Summer in Pennsylvania brings warm weather, fresh produce, open windows — and suddenly what looks like a cloud of tiny flies hovering around the kitchen sink. Fruit flies and other small flies are especially noticeable during the warmer months because heat speeds up their development and gives them plenty of places to breed. A few unnoticed flies can quickly turn into an annoying indoor problem when food, moisture, or organic material is available. The good news? Many small fly problems can...

Not every stinging insect problem needs to end with extermination. Honey bee removals are one of County Pest’s specialties. When a colony establishes inside a wall, roofline, soffit, chimney, or other structural cavity, our goal is to remove the bees safely, address the hive material inside the structure, and give the colony a second chance. What makes County Pest different is that we don’t just remove honey bees — we’re beekeepers ourselves. County Pest maintains its own local apiary and has...

After more than 30 years of protecting homes throughout the Lehigh Valley, County Pest has learned an important lesson about wildlife problems: The animal inside your home usually isn't the real problem. The opening that allowed it inside is. From bats slipping beneath rooflines to squirrels entering through damaged soffits, raccoons exploiting construction gaps, and mice traveling through openings barely larger than a pencil, wildlife problems almost always begin with a weakness somewhere in...