While you’re enjoying summer sunshine, many common pests are already preparing for their next move—indoors. As early as midsummer, insects and rodents begin scouting for safe, sheltered places to ride out the cooler months ahead. And if your home...
While you’re enjoying summer sunshine, many common pests are already preparing for their next move—indoors. As early as midsummer, insects and rodents begin scouting for safe, sheltered places to ride out the cooler months ahead. And if your home...
Spiders are consummate hunters and killers and in the world of bugs, they are the equivalent of wolves, lions and sharks. Hunting strategies differ among spider species. Some build fantastic webs to capture passing insects, like the Orb Weavers,...
Vehicles, cars, camper-vans, buses, and trucks, provide many pests with a warm dry environment that often contains food. Vehicles can also provide these pests with transport, spreading the pests to wherever the vehicle travels. Most Common Pests...
We have a lot to be thankful for this year. But did you know that there are a lot of reasons to be thankful for insects, our co-inhabitants of this planet? Besides being a nutritious food source for millions of people, they provide their own form...
There's nothing like the smell of an evergreen tree and a cozy wood fire, to get you in the holiday spirit. But when you bring a live or cut Christmas tree indoors, along with the necessary firewood, some of the insects that have called your...
Male tarantulas have been spotted, early this season, marching in mass for mates. This annual march to find love, usually starts around September or October, but rangers in our state parks believe that the weather has male tarantulas starting...
A recent survey of widow spiders in Southern California led by retired UC Riverside entomologist Richard Vetter revealed new information about their distribution in California. Currently brown widows are 20 times more common then black widows in...
All spiders crawl, some swim, others are known for their jumping skills and still others for their ability to catch a breeze and “balloon” to distant lands or into the nearest home. Spiders are fascinating creatures but not welcome visitors in our...