Coby's Pest Control & Tentless Termite Podcast

We’re talking about Palmetto bugs today, our large, large roaches. Now, Palmetto bug is so named because not a lot of people wanted to say, I have roaches in my house, but they don’t mind saying I’ve got Palmetto bugs in my house. But truth, you know, they are all very large roaches that can get up to around two inches. Now we do have some Madagascar hissing roaches that really get big but, but these guys get up to about, about, give or take two inches. They can fly. They’re not usually really good flyers, but they can fly and they usually fall under the category of American roaches, Australian roaches and Florida wood roach. Not too much on the Florida woods or oriental that looks similar, but the but in this case, gentlemen had a 1955 home, and then he had an addition onto the house in 2002 and in the old part of the house is where he was seeing most of the the the activity.

And so I first thing I like to do is walk around the home and see what’s going on. And I’m looking around, and there’s a lot of concrete, some rocks, garages fairly clean, not a lot of harbor areas. And so after looking for 10 minutes or so, there’s something underneath this house, more than likely, well, there’s no access to get under the home in this particular case, so we’ll find out. I mean, we did the thermal treatment around the perimeter, but this was in Largo, Florida, but we do services. Tampa owes more Palm Harbor all over. But this wasn’t this was in Largo, and I don’t listen. We’re going to treat this, but we’re going to see what kind of results we get, and we knock this out. You just don’t seem religious with them. We did the transit break. But if we have a continuation, and they’re dying, but they’re still coming out in groves, probably pretty good indication that they were in a location that that we just couldn’t get to. And that happens occasionally. You can use, like, if you go into attic, you could use some dust to do some some different kind of baits out there that will probably help or solve the problem. But if you have an area you just cannot gain access to, you have to start figuring out who one now would and and so I’m hoping this was just on today. So I’m hoping that this won’t be a now what, but we’ll find out.

To find out kind of interesting. I had spiders interpreted springs last week, and roaches and lager this week and but they were both not in normal situations, and they’re kind of fun. I mean, when you’ve gotta use your head and kind of figure out what’s going on, just help somebody so but if you have questions about this or anything else, please give us a call. And always remember, as long as God keeps making them, we’ll keep doing you. Have a great day. You. Transcribed by https://otter.ai

Coby here with Coby’s Tentless Termite and Pest Control servicing the Tampa Bay area, Tampa st, Pete, Clearwater, every place in between. One of the one of the extremely common places that we fumigate, is mobile homes, mobile home parks. We call coaches because they don’t really, not really mobile more. Back when I was a kid, they were mobile. And I say that because we were, my folks were the service, and we moved from campus, u North Carolina, Jacksonville, North Carolina to Beaufort, South Carolina, and we took our home with us. And so it was mobile back then.

And I don’t know if that was everybody or just how we did respective, but, yeah, so mobile homes, coaches, whatnot, in the Pinellas County, Hillsborough County, high school County, all these areas, the mobile homes are quite old. Now they do have some of the ones that are the further north you go there, they’re kind of making new parks, but most of the old parks down here have 90 plus percent of very, very old homes, I say very old anywhere from from 55 to to 70 is not uncommon at all. And then if they do put a new coach in? Well, it’s surrounded by old homes that have termite problems. The older the neighborhood, the more likely you’re going to go ahead and have termites in that neighborhood, and it’s for no other reason other than those colonies have established themselves in the homes in wood piles and the fences and the trees, you name it. If you told me a hedge of shrubs, I can go in there, pull a bridge down, I can find terminals. So they’re everywhere, basically well down to but our services work exactly well on mobile homes. And it the walls are normally not a two by four, but a two by three, and so even a little bit smaller, and we can get it and then the paneling that’s on there, and we’re able to, with our high pressure injection system, get to those areas very, very well throughout the entire power occasionally you have real bad problem in the roof. And then we work on those, or and, or the seam right down, where the double wide triple lights are and so the seams are very prolific, with turmoils as well. But they’re everywhere. I mean, thank goodness most of them have used high glue boards, particle board, thank you, that’s one thing.

Peg board, and they don’t like the glue, and so the floors are not normally an issue. Now, water damage would be definitely an issue with that, but, but not so much with with so much. But if you’re if and if you’re renovating anything like this, you definitely want us to come in and treat before you put those the drywall back up. If you’ve taken the whole paneling down and done, you definitely want us there to do that, just because it’s a one time opportunity to see the studs, to see everything like that. But if you have a question about this, or any boats you may have in a mobile home or any other home, give us call. We love to talk to you about this. That’s what we do. And always remember, as long as Do you think we’ll keep killing them. You have a great day. You.

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Coby here with Coby’s Tentless Termite and Pest Control. Today, we’re going to be talking about termites on the beach. So in Pinellas County, we have some most beautiful beaches in the world. And I’m just saying that that’s that’s consistently or voted some of the best beaches in the world. Don’t believe me. Come on down your level. But so do the termites, just as well. So a lot, and I give it a lot of homes that are on the water, near the water, I say near the water. I guess being Pinellas County is a peninsula, all of us are near the water. So much activity that we get in all these areas. And the the main reason, I believe it is, is that you have the humidity just stays in such a perpetual state that this is perfect for Central Florida’s tons of tons of both subterranean and dry wood, termites, vaginal termites, especially. And so if you’re on the beach and you would think you might have a problem, you want to get somebody out there pretty quick so they can, they can identify and then treat it as necessary. If you are in a we’ll cover that subject next, actually, not for my next next video.

We’ll be covering a thing about condos and townhouses. But any, anybody that’s that’s either on the water or within spit distance of the water, it is so common for us to see people made a beach, Indian rock. St, Pete, Clearwater. St, key, you name. It just doesn’t matter if you’re on the beach, any of those, those red shores or so on, just tons and tons of activity with termites in those areas. Fortunately, we so common for us. I mean, we do a really good job of of controlling them and preventing them. Which fumigations are not able to do, they’ll control them, but they don’t prevent them, and they’re going to swarm in year after year after year after year after year. So if you’re just putting a band aid on them when they fumigate, then they’re coming back. I mean, they’re coming back the next year, actually. And the reason I say that is is because, if you think about it, Germany’s going to swarm every single year. And as communities get older, and the beaches have been had communities on them for over 100 years. As the community get older, older trees, older homes, older wood piles, older fences, older whatever. And so they’re going to swarm each each colony will swarm.

And on the day they swarm, did the wind blow towards your house and go away from the house, and they’re going to swarm the termites usually, season is usually the last 6990 days, so even if only half the time the wind blowed blew towards your house. So that’s that’s 30 to 45 days that you’ve got termites that have hit your helmet, and very high likelihood that they’ve already gotten back in and it’s just because the auto fumigation kills. There’s no residual. It doesn’t it doesn’t prevent anything. So if next time they take a bite, they just start at it, whereas if you have a proper tetanus treatment with multiple products and take a bite and they die.

And that’s really what you’re you’re looking to go ahead and do when possible. Now, there are situations we’ve been in what we tell them you’re going to have to fumigate. It just doesn’t make sense to use our service. But that’s becoming few and far between. But, but it’s not uncommon for us to recommend a fumigation when necessary. But yeah, on the beaches, tons of stuff. So if you even think you have something just there’s a call, we love to come out, take a look, see if there’s something we can help you with what we do. So if you have a question about this or anything else, please give us a call and and always remember, as long as God keeps making it, we’ll keep killing them. You have a great day.

Coby here with Coby’s Tentles Termite and Pest Control. Here today, they’re talking about flying small flying insects and other gnats flies, or just flying buggy just don’t know what they are. The most common one we have there’s relatively small, irritating as hell, and they are either fruit fly or a fungus neck. And what we run into when we’re solving this this issue is bleach down the drains. That’s the first thing we tell everybody, because it seems to help. Now, if you have a septic system, you may not be able to do that. And there’s other other possibilities you could do. Lactobacillus acid is one that you could use that works fairly well cleaning the gunk, and that’s what you’re doing there. They’re nesting inside the gunk and the trains and the P traps, and so that’s what we’ll have with that. The other then physical, physically trapping any of these guys, reduces the population, and sometimes they’ll just eliminate things. And so the best way we found to do those things is a especially for the flies, is to take organic apple cider vinegar. Now you can use beer, you can use pork wine. You can use couple different things, and and they’ll tend to go towards it. And if you have a sticky trap, then you’ll get on the sticky trap. And sometimes your kids dozens, if not hundreds, of these things quite incredible, and that can be the craziest thing, the two the two situations at my own home that I’ve had when the kids were younger, we had a terrible problem for about three weeks, and no matter what I did, I just could not get a handle on these things. And finally, we found a banana in a backpack. It was sitting someplace, and I think it was over over Christmas holidays, so the backpack wasn’t moved back to school. So once we found that eliminated problem with that. And then the other one was, we have a lot of our or had a lot of our pantry items out in the garage where we kept everything and afford it pretty hot, so they don’t always last as long out there, but we about three weeks catching dozens, if not hundreds of them, not figuring out what the heck’s going on. And my son found a bag of old almond flour, and it was just black with the larvae and the flies and everything that was going inside of it, and that’s where they were. They found that little spot and they and soon as we got rid of that, we eliminated the problem. So it’s definitely one of those things to where the drains are, the first place you’re going to check if that doesn’t seem to help, and taking the organic apple cider vinegar and or other things you can try to use. If those don’t seem to help, then you have a different source, and then so you have to locate that source. And then you should like, once you find that, it’s going to eliminate your problem. But it can be a very frustrating thing. I’ve seen onions drop behind refrigerators before. I’ve seen all kinds of different things over the years, and it can be quite crazy. In fact, there was one surgical center that was having a problem, and about four offices down from from the surgical area, somebody had banana and where they put the their pens and pencils and whatnot. Nobody could figure it out. Well, they find that banana themselves so but yeah, definitely one of those things to where the get a vinegar bleach. Try that first, and I think you’re going to have success. But if not, so call we love Him and stuff like this and figuring things out, it’s a lot of fun for us. So I feel a question about this or anything, please. And always remember, as long as God keeps making, will keep killing you. Have a great day. I

Hi Coby, here with  Coby’s Tentless Termite and Pest Control. And today we’re going to be talking about earwigs and centipedes. And these are what we call LAWN insects. And the reason we lawn is because that’s where they originate at and that’s where they live, and that’s where they feed. But occasionally you’ll have either too much rain or not enough rain, and it will kind of flood them out or or be a drought, and start looking for stuff. And people see them on the porch. You’ll see them in the pools. You’ll see them climbing the walls. I actually was up at my mother’s home last week and and she was having these and I said nothing, insects. And usually what happens with those is that once they get out of the out of the lawn, they tend to dehydrate, so, so they’re going to die anyway, but people don’t like to see these things. And, of course, earwigs for years, picture bugs. Oh my gosh, they’re going to bite me. No, that’s not going to happen. But sounds good, um, but now these are just annoying little things, and usually a good perimeter treatment around the home. Does it? If not, then your lung company can apply a pesticide down. But usually they’re trying to treat for turf damaging insects. And if they’re not damaging anything, then they’re like, let them do their thing. They’re killing other bugs that you don’t you don’t really want. It’s kind of like a ladybug or spider or any of the beneficial insects, some wasps, actually, most wasps, and we’ll be doing that. But that being said, just like that stuff in their house. So So we find ways to go ahead and take care of it, but they’re definitely lawn insects, and they will dehydrate and die on their own in almost all cases. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an infestation of either one in the home in the last 38 years. So definitely mountain, Tampa st, Pete Clearwater area just hasn’t anything like that. So maybe in other locations in the cross country, it’s possible, but obviously you need so. So if you have a question about this or anything else, please give us call of Kobe with Kobe’s tetanus from pest control, and always remember, as long as fat keeps taking them, we’ll keep telling them, You have a good day. You.

Coby here with Coby’s Tentless Termite and Pest Control. And we’re gonna be talking about questions that we get quite often, and this one is when somebody sees a swarm or a small, little insect with wings, first, they’re always considered as termites, because they know termites swarm. But a lot of times we’ll get out there and it’s going to stop termites as ants. And the question is always the same, ants can fly? Well, these can what you basically have is you have the reproductive members of the colony, not the king. The kings and queens. For the beginning of a new colony, The Queen will produce workers, soldiers, different caste inside the colony. And then, and usually, it’s a seasonal thing. They don’t it’s not, not a month to month thing, but they start producing swimmers and the swarmers will get, let’s see. They’ll start off as an ag and then a little bit bigger, bigger, bigger. And they usually are kept in a slightly different location from the rest of the colony, which colony is doing its thing, keeping itself going, foraging for food and so on. But then you’ll see these, these ants. And once you the areas, will see these. Course, in a home, we’ll see them that be on a windowsill or a door where light is, or you’ll see where light is turned on. Now that could be a stove light, it could be a television. It could be just a normal house. Land could be anything. And then they come to there, but when we look outside, there’s a lot comes up that’s a telltale sign. And most people don’t go ahead and and knock down the webs and whatnot that are around the lights on the outside of the home. So they’ll, they’ll, will look there, and we’ll be able to tell, is it a man is not usually, though, they have a sample force and we can identify it. And the easiest way to tell if it is a termite versus ants, does it have a waste? There’s got a waste. Okay, thorax and boundary, so there’s a waste there that it’s an x3 segments versus the termites two seconds, they don’t have a waste. But the easier way is to take a picture and send it to us. If you do that, we’ll be happy to identify it and then see if it’s something that we can help you with. Almost always it is. And then if you don’t have a sample, and you know they’re coming in, you get that. Then we’ll probably check outside in the in the bubbles, and spend webs and see what’s going on out there. And most time, we’ll be able to tell if something’s going on, what, what type of insect it is that’s bothering you. And so it makes it relatively easy when you don’t clean but, uh, but they’re so tiny in most cases that when is the doors to be closed and screens are on, doesn’t stop them. They just go right through. Sometimes they go up to the attic and the lights are on the deck, the can lights and come down, or be attracted to the light in the attic and then come down into the house. That’s another way they can carpenters are notorious for that. But there’s a lot of different possibilities. But you just may just just give us a call. We’re happy to help you with this or anything, any questions you may have. So happy to touch with you and helping any way we can. So always remember one of the guy keeps making them we’ll keep killing them. Do have a great day.

Hi Coby, here with Coby’s tentless Termite and Pest Control servicing the Tampa Bay area. Clearwater St,. Pete, Clearwater, Tampa spring Safety Harbor. Kind of city? St, Pete, safety beach. You name it. Anybody’s friend here, we love to look to help you out with termites. But if you happen to live in a multi unit, thing could be a condo, could be a townhouse, could be an apartment, whatever it may be, and for whatever reason there you are unable to to fumigate. That’s usually what what you’ll see most of those, or just you don’t want to be the one that says, I want badly, poison gas in the hell I help, and there’s nobody, nobody in the land is going to say that you have to do that is, oh, homeowner association, no, they can’t make you put poison gas in your home. They know a lot of things, but poison gas is not one of them. But that being said, there is an alternative, and this is what we do. And then we do it very, very well. And we have been doing it since 2002 over, over 20 years now. And condos and townhouses are something we do a ton of. And basically what we do with that is we go up in the attic, bear with there and then, depending on how the home is situated, depends on where else we will retreat. Now, in most cases, the construction of a town hall or a condo, you have the front wall and the rear wall as you go in are going to be wood, and then the sides are going to go ahead and be concrete block, firewalls that are up and that pretty much make sure that, like I said, the firewall, make sure that fire doesn’t get from point A to point B. Well, the good news is that almost never do we see termites on those particular walls. And just it’s not a common thing, but we’ll treat the wall, the weights, the door frames, above, windows, below windows, all those areas of the attic floors, when necessary, a bunch of different bunch of different things. So if you’re in that situation and you either do not want poison gas, and they say you have to and or you want to go ahead and just your unit treated, not the whole building treated. We do that all the time. Have a number of associations and whatnot that we’ve been working with for many years, and anytime they have something we take care of. So if you have a question about condos and condos and townhouses, then please give us a call. I said. We do this all the time. We’re very good at it, and if we can help you in any way, at least answer questions for you, we’d love to do that. So please let us know, and if you have a question about this or anything else, always give us a call. And always remember, look, my tongue is not working today, and I said, always remember, as long as God keeps making them, we’ll keep killing them. You have a great day.

And we are back, and today we’re going to be talking about spiders in Tampa Bay, Tampa St, Petersburg, and specifically we’re going to be talking about spiders in Tarpon Springs. So we had a customer call the other day, and she said that there was, she lives in a triplex, and she was seeing 5678, large wolf spiders, or Huntsman spiders. And if, for you don’t know if they can get the size your hand, they could be quite large. She was seeing a ton of and so I was trying to figure out what’s causing that. And usually when you’re when you’re looking at spiders, you’re looking at something that is going to be a, what do you call it opportunistic? There got to be a food source there that’s going to be a what they’re what they’re after. And in this case, there really wasn’t anything like that. And so we were discussing it, and went back and forth for a while. And then I said, were they all the same size? He says, Yeah, they are all the exact same size different parts of house, but that was with the word if I said, Okay. So what probably happened, if you’re not aware of spiders, when they lay eggs, usually those eggs are by the many, many hundreds, if not 1000s, when they they come out, and normally they’ll have a string of silk on them, and that’ll the wind will just blow them and carry them to two different locations. Well, if they hatch an attic, they don’t really have that opportunity. And I probably would think that there’s other spiders, not the, let’s say, the mother, but the other spiders go ahead and take advantage of the situation either. Well, if they’re all the same size, then more than likely what had happened was, is that a catched and you had how many dozens, hundreds, 1000s of spiders came out, but only a handful survived, and then they got to the point where there’s no more food. I mean, they’re in a very small area, and there was just too many spiders for the amount of food that was there. So they were looking for for food, and then they came down into the home from the attic. Now that is from the best I can figure. Did it happen that way? Don’t know, but that’s, that’s my thought process on that. So if you have a really weird spider problem, give us a call. We might be able to help you solve it and or do our treatment and whatnot. But this one’s a little bit different in that we’re trying to understand why so many of the same size and and without a food source, and we made the answer so you have a question about this or anything else I’ve said, just give our office a call, and always remember, as long as God keeps negative, we’ll keep killing you. Have a great day. Bye.

Coby here with oby’s Tentless Termite and Pest Control, and we’re going to talk about the weather and Florida bugs now, right now we are when this is being recorded. We are in a very, very wet time of the year, and you never know when these are going to happen, but when they do, things get much, much more active. And I say that if it’s wet and cold, not so much. Rodents would probably go ahead and move a little bit more under those conditions, but roaches and ants, not so much. They are getting slowed down because of the the cold. Anyway, it’s cold enough, it’ll freeze them in the kill them. But most of the time they are in Florida that it never gets cold enough for them to go ahead and actually do that. So in the summertime, though, if you think about it, they are there, they don’t have blood, so it’s, it’s, what do you call it? The inner fluids will go ahead and warm up, and as they warm up, they get much more active and prolific, as far as breeding and whatnot. They also have most of the insects that are going to swarm via reproduction, mostly ants, they’re going to swarm during this time period, great period, time periods from April to October for Florida residents in the Tampa Bay Clearwater St Pete area. So let’s see probably 75% of our calls, and one of the reasons that is, is because you have literally gone ahead and flushed them out of their flush them out of their their homes, and so now they’re moving, and they need to relocate. And usually like to relocate your house. So that’s that’s one of the big things. The other thing that can happen is, is that they will go in when there’s not a lot of water we have. The dry periods, they always go in a dormant state, as far as they know there’s not so the more they move, the more likelihood they’re going to dehydrate and and or die dry wood hermits are great example of that. All they need is a dry piece of wood to survive, and so they don’t need any water, per se, to do that. However, if they have a leak in an area, they that they speed up the process. They know that that when they’re very methodical with their movements, because they like so they dehydrate and die. But if they have the extra water, speeds them up a little bit. And actually, that’s one of the the parts with our treatments that we injected to the attic. Go in the attic and spread out the bare wood injected into the walls. It spikes when you use 20, 3040, gallons of product. It spikes into the into their homes, and that gets them more active, and then more active gets them into products we use. The same thing is basically true with the roaches and ants. When we treat we look to the areas that are going to be the most likely harbor areas, knowing that when it rains, they’re going to come out of there, so which you’re on top of, and then closer to the home, the eaves, they’d love to go up in your attic, around the windows, doors, those are all places they like to get in as well. So we try to hit all those areas where they know it’s going to be problem. But the weather, summer heat, as well as rain causes things to move and or become much, much more active. So that’s the my little spiel on weather and Florida bucks. So hope you find that helpful. If you have questions about this or anything else, please give us a call the please. Yeah, just give us a call. We’d love to talk to you. You have a great day. Bye.

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Coby here with Coby’s tetlet Termite and Pest Control. Today, we’ve been talking about something that that normally, if you watch this channel, listen to us long enough, you know that I’m talking about questions that we get from customers and people in the Tampa Bay area, Clearwater, St, Peter, all those areas. And today it’s this going to be a little bit more about something that’s been that’s bothered me a little bit, but yet, it’s a badge of pride at the same time. And that’s when is a one star review a good thing for a pest control company. The first one is a never, you never want a one star review. And the correct you don’t want to have poor service that causes somebody to go ahead and say they didn’t do what they said they’re going to do, or whatever the case may be like that. However, however, if you go to somebody’s home and you explain the details of what you do, and you know that you’ve been doing this for over 20 years, and they give you a one star review because you’re expensive. Like, is that? Is that even a thing? You have hundreds of companies out there, you can go with anybody, but you give somebody a one story review because they’re expensive. Now, the first time it happened, how I was bothered terribly, what I can do, it’s like he’s a one star review like that. And then I start thinking about it, that’s a badge of honor. I mean, you’re expensive. Okay, yeah, I am why? Because we give the best service out there. I mean, you can drive any car you want, but, but we’re not a Kia. We’re we’re not, I mean, granted, they are getting a little better, and they look pretty cool too on occasion. But we’re not a cheap car or used car. We’re that, we’re that upper echelon company with what we do, and we have worked very, very three, very hard to go ahead and to get there when you literally devote 13 years of your life being on every single job, making the equipment, coming up with the formulas to go ahead and make sure what happens seeing, going back when somebody has a problem, figuring out why they have the problem, and You go on and on, and you just dedicate everything to that. And then you finally feel comfortable enough to say, Okay, now we’ve got this down. And then you train somebody, and you and you train somebody, they do 400 jobs before you let them go out on their own. There’s not another company that I’m aware of in the country that does that. So So yeah, we are more expensive, or we used to be more expensive. This year has been a crazy year where we’re getting prices all over the place. Some are just way higher than, than, than anything that we’re charging. But the reason we’re expensive is because our product well, first of all, just complain to you with all the training and what it took to develop the program, but also the product we use. If you do a fumigation on a home, or tenting on a home, and they take the 10 off, and you can go back in, well, so can the termites. There is no residual for that product, that part, that service, lasts you one minute for the time that everything was air. Dot, you can go back in, actually less time than that. Ours last for up to 50 years. We’re using products that two products that are transfer, products that will has been tested. Basically put a board in the woods and put product around it, see how long a glass and 95% effective over 15 years. Then you’re taking a liquid borate, putting it on the wood. Nothing’s known to take it out of the woods. So it’s basically a permanent treatment. So you have something that’s gonna last for 3040, 50 years versus five seconds. Yeah, that’s gonna be a little more special. So then that’s the only time I can think of. And there are other companies that have running across that same thing. They were too expensive for them. Well, okay, no, I don’t apologize. No, no, I really don’t. We’re expensive. We’re proud of that. It’s a badge of honor, and if I get a one star review because I’m expensive, I’m okay with that. I’m okay with that. So if you have questions, I don’t know about this, but about any bug. Problem, just give us a call. Be happy to talk with you. Oh, and whether you think we’re expensive or not, if you ask me about termite services, I do free consultations, I’d happy to talk to you to see if the person you finally picked that you can afford, whether or not you’re going to use us or not. I’ll be happy to tell you if they’re going to do the right job for you anyways. Hey, always remember, as long as God keeps faking them, we keep killing them. You have a great day. I. Transcribed by https://otter.ai