by surfer808 | Mar 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
Pigeon’s Are Not Pests! – A Pigeon’s Point of View For a pigeon living in Hawaii, life can’t be sweeter. There is an abundance of food and water everywhere, few natural predators, and lots of rent-free housing. Pigeons’ natural habitats are cliffs sides...
by surfer808 | Feb 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
So, you have a huge termite and/or bed bug challenge and you’ve decided to fumigate your property. Some friends have told you fumigating was a big hassle, and others said the process went very smoothly. The truth is – with proper preparation – fumigating...
by surfer808 | Feb 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
So You Want To Do It Yourself Pest Control The best pest control around is in exercising pest prevention on a regular basis. You know, basically eliminating sources of food, water, and shelter in and around homes and businesses. None of us like to have bugs,...
by surfer808 | Feb 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
What are Potato Bugs? For some reason, there’s been a lot of hullaballoo about the potato bug lately. What is the potato bug and what is all the hullaballoo about? I decided to do some research to answer these two questions. Right off the bat I learned that there are...
by surfer808 | Jan 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
Little Fire Ants We’ve all heard about the Little Fire Ants invading our islands. So far, the little fire ants have made their way from the Big Island to Maui, to Oahu, and also to Kauai. There are none known to be present on Molokai, Lanai, Niihau, or Kahoolawe yet,...
by surfer808 | Dec 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
Feral Cats – A Big Problem in Hawaii Another invasive species to our islands is feral cats. These are the estimates (made over varying periods of time) that are difficult to confirm: Oahu – 350,000 (said to be an underestimate); Maui – 20,000 to 500,000; Big...
by surfer808 | Oct 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
Bees in Hawaii Iolani Palace had quite the scare with the recent bee infestation. The national historic landmark was shut down for nearly a week as beekeepers and pest control specialists did their best to save seven hives that were found. While devastating to Iolani...
by surfer808 | Sep 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
Silverfish Let’s face it – insects have been around longer than we have; we see them as we venture through our lives each day. Outdoors, many insects are beneficial to our eco-system through pollination, by being meals themselves to other valuable...
by surfer808 | Sep 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
We all try to eat a healthy diet that includes lots of fruits and vegetables. Recently I was washing some broccoli for dinner and found a tiny slug. It was an immature slug about the size of a grain of rice. A very small slug can be easy to miss. This got me thinking...
by surfer808 | May 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Coqui Frog Still a Challenge The coqui frog continues to migrate among our Hawaiian Islands. In 2018, coqui frogs were found on Molokai, and since last September a half dozen have been caught in the Kapahi area of Kauai. So now, the coqui is on the Big Island, Oahu,...
by surfer808 | Apr 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Kona Hawaii Pest Control – Beetle Infestations. In past years, the Big Island has experienced two particular beetle infestations to a greater degree than the other islands. These two beetles are the coffee berry borer and the longhorn beetle. The Coffee...
by surfer808 | Mar 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
Mahalo Nui Loa As I watch Aloha Pest Solutions and Aloha Termite Kauai continue to thrive, I recognize that our successes are an accumulation of everyone’s hard work, long hours, and customers that believe in our Service with Aloha. With this in mind, I want to take a...
by surfer808 | Mar 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
What’s an Exterminator? The pest “extermination” industry has come a long way in the last 50 years. Back in my mom’s day it was very common to be driving around in the family car and seeing airplanes releasing Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (or DDT) powders or...
by surfer808 | Feb 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
Drywood Termite Treatment We talked about ground termite treatments in an earlier blog, but have not discussed our dry wood termite treatment. Drywood termites are the ones that don’t live underground and don’t need an external water source to survive because they...
by surfer808 | Feb 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
What’s an Exterminator? The pest “extermination” industry has come a long way in the last 50 years. Back in my mom’s day it was very common to be driving around in the family car and seeing airplanes releasing Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (or DDT) powders or...
by surfer808 | Jan 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
Flea Infestation in Hawaii Fleas are the leading parasite that we find on our fur babies, but were you aware that many people believe all dogs have dog fleas and all cats have cat fleas? Well, it seems like a logical assumption, but the truth is that about 95% of all...
