Every year, high school graduates from around the world will gather their belongings in preparation for dorm living, resulting in a mingled mess of personal belongings – the perfect transportation for hitchhiking BED BUGS. Unless you’re planning on majoring...
Local pest control services warn about an invasive species that’s hungry for the fruits, berries, legumes and vegetables in your garden—the brown marmorated stink bug. When the weather begins to grow cooler in the Pacific Northwest, you may notice these stink...
You’ve probably heard this fact many times and hoped that by some miracle it didn’t happen to you. Is this really true? Our resident doctor of entomology and author of Ask the Bug Doc, Nancy Troyano, will help you...
There used to be a billboard in Los Angeles with the heading, “Been Ripped Off By Orange Oil?” with a phone number to call for information. One can assume that enough people felt taken-in by orange oil’s claims that the billboard...
Pantry pests can destroy your food. They get into your cabinets, crawling through your food and contaminating your supplies. Pantry pests can infest bags of flour, containers of sugar and boxes of rice. Although these pests do not pose...
We ask our bug doctor, Nancy Troyano, about why during this time of year there seem to be so many spiders and webs all over the house.