“Bed bugs are too small to see” You can actually see adult bed bugs fairly easily. An adult is about ¼-inch long, the size of an apple seed. Nymphs are smaller with a newly hatched nymph being about the size of the head of a pin. Older nymphs get progressively larger. The white, cylindrical eggs…
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There are a number of possibilities for these little flies or gnats. Fruit flies is one, but phorid flies, fungus gnats, or drain flies are other possibilities. All are tiny flies that breed in some kind of decaying organic material — from rotting fruits to potting soil to the scum inside drain pipes. Because the…
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This will probably come as a surprise to you but it is against the law to use a registered pesticide product in a manner that goes against the label. In the pest control business, all of our technicians are very familiar with the phrase, “The Label is the Law.” This phrase applies to the general…
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In our Northeast region, raccoons can be a year round problem. Before they den up for the winter, raccoons are very active searching for food to put on fat for those cold days ahead. They don’t hibernate but can become less active (see Do Raccoons Hibernate?). They might even remain in their dens for weeks…
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Well, it probably only makes a real difference to an entomologist or to a science teacher who is trying to teach insect classification. The teacher is right, there is only one suborder, Heteroptera, that we refer to as “true bugs.” All of the insects in this suborder share certain characteristics that other insects do not…
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