As summer begins to fade, the brown marmorated stinkbug will begin to find its way into your home. These smelly bugs hibernate inside every winter. Keep them out of your home this year with a treatment this fall.
Wasps, yellow jackets, hornets and bees send more than 500,000 people to the emergency room each year. They become more active as their hives grow over the summer. Below are the basic facts against protecting yourself against insect stings. Thanks to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) for supplying this information.
Would it surprise you that pests like places with easy access to food and water? The tips below highlight some simple ways that you can keep pests where they belong – outside your home!
Many areas of Long Island have already seen ticks in their yards and on their pets. Sightings will increase as the weather gets warmer and because our deer population is rising. Ticks hitchhike on deer and other animals. They have 4 stages: egg, six-legged larva, eight-legged nymph, and adult. After the egg stage, ticks must eat blood to survive. When ticks eat our blood, they spread Lyme disease, Borrelia miyamotoi infection, Ehrlichiosis, and many more diseases.
If you’re reading this article, you must have mice! Sorry to hear that – mice leave drops of urine in their trail and can carry fleas, mites, ticks and lice with them! They also spread bacteria like salmonella.
Carpet beetles and bed bugs look very much alike. Their main difference is their color. Bed bugs are reddish brown because they survive on blood – both human and animals. Carpet beetles are black or brown or a pattern of black, brown and orange. Both of these bugs are about 1/5 inch long with short antennae. They are vastly different in their behavior.
