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Bees and flying insects are a common sight around homes, gardens, and community parks. While some of them are harmless and contribute positively to the ecosystem, others pose serious health hazards and can cause damage to our property. Whether you're allergic to bee stings or want to protect you...

Spring is a time for renewal, new growth, and the return of pesky pests. After a long winter, rodents, ants, and bed bugs are back in full force, making it a challenging time of year for homeowners. These pests can pose a threat to your family’s health, your home’s structural integrity,...

Right now, rodents are out and about in numbers in Rochester and the surrounding areas. The areas we serve are the Rochester metro and neighborhoods like Fairport, Pittsford, Honeoye Falls, and Webster. Give us a call to see if we service your neighborhood with pest control and maintenance for...

Mice are fairly predictable. Once you know what their modus operandi is, you’ll know better what to look for. We track mouse behavior through the year in Rochester neighborhoods, from Honeoye Falls to Pittsford. Want to know if we serve your neighborhood? Drop us a line. What did Roche...

Rochester Pest Pro is putting special focus on exterior sprays for crawling and flying pests this summer. The greater Rochester area has warm summers that bring all kinds of flying and crawling pests, especially insects, to residential and business exteriors. These are some of the areas we...

A common complaint we hear from home and office clients is bedbugs. There are two types of bedbugs humans usually interact with: Cimex lectularius and Cimex hemipterus. Bedbugs look like tiny reddish- brownish apple seeds and their eggs look like white poppy seeds or those microplasti...

The greater Rochester area is one of varying environments. We’ve spoken about mice in our homes, garages, businesses, and other locations, but there are also outbuildings to consider. Outbuildings are prime real estate for mice and other rodents. Today, we want to highlight the problems Roches...

You protect your house, but what about your garage? Rochester is a driving town, with a small inner city and large suburban neighborhoods surrounded by farmland, industrial complexes, and lake country. Most households have at least one car, and while not everyone keeps their car in a home garage, th...

Warehouses have plenty of room for mice, and are often not maintained the same way houses are, as spaces people live in. Rochester as a shipping hub and a place with cold, snowy winters, has a lot of mice in its warehouses. Depending on the location and function of the warehouse, it may be l...

Nobody wants to have mice in their dwelling place. Rochester, NY has clear representations of each season— temperate springs and autumns, cold, snowy winters, and bright, warm summers. This means we get a lot of mice in our homes and businesses because mice can complete every part of their act...

If you rent in Rochester, we hope that you haven’t had a bad time with mice and other rodents in your building. The bad news is that, somewhere along the way, you probably have. The Rochester area has the perfect mix of environments to create a mouse problem: cropland, suburbs, indus...

Pest Inspections for Rochester Businesses Rochester’s businesses need to be kept pest-free just as much as our homes. No one wants to see mouse feces at the edges of your carpet, a roach in the bathroom, or beetles flying around the general space. That’s where commercial pest inspe...

For restaurants, rodents like mice are a nightmare. Rochesters Restaurants and food service facilities of all kinds need to keep vigilant when it comes to pest control. If pest control for mice is lacking, the following are some of the effects. Spoiled food. Ripped flour bags, bitten ve...

You're at a restaurant. There is warm lighting, ambient tunes, good service, and tasty food. Maybe you’re having lunch with some investors and things are going well, or it’s margarita night with your friends, or you’re contemplating the special person in front of you. Something...

Rochester Pest Pro is now offering wildlife control to Webster, Fairport, Henrietta, and the greater Rochester area. What does that mean to your neighborhood? Today, we’ve got some things for you to know about wildlife control, removal, and exclusion. One of the most importa...

Rochester, NY is a perfect place to have problems with mice. We didn’t do eight other blogs on mice just for fun— that's how important they are in our work. That’s how detrimental mice can be to our health, structural sustainability, and keeping our spaces free of other pe...

Expanding Our Offerings to Serve You Better Rochester Pest Pro has acquired RMB Wildlife and Exclusion.  We are now offering wildlife trapping, removal, and exclusion services to all Rochester neighborhoods.  East Rochester, Fairport, Webster, Henrietta, Honeoye Falls, etc. ca...

Pest Deterrents for Fall 2021 We’re now doing the last of the exterior pest prevention sprays to ready us for the fall-winter transition. Rochester’s autumns are wonderful—bright leaves, crisp temperatures, and all the apple cider you can drink. Rochester Pest Pro is also encoun...

Mouse Prevention Welcome to Rochester Pest Pro’s eighth installment on mice. We have a lot to say about mice, so be sure to check out part 7 and earlier. We’re constantly taking on pest control for mice in Rochester in the fall. It’s getting cooler, especially at night...

Bugs In My Bed? Rochester Pest Pro helps solve bed bug problems in all of Rochester’s neighborhoods. Bed bugs are a problem all year round, and many of us—probably most of us—sleep in beds or on couches all year round. Bed bugs are tiny oval or shield-shaped insects no b...

Getting Rid of Raccoons With Upstate New York’s distinct seasons, diverse food and drink crops, and proximity to woods and water, it is no surprise that rodents are a common issue that Rochester Pest Pro deals with. We get calls for rodent pest control in every season from every neighborhoo...

Mice at Work We’re continuing our series on mice, and we’re all the way to part 7. We’ve got a lot to say about mice, because they’re a big problem in this area.  Upstate New York has an amazing food culture, fertile soil for a variety of crops, and cold, wet winters...

The Buzz Bees are our friends, and we’ve mentioned that many times before.  However, if they are allowed to establish a hive in a building, they can cause severe structural damage. Structural damage caused by bees leads to expensive repairs, danger to those using the space, and po...

More on Mice Another article on mice? Yes indeed.  Why?  Because they’re such a problem for Rochester homes and offices.  We’ve covered several aspects of your common mouse’s life and habits and today we want to look at how a mouse infestation damages th...