YIKES Pest Control

10/02/2026

Yikes Pest Control is making it easier to protect your home and your family.

Sign up for a termite service for one flat price of just $1,500* and receive:
-- 1 YEAR of general pest control — FREE
-- 1 YEAR of mosquito service — FREE
-- Termite protection backed by a warranty
-- Local, veteran-owned service you can count on

Offer ends October 31st.

Don’t wait until termite damage becomes an expensive surprise.

Call or text 812-604-7206 to get started.

Yikes Pest Control — Local. Trusted. Pest Protection.
*For houses under 3,000 sq. ft. Additional terms and conditions may apply.

Yikes Pest Control provides Termite, Bed Bug, Mosquito, and General pest control services to Evansville, Newburgh, Posey County and the rest of Southwest Indiana.

09/11/2026

Introducing NatureSense Mosquito by Yikes Pest

Enjoy your yard, naturally smarter.

NatureSense Mosquito is our more environmentally thoughtful approach to mosquito control—designed to target the areas where mosquitoes live and breed while being mindful of your family, pets, landscaping, and outdoor spaces.

With targeted treatments, lower-impact options, and proactive service throughout mosquito season, our goal is simple: fewer mosquitoes and more good days outside.

Whether you’re relaxing on the patio, hosting family and friends, enjoying the pool, or just trying to make it through the evening without becoming mosquito dinner, NatureSense can help.

Call or text 812-604-7206

NatureSense Mosquito by Yikes Pest
Enjoy Your Yard, Naturally Smarter.

NatureSense combines targeted mosquito treatments with larval control and strategically placed stations to address mosquitoes where they rest and breed. By using multiple control methods, we can focus treatment where it matters instead of relying solely on broad-area conventional applications.

09/09/2026

We’re excited to share that Yikes! Pest Control has been nominated for the Evansville Community’s Choice Awards in the Pest Control Company category!

It’s a huge honor to be one of only five pest control companies from across the Tri-State to receive a nomination. Now we’re hoping to make the Top 3, and we’d love your support.

If we’ve helped protect your home or business, please take a moment to vote for Yikes! Pest Control.

Vote here:
https://courierpress.gannettcontests.com/2026-Evansville-Communitys-Choice-Awards/gallery?group=557459

Once the page opens, select Pest Control Company and vote for Yikes! Pest Control.

Thank you to our customers, friends, and community for supporting a local small business. We appreciate every vote, referral, and recommendation. 🧡

Check it out now!

09/03/2026

This little guy might look like a bumblebee, but it’s actually a bumblebee moth or Snowberry Clearwing! These fascinating moths mimic bees and can often be spotted hovering from flower to flower feeding on nectar.

And here’s an important reminder from your friendly pest-control professionals: not every insect needs to be controlled. Beneficial pollinators like this one have an important job to do.

Good pest management isn’t about killing every bug—it’s about knowing what you’re looking at, what belongs there, and what doesn’t.

Sometimes the best treatment is no treatment at all.

08/31/2026

Fleas can become a big problem fast—especially this time of year around Evansville and Newburgh.

Fleas thrive in warm weather, and late summer can be prime time for activity. They can hitch a ride inside on pets, clothing, or even wildlife that spends time around the yard. Once indoors, they can spread into carpets, furniture, pet bedding, and cracks in flooring. Flea bites can be irritating for both people and pets, and heavy infestations can be especially stressful because their life cycle allows new fleas to keep emerging even after the adults are noticed.

If your pets are scratching more than usual or you’re noticing small bites around the ankles and lower legs, fleas may be the culprit. They’re tiny, fast, and very good at hiding—but once they get established, they can turn into a much bigger issue than most people expect.

Yikes Pest Control
812-604-7206

08/27/2026

If you’ve dealt with stink bugs getting into your home in the past, now is the time to start preparing for them — before the activity really begins.

We’re at the end of August and heading into September, which gives homeowners a good window to get ahead of the problem. As we move through September and into October, stink bugs will begin looking for protected places to spend the winter. You’ll usually start noticing more of them as crops are harvested, leaves begin changing, days get shorter, and cooler weather settles in.

The key is to act before you start seeing them all over the outside of your house.

The most effective way to control stink bugs is to keep them from getting inside in the first place. Once they find their way into wall voids, attics, and other protected areas, they become much more difficult to deal with.

A few things you can do now:

• Seal cracks and gaps around windows and doors
• Replace worn weather stripping and door sweeps
• Repair damaged screens
• Seal around pipes, utility lines, cables, and other openings
• Check siding, soffits, fascia, rooflines, vents, and chimneys for gaps
• Pay extra attention to the sunny sides of the house, where stink bugs often gather on warm fall days

Exclusion is the best defense. Every opening you seal now is one less place for stink bugs to get inside later.

Another thing that can help is having the exterior of your home treated before stink bug activity picks up. A preventative exterior treatment provides an additional barrier they have to cross as they begin searching for a way inside.

It’s also important to know that a treatment will not stop you from seeing stink bugs outside. They can swarm homes in large numbers during the fall, so you may still see plenty of activity on the siding, windows, and doors.

The goal of the treatment is to help reduce the number that successfully make it inside and, in turn, reduce the number you may see emerging indoors throughout the winter and early spring.

If stink bugs have been a problem at your house in previous years, don’t wait until you’re seeing them everywhere. Now is the time to get ahead of them.

Seal up the openings, take care of preventative treatment early, and make your house a little less inviting before stink bugs start looking for their winter home.

If you’d like help getting your home ready for stink bug season, call or text Yikes Pest Control at 812-604-7206.

08/25/2026

WAIT… THAT STICK HAS LEGS?!

One of our customers sent us this awesome photo of a walkingstick, and we had to share it!

These insects are seriously cool. Walkingsticks have one of the best disguises in nature—their long, slender bodies and legs make them look almost exactly like a twig. Some will even sway back and forth as they move, helping them look like a small branch blowing in the wind. Talk about taking camouflage seriously!

And here's another cool thing about this Indiana native:

It's not really a pest.

Walkingsticks are harmless to people and homes, and finding one around your property usually isn't something that requires treatment.

That's an important part of what we do. Pest control isn't about spraying everything with six legs. It's about knowing what you're looking at and knowing when something actually needs to be controlled.

So this incredible little master of disguise?

No treatment needed. Carry on, little stick.

Next time you're outside, take a second look at those twigs… one of them might look back.

08/17/2026

Roaches are more than just an unpleasant surprise—they can become a real health and sanitation concern inside your home.

Around Evansville and Newburgh, warm summer weather can keep cockroach activity high, especially in kitchens, bathrooms, basements, garages, and other areas where they can find moisture, food, and shelter. Roaches can contaminate surfaces and food, leave behind droppings and shed skins, and some species can spread bacteria as they move through unsanitary areas and then across countertops, cabinets, and other surfaces.

One of the biggest problems with cockroaches is that seeing one can sometimes mean there are many more hiding nearby. They reproduce quickly and spend much of their time tucked away in cracks, behind appliances, inside cabinets, and other dark spaces. If you’re starting to notice roaches regularly, it may be a sign that the population is becoming established.

Yikes Pest Control
812-604-7206