Nature First Pest Control can help you with all your bee, and other pest control needs with natural safe pest control methods in Portland Oregon and the surrounding areas.

We recently had a call about carpenter ants appearing in a homeowners bathroom and else where. So we decided to take along the video camera and get some footage for you all to see as we went about a ant control service call.

We have the knowledge and the skills to provide you the best natural ant & other pest control and extermination in Portland Oregon and the surrounding areas.

Randy Found a colony of carpenter bees that had fallen out of a clients insulation in their shed here you can see just how large a nest of carpenter bess can become with out proper treatment and removal.

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Nature First Pest Control can provide you with the best natural bee, control and removal in Portland and the surrounding areas.

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We recently had a call about carpenter ants appearing in a homeowners bathroom and else where. So we decided to take along the video camera and get some footage for you all to see as we went about a  ant control service call.

We have the knowledge and the skills to provide you the best natural pest control and extermination in Portland Oregon and the surrounding areas.

Cockroaches and other insect infestation are a common problem in new homes because of the development of the land around the community. Workers and their eating habits also contribute to cockroach infestation of new homes. This is because workers often leave open containers of trash and left over food through out the house during the various construction phases.

Once these insects breed, they multiply in number, causing bad odor and structural damage, wherever they live. They can easily infest your stored food and even clothing and the result is a very bad living environment. Large cockroach infestation is known to cause health problems such as allergies, asthma and other bronchial disorders. Cockroaches are known to carry bacteria and other disease carrying organisms with them.

If you notice your living environment being infested by cockroaches, you need to take immediate action by calling a professional pest control service.

You can judge if a cockroach elimination service is professional, if their approach to extermination is holistic and if they emphasize on following less toxic methods for eliminating the problem. The first step that a professional cockroach elimination service will carry out is to find which species of cockroach has infested your living environment as this is a major factor that helps to decide on the control method to follow. Elimination Service Professionals are aware of the nature and working of these species and will apply the least toxic method to remove them.

While calling a cockroach elimination services will help, there are steps that you can take to prevent them from even coming into your house. You can block up their source of entry. Here is a look at some common sources of entry that are mostly unnoticed:

• Dry Drain Traps are quick entry points for cockroaches. You can avoid this by running water in unused bathrooms and toilets that connect to these drains on a regular basis.

• Packaged food purchased from cockroach infested locations can bring the problem into your living environment.

• Empty out indoor trash containers regularly and keep them clean on the inside and the outside.

• Wash dishes immediately after meals because cockroaches will get attracted to residue food lying around dishes.

• Regularly vacuum up areas where people sit down to eat because such areas will be frequented by cockroach for food smell and food particles.

• Eliminate hiding places in your home by picking up paper, lumber, and other debris next to your home.

• Make sure to keep trash and firewood/lumber stacks away from the house.

This environmentally concious lady had a large family and added to the organic pile daily. However, she turned the pile infrequently and it was resting on bare ground. The rats must have thought they had found Heaven. The rats were actually aerating the pile by burrowing through it.

It is wonderful to be Green and Earth friendly, but you have to do it right. There has to be a bottom on the pile that offers drainage and keeps the rodents out. Loosley placed bricks at the base of the pile work well. Small piles and plastic composting bins need to have quarter inch mesh sealing the underside. You can keep a natural balance in the pile by adding red worms and turning the pile regularly.

Remember, rats will dig under any solid object (your foundation) to hide excess food. A compost pile offers a great deal of excess food.

Nature First Pest Control is your natural Green choice when looking for organic residential and commercial Pest Controls for Ants, Rodents, Wasps, Hornets, Spiders, Grain Beetles, Bats, and more. We need no ‘long term contracts’ to be the elimination experts. Serving, Portland, Beaverton, Tualatin, Tigard, Sherwood, Wilsonville, Lake Oswego, West Linn, Milwaukie, Gresham, Hillsboro, Canby, Oregon City, Forrest Grove, Portland, and all of Washington and Multnomah counties

In Beaverton, Tualatin, Tigard, and the greater Portland Metro area, there has been an alien invasion of the Eastern Fox squirrel. Nature First Pest Control first noticed a change in the squirrel population in the residential areas about 15 years ago. I had admired the beautiful large grey squirrels here and noted how they seemed to prefer the conifers to the deciduous trees in the Beaverton, Tualatin,Tigard area. Then my technicians at Nature First Pest Control told me that they noticed that the squirrels had changed from silver to a fox brown color and had significantly changed their behavior patterns.

After talking with local wildlife officials and some animal rescue folks, the facts have emerged.

Indeed, the Portland area Native squirrel population has been invaded and in many cases taken over by the Eastern Fox Squirrel. These invaders have not only taken over this territory but have managed to inbreed with the Native Grey Squirrels. This has resulted in a dramatic extermination of the native Grey Squirrel populations.

The Fox squirrels (not the Native Greys) have a nasty habit of girdling whole sections of Maples and Oaks. They kill whole sections of trees to create a mass of dead leaves from which to make nests. I have 3 severely damaged trees in my yard in Beaverton, demonstrating the effects these alien invaders have on our local environment

These invaders also chew holes in your roof valleys and overlap areas to gain entrance to your attic. Call Nature First Pest Control if you hear noises in your attic.

The ant colonies produce winged reproductives in the nests and nurture them until the time is right to do their mating flight. I have observed that the right conditions to include calm winds, strong sunlight to provide strong thermal updrafts, and relatively cool temps, again to help with the thermal updrafts.

In Beaverton, Tigard, and Tualatin these thermals can be generated by a dark roof or an asphalt paved cul de sac. The technicians at Nature First Pest Control often comment to me about the diferent activity levels of insects and rodents on different facing slopes that have differing amounts of sun exposure. For the termites and ants ongoing survival, timing is everything. Successful exterminators know about these natural cycles in their areas

This pic was sent in by a relative. He needs to clean his grill more often. These Honey bees must have swarmed and landed here this spring. It was a shame he had to kill the colony, because we have so few healthy colonies. Bee keepers love to get these swarms because they are the strongest colonies.