We Keep Your Home Protected from Pests Year Round.
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We Keep Your Home Protected from Pests Year Round.
We know that you have many choices when it comes to choosing a pest control company. That's why Ozark Pest Solutions delivers the most comprehensive and reliable pest control services available. We guarantee it! For peace of mind, you know you can count on Ozark Pest Solutions for your pest control company -- home or business
Protecting Your Home & Business
Pests can cost thousands of dollars in damage to your home or business, yet you may not even detect the problem until the harm has already been done. Choosing a reliable pest control company can be an important decision in protecting your hard earned assets.
Protecting Your Family & Employees
Some of the most common household pests can pose health risks to you, your family, your employees and customers. That is why a pest infestation requires prompt, knowledgeable intervention by a professional pest control company you can trust for all your pest control needs.
Services we offer our customers:
Ant Treatments
Bed Bug Treatments
Carpenter Ant Treatments
Flea Treatments
Outdoor Yard Mosquito Treatments
Restaurant Monthly Services
Termite Inspections
Termite Treatments
Warehouse Pest Control
Animal Trapping and Removal
Leaf-cutting ants do not cut leaves to eat, but to use as compost for fungus gardens in their nests, on which they feed. They are efficient workers, and can defoliate an entire tree overnight.
Spiders
Brown recluse spiders are nocturnal and like to hide in shoes and clothing. Shake clothing and shoes before wear.
Termites
Termites mostly feed on dead plant material, generally in the form of wood, leaf litter, soil, or animal dung, and about 10% of the estimated 4,000 species (about 2,600 taxonomically known) are economically significant as pests that can cause serious structural damage to buildings, crops or plantation forests. Termites are major detritivores, particularly in the subtropical and tropical regions, and their recycling of wood and other plant matter is of considerable ecological importance. Their role in bioturbation on the Khorat Plateau is under investigation.
Bed Bugs
A number of health effects may occur due to bed bugs including skin rashes, psychological effects and allergic symptoms. Diagnosis involves both finding bed bugs and the occurrence of compatible symptoms. Treatment is otherwise symptomatic.
Fleas
Bites cause irritation, blood loss and itching. Some species can spread diseases such as bubonic plague and murine typhus. Other species of fleas can be intermediate carriers of tapeworms and can infect humans if accidentally ingested.
Cockroaches
Colonies can contain up to 1,000,000 members; termites are primitive insects closely related to cockroaches; in nature, termites help convert dead wood to humus (the organic layer of the soil)
Silverfish
Bees
If the bee colony has just appeared and is congregating outdoors, it is called a swarm. In the lower half of the United States an average swarm may be about 5,000 bees and about the size of a football and often beard shaped. For the remainder of the United States and Canada, the swarms are generally larger. In the case of a swarm, it can be best to leave it alone; bees will typically rest on a tree, bush, or an external structure for a few days before moving on. If the bees have not left within a few days, bee removal is the next option.
Wasps
Social wasps begin a nest with one queen laying all eggs for colony; if a queen dies, a worker can take over egg-laying function until colony produces new queen.
Ticks
Can carry and transmit diseases including Lyme disease, Colorado tick fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, babesiosis, relapsing fever and tularemia. Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States. In the United States, ticks cause more illnesses each year than mosquito-borne diseases.
Crickets
Earwigs
Mosquitoes
Some species transmit West Nile virus and other viruses that cause encephalitis (swelling of the brain), resulting in seasonal epidemics in North America occurring during summer and fall. Serious symptoms of West Nile disease can include high fever, headache, neck stiffness, muscle weakness, disorientation and paralysis. Mosquitoes also pose an important danger internationally where they carry and transmit the infectious agents that cause malaria, lymphatic filariasis, yellow fever and dengue fever.
Flies
May migrate up to 20 miles from birthplace, but most stay within one or two miles; 98% of flies caught in houses are house flies.
Centipedes
Millipedes
There are occasions when thousands of millipedes will populate an area, sometimes carpeting the ground with their bodies.
Beetles
These beetles have a complete metamorphosis, with the larvae being the only stage that causes damage to fabrics; some species have hair tufts that can be irritating to the skin, or if breathed into the nose or lungs.
Scorpions
All scorpions glow under black light, making black light an effective way to inspect for scorpions at night or in dark areas. Scorpions have live births and carry babies on their backs.
Hornets
Loud vibrating noises, such as those from lawnmowers and leaf blowers, can irritate and threaten hornet workers, causing them to sting people and animals. Nests can become larger than a basketball and contain hundreds of hornets. Unlike a bee, bald-faced hornets can sting repeatedly.
Yellow Jackets
Deliver one of the more painful insect stings, like other yellow jackets, which can cause swelling, become infected easily and aggravate skin conditions or allergies. Guards positioned at the nest’s opening will aggressively defend the nest when disturbed.
Moths
Larvae and adults are often mistaken for clothes moths; adults live only one or two weeks; larvae spin white, silken cocoons where they pupate, and sometimes leave “webbing” behind.
Stinging Insects
Getting rid of bees and other stinging insects can be a rather tricky proposition, especially if you're allergic to them. Angering a swarm of bees, or even one bee, can leave a person with painful stings. Instead of immediately approaching bees that are looking to take up residence on your property, it is wise to observe them from a safe location, such as a window inside your home, and then call Ozark Pest Solutions for removal. Do not spray, throw rocks, or attempt to discourage their presence in any way at this point.
Mites
Aphids
Gnats
Slugs
Snails
Midges
Sow Bugs
Pillbugs and related sowbugs are the only crustaceans that have become completely adapted to living their whole life on land.
Raccoons generally start causing problems when they move into a structure. Living inside an attic is common. Although, Ozark Pest Solutions has found them in basements, crawlspaces, chimneys, and garages. There can be odors, risk of disease, and damage to interior ceilings. Chimney dwelling raccoons will make a lot of noise, especially when the young are present. If the flue damper is open in your fireplace, you just may come face to face with one in your living room.
Snakes
Seriously though, there are about 14 different species of snakes in the Midwest. Garter Snakes are the most common cause of conflicts with humans. They usually end up in the basement in spring and fall, and startle you when you go to do the laundry or are looking for something under all that stuff you keep in the basement. They are harmless and usually fall in, or wander in through a crack in a foundation wall, or the space under the door that leads outside. If you can fit your index finger into an opening, chances are a snake can fit through it.
Wildlife
Opossums
Live and breed on host animal’s body; often found near pet bedding; attracted to hair and fur. Often found on varmints such as rodents (including Norway or roof rats), raccoons and opossums. Of the approximately 2,500 species of fleas that infest birds and mammals throughout the world, people typically encounter only a few species, including the cat flea, dog flea, human flea, poultry sticktight flea and the oriental rat flea.
Armadillos
Coyotes
Woodchucks live in holes (or burrows) in the ground. They can be 6 feet deep and upwards of 30 feet across. Every year they live there, they dig more tunnels. Around late October/November, they go underground and sleep till around the third week of March. When they emerge, the males go about the business of mating. They locate every female within their area and the courtships last a few days. Then the males return to their dens. Approximately 33 days later, the females give birth to up to 6 young. The young start to emerge from the den around the first week of June. Woodchucks have to fatten up all summer to prepare them for a long winter of hibernation. The young usually leave the mother's territory around mid-July. Many of the young do not survive the first year. Some sources say that 30% of woodchucks die during the hibernation period. Foxes, dogs, hawks, and coyotes prey upon them in the wild.
Inflict painful bites, which can, in rare cases, cause tularemia, a disease typically found in animals, especially rodents, rabbits and hares. About 200 human cases of tularemia are reported each year in the United States. Possible symptoms include skin ulcers, swollen and painful lymph glands, inflamed eyes, sore throat, mouth sores, diarrhea or pneumonia, depending on the route of infection.
Mice
Contaminate food and surfaces through their feeding activity and urination. A protein in house mouse urine can cause asthma. House mice can also carry salmonella, lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus and a disease called rickettsialpox that is transmitted by the house mouse mite.
Rats
Live and deposit their eggs in the cracks and crevices of homes, buildings and other manmade structures. They hide during the day and come out at night to feed on sleeping hosts including people, rats, raccoons, cats and dogs. Kissing bugs have been found between the bed frame and box springs or mattress.
Squirrels
In the wild, gray squirrels will claim as much as one acre of forest for their own. In the suburbs, there may be 10-20 gray squirrels in a 1-acre area, depending on the food supply (e.g. bird feeders), and housing situation (e.g. hollow trees, open sheds, and attics)
Gophers
Chipmunks
There are 4 different species of squirrels in the Midwest. Gray Squirrels are the most common cause of conflict with humans (see picture). Occasionally, Flying Squirrels, Red Squirrels, and Chipmunks (ground squirrels) may also cause conflicts with people. A track of a Gray Squirrel is shown at the bottom of this page.