Kinston, NC Pest Control

Protecting your home is crucial for any Kinston homeowner, but you can't do it alone. If pests make it into your home, you'll need help from the pros at Otho's Pest Management. 

Our residential pest control follows three basic steps regardless of the pest – a thorough inspection, an individualized and effective treatment plan, and flexible follow-up visits to ensure pests don't return. We also offer specialty services, including lawn care and landscaping, pre-treatment construction, and termite prevention. 

For quality home pest control you can trust, turn to the local, family-run Otho's Pest Management. We care about our community and find solutions to any pest problem you encounter in your Kinston home. 

While our commercial services work similarly to our home pest control, our focus is on protecting your Kinston business and reputation. We'll work with you to develop custom commercial pest solutions that address your business's needs. 

We are a local, family-owned business with over 45 years of experience in the industry. We know the pests in this area and how to treat them and provide excellent customer service, competitive rates, and free estimates. 

We understand the demands of a small business and offer flexible scheduling to meet your needs as well as guarantees on our services. Call Otho's Pest Management today to learn more about how we can solve your pest problems. 

Encountering wasps on your Kinston property may seem like a normal part of the warmer seasons, but certain things could be attracting them to your property. This includes:

• Sugary drinks and food: Wasps have a sweet tooth, and if you've got sugary drinks or food sitting out on your property, these items will attract wasps. 

• Sweet-smelling plants: Besides sugary drinks and food, wasps will also go after sweet-smelling plants that produce nectar. This includes sweet fennel, yarrow, Queen Anne's lace, and fruit trees. 

• Too many insects: If your yard already has a lot of insect prey, this can serve as a food source for wasps and encourage them to stick around. 

You may have been attracting wasps without realizing it, but there are plenty of steps you can take to reduce their presence around your Kingston property. 

Mostly you'll need to avoid the attractions listed above. You can do this by cleaning up food scraps after eating outdoors or hosting cookouts in the warmer months. Open cans of sugary drinks and food scraps need to be disposed of somewhere inaccessible to wasps. One way to do this is by keeping garbage cans sealed. The smell of indoor and outdoor trash cans can be a big draw for wasps. By keeping them covered with tight-fitting lids, you can reduce this attraction. 

It's also important to take stock of your yard. When you're planting, you'll want to keep the flowers that attract wasps in mind and either limit them or plant them further from your home. You can also plant species that repel wasps, such as lemongrass, basil, and marigolds. Regular lawn maintenance can also help deter wasps as shady areas and long grass gives wasps and their pest prey a place to hide. Keeping up with maintenance can reduce these areas. Lastly, you'll want to fill in any holes in your yard as wasps like yellow jackets will build their nests in open caverns or holes in the ground.  

For help deterring wasps and other stinging insects, or removing an active nest, don't hesitate to call the experts at Otho's Pest Management. 

Cockroaches may have great hiding spots, but they're not always the sneakiest pest – here are several signs that you've got roaches living inside your Kinston home: 

• Cockroach droppings: Roach droppings resemble pepper or coffee grounds and may be scattered around their hiding spots. 

• An odd stench: When they leave behind droppings, cockroaches also leave behind a damp, unpleasant stench that seems to sink into different surfaces of your home. 

• Smear marks: Usually left on walls or baseboards, roaches may leave behind dark smears near parts of the home where they're most active. 

• Shed skin: Before they become adults, roaches shed their skin up to eight times and leave the discarded skin behind. 

• Live roaches: Cockroaches are nocturnal and try to keep out of sight, but if you turn on a light when you enter the bathroom or kitchen, you may see them scurry away. 

• Damage: Cockroaches aren't picky about their diets, so you may discover contaminated food or damaged books and paper. 

If you suspect you have cockroaches in your home, there's only one thing to do – contact the pros at Otho's Pest Management to learn more about how our cockroach control in Kinston works. 

Ants are everywhere around Kinston, so seeing them is relatively common. You see them at the park, crawling on trash cans, in your yard, cracks in the pavement, and even swarming around utility boxes. As long as ants are outside and away from your home, they aren’t a problem. But when you see ants in your home, you should be concerned. 

Seeing a few ants inside your home may not feel overwhelming, but it is a sign that there is a larger colony nearby. This small number of ants is out hunting for food; if they find food sources in your home, the colony will follow. 

Don’t hesitate to call us for residential pest control if you see even a few ants around your home. Our home pest control plans include ant control, and our technicians are ant control experts. We’ll inspect your home and identify the source of your ant infestation, identifying the larger colony from which the few ants are coming. Then we will begin a treatment plan that quickly eliminates the active colony and keeps these pests from returning in the future. We’ll ensure you can enjoy your home and yard without pesky ants crawling. 

The common thought around bed bugs is that they are only found in dirty old roadside motels or poorly maintained apartment complexes. So if you have a bed bug infestation in your home, it can make you wonder what you have done to attract these pests and if your house is dirty.

The short answer is no. Having bed bugs doesn’t mean you have a dirty home. There are a variety of reasons you could have a bed bug infestation. You could have picked them up while traveling or when you put your bag down at the gym. They could have been in the fabric of that rideshare you took or climbed on your pants at the office. 

Your biggest concern with a bed bug infestation shouldn’t be the stigma of having a dirty home but how to get rid of them quickly. The best way to do that is with professional bed bug control. At Otho’s Pest Management, we specialize in quickly eliminating bed bugs from your home and ensuring they don’t return so that you can sleep peacefully. 

Anyone that has pets knows the struggle of fleas. Watching our furry friends itch and scratch as they deal with painful flea bites can be heartbreaking. The good news for you and your pets is that there are things you can do to control fleas around your home. 

Flea control starts with understanding the reason you are dealing with fleas in the first place. Some of the reasons you may have fleas include:

• Your pets aren’t up to date on their veterinary-prescribed flea control medicine. 

• Fleas travel into your yard on your pet after they run through long grass or wooded areas.

• You have other pests around your home that serve as a host for fleas, like rodents, birds, or other wildlife. 

Any of these could be why you have fleas around your Kinston home.

If you are dealing with an active flea infestation, don’t try tackling it alone. Instead, contact us immediately for professional flea control. We will target fleas in all stages of their lifecycle, ensuring that your flea problem is taken care of and they don’t return to bother you and your pets again.