Featured Pest: Carpenter Ant

Carpenter ants are bothersome when found in any part of your home: the kitchen, bathroom, living room or any other room. Outdoors, they are frequently seen running over plants and tree trunks or living in moist, partly rotten wood stumps. If only one or two large wingless ants are found crawling inside your home, they may simply be foraging for food, though their nest is still located outside. However if you find more than 20 large winged and/or wingless ants indoors, it is possible that the colony has been built inside your home. Unfortunately this can mean that the nest could extend into wood, possibly causing structural damage. Though the ants do not eat wood, they can remove large amounts of it to build their nests.

Nerdy Scientific Name: Blattella germanica (Linnaeus)

  Featured Pest: German Cockroach

The German cockroach is the most common cockroach found in homes, apartments, restaurants, supermarkets, hospitals and other buildings where food is stored, prepared or served. They eat all kinds of food and may hitchhike into the home on egg cartons, soft drink cartons, sacks of potatoes or onions, used furniture, beverage cases, etc. These cockroaches will move from building to building during the warm summer months.

German Cockroaches can develop into large populations and live throughout the home, especially in kitchens and bathrooms. Cockroaches can foul food and produce an unpleasant odor. A significant number of people are allergic to cockroaches, and may exhibit chronic symptoms without realizing the cause of their watery eyes or runny noses. Cockroaches can also contaminate food with bacteria that can cause food poisoning, dysentery, or diarrhea.

Nerdy Scientific Name: Blattella germanica (Linnaeus)

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American Cockroach

Habits
American cockroaches usually live outdoors, but often live in human structures and are frequently found in restaurants and grocery stores or anywhere food is prepared and stored. In residential and commercial buildings, American cockroaches infest basements, bathrooms, crawlspaces and landscaping areas. They prefer warm, moist environments but can live in dry areas if water is accessible. Although adults have fully developed wings, and are capable of some flight, they are awkward fliers and prefer to run away very quickly when disturbed. Infestations often overtake storm drains and cockroaches use manhole covers to escape under cover of darkness to search for food in nearby buildings. more...

Argentine Ant

Habits
Argentine ants build shallow nests in the soil beneath stones, concrete slabs or other debris. They may also be found in piles of lumber, bricks, landscape mulch, insulation, walls and trees. Argentine ant colonies can grow very large with tens of thousands of workers and multiple queens. Colonies often combine becoming one huge super-colony extending over several residential properties. Argentine ants are very aggressive and will drive out other ant species. more...

Black Widow Spider

Habits
The black widow spider weaves a very strong but formless and erratic web close to the ground and can often be found in drain pipes, under outhouse toilet seats and beneath logs and rocks. The tips of the spider’s legs are oily to prevent it from becoming stuck in its own web. It can usually be found hiding belly up in its web waiting to catch prey. more...

Blow Fly | Blow Flies

Habits
Blow flies are extremely common. They are loud buzzing fliers that are attracted to lights, food odors and warm/cool currents around windows and doors. The sudden appearance of dozens of blow flies in a building could indicate there is a dead rodent, bird, or other animal in the wall, ceiling or attic. more...

Field Crickets

Habits

Field crickets are seen and heard during late summer and fall. They are generally found outdoors, but have been known to invade homes in search of warm hiding places in the colder months. Once indoors, they can cause damage to fabrics, paper, leather, furs and other materials indoors. They also cause tremendous destruction to outdoor landscaping. Field crickets are subject to huge population surges, and may become extremely abundant virtually overnight. more...