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 Our motto at Peskies Pest Control Is 100% Guarenteed Or You Don’t Pay a Penny for pest problems in Montgomery, Alabama! Monthly discussions on how to have a pest free home with pest experts Michael Wienecke and Travis McGowinPeskies Pest Control Montgomery, Alabama Nature et écologie Science Sciences de la Terre
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  • Listener Deep Dive: Reviewing Laura’s Infestation (Part 1)

    Listener Deep Dive: Reviewing Laura’s Infestation (Part 1)
    Mar 6 2026
    In this episode of the Peskies Pest Control Podcast, Michael Wienecke and Travis McGowin begin a multi-part investigation into a severe Asian Lady Beetle infestation at a listener’s home in North Georgia.Through a detailed photo analysis, the team identifies critical vulnerabilities in the home’s design, including its wood siding, metal roofing, and sunny exposure, which create a perfect environment for beetles to “overwinter”. The discussion highlights how specific entry points—like gaps in vaulted tongue-and-groove ceilings and unsealed double doors—allow thousands of beetles to bypass local “un-treatable” labels. This first installment focuses on why these pests are attracted to specific structures and the importance of an “ounce of prevention” before the autumn migration begins. Watch this video on YouTube! Podcast Transcript:Michael Wienecke: Hey, so here on the Peskies Pest Control Podcast, we are talking today—we had a listener from one of our YouTube videos about Asian Lady Beetles. She reached out to us. Travis, read exactly what she said. She’s been having this problem for quite some time.Travis McGowin: Right, and to give people just a little backstory on that, basically, we have an area on our website that allows people to submit contact cards and ask us to basically reach out to them. And so, Laura had actually sent in a contact card through our website and this is what it said:“Hello, I know we’re outside of your service area as we’re in Georgia and you’re in Alabama, but I watched your YouTube videos on Asian Lady Beetle infestations and it was the first thing that gave us real hope. We have a home here and can’t find anyone locally willing to tackle the problem. Everyone just says that there’s nothing that can be done. After seeing your approach, it seems like someone should be able to help. If you have any guidance, referrals in North Georgia, or even offer remote consulting, we’d truly appreciate it. Thanks so much for any direction you can provide. We’re desperate. Thank you, Laura.”Michael Wienecke: First off, we are flattered that somebody would reach out that far and ask about some of these problems with Asian Lady Beetles. So, she sent us a ton of pictures, so we were just going to kind of go over each picture that we see and go from there.Travis McGowin: Right, so she’s got the pictures that she emailed us. We’ve got them uploaded and we’re just going to talk through kind of one by one. Maybe anybody watching—obviously, if you’re listening, you won’t be able to see the pictures—but you’ll hear a description. If it sounds like something, maybe a condition or maybe similar to the way that your home is built, maybe it can kind of give you some insight and some guidance as to some ways that you might could help lessen the problem, prevent the problem. They do seem like they’ve been a lot worse this year than in the last couple years. We’re still having people with issues around here, and we’re almost to the end of February.Michael Wienecke: Well, it’s all about the seasons, too. I mean, we’ve had extremely hot weather.Exterior Analysis: The “Sunny Side” AttractionTravis McGowin: Right. So, I’m going to go ahead and pull us off the screen here and we’re going to look at the first picture—the outside of the house first. Obviously, a two-story house, porch, looks like there’s kind of a non-enclosed carport type area there. Looks like it may even—almost looks like a fireplace right there in the middle.Michael Wienecke: Yes, right there. The little white recessed—Travis McGowin: Right, and I see obviously the chimney has two stacks on it, so it may have an indoor and an outdoor fireplace, I’m not really sure. But, you know, based upon what we’re seeing, the house has wood siding. Go back to that other picture. So, let’s just talk about—she’s having issues with Asian Lady Beetles. With this first picture that I already looked at, I can already—I’ll bet it’s the front right-hand side of that house right there where the sun’s shining on it.Travis McGowin: Well, yeah, that’s usually point number one. The vast majority of the people that have a problem with Asian Lady Beetles end up having a problem specifically on the side of the house that receives the most sunlight. The reason for that is because these beetles are looking for a place to overwinter to stay warm throughout the colder weather, and obviously they’re going to be drawn more towards a place that has sunlight because it’s warmer.Michael Wienecke: Yep, the metal roof too. I mean, it’s going to be hot. And also, how sealable is a metal roof?Travis McGowin: Especially with the textures and the different—I guess it’s corrugated surface of it—you’re going to have gaps. It’s not like it’s a flat piece of sheet metal. So, if there happen to be any gaps underneath that metal—a lot of times they...
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    30 min
  • Don’t Buy a Nightmare: How to Spot Infestations Before You Close

    Don’t Buy a Nightmare: How to Spot Infestations Before You Close
    Mar 3 2026
    In this podcast episode, Michael Wienecke and Travis McGowin from Peskies Pest Control discuss a cautionary tale involving a family who unknowingly purchased a home with a severe, undisclosed bed bug infestation. The hosts highlight a major “red flag” the buyers missed: the previous owners were living in a camper in the front yard rather than the house itself. After the new homeowners spent money on a failed liquid spray treatment from a company that provided no warranty, Peskies successfully resolved the issue using a 160-degree heat treatment—a process they describe as turning the house into an oven to force pests out of hiding . Ultimately, the hosts emphasize the importance of viewing pest control as a partnership, performing thorough interviews and inspections before buying property, and only hiring reputable companies that stand behind their work with a 100% happiness guarantee. Learn more by reading our blog post! Watch this vlog on YouTube! Podcast TranscriptMichael Wienecke 0:00 It baffles me that somebody can say they can get rid of bed bugs in one setting with a spray. So just tell me go back over that.Travis McGowin 0:14 All right, right, so we did a bed bug job yesterday. Super nice family. They bought a house. I think it’s been about eight to nine months ago. They, from what they advised to me, that has not been a full year. So they bought this house, and they kind of told me it probably should have been a bit of a red flag when they bought the house, because the previous owners of the house were not living in the house. They were living in a camper in front of the house.Michael Wienecke 0:46 You know, if there were any signs, that would have been the sign.Travis McGowin 0:52 Right, that one definitely, probably would have, would have been like a, you know, a bit of a red flag. It’s like, okay, so you have this house, as opposed to this camper. And maybe, you know, I could get that maybe, if you were doing, like, some serious remodeling or something like that, but, but evidently, they weren’t. So you have this, this house, you know, this three bedroom, one bathroom house, and then you have the people selling it, and they’re not even living in it, but they’re not renovating it, they just don’t want to be in there. So, I mean, that’s at least what I can assume. So anyway, they bought this house, and then come to find out, all of a sudden, they have bed bugs. To their knowledge, they never had them from wherever it was that they were living. So it’s very unlikely that they that they moved and brought something with them. So they move into this house, all of a sudden they have bed bugs. One of the local companies in their area where they live doesn’t touch bed bugs, but they did recommend a gentleman to come and treat them. Claimed that this gentleman is the one that they always recommend when it comes to bed bugs, and so they gave him the card. And so they call the guy. The guy comes out says, Yes, you got bed bugs. I’ll treat it for you. And apparently, from what the customer had advised us, did some sort of liquid treatment. I don’t know what the product was, or how he treated, or what he did, but I think charged them, you know, close to $1,000 and then advise them that they were not going to need a warranty, because this was going to solve the problem, and it didn’t.Michael Wienecke 2:32 I would always say, you know, talk to somebody about their warranty, their guarantee. I mean, we brought up that in the past. It’s just, it’s a really important thing, you know, it’s kind of what, what that company is going to, you know, back themselves.Travis McGowin 2:46 Right, and you’re, you’re going to want to do, and this isn’t even just with pest control. I mean, you can use this in pretty much any faucet of your life. I mean, you know, you probably wouldn’t go buy a new refrigerator if you didn’t think that for X amount of years, it was going to be warrantied for defects or, you know, I mean, there any anything you you want to know that a company that you’re hiring to do a service, or a company that makes a product that you’re wanting to buy is going to stand behind that product in the event that something doesn’t go as planned, something doesn’t work out, or something just fails.Michael Wienecke 3:25 Well, unless question to what the other company did. I mean, did they talk about washing the clothes? Do they talk about, you know, leaving everything inside the house when they were doing the treatment, you know, like with our heat, you know, we give you a full list and of instructions of how to get, you know, the house prepped and ready to go for us to have the best chance to get rid of those bed bugs for you,Travis McGowin 3:48 Right, you know, you’ll probably laugh when I say this, but, you know, it’s like we always tell our guys during training, like, Help us. Help you. Like, get the customer. You know, it’s a ...
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    19 min
  • Mosquitoes Are Already Back in Montgomery Alabama!

    Mosquitoes Are Already Back in Montgomery Alabama!
    Feb 12 2026
    In today’s episode of the Peskies Pest Control Podcast, Michael and Travis discuss mosquito treatment and prevention for your Montgomery, Alabama property! Podcast Transcript: Michael Wienecke Hey. So here today on the Peskies Pest Control Podcast, we are talking about mosquitoes, I feel like spring is in the air. I woke up for the last couple of days with my nose a little snotty and sniffly, and it’s just getting hot. Travis? Travis McGowin Don’t even I’m not ready. No, I’m not I refuse to give up winter. You know, no matter how brutal it actually was at times over the last couple of weeks, I’m still holding on to hope that there’s some kind of residual that’s going to come back and, you know, actually show itself again. Because I, spring and summer are not my most favorite times of the year. Michael Wienecke I am feeling that right now. I was taking my kids to school this morning, and I just, it just feels a little humid out, a little too humid for what it what it should be. Travis McGowin For February. Yes. Michael Wienecke Yes, yes. So you said we were, I know we were talking earlier. You said you saw some mosquitoes yesterday already. Travis McGowin Right, right. I had a customer whose house I went to shortly after four o’clock yesterday afternoon. And as I was getting my products ready and my sprayers to go treat their house, yes, I had mosquitoes buzzing around my head already. And like I said, it’s only February. Michael Wienecke Well, as we’ve seen them, we’ve seen them in December. You know, I’ve been deer hunting before and seen them in a climber so, you know, right there in December, so perfect. I mean, even even in February. Let’s talk about some ways to just help customers, not get rid of them, but just stop them from from being so so bad at their property, far as you know, getting the water, you know, diverted away from their house, like all that kind of stuff. Travis McGowin Right, so, you know, for those that may or may not know, mosquitoes breed in standing, stagnant water. So they, you know, they land on top of the surface of the water surface. Tension holds them so they don’t sink, and they basically deposit their eggs onto the stagnant water. And it can be, you know, as much water as inside of a tire that’s been left there and filled up with water from rain for a while, or it can be as little water as a cap full from, you know, a soda bottle. It doesn’t take a whole lot of water for them to actually be able to reproduce and so it really takes a lot of diligence on part of the customer, a lot of effort on part of the customer to make sure that they do not have standing water sources in their yard, and you and I have both seen it before, these things can range anywhere from, like I said, tires to just trash that’s holding water. Got a lot of customers that live around the lake that cover their boats or their jet skis with tarps. Yeah, the tarps just completely hold the water, and they don’t go drain the water off after a rain, and it just collects and then leaf litter, and that leaf debris that gets in there just makes it even more attractive for them. For a stagnant source, just five gallon buckets full of rain water, rain barrels. People that have rain barrels that collect water from their gutters. Clogged gutters. That’s another big one. Leaf litter and gutters clogs it and it holds water. You know. Just think about it, if you had a gutter on the edge of your porch where you like to go and enjoy yourself and sit out in the evenings or what have you, and you’ve got standing water because it’s not draining Well, the mosquitoes are just breeding right there and then coming down and eating you alive. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Like you mentioned earlier, incomplete drainage in yards. Maybe it’s also an area that not only does it not drain, but it doesn’t get a lot of sunlight, so it never dries out. French drains in yards where you’ve got the drain in the ground, some of those don’t empty all the way, and you just, I mean, you just be creating the next breed of mosquitoes coming through your property. Michael Wienecke Well, that’s what I was going to talk about, hidden, hidden places that people wouldn’t think about. I mean, we’ve seen problem accounts, or, you know, what we’d consider a problem account, where they have a bunch of basins in their yard, all that water is going in there, and it’s hidden. You don’t see all the water that’s just caught in that basin, where it’s, you know, a slow drain and all that kind of stuff. I’ve never understood why they did that. I don’t know why it wouldn’t just be a faster drain, to keep it from getting clogged, I guess. Travis McGowin Yeah, there’s, there’s just so many places that water can be, water can stay and be held in people’s property, and a lot of them can be just overlooked. You know, we’ve got some storage buildings in my yard. I don’t go...
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    17 min
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