Of all insects that infest homes, ants are the most common. Ants are also very tricky pests to control. If you’ve tried to eliminate the pesky invaders yourself, you’ve likely discovered that just because you kill a few ants, you haven’t solved an infestation. Pest control sprays that you purchase at your local hardware store cannot eliminate an infestation.
This frustration has left many homeowners overwhelmed with the scope of their ant problem. You have good reason to contact a pest control professional.
Bulwark Exterminating has a five-step ant control process that is a guaranteed ant control solution.
Bulwark’s Five Step Ant Control Process
Fire ants (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Step 1: Inspection. The first step in controlling an ant infestation is a thorough inspection of your property. A Bulwark Pest Control technician will find ant colonies by tracing foraging trails back to their nest. Ants like to travel inside driveway and sidewalk cracks; and along fence lines and foundation walls.
Step 2: Identification. Once a Bulwark Pest Control technician has discovered an ant colony, they will determine exactly what type of ant is infesting your property. Technicians may even collect specimens for positive identification. Each ant species is unique in terms of nesting sites, habits, characteristics and feeding preferences. It’s imperative to understand what type of ant is bothering you, in order to best treat the infestation. It’s important to note that you may be dealing with multiple types of ants, or multiple ant colonies.
Step 3: Recommendation. After inspecting your property, and identifying the type of ant pest, an experienced Bulwark Ant Control professional will recommend a plan of action. Actions will likely include the application of a unique ant control solution, and other non-chemical measures. A Bulwark technician may also recommend trimming vegetation, eliminating moisture problems, removing dead wood, etc. Correcting these conditions will help prevent future infestations. Multiple treatments may be necessary to completely control or eliminate an ant colony.
Step 4: Treatment. Through years of experience and research, Bulwark has established a very effective ant control solution. After strategically applying this solution; non-chemical ant control measures will also be taken to eliminate conditions conducive to ant infestations. Your technician may opt to use ant baits, sprays, and granules in a variety of combinations as the infestation dictates.
Step 5: Evaluation. The key to long-term success in controlling and eliminating ants is to follow up and assess the effectiveness of the measures taken. Additional treatments may be necessary to ensure the ants never come back. With an every-other-month contract, a Bulwark technician will be continually evaluating and treating your home and property for ants.
Get Bulwark’s Ant Control
There are many types of ants that may be infesting your home or property. Some of the most common include: Acrobat ants, Argentine ants, Odorous House ants, Pharaoh ants, Red Imported Fire ants, and Western Carpenter ants. A Bulwark Ant Control technician will be able to identify the type of ant you are dealing with, and know the most effective treatment method for each type. When it comes to ant baits for example, certain ants only like sugar, others starch, others protein, and others change diets based on what time of year it is.
Bulwark Pest Control has come across a very effective ant control solution, only known to a select few pest control professionals. Let Bulwark take control of you home’s ant abatement… You will be glad you did!
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Then call us today and start living an Ant Free Life!
Another installment of Bulwark Exterminating’s Roach Bits. Valentines Day Edition.
Valentine’s Day, Makes or Breaks Relationships each year,
Is the Love Bug on your side?
Can you imagine having all your painstaking Valentine’s day romantic work foiled by one small oversight?
A year ago some people thought it cute to offer a “Name a Roach for Valentine’s Day“. We thought this ill advised, as we have proof to the contrary that Valentine’s Day cockroaches are a bad idea, especially when handed to a women in a red container that looks like a chocolate filled heart box. It really isn’t a pretty site. So we have decided to demonstrate just how much a roach is not a love bug, and how much it could just be a romance killer. Hope you enjoy our video.
Bulwark Pest Control Wins Angie’s List Super Service Award
This just in:
Angie’s List has announced the winners of their 2012 Super Service Award. Without further adieu; Bulwark Pest Control was chosen as a recipient in the category of Pest Control and Exterminating. Bulwark’s Las Vegas, Phoenix, Mesa, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Tulsa, and Charlotte branches are honored to receive the award.
Every year, Angie’s List awards their Super Service Award to exceptional companies that go above and beyond for their customers.
The Super Service Award from Angie’s List
The Angie’s List Super Service Award is a prestigious recognition that is awarded each year to the top five percent of service companies for achieving and maintaining high ratings on Angie’s List throughout the previous year. Essentially, the Super Service Award is determined by the customers who rate the services they receive.
This esteemed Super Service Award is highly acknowledged by members of Angie’s List, and the pest control community, because it illustrates Bulwark’s efforts directed toward quality work and customer service.
What is Angie’s List?
Customer review sites have become a go-to for consumers looking to make purchases, and Angie’s list happens to be one of the most frequently used customer review sites. Every month, some 65,000 members write reviews for companies in industries like automotive repair, health care, and home repair.
Customers leave comments for services or products rendered; and rate a company’s professionalism, price, punctuality, responsiveness, quality, and overall experience with letter grades A-F. Reviews come straight from the consumer, and companies cannot pay to be on Angie’s List. Essentially, the Angie’s List awards are voted on by the customer.
The Importance of Customer Reviews
On top of leveling the playing field among pest control companies, customer review sites like Angie’s List have given the consumer more power; making them even more influential. A pest control company’s great service, or poor service for that matter, has made it possible for customers to let the entire world know about it.
The vast majority (81%) of all people use consumer reviews in their purchase decisions; and 92% have more confidence in information found online than they do in anything they may hear from any other source.
Bulwark Pest Control Wins Other Awards
While the Angie’s List Super Service Award is highly esteemed, given only to the top five percent of companies, it is not the only customer service award Bulwark has recently received. Bulwark Exterminating has also recently accepted the Best of City Search, Best of Kudzu, and Best of Yelp awards; all while maintaining an A+ rating with The Better Business Bureau. Impressive!
Choose Bulwark Exterminating
Bulwark’s customers have spoken. Based on customer reviews, Bulwark Exterminating needs to be your go to source for eliminating pests. Bulwark’s pest control services are more than just spraying. Their award winning services are about listening, convenience, scheduling, responsiveness, accountability and knowledge.
Give Bulwark Pest Control a try, and discover what all of their customers are talking about.
The New Year if officially upon us, and Bulwark Exterminating wants to help make 2013 your best year ever by ensuring your year is pest free. Here are 13 reasons you should choose Bulwark Pest Control in 2013:
13. Power Sprayer
While many pest control companies us the traditional pump can to apply their product, Bulwark Exterminating uses a power sprayer. The power sprayer will put down enough product to get under every rock, in-between every crack in your yard, and penetrate into your soil; ensuring your property is pest free. This is all done in accordance with EPA guidelines.
12. Flexible Scheduling
Our service technicians are available to serve you Monday through Saturday, 7 a.m. through 8 p.m. Just let us know when you are available.
11. Guarantee
Simply stated; your satisfaction in 100% guaranteed or your money back.
10. Scorpion Truck Service
9. Employee Performance Compensation
At Bulwark, we take care of our people so they can best take care of you. Over 63% of every dollar Bulwark receives was re-invested into employee compensation through bonuses. This helps retain the best and most experienced employees, and ensures you receive the quality service you deserve.
8. All Natural Treatment Options
We give customers the option to choose among three different pest treatments; Signature, All Natural, and Hybrid.
7. Outstanding Customer Reviews
Bulwark Pest Control has a large variety of very positive online reviews from Google, Yelp, Angie’s List, Yahoo, and Insiderpages.com; and has an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau. Bulwark also did a voluntary survey in which 97% of the customers polled would recommend Bulwark to their family and friends. Bulwark takes input from these customer review sites, and from customer surveys, to learn how to better serve you the customer.
6. Free Follow-Up Service Treatments
In the unlikely scenario you find a living bug after one of our treatments, a Bulwark pest technician will come by your home and retreat it within 48 hours, FOR FREE (excludes Holidays and Sundays).
5. Research & Development
Not only does Bulwark use research done by colleges and universities in order to use the best products on the market, we do our own research. We recently tested several products’ effectiveness on scorpions, in house, and were able to determine a clear cut winner. Remember, the products we use are less toxic than toothpaste, but still get the job done.
Testing effectiveness of scorpion control products
4. Awards
Bulwark Pest Control consistently wins awards for superior customer service. Some of these awards include: Angie’s List Super Service Award, Best of Yelp, Google Favorite Places, Kudzu Best of City, and an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau.
3. Our Employees
Bulwark Exterminating hires the best technicians and customer service professionals in the industry. All new hires go through meticulous criminal background checks, driving record checks, and full drug test. Random drug tests are conducted on an ongoing basis.
2. Bulwark’s Protective Barrier
Bulwark’s effective pest treatments create a barrier around your property the keeps the pests from entering. When the outdoor pests are eliminated, most interior treatments are unnecessary. You’ll be seeing the dead bugs more frequently outside; as opposed to inside your home.
1. Dedication To Customer Service
Here at Bulwark, we will exceed your service expectations. We listen to our customers, and are very good listeners. Tell us your pest problem, and we’ll find the most effective solution, at the lowest cost to you. Our customers may go online at any time and critique any specific treatment rendered. We’ll take this information and learn from it, so your experience will be top notch. We will treat your house as our home.
Choose Bulwark In 2013
Bulwark Exterminating would like to take this opportunity and wish you all a Happy New Year 2013. May this year bring prosperity, joy, and happiness to all of you. We’re looking forward to your business through 2013 and beyond. If you are not yet a customer of ours, give us the opportunity to demonstrate why we are the best in the industry!
This is a perfect example of how termites have been in the forest for thousands of years before you build your house here these trees in this forest have been around for a long time and the cycle of life which termites recycling the wood is a constant, constant thing they set up camp mainly in dying trees like the one we have here I pulled this off of this stump here they, they’ll this tree has a root system that goes for many, many feet all around this area and has this tree has died the rotting wood is all throughout this area probably even under the house over here. This termite colony that I just pulled up out of this stump is gonna follow those those dead roots everywhere all over the ground. So when a builder comes along and cuts the top off the tree they don’t get all of the roots and those dead roots don’t look like this one because this one has been cut off and you know with the trees here you’ve got roots under the ground into the soil everywhere and enormous populations of termite colonies eating those roots that’s why it’s really important that you set up a barrier around the home we set up the bating system that creates a shield or Bulwark around the your home so that if they do hit the wood on your home they’ll hit our bates first and wipe out colony.
AJ Richards, a bed bug expert explains when will Bed Bugs Bite you at night.
“Bed bugs typically do not feed until the hours of three and five in the morning. Generally when we are in that deep REM sleep where we are not moving or rolling around. When we are perfectly still it’s easier for the bed bug to come out of hiding and feed. It’s also the time where the heat and the carbon dioxide cloud is built up the most so they can find us easier.”
Twas the night before Christmas, when we heard in our house
Chimney pests stirring, including a mouse.
Bees built hives inside the chimney with care,
In hopes that they wouldn’t be found living in there.
When up on the roof there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the chimney I flew like a flash,
Only to see bats fly away in a dash.
Inside I heard scurrying as I wondered the cause,
Of the scratching and pawing of tiny rodent paws.
As I stuck in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney a squirrel leaped; he had been found.
It’s then I began to worry if Santa would come
Down a chimney full of pests, now that would be dumb.
I should’ve got pest control, treatment would’ve been quick
Now I’m left worrying if we’ll get a visit from St. Nick.
And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof,
The prancing and pawing of each reindeer hoof.
As I chased off the squirrel, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.
As he emerged from the chimney, my fears were realized
As killer bees swarmed, and began stinging his eyes.
Santa disturbed them, coming down the chimney this night;
I have to hand it to that jolly elf, he put up a fight.
Santa began swinging at the bees with his bag full of toys,
Originally meant for all of the good girls and boys.
With the twitch of his nose, and the wink of an eye,
He magically whisked away the bees, and said his goodbye.
If it wasn’t for Santa’s Christmas magic,
That Christmas may have been a little more tragic.
Next Christmas I’ll be a little more prepared,
I’ll get pest control; Santa needn’t be scared.
On my first day of service,
Bulwark removed for me A Black Widow in my underwear drawer
On my second day of service,
Bulwark removed for me Two Fire Ant mounds,
And a Black Widow in my underwear drawer
On my third day of service,
Bulwark removed for me Three wasp’s nests
Two Fire Ant mounds,
And a Black Widow in my underwear drawer
On my fourth day of service,
Bulwark removed for me Four termite colonies,
Three wasps’ nests,
Two Fire Ant mounds,
And a Black Widow in my underwear drawer
On my fifth day of service,
Bulwark removed for me Five stinging scorpions,
Four termite colonies,
Three wasps’ nests,
Two Fire Ant mounds,
And a Black Widow in my underwear drawer
On my sixth day of service,
Bulwark removed for me Six Brown Recluses,
Five stinging scorpions,
Four termite colonies,
Three wasps’ nests,
Two Fire Ant mounds,
And a Black Widow in my underwear drawer
On my seventh day of service,
Bulwark removed for me Seven leggy centipedes,
Six Brown Recluses,
Five stinging scorpions,
Four termite colonies,
Three wasps’ nests,
Two Fire Ant mounds,
And a Black Widow in my underwear drawer
On my eighth day of service,
Bulwark removed for me Eight pinching earwigs,
Seven leggy centipedes,
Six Brown Recluses,
Five stinging scorpions,
Four termite colonies,
Three wasps’ nests,
Two Fire Ant mounds,
And a Black Widow in my underwear drawer
On my ninth day of service,
Bulwark removed for me Nine chirping crickets,
Eight pinching earwigs
Seven leggy centipedes,
Six Brown Recluses,
Five stinging scorpions,
Four termite colonies,
Three wasps’ nests,
Two Fire Ant mounds,
And a Black Widow in my underwear drawer
On my tenth day of service,
Bulwark removed for me Ten Raspberry Ants,
Nine chirping crickets,
Eight pinching earwigs
Seven leggy centipedes,
Six Brown Recluses,
Five stinging scorpions,
Four termite colonies,
Three wasps’ nests,
Two Fire Ant mounds,
And a Black Widow in my underwear drawer
On my eleventh day of service,
Bulwark removed for me Eleven scurrying cockroaches,
Ten Raspberry Ants,
Nine chirping crickets,
Eight pinching earwigs
Seven leggy centipedes,
Six Brown Recluses,
Five stinging scorpions,
Four termite colonies,
Three wasps’ nests,
Two Fire Ant mounds,
And a Black Widow in my underwear drawer
On my twelve day of service,
Bulwark removed for me Twelve bloodsucking bedbugs,
Eleven scurrying cockroaches,
Ten Raspberry Ants,
Nine chirping crickets,
Eight pinching earwigs
Seven leggy centipedes,
Six Brown Recluses,
Five stinging scorpions,
Four termite colonies,
Three wasps’ nests,
Two Fire Ant mounds,
And a Black Widow in my underwear drawer
Note:
Just to clarify, pest control customers wont need 12 days of consecutive service to eliminate all of these pest problems. Most pests can be eliminated in one single service!
Bulwark’s Ant Control Process
