Now that the holiday season is coming to an end it’s time to pack away all your decorations. This can be especially tricky to keep mice and insects out of your favorite family ornaments and even harder to keep spiders out of an artificial tree. The most effective way to store ornaments is to inspect ...

  Everyone has had the experience of screaming at the unpleasant sight of the bug with 100 legs running past you. That bug is call a centipede and its name may be misleading. Centipede means 100 legs but an actual centipede may have anywhere from 15 to 177 pairs of legs! These long flat creatures ...

Being outdoors and enjoying nature is a wonderful thing, but some not so wonderful creatures can hitchhike back inside.   Ticks can jump onto our clothing or one of our furry friends while going inside after playing. Ticks are very hard to spot, an adult tick may be 1 cm long after full of blood ...

We all recognize the light brown pest that scrambles when we flip the lights on. That’s right, it’s the cockroach. Adult cockroaches are easily distinguished by their light brown or tan color with two black stripes. Nymphs are darker and almost black still carrying the black stripes that start behind their head.  This pest can be ...

Have you ever been in your house and seen a silver bug moving swiftly across your floor?   That was a silverfish! Silverfish can survive in all climates but thrive in dark and damp places such as your bathroom, basement, attic, or even your kitchen. Their predators are spiders and centipedes. Silverfish feed on sugar and glucose ...