Ticks are a highly disliked organism and for pretty good reasons! Ticks are tiny blood-sucking parasites that are small enough to go unnoticed and can host several dangerous diseases that can be transmitted to humans and pets. Tick Awareness Week takes place in May each year. With recent increases in…
Did you know bed bugs have creepy-crawly cousins called chimney swift bugs? How about bat bugs and swallow bugs? All four of these insects are fairly similar in appearance and all have one annoying characteristic: they feed on blood. Bed bugs have more recently gained a spot as one of…
We’ve had quite a few calls lately from panicked clients who have come across a swarm of bees. While this can be unsettling, especially for those with allergies to stinging insects, this is actually a common and very natural occurrence, and there is typically very little threat from the bees…
I had a friend during college who absolutely hated spiders. If he came across one in a stairwell, for example, he would turn around and find another set of stairs. That is how I feel about cockroaches, and why they top my list of least favorite insects. Like my old…
Yellow jackets are like the ugly stepsisters to the honey bee’s Cinderella. And I don’t mean the version of the story where the stepsisters become friends with Cinderella by the end, I mean the version where the stepsisters are hateful and malicious for the whole story. Yellow jackets are the…
