Hard to believe but it won’t be long before we’ll be dealing with termites. Warm, damp spring days often result in swarms of dark, winged termites (see When Do Termites Swarm?). Don’t panic if you think you see flying, swarming termites. Where you see them is crucial. If they’re outside of your home, they’re rarely
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You don’t say that you’ve seen actual mice, but we’ll assume that the fecal “droppings” you are seeing came from mice. There aren’t too many things that look similar — a few that come to mind are pupal cases of some small flies or food beetles or moths (also caraway seeds and some other dark
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Good for you, thinking this through ahead of time! Hopefully you’ve been in touch with your new property manager who has arranged to have your apartment treated by a pest control professional while it’s still vacant and before your move-in. It’s also a good idea to have your present home treated by a pest control
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Since we’re all spending a lot of time indoors these days, some of us are doing spring cleaning early, tackling some of those household chores that repeatedly get overlooked. One such chore is removing spider webs and spider egg sacs, and cleaning up spider poop in those out-of-the-way places. WHY DO WE HAVE SPIDERS IN
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Your description doesn’t really sound like a brown rat, baby or otherwise. Rats have a naked tail, obvious eyes, and quite visible ears. I’m wondering if you met up with a shrew. Shrews have tiny, beady eyes, almost invisible ears, short legs, and velvety fur. Few people have even seen a shrew, but for some
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Have you seen some new and unusual, rather sluggish, insects wandering around your home lately? If you’re seeing more than one or two and they’re bugs that you’ve never seen before, you might be dealing with one of the insect groups that we often call “fall invaders.” These are insects that don’t normally live inside
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We recognize yellowjackets and most of us know a paper wasp’s “umbrella” nest when we see it near the ceiling of our front porch. These familiar wasps are all social wasps, meaning many wasps live together in a colony and share nest-keeping duties. But there are many other kinds of wasps that we don’t see
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Insects and other arthropods do very well in basements, especially basements that are unfinished or only partially finished and are well below grade (see Here’s Why Pests Love Your Basement!). These pests enter basements usually for three main reasons: 1. — to escape detrimental outside conditions such as cold, dryness, or temporary flooding. 2. —
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Your wasps do sound like paper wasps. These wasps love to build their nests in places that are protected from the elements and predators; the inside corner of a porch roof is high on their list. Other favorite sites are under the eaves of a building, in vents, behind shutters, under window ledges, or in
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