What Do Bed Bugs Look Like? – Bed bugs are oval, flattened, wingless, and about the size of an apple seed when fully grown. Bed bug eggs are tiny, white and cylindrical. When bed bug nymphs first hatch, they are almost clear and become more brown as they get older. A bed bug that has…
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When you have a pest problem in your home or yard, you have two choices. Do you hire a professional or do you do the job yourself? If you choose to tackle the job yourself and you choose to use a pesticide, which pesticide product do you select? Home-use pesticides come in many forms, including…
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Carpenter ants don’t eat wood but they use their jaws to tear wood pieces out when they are creating their galleries inside. They are very fastidious ants and like to keep clean galleries so they are constantly pushing accumulated debris out of their living space. They cut little slits in the wood that they use as “dump” sites. Below these slits, you might find a little pile that looks like sawdust. If you look at a carpenter ant’s dump pile under magnification, you will see that it is made up of wood shavings plus insect parts, dead ants, bits of seeds, and maybe bits of soil or insulation…
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When the powderpost beetle larvae have completed their development, they pupate inside the wood and the resulting adult beetle emerges from the wood through an exit hole. The exit holes are tiny (less than 1/10-inch in diameter) completely round, and may be surrounded by powdery “frass.” The size and shape of the exit holes is a clue to the type of beetle that is infesting.…
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People are sloppy – We leave food out for cockroaches. Dirty dishes, leftovers, food crumbs, pet food bowls, all feed a cockroach. People eat on the go – We eat in multiple locations: on the sofa, at our desks, in our beds, in our cars—and in each place we leave crumbs and spills. People keep…
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