Beetles Transfom into Ants to Infiltrate Ant Colonies
Army ant colonies are home to a treasure trove of raided food and helpless juveniles that other insects would love to feed on. But one
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Learn How to Prevent Cockroaches in Your Home
Cockroaches are among the oldest groups of insects because they will pretty much eat anything. Roaches find and devour any organic material – decaying or fresh – book bindings, glue, leather, beer, cheese, meat, grease, sweets, and starches.
How to Identify Bed Bugs (Tips from an Expert!)
Our experts get many calls about identifying bed bugs. In a recent article from FMC Pest Wire, these 5 bugs are often mistaken for bed bugs: Carpet Beetles, Spider Beetle, Cockroach Nymphs, Booklice and Bat Bugs. To the untrained eye, these bugs all look the same. Sometimes, we’re even asked to identify bed bug bites (pictured here).
Spotting the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
The stink bug is searching for protected, overwintering sites like the inside of your house.
How to Prevent Ticks in Your Yard on Long Island
Below are some tips on tick prevention in your yard from the Center for Disease Control (CDC). In addition, the CDC and other government health agencies recommend a tick lawn treatment to reduce their populations. Suburban Exterminating is happy to provide a tick lawn treatment for our customers in Nassau and Suffolk counties.
Do Cockroaches Spread Disease? Gross Cockroach Facts
Yuck! Cockroaches spread disease which cause food poisoning . Because cockroaches or roaches frequent garbage cans, sewers and other nasty places, germs attach to their bodies as they run around. The list of disease causing germs and bacteria is frightening including Salmonella, Shigella, E. coli, Streptococcus (pneumonia), hookworm, pin worms, tapeworms, and even poliomyelitis viruses. And don’t forget that roaches also cause allergies and asthma.
