We performed this initial cockroach treatment in a commercial kitchen of a restaurant. Our roach treatments involve identifying the areas where the roaches are living, vacuuming and removing live and dead cockroaches, applying roach bait up high, and spraying down low.

Although this video demonstrates the treatment process in a commercial kitchen, the same process occurs in residential homes as well.

Identifying the type of Roach is very important

The first step is to identify the type of cockroach that we are dealing with. In this case, the restaurant had an issue with German Roaches. German roaches can be challenging to control because they reproduce quickly and like to hide and live in very small cracks and crevices.

During our initial treatment we only found a few roaches but that does not mean that there weren’t MANY more hiding inside of the equipment. German roaches like to be warm and as such you will often find them in and around machinery and equipment.

In this case, the German Roaches were in the compressor under a cooler in the kitchen of the restaurant. One of the roaches that we flushed out had a Ootheca sack attacked to it. The ootheca is a sack that the female cockroach carries around that houses her roach nymphs (babies). She will carry around the ootheca for a few days or weeks before depositing it and the nymphs emerge.

A single German Roach can produce hundreds of thousands of new roaches in a single year!

The ootheca we see in the video was white or tan in color indicating that it was recently new. The longer the female has the ootheca, the darker in color it becomes.

This piece of equipment had a ton of old roach bait in and around it from a previous pest company and their treatments. I always like to create a good baseline during our initial treatment for any pest that we are eradicating.

This means that we remove the old bait and vacuum up the live and dead roaches in and around the equipment. Not only does this leave us with a clean and ready surface to treat, but it also will allow us to see what new activity is there.

After we remove the old roach bait and thoroughly vacuum the area, it is time to treat.

We like to bait high and spray low.

This means that we apply a professional grade roach gel bait higher on the equipment and apply a liquid spray under the equipment. The roaches will feed on the roach bait and die. If the roaches decide to exit the equipment, then they will come across the liquid spray treatment and they will die.

German Roach Treatments Require Follow-up Visits

Follow-up services a must when dealing with German Roaches and one-time services will rarely every resolve the issue. In this case, we are starting a bi-weekly service at this restaurant so we will be on site frequently to treat and monitor the roach issue.

Our EFFECTIVE Roach Treatment Process

This German Roach infestation was not severe and it was great that we were able to perform our effective treatment quickly. What makes our roach treatments different is that we actively seek out the roaches to perform a very specific treatment process.

This means we will lay on the floor with a flashlight to investigate and treat. Most pest control and exterminating companies will simply walk around the kitchen and spray.

We like to get up close and really find out where the roaches are living.

This is important in making sure that we are applying our professional roach products to the areas most frequented by the roaches. You would be surprised what you find when you lie on the floor and start looking around with a flashlight.

Using Caulk and Sealant to Treat for Roaches

If this German Roach issue would have been in a cabinet or under a sink or in a crack in the wall, we would have caulked or sealed the cracks to prevent infestations.

Prudential Pest Solutions is a VETERAN and FAMILY owned and operated pest control and exterminating company. As a Marine Corps Veteran with a degree in Biology from Penn State, I promise you haven’t met a cockroach exterminator like me before!

We service all of South Eastern Pennsylvania including Berks County, Chester County, Delaware County, Lancaster County, Lebanon County, Montgomery County and many more!

If you have a roach issue, call or text the professionals of Prudential Pest Solutions at (484) 401-4361.

A new client in Wernersville PA was noticing yellow jackets in their upstairs bedroom. The yellow jackets were alive and dead at the only window in the room. They suspected they had a yellow jacket nest so they called the experts at Prudential Pest Solutions!

During our initial inspection, we opened up the access door to the attic space which was in the same room as the yellow jackets they were seeing. Immediately I could see the yellow jacket nest spanning the bay between two ceiling joists at the lower corner of the attic.

The homeowner and I left the attic and closed the door so that I could don my bee suit and get to work. This yellow jacket nest was pretty big and exposed. That made it relatively easy to locate and treat the nest.

We began by removing some of the stored objects in the attic so that we had as much room as possible to work. When you are treating a yellow jacket nest in the lower section of the attic, you MUST have the correct protective gear on.

In addition to my sting protection gear, I also wore my half-face respirator. This is because we use an aerosol insecticide to treat the nest and you do NOT want to breathe in the chemicals. The chemical product I really like for treating yellow jacket nests is PT PI made by BASF. Not only does this product permeate the nest completely, but it also works to kill the yellow jackets VERY quickly.

This fast acting action is required when you are working up close and personal with hundreds of stinging insects! I begin the treatment by injecting the PT PI into different sections of the nest. This is because the nest will have many layers under the paper shell and we want to treat as much of the nest as we can.

You will know when you have successfully reached the bulk of the nest because the nest will “come alive” with noise. It sounds like a very loud, synchronized buzzing noise that lets you know you have applied the chemical where it needs to go. Once the noise starts to quiet down, indicating that the many yellow jackets are now dead, we begin to remove the nest.

As we expose more of the nest during the removal, we will continue to apply the PT PI to ensure that every nook and cranny of the nest has been treated. This nest was quite large and we were able to remove it in pretty good sized chunks.

After the nest has been removed, we apply a long term residual insecticidal dust or powder to the area where the nest was located. This dust will treat and prevent any new yellow jackets from setting up shop where this nest was.

After the dust has been applied, I use a battery powered backpack vacuum to suck up any remaining live and dead yellow jackets, and nesting material from the area. Our clients NEVER have to do any clean-up when we are finished with a job.

This job took place in November which is the very tail end of the yellow jacket season. Had this nest been located outside and not causing any issues, we probably would have let it die off on its own. Yellow jackets all die off in the winter, except for fertilized queens which survive to the next year.

Since this nest was inside and the attic and homeowner was having live and dead yellow jackets in the house, the nest had to be treated and removed.

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We service Wernersville, Berks County, and the surrounding areas including Chester County, Lancaster County, and Many More!

As a Marine Corps Veteran with a degree in Biology from Penn State, I promise you haven’t met a yellow jacket exterminator like me before!

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This homeowner in Reading PA, which is in Berks County, was hearing scratching noises about the ceiling in their second story bedroom. They were also finding live yellow jackets in the second floor of the home.

Suspecting they had a yellow jacket nest, they called the yellow jacket experts at Prudential Pest Solutions!

When we arrived to the home, we immediately suspected there was a yellow jacket nest above the ceiling in the attic. I donned my bee suit so that I could get a closer look in the attic without risk of being stung.

When I approached the area above the bedroom where they were hearing activity in the attic, I noticed there was an air conditioner line that protruded through the wall. I could see daylight around the line and also saw yellow jacket nesting material that extended from the HVAC line into the insulation. This is where the yellow jacket nest is going to be found.

I began removing some of the fiberglass batt insulation to expose the nest. We use an aerosol insecticide called PT PI to treat all of our yellow jacket and hornet nests. PT PI is a very fast acting, quick killing product that is great for treating yellow jacket nests.

I inserted the applicator into the nest and began the treatment. The PT PI permeates the entire nest area and quickly kills the yellow jackets in the nest. This quick killing is VERY important since we are working in close quarters to hundreds of stinging insects!

Once we start removing more of the nest from the attic void, we continue to apply the PT PI to ensure that the entire nest is treated and dead. Once the nest has been treated and removed, I apply a long lasting dust insecticide to the void where the nest was located. This product will provide long term treatment to any remaining yellow jackets that try and return to the area where the nest was located.

Usually we will seal up the gap where the HVAC line comes into the attic from the outside of the house. In this case, the line entered the attic three stories above the ground and was not accessible to us from the outside.

Instead, I sealed up around the HVAC from the inside of the attic space. The sealant we use is a low expansion, hard forming foam that is black in color. It is similar to the yellow or orange expansion foam found in many hardware stores.

Since the foam we use is attached to a foam gun, we have better control of the foam and thus can make the sealant look cleaner and nicer while still sealing up the gaps.

Once the HVAC was sealed up, I inspected the rest of the attic space to ensure that there was no other entry ways for the outside yellow jackets to enter the attic.

There are always yellow jackets on the outside of the nest that were gathering resources for the colony. These yellow jackets are returning and finding out that their front door is sealed up and their home is gone!

For these remaining yellow jackets on the outside of the home we sprayed a liquid insecticide to kill them off and any new yellow jackets that try to enter the area.

Prudential Pest Solutions are the EXPERTS at treating and removing yellow jacket and hornet nests. We service Reading and Berks County, Chester County, Lancaster County, and ALL of South Eastern and South Central Pennsylvania.

As a VETERAN and FAMILY owned and operated pest control company, you can trust that we will resolve your yellow jacket issue. I am a Marine Corps Veteran with a degree in Biology from Penn State and I promise you haven’t met an exterminator like me before!

If you have a bee, hornet, wasp, or yellow jacket issue, call or text us at (484) 401-4361.

This homeowner in Sinking Spring PA, which is in Berks County PA, had yellow jackets coming into the upstairs bedroom. They could see that the yellow jackets were coming into the house from a gap below the window in the bedroom.

The EXPERTS at Prudential Pest Solutions was called because we are the BEST at treating and removing yellow jacket nests!

When we first inspected the home, we could see where the yellow jackets were coming and going from in a gap below the bedroom window. There was also a section of the wall on the inside of the bedroom that was very soft.

This evidence strongly suggested that a yellow jacket nest was located inside of the wall of the bedroom. I put on my bee suit and started prepping the area for treatment. To minimize the amount of yellow jackets coming into the bedroom and the house, we shut the bedroom door and turned off the lights in the bedroom.

This confines any yellow jackets in the bedroom to the bedroom itself and allows them to congregate at the only light source remaining, the window.

When yellow jackets enter the living space of the home they immediately search for a way out. This is why you will often find them around lights and windows because the yellow jackets think that the light source is a way out.

I laid a tarp on the floor directly under the soft section of wall in the bedroom where we suspected the nest to be located. The wall was soft because the yellow jackets tend to chew at the wall from the inside. In this home instead of drywall, the wall was constructed with plaster and lath.

This style of construction involves running very thin wooden boards between the wall framing and then applying plaster over it. It is not very common to find soft spots in a wall of this type. Using my drywall saw I poked at the soft section of the wall to outline the area I would remove.

We only need about 6 inches of space to successfully treat and remove a yellow jacket nest. Once I began to remove some of the plaster wall, some yellow jackets immediately came out of the wall. This is why we always shut the door of the room we are working in so that we can confine the yellow jackets to one area.

Using my favorite Yellow Jacket treatment chemical, PT PI, I injected the aerosol into the wall void. This product works great because it is fast, deadly to the yellow jackets, and doesn’t leave any residual. When we first apply the PT PI into the nest, the nest “comes alive” with noise and activity. When the noise starts to subside, I begin to open up the area some more so that I can physically remove the nest and nesting material.

After all of the nest has been treated and removed, I apply a long lasting insecticidal dust into the area where the nest used to be located. This will kill off any new yellow jackets that enter the wall void.

Tape is then used to close up the opening in the wall we created to prevent any further yellow jackets from coming into the bedroom. We ALWAYS leave the area cleaned up, so the next step is to vacuum the remaining debris and yellow jackets that were in the bedroom.

Once the area was cleaned up, I opened the window to apply the same insecticidal dust into the gap under the window where the yellow jackets were coming and going from.

For most homeowners, this would have been their first step. They would have noticed yellow jackets under the window and simply sprayed at the gap where the yellow jackets were coming into the house. This would have resulted in killing some yellow jackets but would NEVER have reached the nest inside the wall.

Our client in Sinking Spring PA was THRILLED that we were able to treat and remove their yellow jacket nest in such a affordable, professional, and effective manner.

Prudential Pest Solutions are the yellow jacket and hornet experts. We service Berks County, Chester County, Lancaster County and ALL of South Eastern and South Central Pennsylvania.

Prudential Pest Solutions is a VETERAN and FAMILY owned and operated pest control and exterminating company. As a Marine Corps Veteran with a degree in Biology from Penn State, I promise you haven’t met a yellow jacket exterminator like me before!

If you have a yellow jacket or hornet issue, call or text the professionals at (484) 401-4361!

Our client in Wernersville PA was seeing yellow jackets near their front door in the ground. They were concerned that since the yellow jacket nest was so close to the front door that a delivery person would be stung when knocking on their front door.

They called the yellow jacket experts at Prudential Pest Solutions to treat and remove the nest.

When we arrived at the home, I could see yellow jackets coming and going from a plant pot that the client used to hold their garden hose. I put on my bee suit and began the yellow jacket treatment process.

The first step was to determine whether the yellow jacket nest was in the coiled up garden hose in the plant pot or below the plant pot. I disconnected the hose from the wall and moved the plant pot out of the way.

When I moved the pot, I could see the opening of the nest in ground directly under the pot. The nest opening looks like a 1/2″ hole with paper nesting material around it. Even though the nest is underground, yellow jackets will still create a paper shell around the combs of their nests.

I applied my favorite yellow jacket chemical, PT PI, into the main opening of the nest. With underground yellow jacket nests, the more you expose the nest, the more areas you have to treat. This is because when yellow jackets build their nests under the ground, the nest can extend into chambers that may not allow the chemical applied to the main entrance to reach.

As I began to remove the comb of the nest, I continue to apply the PT PI into the nest area to ensure that we are treating the ENTIRE nest. Some companies will just spray the nest opening or apply an insecticidal powder into the main entrance.

We like to treat and REMOVE the nest to ensure that the yellow jacket nest is completely resolved. After all of the nesting material and combs have been removed, I apply a liquid chemical to the where the nest used to be. This will ensure that any yellow jackets that were not in the nest during the treatment will be killed when they return to the area.

If the nest had been located in a wall or in a structure, I would have used a dust insecticide to treat the nest area. Using our professional equipment and chemical, we were able to quickly and professionally treat and remove this rather large underground yellow jacket nest.

We are the EXPERTS at treating and removing yellow jacket, hornet, bee, and wasp nests. This treatment was located in Wernersville PA which is where I live and where our main office is located.

We service ALL of South Eastern and South Central Pennsylvania including Berks County, Chester County, Lancaster County, Montgomery County, Delaware County, and Many More!

Prudential Pest Solutions is a VETERAN and FAMILY owned and operated pest control and exterminating company.

As a Marine Corps Veteran with a degree in Biology from Penn State, I promise you haven’t met a yellow jacket exterminator like me before!

If you have a yellow jacket issue, call or text the professionals at (484) 401-4361.

I took a weekend off to go camping with some buddies and while we were adding wood to the fire, Carpenter Ants came flooding out of one of the logs.

Carpenter Ants are wood destroying insects that damage wood by chewing to create galleries for their nest. Unlike termites, carpenter ants do not actually eat and digest the wood, they only chew at it to create their nest.

This is why when you have a carpenter ant infestation, you will see saw dust and frass near where their nest is located. This saw dust and frass is NOT found with termite infestations.

Carpenter Ants are very common in Pennsylvania. In this case, we can see that the infested log had a rather large hole through the center of it. This hole, or gallery, is where the main section of the carpenter ant nest would have been located.

In the nest would have been the carpenter ant queen, eggs, and worker ants that keep the colony up and running. Unbeknownst to us, we put this log on the fire and within a few minutes, the carpenter ants began to come out. This was due to the log heating up and forcing the carpenter ants to evacuate the colony.

Carpenter Ants, from a pest control view, are most commonly encountered in homes and structures. The ants prefer some moisture in the wood so you will not typically find their nests in very dry wood. Carpenter Ants can forage up to 100 yards for resources for the colony.

This means that if you see one or two large carpenter ants in your home, it usually does not mean there is a nest in the home. If you are seeing more than 10 carpenter ants a day, or any ants with wings, then there is strong possibility that there is a carpenter ant nest in or directly near the home.

We are the EXPERTS at treating and eradicating carpenter ant nests from structures. If you have a carpenter ant issue, we can help!

We are a VETERAN and FAMILY owned and operated pest control and exterminating company that services ALL of South Eastern and South Central Pennsylvania.

As a Marine Corps Veteran with a degree in Biology from Penn State, I promise you haven’t met a carpenter ant exterminator like me before!

Call or text the professionals at Prudential Pest Solutions at (484) 401-4361.