by admin | Aug 18, 2026 | Pest Identification, Pest Management
If you read our last post on palmetto bugs, you already know the American cockroach is the one that makes Tampa Bay homeowners jump — big, fast, and prone to showing up under the kitchen light at night. But the palmetto bug isn’t the roach that keeps people...
by admin | Jul 23, 2026 | Pest Identification, Pest Management, Travel
July is one of the busiest travel months of the year. Families across Tampa Bay are packing for beach trips, road trips, flights to see family, and summer vacations. And every year, a predictable uptick in bed bug calls follows the summer travel season — usually by...
by admin | Jul 16, 2026 | Pest Identification, Pest Management
You know the moment. It’s late at night, you walk into the kitchen, flip on the light, and something large, brown, and fast disappears behind the refrigerator. In Tampa Bay, that’s almost certainly an American cockroach — what locals have always called a...
by admin | Jul 9, 2026 | Emergency Response, Pest Management, Seasonal
Living on the Gulf Coast means living with hurricane season. Here in Tampa Bay, we sit in one of the historically underestimated hurricane corridors in the country — the warm, shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico can intensify a storm quickly, and the region’s...
by admin | Jun 3, 2026 | Lawn & Ornamental, Pest Management
Every summer we get calls from Tampa homeowners staring at brown patches in an otherwise green St. Augustine lawn. The automatic assumption is drought, poor irrigation, or lawn disease. Sometimes that’s correct. But more often than not, when we walk the...
by admin | May 28, 2026 | Pest Identification, Pest Management
Summer in Tampa Bay means ants — and lots of them. Ant activity is one of the most common pest complaints we receive from June through August, and for good reason. Warm weather, summer rains, and the disruption of outdoor colonies all push ant populations into...
