Continue reading »]]> Pest proofing your home from rodents can sometimes be a hassle. Forty percent of mammal species are considered rodents, and can be found in vast numbers on all continents other than Antarctica. The most common rodents include mice, rats, squirrels, porcupines, beavers, chipmunks, guinea pigs, and voles. Rodents are specified by their sharp incisors that they use to gnaw wood which can harm the foundation, siding, or interior of your household. They mostly feed off of seeds and plants which can lead to further home garden complications. They are historically known as pests due to their consumption of seeds and their propensity to spread disease.

There are about 2,277 species of rodents. The ongoing success of the species to populate is partly because of their small size, short breeding cycles, and ability to gnaw and eat a wide variety of foods. They must keep their teeth worn down by gnawing, in turn the teeth are used for cutting wood, biting through skin of fruit, or for self-defense. Although some species of rodents, such as the guinea pig, have been domesticated throughout the years, most of the rodents in existence will cause harm and unrest in your household.

We offer a ride range of residential solutions at Patton to help you maintain a safe and healthy home environment. With each visit we provide identification of common pest conditions that invite infestations. We offer many residential solutions from interior service to key areas, insect and rodent monitoring/trapping, to exterior perimeter power spray and/ or
baiting. With our Premium Residential Solutions we can offer many services that aren’t commonly found with most pest control companies. We also provide a targeted follow up in a timely manner to ensure the remediation of pest problems.

We at Patton use the top technology to make sure we can eradicate your rodent infestation. We bring into your home over 75 years pest control experience so that you can be assured that we are doing everything in our power to help you to maintain a safe and happy home.

Patton Termite & Pest of Wichita specializes in Commercial/Residential: eradicating of spiders, ants, termites, wasps, hornets, fleas, bedbugs, insects and rodents. Patton provides insect and rodent monitoring / trapping, exterior perimeter power spray and / or baiting, termite monitoring, and brown recluse spider clean-out. Patton uses green, integrated pest management for chemically sensitive people. Contact Patton Today at (316) 773-3825.

Continue reading »]]> Bed Bugs are a major pest control problem that can cause unrest in your home. Bed bugs have been known human parasites for thousands of years and have even become increasingly more resistant to pesticides. Many health problems can arise from a bedbug infestation; including skin rashes psychological effects and allergic symptoms. Infestations have been on the rise in recent years due in part to more frequent foreign travel and a greater increase of second hand home furnishing exchanges.

Bedbugs are not completely nocturnal but have the habit of being very active at night, feeding off their hosts unnoticed. Adult bedbugs can grow to 4-5 mm in length and 1.5-3 mm wide. Bedbugs are commonly mistaken for other pests such as booklice and carpet beetles. They are able to stay alive in a wide range of temperatures and atmospheric compositions. They can also live for a year without feeding. Many ways your home can become infested is through your household pets, on clothing or luggage, or even previously infested items such as furniture or clothing that is brought into the house.

We offer a ride range of residential solutions at Patton Termite & Pest  to help you maintain a safe and healthy home environment. With each visit we provide identification of common pest conditions that invite infestations. We offer many residential solutions from interior service to key areas, insect and rodent monitoring/trapping, to exterior perimeter power spray and/ or
baiting. With our Premium Residential Solutions we can offer many services that aren’t commonly found with most pest control companies. We also provide a targeted follow up in a timely manner to ensure the remediation of pest problems.

We at Patton use the top technology to make sure we can eradicate your bedbug infestation. We bring into your home over 75 years pest control experience so that you can be assured that we are doing everything in our power to help you to maintain a safe and happy home.

Continue reading »]]> Wasps, Hornets, and their nests can become a major problem in your home. The majority of wasp species are parasitic and usually rely on a host to lay their eggs. The most familiar wasps have a venomous sting, although a great many species don’t actually sting. Wasps are commonly mistaken for bees and vice-versa. The various species of wasps fall into one of two main categories: solitary wasps and social wasps. Adult solitary live and operate alone, and most do not construct nests; all adult solitary wasps are fertile. By contrast, social wasps exist in colonies numbering up to several thousand strong and do build nests- but in some cases not all of the colony can reproduce. In more advanced species, just the wasp queen and male wasps can mate, whilst the majority of the colony is made up of sterile female workers.

The type of nest produced by wasps can depend on the species and location. Many social wasps produce paper pulp nests on trees, in attics, holes in the ground or other such sheltered areas in access to the outdoors. However, solitary wasps are generally parasitic or predatory and only the latter build nests at all,  hence they do they are most commonly found in sheltered places typically on the side of walls.

Hornets are the largest species of wasps reaching up to 2.2 in. in length. A  hornets’ nest is founded in spring by fertilized female queen. The queen generally selects sheltered places like dark hollow tree trunks. At the peak of its population, the colony can reach a size of 700 workers, which occurs in late summer. The adult male hornets will die off shortly after mating, the workers and non fertile queens survive at most until mid to late autumn; only the fertilized queens survive over winter.

Both a wasp and hornets sting can be very painful to humans and allergic reactions (fatal in severe cases) can occur. All wasps and hornets can sting multiple times; they do not die after stinging a human as is typical for a worker honey bee, they can also bite and sting at the same time unlike bees. Hornets, like many other social wasps, can mobilize the entire nest to sting in defense, which is highly dangerous to humans, therefore it is not advisable to kill a hornet near a nest as this can alert the rest of the colony to attack.

We offer a ride range of residential solutions at Patton Termite & Pest to help you maintain a safe and healthy home environment. With each visit we provide identification of common pest conditions that invite infestations. We offer many residential solutions from interior service to key areas, insect and rodent monitoring/trapping, to exterior perimeter power spray and/ or baiting. With our Premium Residential Solutions we can offer many services that aren’t commonly found with most pest control companies. We also provide a targeted follow up in a timely manner to ensure the remediation of pest problems.

We at Patton use the top technology to make sure we can eradicate your wasp/hornet infestation. We bring into your home over 75 years pest control experience so that you can be assured that we are doing everything in our power to help you to maintain a safe and happy home.

Continue reading »]]> Fleas are can be a very inconvenient pest for your home. They have adapted mouthparts specifically for piercing skin and sucking blood. Fleas are external parasites living off the blood of mammals. Over 2,000 species have been described worldwide. Being small, agile, usually dark in color and have a hind pair of legs adapted for jumping. They are able to jump vertically up to 7 inches and horizontally up to 13 inches, or 200 times their own body length, making them one of the best jumpers of all known animals (relative to body size).

They are light in weight so its easier for them to attach to hairs or feathers on a hosts body. Its almost impossible to kill them with smashing or scratching due to their very hard bodies that can withstand great pressure. They lay tiny white oval shaped eggs and their larva is small and pale. Adult fleas cannot survive or lay eggs without a blood meal, but may live for one year without feeding. There is often a desperate need for flea control after a family has returned from a long vacation. When the family and their pets are gone for a while it causes fleas to remain in a kind of limbo inside a pupal cocoon until a blood source can be located for feeding. In just 30 days, 10 female fleas under ideal conditions can multiply to over a quarter million different life stages.

Fleas carry with them disease that is called flea allergy dermatitis (FAD) and can cause other medical problems such as secondary skin irritations, and in extreme cases anemia, tapeworms, and stomach flu. They are also known to carry endemic typhus and also the bubonic plague. On humans, fleas can become settled in a person’s hair in less than ten minutes and can lead to soreness and itching.

We offer a ride range of residential solutions at Patton Termite & Pest to help you maintain a safe and healthy home environment. With each visit we provide identification of common pest conditions that invite infestations. We offer many residential solutions from interior service to key areas, insect and rodent monitoring/trapping, to exterior perimeter power spray and/ or baiting. With our Premium Residential Solutions we can offer many services that aren’t commonly found with most pest control companies. We also provide a targeted follow up in a timely manner to ensure the remediation of pest problems.

We at Patton use the top technology to make sure we can eradicate your flea infestation. We bring into your home over 75 years pest control experience so that you can be assured that we are doing everything in our power to help you to maintain a safe and happy home.

Continue reading »]]> Spiders can be a very dangerous problem for homeowners. Spiders are found on every single continent worldwide except for Antarctica and have been established in nearly every habitat with the exception of air and sea colonization. As of 2008, approximately 40,000 spider species and 109 families have been recorded by axonomists. A spider’s web can vary widely in size, shape and the amount of sticky thread used.

The female spider will weave silk egg-cases, each of which may contain hundreds of eggs. Only a minority of species are actually social but can create a commune of webs housing from a few to as much as 50,000 individuals. Most spiders live for at most two years, however, tarantulas and other similar spiders to them can live up to 25 years. They occur in a large range of sizes, shapes, colors, and even the ability to poison you. Although most spiders will only bite humans in self-defense, and few produce worse effects than a mosquito bite or bee-sting, most of those with medically serious bites, such as a recluse spiders and widow spiders, are shy and bite only when they feel threatened. This can easily arise by accident however but only about 100 deaths from spiders have been reported since the beginning of the 20th century.

We offer a ride range of residential solutions at Patton Termite & Pest to help you maintain a safe and healthy home environment. With each visit we provide identification of common pest conditions that invite infestations. We offer many residential solutions from interior service to key areas, insect and rodent monitoring/trapping, to exterior perimeter power spray and/ or baiting. With our Premium Residential Solutions we can offer many services that aren’t commonly found with most pest control companies. We also provide a targeted follow up in a timely manner to ensure the remediation of pest problems.

We at Patton use the top technology to make sure we can eradicate your spider infestation. We bring into your home over 75 years pest control experience so that you can be assured that we are doing everything in our power to help you to maintain a safe and happy home.

Continue reading »]]> Termite workers build and maintain nests to house their colony. These nests are elaborate structures made using a combination of soil, mud, chewed wood/cellulose, saliva, and faeces. They provide many functions for the infestation, including a protected living space and an ability to collect water through condensation. Some species build nests above ground, that eventually develop into mounds. Homeowners need to be careful of tree stumps that have not been dug up as they are prime candidates for termite nests and being close to homes, termites usually end up destroying the siding and sometimes even wooden beams.

We offer a ride range of residential solutions at Patton Termite & Pest to help you maintain a safe and healthy home environment. With each visit we provide identification of common pest conditions that invite infestations. We offer many residential solutions from interior service to key areas, insect and rodent monitoring/trapping, to exterior perimeter power spray and/ or baiting. With our Premium Residential Solutions we can offer many services that aren’t commonly found with most pest control companies. We also provide a targeted follow up in a timely manner to ensure the remediation of pest problems.

We at Patton use the top technology to make sure we can eradicate your termite infestation. We bring into your home over 75 years pest control experience so that you can be assured that we are doing everything in our power to help you to maintain a safe and happy home.