As always, you need to have a pest management professional inspect and identify your pests but Indian meal moths, or a related moth, are a likely answer. These are food moths that infest a wide variety of stored food products such as cornmeal, spices, flour, nuts, and cereals. But they also feed on some items
VIEW MOREOne question with so many possible answers. Gel baits are the primary products used for indoor cockroach control and work well. Assuming that you purchased a reputable, EPA-registered product, the lack of results could be due to any one of these factors: Failure to follow the label directions– Always read the label thatwill tell you
VIEW MOREWell, it’s time to welcome 2019 and begin to speculate on what our primary pest problems will be in the New Year. Much of it depends on what happens in the remainder of this winter. WINTER TEMPERATURES AFFECT PEST SURVIVAL Our weather will have an effect on the numbers of mosquitoes, and ticks, and flies,
VIEW MOREYou may know that rats and mice can carry various diseases and can sometimes transmit them to humans through their droppings, urine, and other bodily fluids. Did you know that rodents can also have parasites such as fleas, mites, lice, and ticks, and that these sometimes affect people as well? Apparently if you ever combed
VIEW MOREHead lice can be scary for parents and students. After all, these creepy little insects suck blood, and cause itching and embarrassment. On the positive side, head lice can be eliminated and they do not transmit diseases. Once you know a little bit about head lice, you will understand why pest control companies do not,
VIEW MOREThe reason that you don’t know what cockroach eggs look like is that chances are you will never see them. Instead, what you will see is a brown, capsule-shaped, enclosed egg case that holds many cockroach eggs or developing nymphs. Once you see a picture of a cockroach egg case, you’ll say, “oh yeah, I’ve
VIEW MOREDon’t panic. You really need to have our technicians take a look at your situation. Call our office to schedule, and in the meantime, save some of the beetles in a little bottle for identification. Be careful about making an identification from the Internet. Many insect photos are incorrectly identified and many insects with very
VIEW MOREYou’ve probably already begun your fall tasks of raking leaves, putting the garden to bed, cleaning gutters, rolling hoses, the usual end of season chores. There are steps you can take at the same time that will also help prevent next year’s pests, requiring little extra work on your part: LEAVES – Raking leaves is
VIEW MOREIf you hadn’t mentioned the chirping, the best guess would have been camel crickets that also move indoors in the fall. However, they don’t chirp and they don’t look as cricket-like with their humped, wingless backs and very long hind legs (see Meet the Camel Cricket…or Spricket). You might be dealing with the less common
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