Envirosafe Field Files, Real Pest Case Studies in Gastonia, NC

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Case File #027Belmont, NC

European hornet on weathered wood, photographed on a Gaston County job

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Envirosafe Field Files Case 195, The Case of the Unlisted Tenants, McAdenville NC Case closed

Case 195, The Case of the Unlisted Tenants

McAdenville. Prints in the dirt, a breach up in the stone, and little voices that never moved from one corner. Can you solve it before we do?

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Envirosafe Field Files Case 195, The Case of the Unlisted Tenants, a Christmas Town mystery in McAdenville NC Case closed

Case 195, the case of the unlisted tenants

McAdenville. Prints in the dirt, a breach up in the stone, and little voices that never moved from one corner. Can you solve it before we do?

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Vintage 1960s style poster for Field Files Case 194, The Baffling Case of the Catawba Heights White Fairy Flies Case closed

Case 194, the baffling case of the Catawba Heights white fairy flies

Belmont. A panicked call, a neighbor with her arms folded, and two yards full of little white things that danced with the fireflies at dusk. Can you solve it before we do?

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Field Files Case 193: the plank clubhouse over the crawl space door, the 1907 crawl space window and the termite tube on the pier under a Flint Mill village house in Gastonia NC Case closed

Case 193, the secret under the old mill house

Flint Mill village, Gastonia. A ticking in the floor at night, a soft spot by the closet, and four clues under a 1907 mill house. Can you solve it before we do?

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Size comparison chart of yellowjacket, bald-faced hornet, yellow-legged hornet, European hornet and eastern cicada killer Case closed

Case 191, the lady with the yellow-legged hornets

Mount Holly. She called about the invasive hornet North Carolina had just confirmed. What was living in her cornice was something else.

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Found in the dirt

The grub the size of your thumb

Kings Mountain. Trenching a foundation for a termite treatment, the shovel turned up the larva of an eastern Hercules beetle. Here is what it was really telling us about that yard.

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Pale C-shaped grub found in soil under a deck in Belmont, NC Mystery pest

Can you identify this?

We found this crawling under a deck in Belmont. Take a guess before you reveal the answer.

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Yellowjacket nest built inside the stud cavity of a Gastonia wall Case file #031

Yellowjackets inside a Gastonia wall

The signs, the discovery, and how we safely removed the nest.

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Envirosafe technician applying a perimeter termite soil treatment beside a home In the field

Termite soil pre-treatment

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