You’ll find houseflies, bottle flies, and fruit flies just about anywhere humans live, since they’ve adapted to feeding on garbage, leftover foods, and human waste. Because flies will feed on just about anything, they are vectors of bacteria in the home. Flies…
Gnats is a colloquial term for any flies smaller than the common housefly and is specifically associated with flies that bite. The more formal term for gnats is black flies. For the most part, gnats and black flies in North America don’t…
In this article we are going to learn how to control cockroaches. Though cockroaches are often associated with unsanitary living conditions, such conditions are not necessarily a prerequisite for a cockroach infestation. Cockroaches do like rotting food and vegetables, but they also…
The population of the red imported fire ant in the American South is not only growing at an alarming rate but also migrating northward and westward. The fire ant is one of the only ant species on the planet that has the…
In this article we are going to talk about how to control bedbugs. Bedbugs, which encompass some 70 species, are insects that require blood from a mammal or bird in order to survive and reproduce. Bedbugs typically spread by hitching rides on…
In this article we are going to answer the question how to get rid of ants in the house. There are thousands of ant species in the world. Depending on where you live, you could be dealing with any number of these…
In this article we are going to discuss Effective Pest Control Methods. A home pest is any species that causes damage or is otherwise unwanted in the home. Home pests include many different types of creatures: indigenous insects, rodents, and mammals native…
