Pest Control Tips & Guides

Quick answer: Yellowjackets are aggressive black-and-yellow wasps that nest in the ground, wall voids, and cavities, and can sting repeatedly

Quick answer: Ticks are small blood-feeding arachnids (not insects) that attach to hosts in grassy, brushy, and wooded edges and

Quick answer: Mosquitoes are small biting flies whose females need a blood meal to produce eggs, which they lay in

Quick answer: Drain flies, also called moth flies, are tiny fuzzy gray flies that breed in the gelatinous organic film

Quick answer: Fruit flies are tiny tan flies with red eyes that breed in fermenting fruit, spilled sugary liquids, and

Quick answer: House flies are dull-gray flies about 1/4 inch long that breed in garbage, manure, and decaying organic matter

Quick answer: Odorous house ants are tiny brown-to-black ants named for the rotten-coconut smell they give off when crushed. They

Quick answer: Pavement ants are small, dark brown to black ants that nest under sidewalks, driveways, and building slabs and

Quick answer: Silverfish are small, wingless, silvery-gray insects shaped like a teardrop or carrot, with three long tail bristles. They

Quick answer: Fleas are tiny, wingless, laterally flattened insects that jump and feed on the blood of pets and people.

Quick answer: Subterranean termites are the most economically damaging termites in the U.S. They live in the soil, build mud

Quick answer: Carpenter ants are large black or dark ants that excavate smooth galleries in wood to nest — but

Quick answer: The Norway rat is a large, burrowing rodent common in sewers, basements, and low areas of cities like

Quick answer: The house mouse is a small gray-brown rodent that enters buildings through gaps as small as a quarter

Quick answer: The German cockroach is the most common indoor cockroach and the hardest to control. Adults are light brown,