How to Get Rid of Squirrels

Posted by Suzy in Squirrels on January 25, 2012 | No Comments

Squirrels are cute in the wild, but if one or more gets into your house, their cuteness factor tends to decrease exponentially. If squirrels set up home in your house – generally in places such as attics – just the noise that they make while running around making their nests is enough to drive people [...]

What Do Bedbugs Look Like?

Posted by Suzy in Bedbugs on January 24, 2012 | No Comments

Bed bugs are sneaky. They come out at night, and sneak away during the day, leaving people wondering if they could be dealing with a bedbug infestation or another pest. They are plenty of other warning signs but but none as definate as tracking down the actual bug. If you are wondering what bedbugs actually [...]

Hobo Spiders 101

Posted by Suzy in Hobo on May 10, 2011 | No Comments

Scientific Name: Tegenaria agrestis Why call them hobos? Because they hitched a ride some time ago and settled in America. Hobo spiders are native in Europe. They didn’t come to America through Ellis Island or the Port of New York. They landed in Seattle. Maybe hobo spiders came to Seattle as eggs; maybe just one [...]

Hobo Spider Bites and Effects

Posted by Suzy in Hobo on May 9, 2011 | No Comments

Why Hobo Spiders Bite The eyesight of hobo spiders may not be keen. The spider won’t be able to distinguish among humans well enough to know they may not need to be on the defensive. In other words, the hobo spider will assume he is being attacked and he will fight back with the only [...]

The Hobo Spider Life Cycle

Posted by Suzy in Hobo on May 8, 2011 | No Comments

The Hobo spider life cycle may be one year; it may be two; this is subject to argument among the experts. When a Hobo spider reaches its full adult size in June the males and females spend the Summer preparing for egg laying and fertilization in the Fall. The eggs from a female will be [...]

The Signs of Bedbug Problems

Posted by Suzy in Bedbugs on April 15, 2011 | No Comments

The return of the dreaded Bedbug, or Cimex lectulariushas, has hit Americans by storm once again. The nasty little bug, once thought to have been an eradicated pest, finds the same comfort in our beds as we do. Identifying a potential bed bug problem is sometimes a difficult process, but the nasty little Bed Bug [...]

Silverfish Life Cycle

Posted by Suzy in Silverfish on March 31, 2011 | No Comments

Silverfish don’t reproduce particularly quickly, but they live a long time, between two and eight years, so over time an infestation can grow to be significant. In this article we’re going to examine the reproductive cycle of the silverfish. The Mating Ritual Silverfish have an elaborate mating ritual that involves three steps. In the first [...]

What do Bedbugs Look Like?

Posted by Suzy in Bedbugs on March 2, 2011 | No Comments

Bedbugs are small insects that, along with the rest of their insect family, live by feeding on blood from warm-blooded animals. They have been infesting humans for thousands of years but were, for the most part, wiped out. Starting in the mid 1990′s they began showing up in increasing numbers again and may be due [...]

Bedbugs 101

Posted by Suzy in Bedbugs on February 5, 2011 | No Comments

What is a Bedbug? Bedbugs are small parasitic insects that feed on human blood. The bedbug (Cimex lectularius) is a member of the family Cimicidae, all insects in this family feed exclusively on the blood of warm blooded animals. The name bedbug comes from the fact that this insect is mainly nocturnal and prefers to [...]

How to Kill Bedbugs