Now 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
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There 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
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There 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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For decades, we have had safer, more effective, specialized pest control applications at our disposal. Even with offerings such as insect baits, crack and crevice treatments, and pheromone traps, folks still like to reach for what they know, the big guns, better known as “bug bombs.” You might call them bug bombs or “foggers” but
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Flea control is a complex issue since we are dealing with two different life stages, adult and larva, that live in two completely different environments. Adult fleas live almost exclusively on your pet. They don’t leave the animal so vacuuming your home won’t affect the adult fleas at all. VACUUMING TARGETS FLEA EGGS AND LARVAE
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Your intruder doesn’t match a rat either if your description is accurate. Rats have a long, naked tail and their ears and eyes are prominent. It could be that your dog tangled with a shrew. Although shrews are rodent-like, they are not rodents but belong to the order Insectivora. Moles are also in this group
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Like other animals, insects require three things – food, water, and shelter. They look for a location that will provide all three. As with all animals though, the need for food generally outweighs the others. If you know what certain insects feed on, you can pretty much predict where they will be found in a
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There are a couple of different types of tiny powderpost beetles that can infest wood in homes, often hardwood floors or furniture. The anobiid powderpost beetle, however, is more likely to damage structural wood as it infests both softwoods and older hardwoods. These powderpost beetles require high moisture levels and most often attack unfinished wood
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Bed bugs live in the clothing of people who are less than clean. Don’t confuse bed bugs with body lice. Bed bugs don’t require the closeness of a human body except for the brief time that they are feeding and they definitely don’t like the commotion of a body in motion. Bed bugs could conceivably
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