Spiders, bats, and rats – all Halloween decor must-haves for creating the perfect spooky house. However, when these creepy pests make your house their home, thoughts of decorating and buying candy for trick-or-treaters may be the furthest thing from...
There may be two sides to every tale, but do you know a mouse tail from a rat tail? Visually, you may be able to easily identify a mouse from a rat while it’s standing still, but while these...
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...