Plans We Offer
Comprehensive pest control solutions for homes across Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
The Invisiguard System®
The Invisiguard System® is our exclusive, exterior-focused pest management program designed to create a continuous protective barrier around your home. Rather than waiting for pests to get inside, we treat the perimeter, entry points, and harborage areas outside — stopping infestations before they start.
Every Invisiguard service includes a thorough inspection, targeted exterior treatment, and our re-treatment guarantee. If covered pests return between scheduled visits, we come back at no additional charge — because your satisfaction and your family's comfort are our top priorities.
Bees and Wasps
Stinging insects such as bees, yellow jackets, hornets, and wasps can pose a serious threat to your family and pets. New England Chemical has the experience and equipment to safely remove nests and treat colonies on your property.
Yellow jackets and bald-faced hornets build large paper nests in wall voids, attics, under eaves, and in the ground. Honey bees may establish colonies inside wall cavities. Paper wasps build open-comb nests under overhangs and in sheltered areas. Each species requires a different treatment approach for safe, effective elimination.
Our Treatment Procedure
Our technicians use high-pressure sprayers, ULV fogging equipment, and microinjectors to treat nests directly and apply residual products to harborage areas. For ground nests, we treat the entrance and surrounding soil. For aerial nests, we apply product directly into the nest opening at dusk or dawn when activity is lowest.
After treatment, nests are removed when safely accessible. We also advise homeowners on conditions that attract stinging insects — such as exposed food sources, standing water, and structural gaps — to help prevent future colonies from establishing.
Carpenter Ants
New England Chemical treats nearly 5,000 homes for carpenter ants in New England each year.
Carpenter ants are social insects with colonies that normally contain one reproductive queen (which may never leave the nest) supported by hundreds or thousands of worker ants. They are among the largest ants, with workers ranging in size from approximately ¼" to ½" long. Carpenter ants are one of the most prevalent insects in New England.
While termites actually feed on wood, carpenter ants excavate cavities in the wood for nesting. They feed on other materials, such as human food, honey dew from aphids, and/or other insects, including other carpenter ants. Carpenter ants show a preference for starting their nest cavities in soft, damp or rotting wood, though these cavities may subsequently be extended into dry, sound wood, causing considerable damage.
Spraying store bought, consumer-grade chemicals will often kill or repel the foraging worker ants that crawl over them, with the problem only to return a short time later. Meanwhile, the queen is still laying eggs, while the workers continue to expand the size of the nest, possibly causing structural damage that you may not know about until it is too late.
Our Treatment Procedure
Most traditional pesticides have a residual life of only 30 days. When the residual is gone, the problem may still exist. Our unique ant treatments target the colony for complete, lasting control long after the chemical's residual life.
Since carpenter ants nest in voids, either natural or excavated, the emphasis for comprehensive interior treatments is on treating voids. All treatments will include exterior treatment of ant nests and trails, entry points, doorways, etc. and adjacent vegetation. Thorough treatment aimed at nest elimination may involve drilling and injecting wall voids (at homeowners discretion), as well as targeted interior crack and crevice applications of modern residual products, baits and/or dusts.
For elimination of carpenter ants, it is important to locate the nest(s). Clues the professional seeks include: the presence of sawdust, "windows", tunneled woods, foraging trails, sounds produced by ants in infested wood, and actual ants. Questions such as "Where do you see ants most often" or "Do you have a moisture problem anywhere", or "Have you had a moisture problem in the past" will help locate nests. Carpenter ants typically invade moist and humid voids.
Ant traps, foundation sprays and lawn granules are not enough! Controlling pests compared to eliminating the colony is like only putting out half the forest fire!
One of our secrets to finding and completely eliminating carpenter ant colonies is a tool called the Micro Injector designed to project insecticide droplets in precise amounts into cracks, crevices, and wall voids. The small droplets combined with a steady stream of air flush and eliminate insects from deep harborage and inaccessible areas. The Micro Injector is an important technological advancement in carpenter ant and general pest elimination. We also utilize modern non-repellent product residual products and baits designed to eliminate the colony at the source.
Where necessary, the treatment may include the following vulnerable locations:
Exterior Locations
- Knotholes or hollow sections of trees
- Firewood stacked near your home
- Fence and utility posts
- Railroad ties used in landscaping
- Patios and decks
- Under flagstones or the coping of swimming pools
- Garage door posts
- Porch pillars
- Porch steps
- Doorsills
- Windowsills
- Sliding doorsills
- Behind downspouts
- Wooden rain gutters and fascia boards
- Flat roofs and skylights
Interior Locations
- Sill plates in basement or crawl spaces
- Bulkheads
- Door frames
- Window frames
- Behind dishwashers/washing machines
- Firewood stored indoors
- Behind bathtubs
- Voids near fireplaces (especially on outside walls)
- Hollow doors (especially in humid areas)
- Hollow ceiling beams (especially in humid areas)
- Hollow curtain rails
- Attic areas near eaves
- Attic areas near chimneys
- Attic areas near insulation
- Under shingles in moisture-prone areas
- Under chimney flashing
Rodents
Mice
Mice are rapid breeders and also spread bacteria laden feces and urine as they travel throughout your home. Homeowners are likely to notice evidence of mice during winter, following their migration indoors in search of warmth, food and shelter. Yet, due to their nocturnal nature, they're rarely seen by the homeowner. Snap-traps and those boxes of pellets will not stop them alone, and may pose a hazard to your children and pets.
Good sanitation and food storage practices are helpful in reducing problems with house mice. However, because mice are able to occupy such small nesting areas and survive on such little food, sanitation alone will not eliminate an infestation. Contact N.E.CHEMICAL/NEPC OF NH for complete rodent elimination featuring the latest in single-feed rodenticides strategically placed in tamper resistant stations where mice are most active. Exclusion also available for lasting results (Integrated Pest Management).
Reasons To Control Mice
- Mice are prolific breeders, producing 6-10 litters continuously throughout the year.
- House mice gnaw through electrical wiring, causing fires and failure of freezers, clothes dryers and other appliances.
- Mice also can transmit diseases, most notably salmonellosis (bacterial food poisoning) when food is contaminated with infected rodent feces.
Occasional Invaders
Spiders
About 3,000 species of spiders are found in the United States. Some people may be allergic to a spider's bite, and a few species of spiders are known to produce bites that may have serious medical implications for humans. Two of the more medically important types are the black widow spiders, and the brown recluse spider and its relatives.
For the most part, all spiders have jaws and fangs to deliver venom. Though most spiders are too small to be of concern to humans, their webbing and general presence is a nuisance. Larger spiders may bite when provoked, such as when squeezed between a human and sheet or clothing.
Tip:Always shake out shoes prior to wearing and sweep/vacuum any webs on your home.
Treatment
We utilize long lasting residual products applied to the exterior perimeter of your home/business to quickly eliminate and deter spiders from building their nests on/inside your home. Targeted interior treatments in the basement may also be applied for heavy infestations.
Lady Bugs / Western Conifer Seed Bugs / Boxelder Bugs
While these insects generally pose no structural harm to your home (aside from staining walls and ceilings!) they, too, can become a nuisance in numbers as they seek refuge for the colder months. The most often site of harborage is in the attic where they may over-winter, appearing throughout the home when the heat is turned on or on warmer days around the lights on your ceiling. "Lady Bugs," "Stink Bugs," and Boxelder Bugs may also gain entry through gaps around window and door frames.
Treatment
Long lasting, water based micro-encapsulated products are thoroughly applied to all potential points of entry (around doors, windows, soffits, gable vents, etc.) for fast knock-down and lasting repellency of most nuisance insects.
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