If you are looking to buy a home to move into for the New Year make sure you get it fully inspected! You don’t want to move in January to find out in the spring it is infested with rodents or... more
Category: Beetles, Cockroaches & Other Insects
Buggy Basements and Attics
Hopefully you all have lots of Thanksgiving leftovers as you may need them to save you from cooking through the weekend! What’s the next Holiday??? Christmas!! And if any of you are like me…the tree goes up no later than Sunday! This means digging in our dusty buggy basements and attics to get... more
Bugs in your Cupboards
Time to make one last run to the grocery store before Turkey day tomorrow? First double check what you have, maybe you have flour and sugar… Sometimes our cupboards get so disorganized we don’t know what is in them. With Thanksgiving a day away and guests coming to your homes you might want to... more
National Chocolate Covered Insect Day
Today is National Chocolate Covered Insect day. You've probably consumed your fair share of bugs during your lifetime -- either as a kid stuffing dirt in your mouth or last week when you yawned while riding around on your bike. No need to panic -- most insects are edible and in fact quite... more
How To Prevent Fall Pests From Entering Your Home
In New England, we know that warm spring months bring ants to our picnics, the hot summer months bring annoying mosquitoes and stinging insects into yards and gardens, and the cooler fall weather brings the invasion of pests inside our homes looking for a warm and safe place to spend the winter. If... more
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Ladybug: Information on the Ladybug
Ladybugs are very cute insects. Unlike many other insects in the world, they do not make people cringe at the sight of them. Even though people like ladybugs more than other insects they can still cause problems for people and their homes. There are over 5,000 species of ladybugs and almost 400... more
Fall is the Season of Change, And Stinkbugs
By Steven Farley
The brown marmorated stink bug arrived in the U.S. from the Far East in 1998, landing in the Allentown area. The bug has no known predators and will eat almost anything that grows. It doesn’t bite humans or animals, and it causes no damage to buildings or crops, but swarms can... more
So Long Stink Bugs
March 14th, 2011 10:12 am ET
Maryland might have a solution...will Boston follow?
The brown marmorated stink bug will soon meet it's arch rival in the form of an Asian wasp. The wasps are being raised in quarantine in a Delaware laboratory.
The wasps are said to be very efficient at... more
Study Says Cockroaches Exchange Food Tips
LONDON (June 5) -- Next time you raise your shoe to squish a cockroach, ponder this: You might be just about to kill the insect world's version of a Zagat restaurant reviewer. Because according to new research published in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, roaches behave like... more
It's All In Where You Look: Effective Pest Control for Restaurants
Restaurants are filled with hidden pest pockets, often complete with food, water and shelter — the three essentials for a happy pest. If pests continue to trouble your restaurant those pests have found some especially good hiding places…and you’ve missed them!
To get results, you’ll have to... more