Category: Nuisance Insects
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Oh Those Annoying Flies
It’s unlikely that you would have a backyard barbeque without visits from annoying house flies buzzing around your dinner plates, barbeque grill, and soda cans, trying to take a sip of a tasty treat. These persistent pests won’t hesitate to make their way indoors through open doors, holes in window screens, or cracks or crevices,…
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Go Away Stink Bugs!
The damage they have caused is done and the population explosion has occurred. They are saying goodbye to your tomatoes, peppers, peaches, apples, and other delicious summertime fruits and vegetables. Now it’s time for the brown marmorated stink bug to find a warm spot to spend it’s time during the frigid months until they can once…
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Camel Back Crickets
New Jersey pest control experts find that some people are fascinated by the camel cricket and others are quite horrified by their existence in their basement. Camel back crickets, otherwise known as cave crickets, are considered a nuisance pest. They prefer to live outdoors, but will enter any structure searching for the perfect cave-like environment…
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Crickets, An Unpleasant Houseguest
In China, having a cricket in your home is a sign of good luck. In fact, to some, crickets are so revered, once captured, they are adorned with special little cricket houses, fed well and tended to daily. When they sing their glorious song it’s considered joyful music. For many of us here in the…
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College Sends Student Home Because They “Suspect” Bed Bugs! Part 2 Of 2
Continuing from Friday… Clearly the Horry-Georgetown Technical College believes that they have good reason to take the actions that they did, but…. The question remains as to why the student was sent home. Did someone see a bed bug(s) on the student’s belongings? Did someone notice strange bite marks that resemble bed bug bite marks? …