My son found a strange little bug in the basement that looked kind of like a tick but it had claws like a crab. When he brought it into school, his biology teacher said it was a pseudoscorpion. What is that? How did it get into our basement, and does it sting? E. H., The
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Earwigs are normally found outdoors, often around foundations, where they hide under mulch or boards or other materials, or in heavy ground covers. They scavenge on what they can find: plants, decaying vegetation, and occasionally on other insects. They sometimes end up in homes (1) seeking moisture when their outside sites get too dry, or
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I am so angry at our builder. We just moved into our new home two years ago. In the last couple of days we have been finding tiny holes and piles of sawdust in our wooden stairs. Some insect must be eating our house. I don’t know if we have termites or wood beetles, or
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If you’re a gardener and you’re worried about protecting honey bees on your property, the yard and garden giant Ortho just made it a little easier for you. Bowing to consumer concerns about the effects of neonicotinoid insecticides on honey bees, Ortho is removing these chemicals from its products, making changes in eight of their
VIEW MOREJohn Maher: Hi, I’m John Maher and I’m here today with Tim Chase of Colonial Pest Control. Tim is an entomologist and a pest control technician and today our topic is mosquito control devices. Welcome, Tim. Tim Chase: Good morning, John. Types of Mosquito Control Devices John: So, Tim, what are a few of the different types of
VIEW MORECritters are rapidly waking up with this soon to be concluded mild winter. After the coldest and one of the snowiest months of February ever, last year, February 2016 is ending sunny with temperatures in the 50’s. Today I observed box elder bugs on the outside of a home. They are waking up with the
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You knew it was coming. Researchers here in the Northeast are now warning us to expect more ticks than usual this spring. The University of Rhode Island Tick Encounter Resource Center lists a high tick encounter index across the Eastern U.S. That means they found more ticks than normal (see Where do Ticks Go in
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Exterminators have seen it all. Every pest control technician has a horror story or two of the very worst pest infestations ever. So, in honor of National Pest Management Month (April), we present these spine-tingling, real life tales of pests gone wild, from Realtor.com: The Case of the Black Kitchen Floor John Kane, a technical
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There are a couple of big bumble bees that seem to be digging a hole into our deck railing. Why are they doing that? They’re pretty aggressive and don’t want to let us onto our deck! F. C., Hopkinton, NH First off, I can assure you that they’re not bumble bees. Bumble bees usually nest
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