For homeowners across Central and Coastal Maine, this post-holiday downtime also creates opportunities for mice and other pests to infest. Cold weather pushes them indoors, and holiday leftovers can make your home more inviting than you realize. The good news? A simple reset can help you get your house back in order and keep pests out for the rest of winter.

Advanced Pest Solutions, a locally owned and operated Maine pest control company with over 30 years of hands-on experience, explains why boxes of Christmas decorations attract mice in and how to keep them out for good.

Mice can cause surprisingly big problems in your Maine home despite their small size. Beyond the nuisance of finding droppings or hearing strange noises in the ceiling at night, mice pose serious health risks and even fire hazards. At Advanced Pest Solutions, a locally owned Maine pest control company, we help homeowners recognize the early signs of mice and take action before a minor issue turns into a full-blown infestation.

Winter in Central and Coastal Maine can be harsh, and as temperatures drop, mice start looking for warm, sheltered places to nest. Unfortunately for homeowners, older homes in the region are particularly vulnerable to mouse infestations during the winter months. In today’s blog, we’ll discuss why and offer tips to protect your property.

Catching one mouse might seem like the end of the problem, but it's likely the beginning if you keep hearing noises or finding droppings. In today’s blog, we’ll look at why you’re still seeing mice even after trapping some and why mouse traps aren’t necessarily going to solve the problem. We’ll also tell you how to know for sure that your mouse infestation is resolved!

It goes without saying that when it gets cold outside rodents head indoors to look for shelter. Because of this, Maine residents need to pay close attention to their homes as we move into fall. We know it might seem a tad bit early to be discussing this given that we are a few weeks away from the official first day of autumn but already our pest control technicians out in the field are seeing signs of large infestations of mice and rats inside homes and businesses. In fact, 80% of our calls in the last few weeks of August were rodent related and we anticipate more property owners will be calling with the same concern(s).