There might be a single product that would kill all of the pests you mention but the problem is timing and application site. A pesticide applied to control springtime-invading pests like millipedes may not remain very effective when you need it to kill pests that appear months later in the fall. It’s a fact that
VIEW MOREIf you spend a lot of time working or playing outside or if you live in an area with a lot of tick activity, maybe you’ve considered wearing permethrin-treated clothing to keep ticks from attaching and biting. While repellents containing DEET are still the main recommendation for use on exposed skin, the insecticide permethrin is
VIEW MORENot too early. A yellowjacket queen starts her nest in early spring and it grows in size and number of individuals throughout the summer. As the queen lays eggs, more workers are produced to search out insects and feed developing larvae. A successful late season yellowjacket nest can have up to 4,000 wasps. See How
VIEW MOREDomestic cockroaches are those that live and reproduce inside homes or other structures. The very common German cockroach is the best known, but American cockroaches and Oriental cockroaches will sometimes reproduce inside. One cockroach that is not a domestic cockroach but causes great alarm when it appears indoors is the wood cockroach. It doesn’t reproduce
VIEW MOREIt could be true. Carpenter ants can do some serious damage to wood in your home but we can’t yet say for sure if that is what is happening in your case. First, you need to make sure the ants are really carpenter ants (we can identify them for you). Second, you need to determine
VIEW MOREWe are approaching that time in spring when certain outdoor insects that have been spending the winter hiding in your house are waking up and looking for a way back outside. The brown marmorated stink bug is one of those insects that some of us in the Northeast see every fall and spring, but others
VIEW MORENow that warmer weather is finally approaching, customers are asking about various strange insects that have started appearing inside their homes. In most cases, these are plant-feeding pests that have chosen to spend the winter in the shelter of an attic or tucked away in a wall void. In spring, insects like lady beetles, western
VIEW MOREThere are a number of possibilities, especially in a room that is rarely disturbed. Given your description and the time of year and without an actual specimen, the best guess would be carpet beetles. In spring, carpet beetle adults emerge and head for light (the window) trying to find their way outside (see Carpet Beetles
VIEW MOREThere are not many pests more disgusting than bed bugs given the fact that they literally feed on our life’s blood. Fortunately, bed bugs don’t spread any identifiable diseases with that feeding, but they can still make us sick. Turns out that bed bugs give off high levels of allergy-causing histamines in their droppings, or
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