Lots of people are afraid of spiders. But you might not expect that group to include entomologists, who study insects and handle all sorts of creepy bugs.
VIEW MOREIf you’ve had trouble in the past with any of these insects in your home – lady beetles, stink bugs, cluster flies, paper wasps, seed bugs, elm leaf beetles, or boxelder bugs – then you probably already know that this is the time of year when they make themselves known. All of these insects are
VIEW MOREMosquitoes are not just a summertime pest. Spring mosquitoes can be a real problem in certain areas. The Central Massachusetts Mosquito Control Project says that by mid-March, they are already checking and treating wetland areas for mosquito larvae that hatched in late February! Mosquitoes don’t just die off in the fall. They spend the winter
VIEW MOREAre you starting to think of spring cleaning around your property? Maybe not with this winter we’ve had! But, those of us in the pest control business know that, no matter what, the pests will still show up pretty much on schedule. Hard to believe that in less than a month, we’ll be getting the
VIEW MOREAll of us warm-blooded creatures have our winter coats. Whether it be fur, feathers, a jacket made with those materials or some hi tech-insulating fiber, we need our coats to stay warm during this extremely cold weather. But how do insects survive the cold weather? Insects have an advantage in that they are already cold-blooded animals
VIEW MOREI just opened a new bag of wheat flour and found that it was loaded with little dark bugs. I threw it out of course. Do you know what these bugs were? Are they going to be in my other food? T. V., Dunbarton, NH It’s hard to identify your food pests without seeing one
VIEW MOREWe often get calls from people who feel they are being bitten by something in their home. Sometimes the cause is obvious, but in other cases, we may not be able to find the source of the bites. In warm weather months especially, people are bitten when outside (from chiggers, mosquitoes, thrips, etc.), but the
VIEW MOREWhat are booklice? We have some old books that belonged to my grandfather and I just noticed that the pages look sort of chewed on. My Internet search found “booklice.” Are they the ones doing the damage? I couldn’t find any bugs in the books. C.F., Boston, MA I don’t think it’s booklice that are
VIEW MOREBut Hidden Pests in Your Home Won’t Be Sleeping for Long! The one constant about weather in New England is that it’s always changing. December 2013 was probably one of the coldest in decades. Remember the polar vortex? It had already taken a firm grip on most of the country at this time a year
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