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So you are moving into a new home, or apartment, how can you protect you and your family from suffering from the previous owners or tenants infestation? This can be tough, not all bugs are obvious when initially looking at a home, and some bugs can hang around a residence for over a year without […]

Several years back I was working with a client,(we will call her Jane) who had been absent for a longer period than normal. I asked Jane about her absence, if she had been working out of town, or on vacation. I was shocked to find out that neither was the case, in fact she had

Late Spring and Summer are prime tick season in Oklahoma and lately we have been getting calls left and right from customers finding ticks on their pets and even themselves. There is a very real concern with this, as Ticks can carry a variety of life altering ailments including Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Lyme disease,

Have you ever heard the saying “the average person swallows 8 spiders a year while sleeping”? Well you can relax because it’s really not very likely. According to an article by Scientific American “The myth flies in the face of both spider and human biology, which makes it highly unlikely that a spider would ever

You can’t judge everything by size. Take tarantula’s for instance. They are HUGE in spider size and really hairy, and when scared they tend to raise their front legs to make themselves look bigger, and scarier. Scary move right? I’m secretly convinced Tarantula’s have encouraged this reputation, and Hollywood has been more than happy to

There aren’t many things worse than finding your very own roach infestation. German cockroaches in particular are hardy bugs, they are crazy hard to kill and seem to have the ability to take a hit and just keep coming back. Roaches are like people in some ways. They look for the good life: plenty of

Bedbugs are nothing new. Humans have lived with bedbugs for thousands of years. The ancient Romans once thought Bed Bugs to be a cure for multiple ailments. An easily accessible health trend one might say. Eye infection? Mash up some bed bugs and you have yourself a poultice. Fever? throw some bedbugs In your stew.

Termites swarming in the spring are as predictable as the Red Buds blooming in Oklahoma. Recently I spoke to a customer who mentioned he had seen termites around his house the previous year and thought they had disappeared when the weather became cooler. Much to his dismay they were back in the spring, swarming to

I spend an entire year waiting for summer. Sure Fall and Spring are great, but summer with the longer hours of sunlight, summer gatherings, and outdoor activities are where it’s at! There is just one thing that puts a damper on summer fun if we let it. The bugs. Now, we at Flatline Pest Control