Q: After a recent dusting of snow, I noticed little tracks all around my house, around the bushes, and all over the rock walls. What is making the tracks, and should I be concerned about animals in my house as well as outside? A: Although the winter of 2016 has note produced much snow in
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After several years of attending company outings/holiday parties at my wife’s place of employment, her colleagues know that I’m a ‘bug guy’, so quite often specimens will show up at her desk with notes like, ‘hey, could you have your husband take a look at these”? “I found them in my garage” or in my
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The Northeast got pummeled by Jonas for sure this past weekend but we got skunked in NH! Today is quite spring like outside in the upper 40s so I wouldn’t be surprised to start seeing springtails beginning to appear. What is a springtail you ask? Springtails, aka, snow fleas are tiny bluish gray or dark
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A customer in Nashua, NH found several small-checkered beetles on her bedroom floor and a couple in her closet. The same beetles were also found on the kitchen and dining room floor. Her attic had just been re-insulated with some kind of blown in material, and the siding sealed for energy efficiency. That is when
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My neighbor recently asked me to come look at a “Crazy looking thing with lots of legs!” that his tenant brought to him. He said she had been seeing quite a few of these strange multi-legged creatures recently. Most of the sighting had taken place in the bathroom, kitchen, and sometimes resting in corners. She
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Cockroaches and Other Indoor Pests Just Carry On We have a number of indoor pests that are totally adapted to living in our homes, they generally never have to venture outside. Some examples are: German cockroaches, bed bugs, silverfish, centipedes, fleas, clothes moths, spiders, drain flies, and various food pests (see Why Do I Have
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Any kind of stored food insect can be difficult to get rid of because so many types of foods can be infested. Flour beetles are no exception. Despite the name, flour beetles will feed on a wide range of food products – from cornmeal, flour, crackers, cake mix, to chocolate, beans, spices, and many more
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Q: We recently removed the carpet in one room of our house. The company that put in the new hardwood flooring did a great job matching the new floor with the existing one. Three coats of finish were applied and sanded between each coat, with a final gloss buff-out included. It looked fantastic and we
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There has been a lot in the news lately about blood-sucking “kissing bugs” invading the U.S. These bugs are related to bed bugs but suck blood mainly from animals other than humans. Kissing bugs (genus Triatoma) get their name because they sometimes suck blood from the faces of sleeping people. That part alone tends to
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