Pest Control Tips & Guides

Tiny black bugs in a NYC apartment are usually carpet beetles, fungus gnats, pantry beetles, spider beetles, or small ants. An ACE entomologist sorts them by where you find them — and what to do.

Tiny white bugs in a NYC apartment are almost always harmless, moisture-loving species: springtails, booklice, mold and grain mites, dust mites, or clothes-moth larvae. An ACE entomologist explains how to tell them apart.

Cinnamon, mothballs, bug bombs, cold snaps, boric acid: an ACE entomologist debunks the NYC apartment pest myths that waste money and let infestations grow — and explains what actually works.

Itchy bites but no bugs to find? An ACE entomologist’s step-by-step NYC walkthrough: bird mites from pigeons on AC units, rodent mites, carpet beetles, dry skin, scabies, and how to tell them apart.

Solving a mouse problem in a NYC rental without creating a lease problem: what your landlord must do, what you can legally DIY, and how to document and escalate. From an ACE entomologist.

Three cockroach species, three habitats, three control strategies. An ACE entomologist explains how to tell NYC’s German, American, and Oriental cockroaches apart — and why it changes how you stop them.

Three features tell a termite swarmer from a flying ant. An ACE entomologist explains how to identify them, why subterranean termites really do occur in NYC, and what to do next.

A field guide to the common spiders of New York City from an ACE entomologist — cellar spiders, house spiders, jumping spiders, wolf spiders, orb-weavers — plus the truth about recluses and widows in NYC.