Unfortunately, friends and family aren't the only ones visiting during the holiday season.  When temperatures drop, rodents often enter homes for warmth and food. Any crack or hole, even as small as a dime, along foundations will allow these pests indoors. Rodents often bring along a variety of parasites and disease organisms when they enter homes. Unlike other wild mammals, Rodents do not hibernate during cold seasons. They are active during the winter foraging for food, seeking shelter, and if outdoors, trying not to be prey. Outdoors, these rodents burrow into the ground to rest or bear their young. In homes, a rodent will nest in wall voids, attics, or crawl spaces. When rodents do go inside in the winter, they may chew on anything from support beams to storage boxes. They have a strange desire to gnaw wires and shred insulation. Rodents that tear into bags of trash transfer germs to everything they touch afterward. They also contaminate food with their saliva and droppings when they rip open packaging in search of food.

Disease, food contamination, and damage come along with a rodent infestation. To combat these rodents, contact Colonial today for safe, efficient, and effective rodent control and removal.

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