The thought of spiders and ants crawling through your home is unsettling for any homeowner. Our Perimeter Shield service is designed to stop these pests before they enter your home. By targeting the exterior, we prevent insects like spiders and ants from seeking shelter, food, or a place to breed inside your living space. Keep those annoying insects out of your home with our proven, effective solution.
Our treatment targets and eliminates pests around your home’s perimeter, stopping them before they invade.
By addressing common entry points and pest hotspots, our service helps prevent future insect infestations.
Our solution forms a protective barrier to keep spiders, ants, and other crawling insects outside where they belong.
Insects like spiders and ants aren’t just a nuisance—they’re looking to make your home their home. Seasonal changes in Michigan can cause insects to seek refuge inside, making it crucial to have a year-round plan that keeps them out. With our Perimeter Shield service, we treat the exterior of your home to stop pests before they get in.
Our seasonal approach ensures that your home is protected throughout the year. Our trained technicians perform treatments every 60 to 75 days, starting in early spring. During each visit, they focus on areas with active insect activity and potential entry points, ensuring your home remains a free from annoying insects like spiders and ants.
Key Benefits:
Identification: The most common species, the brown marmorated stinkbug (Halyomorpha halys), has a mottled brown and gray coloration with alternating dark and light bands on its antennae and edges of its abdomen. Other species may display green or even metallic hues.
Habitat:They thrive in agricultural fields, gardens, orchards, and wooded areas, where they feed on a variety of plants, including fruits, vegetables, and ornamental trees. During colder months, stinkbugs seek shelter in homes and other buildings, often hiding in walls, attics, and other secluded areas.
Behavior: Stinkbugs are primarily herbivorous, using their piercing-sucking mouthparts to extract juices from plants. This feeding can cause significant damage to crops, leading to deformed fruits and reduced yields.
Health Risks: Their defensive odor can cause mild irritation for some individuals, particularly those with respiratory sensitivities. Additionally, when crushed or handled, some people may experience minor skin irritation or allergic reactions.
Identification: The boxelder bug (Boisea trivittata) is a slender, elongated insect that is primarily black with distinctive reddish-orange markings along its wings and thorax. Its legs and antennae are long and thin, aiding in its mobility. Nymphs, or immature boxelder bugs, are bright red and gradually develop their black markings as they mature.
Habitat:Boxelder bugs are commonly found in North America, particularly in areas where boxelder trees (Acer negundo) grow, as these trees serve as their primary host. They also feed on other maple and ash trees. During warmer months, they inhabit tree bark, leaves, and branches, but as temperatures drop in the fall, they seek shelter in homes, garages, and other structures to overwinter.
Behavior: They are most noticeable in the fall when they gather in large numbers on sunny walls or windows before moving indoors. Boxelder bugs do not bite or sting but may release a foul-smelling fluid when disturbed. While they are not destructive inside homes, their large numbers can become a nuisance.
Health Risks: Some individuals may experience skin irritation or mild allergic reactions if they come into contact with the bug’s defensive secretions. Additionally, when crushed, they can leave stains on fabrics and walls, creating an inconvenience for homeowners.
Identification: The wolf spider (family Lycosidae) is a robust, fast-moving arachnid characterized by its hairy body and long, powerful legs. Typically brown, gray, or tan with various stripe or mottled patterns, wolf spiders have excellent vision, aided by their distinctive eye arrangement—two large central eyes flanked by smaller ones. Adults range in size from ¼ inch to over 1 inch in body length, not including legs. Unlike many spiders, wolf spiders do not spin webs to catch prey.
Habitat: Wolf spiders are widespread across North America and thrive in diverse environments, including grasslands, forests, suburban gardens, and fields. They prefer areas with loose soil or debris, where they can hide in burrows or under rocks and logs. Indoors, they may wander into basements, garages, or crawl spaces while searching for prey or shelter, especially in colder weather.
Behavior: As nocturnal hunters, wolf spiders actively chase down insects and other small arthropods rather than relying on webs. They are solitary and highly territorial. Females carry their egg sacs attached to their spinnerets and, once hatched, the spiderlings climb onto the mother’s back until they are ready to disperse—an unusual behavior among spiders that helps protect the young.
Health Risks: Wolf spiders are not aggressive and typically retreat when disturbed. While their bite is rare and not dangerous to most people, it can cause mild pain, redness, and swelling, similar to a bee sting. People with sensitivities may experience stronger reactions, but serious medical issues are uncommon.
