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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 Ciencia Ciencias Geológicas Historia Natural Naturaleza y Ecología
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  • Listener Deep Dive: Reviewing Laura’s Infestation (Part 2)

    Listener Deep Dive: Reviewing Laura’s Infestation (Part 2)
    Mar 23 2026
    In this episode of the Peskies Pest Control Podcast, hosts Michael Wienecke and Travis McGowin consult with a homeowner named Laura regarding a severe, recurring infestation of Asian Lady Beetles in her Georgia home. We identify these insects as “occasional invaders” that swarm southern-facing structures in the fall to overwinter, often attracted to the same locations year after year by lingering pheromones. To combat the issue, we recommend an “IPM” (Integrated Pest Management) approach that prioritizes structural exclusion—sealing cracks and poor door seals—combined with the strategic use of insecticidal dusts in wall voids and fast-acting liquid treatments on high-activity exterior surfaces. While many local companies suggested only vacuuming the pests, the Peskies team emphasizes that a proactive professional protocol can achieve a 90% to 95% reduction in the beetle population. Watch this YouTube Video! Podcast Transcript:Michael Wienecke: All right, so here today on the Peskies Pest Control Podcast, we have got a guest—Laura from Georgia. She put a form out on our online fill-out form and said her issue, what she was having an issue with. No one in Georgia could take care of it. Saw a YouTube video that Travis and I had made, and so she came, she wants to come on the podcast and just talk about this issue, which is Asian Lady Beetles. So here she is.Travis McGowin: All right. Welcome, Laura.Laura K: Thank you! Nice to be here.Travis McGowin: So Laura, we understand that you’ve got a pretty extreme—I was about to say German cockroaches! We were talking about those earlier—but Asian Lady Beetles. I mean, who knew? Now is this your first run-in with them that you’ve ever really had?Laura K: Yes. I’ve never had them—you think they’re ladybugs until you have hundreds or thousands of them and they bite, and you know that’s not a ladybug.Michael Wienecke: Did you have any reaction to the bite?Laura K: No, just hurts. And they’re not aggressive; they just bite if they get stuck, like under a sleeve or something, but it’s still not good.Travis McGowin: Now have you been in Georgia your entire life or…?Laura K: No, I grew up in Virginia… in rural Virginia, so I’m used to bugs and rural areas. And then lived in New Jersey for 10 years, and then we got cold and it was expensive, and we moved to Georgia in 2004. So we’ve been in Georgia since then.Travis McGowin: That’s pretty impressive though that you’ve lived several different places and still up to this point haven’t really had any kind of run-ins with these things. And it feels like—Michael, see if you agree—but I do feel like now over the last probably four or five years, they’ve actually seemed to be getting worse. That’s just from my take on how many I’ve treated and seen. Would you agree with that?Michael Wienecke: 100%. Me and my wife went to Georgia, I do not know exactly where, but it was very similar to your pictures of your home—beautiful home by the way, up in the mountains and all that—but we were bombarded by them. My wife, obviously, it’s not something that… they controlled them a lot better than what was outside than what was inside the condo/cabin where we were at. So I think they were doing something. But yes, like Travis said, we’ve had such hot winters. It’s just been extremely hot winters and we normally see a much larger pest infestation or we start seeing a lot more aggregation of pests inside homes in the summer.Travis McGowin: So these Asian Lady Beetles, they fall under a category in our world of trying to overwinter in a warm place. They’re one of a couple—you’ve got Asian Lady Beetles, you’ve got the Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs…Laura K: Stink bugs are all there too, yeah.Travis McGowin: Right, absolutely. So they come into September, October, they start to look for a place to overwinter and ride out the potentially colder weather, which in Alabama we’ve had like three days of cold weather and the rest has been miserably warm or humid. And I’m sure North Georgia might be better, but Georgia itself is probably not too far off base of what we’ve been seeing.Laura K: No, it’s been a mild winter, yeah.Travis McGowin: Yeah, they creep in and they just try to take over. They’re just looking for a place to hang out and they come in droves.Laura K: They do. They fly, yeah.Michael Wienecke: Well, they’re called occasional invaders for this reason, that they come in right around that time and then they drop off at a certain time, and then the next year they come right back.Travis McGowin: Right, so, but from what we’ll discuss and from what you’ve experienced, I feel like come next season for these pests, you’ll probably be a lot more well-equipped to deal with them, especially having some understanding about what it is you’re dealing with.Laura K: I hope so. I’ve got… that’s why I wanted to talk to you guys about ...
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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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  • 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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