Pack rats have become a growing problem for homeowners in Phoenix, with an increase in reported infestations. These rodents, also known as woodrats or trade rats, are active in urban environments and can cause significant damage to homes and properties. Understanding their behavior, risks, and control measures is crucial for protecting homes from infestations.
The Sunshine State is truly the ideal place to live and work. With the sun shining year-round, your yard is the perfect place to host a BBQ, watch the kids play, lounge by the pool or even take a nap under the shade of a tree.
A house-dwelling insect, the Lepisma saccharina, more commonly known as the Silverfish or bristletail, derives its name from several characteristics such as its silver/gray exoskeleton and fish-like habit of moving at a rapid pace, interspersed with short intervals of stopping or pausing.
Brown recluse spiders, or Loxosceles reclusa, belong to a family including eleven indigenous US species and are also, due to a marking on their backs, known as violin or fiddle-back spiders. Because other spider family members have similar markings, the violin shape isn't the brown recluse's most distinguishing feature.
If you feed them, they will come. A tightly packed restaurant full of hungry customers is every restaurant owner's dream, but all that good food lying around is also an invitation for some unwelcomed guests.
Traveling comes with hotel rooms, fold-out couches, airport benches, extended family living quarters, or a friend of a friend's man cave, which may be some of the destinations travelers will experience.
The assumption one must be a poor housekeeper or have poor hygiene to have bed bugs is simply untrue. Bed bugs are good hitchhikers and can easily be transported from place to place as people travel.
Switching out your wardrobe soon? Keep an eye out for household pests that may be destroying your clothes. Even though these pests are not usually disease or germ carriers, their presence can be a nuisance and difficult to eliminate.