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Trick or Treat – Bug Treats for Halloween
Whether you’re staying at home, doing a drive-by haunting, or heading out to trick-or-treat this weekend, we’ve got some tasty treats to make this Halloween a success! Brownie Spiders Okay, for this one, you’ll need brownie mix, chocolate chips, 18 candy eyeballs, and...
Black Widow Spiders – Hiding in the Attic?
For years, arachnophobia – the sometimes irrational fear of spiders – has dominated the lists of the top scariest things in the world. We don’t know where this primal fear originated from, but the scariest of the spiders has earned her reputation, if not her name....
Smells Like Stink Bug Season is Here!
It’s hard to believe when our temperatures are still climbing into the low 90’s that we’ve entered October...and we are almost a month into autumn! But we are. And while it may be a few weeks still before we get any actually cooler weather, we need to talk about the...
National Food Bank Week
Here at Good News Pest Solutions, we often refer to ourselves as a for-profit, Christian ministry, cleverly disguised as a pest control company. And we take that commitment very seriously. We are always open to share the true good news of the Gospel, but it doesn’t...
Carpenter Ants Don’t Build – They Destroy!
You’d think, with a good, Midwestern tradesperson and artisan name like 'Carpenter,' that carpenter ants would be a good thing. Unfortunately, as you may have guessed from the title, nothing could be further from the truth. The name comes from certain, but not all,...
The Fall Equinox … Already?
A lot of newcomers to the Sunshine State sometimes complain that we have no seasons. That's just not true! We have tourist season, hurricane season, mosquito season, snowbird season… Jokes aside, while we may not see quite as dramatic changes as many of our neighbors...
Don’t Knock Spiders! Wolf Spiders Eat Pests!
Just picture it. You’re in your bathroom, doing your weekly cleaning and sweeping out all the crevices… and there it is. You’re face to, er, face, with a large, hairy, thick-legged spider – staring right down its soft mandibles. I know this may seem like the perfect...
Fuzzy Caterpillars Can Be Dangerous!
As we turn the calendar pages and look forward to the high temperatures easing off (they will, soon!), we know our perennial snowbirds will soon be headed to the Sunshine state. But another seasonal guest is also headed our way. And it carries more danger than a...
Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes?
With everything else that has happened in 2020, you might have forgotten the threat some mosquitoes pose. No, they don’t spread the Coronavirus – it’s a respiratory illness. But in fact, a single mosquito bite can be deadly if the mosquitoes are carrying Zika virus,...
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