With the holidays on the immediate horizon, we’re thinking cozy thoughts of family gatherings complete with a roaring fire. Those thoughts don’t include big black ants, termites, large black beetles, spiders, and other unmentionables that might crawl out of the firewood to join the celebration (see When Pests Come in With the Firewood!). WHY BUGS
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I just opened a box of cake mix and discovered lots of dark bugs moving around inside. When I looked it up on the Internet, it seems like they are some kind of food beetle but there are so many different types, how do I know which one I’m dealing with? F. A., Brookline, MA
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Are silverfish really silver-colored? I’m seeing these insects occasionally that I think are silverfish but they’re more brown-gray than silver. Are these something else? I need them gone. L. F., New Castle, NH You need a professional identification and inspection to answer that question. There are two different possibilities. The most likely explanation is that
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I think I might have bed bugs in my condo! Over the last three weeks, I’ve noticed a few strange bites on my arms and neck. I know that the neighbor across the hall had bed bugs but her unit was treated a week ago. Could her bed bugs have moved to my condo? B.
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What is a “spricket?” We have these weird, creepy insects in our basement laundry room. When you open the door, they jump all over the place, straight up. My friend said they were sprickets. W. H., Hudson, NH Spricket is another name for the camel cricket. You can probably guess how it got this name
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It seems like no matter what time of year it is I’ve got bugs in my bathroom when I’m not seeing them anywhere else. It’s gotten so that I hate going in there at night. Why the bathroom? C.C., Boston, MA You don’t say what kind of insects you’re seeing so let’s assume it’s a
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My wife asked me to set up the bird feeders since the weather is getting colder. I had a big bag of birdseed in the garage left over from last year. I thought it might not be any good and when I opened it, there were white worms crawling up the sides of the bag
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Have you seen one yet? Homeowners in New Hampshire and other parts of the Northeast say that western conifer seed bugs are making their fall appearance and moving into homes (see our blog, Seed Bugs Would Like to Spend the Winter in Your Home!). The New Hampshire Union Leader reports that although the bugs first
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Halloween brings with it the brief celebration of certain symbolic and scary creatures. Beyond the human or half-human entities such as ghosts, ghouls, vampires, werewolves, zombies, and Freddy Krueger, there are also scary things found elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Those of us in the pest control business applaud the fleeting fame that Halloween brings
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