stuff. This one doesn’t have any DEET in it. This is a fragrance-free, Picaridin is the active ingredient. So, what we’re going to do, since this guy’s ready to feed, typically if you put him on your arm, he’d immediately begin to feed, I’m going to spray my arm down with this, let it dry, and then we’re going to put it on my arm and see if he actually will try to feed. Do we need to, uh…

A.J.: Rub it in there a little bit.

Thomas: I need to rub it in there, but I can’t…can I use my other hand?

A.J.: Yeah, just don’t use your forearm.

Thomas: Okay. We’re trying to keep it separate so that, I am actually going to let it feed on me. I know, kind of gross. But, we’re going to use my other arm to see if it will feed on me as soon as I put it on my other arm. So…

A.J.: Thank goodness that’s fragrance free.

Thomas: Yeah.

A.J.: Yeah.

Thomas: *Laughs* I know.

A.J.: Good? So I find that they like that real meaty part of the forearm, so we’re going to put him right there, and he should go right to it. So, if he keeps moving, the he’s probably trying to avoid the spray, I would say, because anytime I’ve done it, instantly. And we’ll see on your other arm if that holds true.

Thomas: Yeah, he’s not biting. Oh, oh! Oh, just kidding.

A.J.: *Laughs*

Thomas: Nothing. Actually, when he bites, you can’t even feel it, right? Because they inject their…

A.J.: Right, the saliva on the tip of their little sucker has a little anticoagulant, so the blood flows freely and an anesthetic so you don’t feel it.

Thomas: Oooh, it kind of tickles actually.

A.J.: Yeah. But, uh, yeah, it looks like he’s trying to avoid, avoid your arm. Shall we see what happens on the other one?

Thomas: Yeah. I, I’m pretty happy with not being bitten right now, so…so do you speculate that the um, uh, the bug repellent is damaging to the bug, or is it just literally a repellent?

A.J.: I, I would say, my best, you know, speculation would be that they’re just avoiding it.

Thomas: Okay. I really don’t want to do this right now. I really don’t want a little vampire stuck in my arm. Look at that, dude.

A.J.: There you go.

Thomas: Ah! Seriously. Oh!

A.J.: Straight to eating. Straight to eating.

Thomas: Uh! Okay, you can take him off now. Ah!

A.J.: You can’t even feel him. You got…

Thomas: I know! I know! Man, I just don’t like him sitting there.

A.J.: Thomas, you’ve got to let him fill up.

Thomas: No, look at that dude, this is gross!

A.J.: You can’t, just think, it’s like a mosquito,

Thomas: No!

A.J.: Yeah. You’ve got to let it…

Thomas: I don’t like mosquitoes. I’ll squash it right now. Can I slap it real quick?

A.J.: No, I need him. Are you done?

Thomas: Okay. Yeah, I’m done. Dude, I was done five seconds ago. Ah, come on! Thanks.

A.J.: Alright, well, I’ll go ahead and feed him because I need him. And then I’ll let you guys see, we’ll watch and see the change in the size. But, you noticed, he wouldn’t even leave the paper as soon as he reached it, see? I had to kind of drag him off. See? There you go. Drag him off the paper because…

Thomas: He’d already started feeding.

A.J.: He was starting to feed, and um, that actually happens in real life. They don’t necessarily crawl on you as much as they will just reach up from the bed. So you’ll see people if they lay on their side, you’ll see dots all down their side because, there, like he’s doing right there, they’re just going to reach up and feed and then walk away so they’re in a line. So, um…

Thomas: So it’s not like bad manners not to actually sit on the arm, huh?

A.J.: Yeah, it’s not bad manners. So, anyway…

Thomas: He’s just trying to be polite.

A.J.: You know, I can actually feel…

Thomas: No elbows on the table.

A.J.: Yeah, I can actually feel him right now and the camera wouldn’t pick it up, but you can see his little straw-like sucker sticking into my arm.

-Bulwark Exterminating Pest Control & Bed Bugs

Bulwark Exterminating Pest Control Services

bulwarkpestcontrol — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:54:19 +0000

Bulwark Exterminating Pest Control Technician

Pest Control Professional and Exterminator speaks:

“Hi, I’m Jared Peacock. I’m a Bulwark Exterminating employee. I’ve been with the company about three years, three and a half about. Yeah, well scorpions are pretty common out here in Arizona, black widows, as well. Roaches are common, too, and then just your regular spiders. We’re here to treat for the scorpions. When I do a good job, it feels great. I love making customers happy, making them feel satisfied with the service that they get. Just a lot better barrier around the perimeter of the house with the entry point treatments, the perimeter spray, and then the treatments that we do inside with the in-wall treatment, through the outlets.”

-Bulwark Exterminating Pest Control

Mesa Exterminator Receives Angie’s List Super Service Award

service@bulwarkpest.com — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:13:39 +0000

Bulwark Exterminating Earns 2011 Angie’s List Super Service Award

Angie's List Super Service Award 2011

Bulwark Exterminating has been awarded the 2011 Angie’s List Super Service Award for the company’s excellent customer service rating in Arizona.

Super Service Award recipients have maintained an “A” grade average in Angie’s rating formula. Only an estimated five percent of companies listed on Angie’s List receive the prestigious award on an annual basis. This will be the 3^rd time that Bulwark has received the award here in the Phoenix area.

“Our technicians and office staff deserve this award 100%”, said Mesa Branch Manager Joe Davey. “They work tirelessly to ensure the needs of our customers are met day in and day out.”

Bulwark Exterminating services over ten thousands customers valley wide from offices in Gilbert, Mesa, Phoenix and Peoria. The family owned exterminating company has made a name in Arizona as the pest control provider in the valley that absolutely guarantees to eliminate scorpions with a money back guarantee. In 2010, 97% of Bulwark’s current customers said they would recommend their pest control services to a friend of family member.

“We appreciate that our customers take the time to recognize the hard work of the technicians that service their homes,” said Davey. “Our techs are the face of Bulwark. Receiving the Super Service Award is an honor and it validates the hard work of our entire staff across the valley.”

While the award went to the Mesa pest control branch of Bulwark Exterminating the owners feel that the award is shared by all of the valley locations as customers on Angie’s list don’t often realize which branch services them.

Phoenix Metro Locations include:

Bulwark Exterminating, 40 N Central Ave #1400, Phoenix, AZ 85004 (602) 652-2251

Bulwark Exterminating, 10401 North 91st Avenue, Peoria, AZ 85345 (623) 572-3016

Bulwark Exterminating, 1228 East Broadway Road Mesa, AZ 85204 (480) 969-7474

Bulwark Exterminating, 18256 E Williams Field Rd # 2 Gilbert, AZ 85295 (480) 539-4933

About Bulwark Exterminating

Bulwark Exterminating LLC is based in Mesa, AZ and is an industry leader in providing high quality residential pest control service. Bulwark is fully operational in seven states, including eleven major cities. While Bulwark provides pest extermination for common insects such as ants, roaches, crickets and spiders, the company’s differentiating specialty is scorpion control. To do this, Bulwark uses the finest and most effective products in the world to solve common pest problems. Bulwark is privately and family owned, has approximately 250 employees and services over 50,000 customers nationwide, providing pest control in Raleigh, NC, Charlotte, Atlanta, Tulsa, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, St. George, UT, Phoenix and Las Vegas. For more information, visit http://www.BulwarkPestControl.com.

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Does Bug Repellent Work on Bed Bugs

bulwarkpestcontrol — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:07:09 +0000

Does Bug Repellent Work on Bed Bugs?

Thomas and AJ, Bed Bug Professionals speak:

Thomas: I’m Thomas Ballantyne with Bulwark Exterminating. This is A.J. Richards with K-9 Bed Bug Inspectors.

A.J. Richards: Yes.

Thomas: And it’s K-9BedBugInspectors.com. We have in front of us live bed bugs.

A.J.: Yep. He’s alive.

Thomas: So bed bugs do exist in Arizona. We had a home we treated, or inspected yesterday. A.J. actually does inspections for bed bugs with his dogs. His dogs have been trained to sniff out bed bugs, their scent, a very effective way of determining whether you actually have bed bugs or not. So, this little guy here is ready to feed and so he’s moving around pretty quick. A.J. actually has an allergic reaction to bed bugs. He‘s let them feed on him before. Do you have a, where’s your arm? Is it still…

A.J.: Yeah, you can still see the scarring. This is all scarring right here, the brown, that’s about two months old, these patches. Over here on this side, that’s the latest feeding, actually by this guy about two, three weeks ago. So, he’s hungry. So that’s what’s left.

Thomas: He hasn’t been fed for two or three weeks, and you’ve got to keep him alive so you can continue to train your dogs.

A.J.: Yep.

Thomas: Yep. That’s what all these little vials are for. So, at any rate, I know when you go into these houses, you’ve got to be a little freaked out, you know, thinking you might be able to pick some of these up with your shoes…

A.J.: Yeah.

Thomas: …or what not.

A.J.: Yeah, always, always. So, I mean, I’ve got to be very careful, not only myself, but my dogs…

Thomas: Right.

A.J.: …because they hide in their fur, that kind of thing. So, we’ve got to be real cautious that we don’t take them home. I’m, I’m, I can tell you that my wife wouldn’t be satisfied with living conditions if I brought these guys to the house.

Thomas: *Laughs.* You don’t want to do a video on how fast a home gets infested.

A.J.: Right.

Thomas: So, in my infinite wisdom, I decided to recommend to A.J. that he protect himself. And I believe this will do it. This is bug repellent. Nothing fancy, but…

A.J.: Over the counter, typical stuff.

Thomas: …over the counter, typical stuff. This one doesn’t have any DEET in it. This is a fragrance-free, Picaridin is the active ingredient. So, what we’re going to do, since this guy’s ready to feed, typically if you put him on your arm, he’d immediately begin to feed, I’m going to spray my arm down with this, let it dry, and then we’re going to put it on my arm and see if he actually will try to feed. Do we need to, uh…

A.J.: Rub it in there a little bit.

Thomas: I need to rub it in there, but I can’t…can I use my other hand?

A.J.: Yeah, just don’t use your forearm.

Thomas: Okay. We’re trying to keep it separate so that, I am actually going to let it feed on me. I know, kind of gross. But, we’re going to use my other arm to see if it will feed on me as soon as I put it on my other arm. So…

A.J.: Thank goodness that’s fragrance free.

Thomas: Yeah.

A.J.: Yeah.

Thomas: *Laughs* I know.

A.J.: Good? So I find that they like that real meaty part of the forearm, so we’re going to put him right there, and he should go right to it. So, if he keeps moving, the he’s probably trying to avoid the spray, I would say, because anytime I’ve done it, instantly. And we’ll see on your other arm if that holds true.

Thomas: Yeah, he’s not biting. Oh, oh! Oh, just kidding.

A.J.: *Laughs*

Thomas: Nothing. Actually, when he bites, you can’t even feel it, right? Because they inject their…

A.J.: Right, the saliva on the tip of their little sucker has a little anticoagulant, so the blood flows freely and an anesthetic so you don’t feel it.

Thomas: Oooh, it kind of tickles actually.

A.J.: Yeah. But, uh, yeah, it looks like he’s trying to avoid, avoid your arm. Shall we see what happens on the other one?

Thomas: Yeah. I, I’m pretty happy with not being bitten right now, so…so do you speculate that the um, uh, the bug repellent is damaging to the bug, or is it just literally a repellent?

A.J.: I, I would say, my best, you know, speculation would be that they’re just avoiding it.

Thomas: Okay. I really don’t want to do this right now. I really don’t want a little vampire stuck in my arm. Look at that, dude.

A.J.: There you go.

Thomas: Ah! Seriously. Oh!

A.J.: Straight to eating. Straight to eating.

Thomas: Uh! Okay, you can take him off now. Ah!

A.J.: You can’t even feel him. You got…

Thomas: I know! I know! Man, I just don’t like him sitting there.

A.J.: Thomas, you’ve got to let him fill up.

Thomas: No, look at that dude, this is gross!

A.J.: You can’t, just think, it’s like a mosquito,

Thomas: No!

A.J.: Yeah. You’ve got to let it…

Thomas: I don’t like mosquitoes. I’ll squash it right now. Can I slap it real quick?

A.J.: No, I need him. Are you done?

Thomas: Okay. Yeah, I’m done. Dude, I was done five seconds ago. Ah, come on! Thanks. That was pretty nasty. I didn’t like having that on my arm one bit.

AJ Richards: I noticed.

Thomas: Alright, at any rate, I’m a happy camper. Go buy some today.

AJ: *Laughs*

Thomas: I think that’s a wrap. See you guys.

AJ Richards: That’s a wrap.

Thomas: Check back in sometime.

- Bulwark Exterminating Pest Control