What is a “spricket?” We have these weird, creepy insects in our basement laundry room. When you open the door, they jump all over the place, straight up. My friend said they were sprickets. W. H., Hudson, NH Spricket is another name for the camel cricket. You can probably guess how it got this name
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It seems like no matter what time of year it is I’ve got bugs in my bathroom when I’m not seeing them anywhere else. It’s gotten so that I hate going in there at night. Why the bathroom? C.C., Boston, MA You don’t say what kind of insects you’re seeing so let’s assume it’s a
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My wife asked me to set up the bird feeders since the weather is getting colder. I had a big bag of birdseed in the garage left over from last year. I thought it might not be any good and when I opened it, there were white worms crawling up the sides of the bag
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Have you seen one yet? Homeowners in New Hampshire and other parts of the Northeast say that western conifer seed bugs are making their fall appearance and moving into homes (see our blog, Seed Bugs Would Like to Spend the Winter in Your Home!). The New Hampshire Union Leader reports that although the bugs first
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Halloween brings with it the brief celebration of certain symbolic and scary creatures. Beyond the human or half-human entities such as ghosts, ghouls, vampires, werewolves, zombies, and Freddy Krueger, there are also scary things found elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Those of us in the pest control business applaud the fleeting fame that Halloween brings
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We just bought a house that was in foreclosure and empty for several months. We found an awful lot of spider webs and a few spiders but I’m worried about spider eggs that might still hatch out. What should we do to prevent that? K. B., Hampstead, NH What you do now might depend in
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1. The most common cockroach living in homes in the Northeast is the American cockroach? TRUE or FALSE? FALSE. It’s the much smaller German cockroach. The large American cockroach is sometimes found in lower levels of commercial buildings such as office buildings or in sewers. 2. A German cockroach female gives live birth to an
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If you’re worried about bringing bed bugs home from your vacation, pay attention to your dirty laundry. Dirty clothes attract bed bugs. Yes, this sounds like an old wives tale. Bed bugs feed on people’s blood, what do they care about those less-than-clean T-shirts and undies that you’ve been throwing into your luggage for the
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Now that the weather’s getting cooler, I’m starting to see some of those strange bugs moving into my house again. You know, the ones that supposedly spend the winter indoors and then move out again. How do we know these bugs aren’t going to just stay inside and breed? L. S., Hamilton, MA Most of
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