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Millipedes: Identification, Signs, and How to Control Them
Quick answer: Millipedes are slow, cylindrical, many-legged arthropods that live in damp soil and leaf litter and sometimes migrate indoors
Asian Lady Beetles: Identification, Signs, and How to Keep Them Out
Quick answer: The multicolored Asian lady beetle looks like a ladybug but gathers on sunny walls in fall and moves
Boxelder Bugs: Identification, Signs, and How to Keep Them Out
Quick answer: Boxelder bugs are black-and-red insects that feed on boxelder and maple trees, then gather on warm, sunny walls
Pillbugs and Sowbugs: Identification, Signs, and How to Control Them
Quick answer: Pillbugs (roly-polies) and sowbugs are small, segmented crustaceans, not insects, that live in damp soil, mulch, and leaf
Cigarette Beetles: Identification, Signs, and How to Get Rid of Them
Quick answer: Cigarette beetles are small, humpbacked brown beetles that infest a wide range of stored products — spices, dry
Carpet Beetles: Identification, Signs, and How to Get Rid of Them
Quick answer: Carpet beetles are tiny, rounded beetles whose bristly larvae feed on wool, fur, feathers, silk, and other natural
Crickets: Identification, Signs, and How to Control Them
Quick answer: Crickets, including house crickets and the humpbacked camel cricket, wander indoors into damp basements, garages, and crawlspaces. House
Earwigs: Identification, Signs, and How to Control Them
Quick answer: Earwigs are dark, elongated insects with distinctive rear pincers that live in damp, sheltered spots and wander indoors
Mud Daubers: Identification, Signs, and How to Deal With Them
Quick answer: Mud daubers are slender, solitary wasps that build small mud-tube nests on walls, eaves, and under overhangs, stocking
Bald-Faced Hornets: Identification, Signs, and How to Deal With Them
Quick answer: Bald-faced hornets are large black-and-white wasps that build a distinctive football-shaped gray paper nest in trees, shrubs, and
Carpenter Bees: Identification, Signs, and How to Deal With Them
Quick answer: Carpenter bees are large, robust bees that bore perfectly round holes into bare or weathered wood to build
Cluster Flies: Identification, Signs, and How to Keep Them Out
Quick answer: Cluster flies are slightly larger, sluggish relatives of the house fly that overwinter inside walls, attics, and window