Frequent Questions
Have a question? Please browse this list of our most frequently asked questions. You may find your answer here. Please contact us for any further questions.
Career Opportunities
- Do I have to drive my own car?
- Do I have to have special training?
- Do I have to schedule my route?
- Do you offer any retirement benefits?
- Does Action offer insurance?
- How do you pay?
- We have a problem with western conifer seed bugs. Is there some sort of pest control for them?
- Will I be required to work weekends?
General
- Why should I hire a Pest Management Professional?
- Are the materials you use safe?
- Do I have to sign a long term contract?
- Do the pesticides you use cause cancer?
- Do you utilize any non-chemical methods of control?
- Does the treatment have an odor?
- How long does treatment last?
- I am considering a do-it-yourself alternative. What is the bottom line on pesticide risk?
- Is Action Pest Control locally owned?
- What does Action do for Bird Control?
Pest
- I am already getting tiny black ants in my master bathroom..I went around my house with insecticide twice last summer.You can see them crawling up my concrete.I don't know how they are getting in my bathroom. What can I do to get rid of them?
- Hello. While looking recently into an old box of files and file folders, we found hundreds of tiny white larvae with red heads, all wrapped in loose webbed cocoons attached to the papers. Once agitated, they started to travel. They really resembled maggots, but there would be no typical food source available for them. Could these be some type of beetle larvae?Thanks...B
- How can I get rid of centipedes. They've been in my house for years and I can't seem to get rid of them.
- I have found a black widow spider and sprayed it with Hot Spot a 9 month chemical border. The spider looked dead and I put it in a tupperware container and it is still alive. I sprayed it approximately 10 times to see the effectiveness. What is the best way to rid our home of black widows?
- I think i killed a brown recluse spider.. can i bring it to have you look at it to verify?
- I was wandering what could be done about snakes?
- If one apartment is infested with bedbugs, can that infestation spread to another apartment in the same building?
- Recently, we found brown recluse spiders in our home. What we can we do to eliminate them?
- We have an infestation of biting mites, probably bird or rodent mites, brought in by our dog. We have had this for 18 months. They are still here despite the fact we stayed out of the house for 8 months and left it without heat all winter to freeze them out. It did reduce the numbers, but they aren't gone.We would like to get fumigation if that would get rid of them.Thank you.
- We have, what looks like, hornets, coming from holes in the ground and they are in our flower bed. It almost looks like where moles have dug but we see the hornets flying around. How do we get rid of them?
- We've been finding small (about 3/8" long) moths in our house. Last fall, we also had a problem with 1/2-inch long worms on our kitchen ceiling. What are they, and what can we do to get rid of them? Are they most likely in the kitchen?
- What else can we use besides the traps to eliminate moles?
- What is Action Pest Control's philosophy on treating a brown recluse infestation. I have Brown Recluse in my home. I know because I have set out glue traps and I now have about 8 caught (not including the basement or garage areas). I have a trap in the bathroom, two in the living room, and one in the kitchen.How do you treat an infestation?Looking forward to your reply.
- problem with springtails...all rooms chalked windows, have ac contantly on, moved water retaining mulch away from house....anything else I can do? What type of product would you apply inside and out?
- we have daddy longleg spiders and they are everywhere every time I kill them they come back with even more and, they are in r bed at night and my wife had one on her and she broke out with hives. how would I get rid of them?