Know Your Enemy
These tiny bloodsuckers hide in mattresses and luggage, causing itchy red welts, but they do not spread disease.
What are Bed Bugs?
This season is peak activity for mosquitoes, ticks, and stinging insects due to heat and humidity.
What is Summer?
To stop mosquitoes from breeding, you must eliminate this type of water from your yard.
What is Standing Water?
Myth: Mice love cheese. Fact: They actually prefer high-calorie foods like seeds or this sandwich spread.
What is Peanut Butter?)
Ants often trail into this room of the house looking for crumbs and spills.
What is the Kitchen?
Often confused for "water bugs," this dark brown to black cockroach prefers cool, damp areas like sewers and basements.
What is the Oriental Cockroach?
As temperatures cool in this season, rodents and spiders move indoors seeking warmth.
What is Fall (or Autumn)?
Pantry pests can be stopped by storing flour and cereal in these types of containers.
What are Airtight (or Sealed) Containers?
Myth: Bed Bugs are attracted to dirt and filth. Fact: They are "hitchhikers" that are only attracted to warmth and this
What is Blood?
Silverfish and millipedes love this room because of the high humidity and moisture from showers.
What is the Bathroom?
This wood-destroying insect is often confused with an ant, but it eats wood and costs homeowners billions in damage.
What are Termites?
Termite swarms are most common in this blooming season, often following warm rains.
What is Spring?
Sealing these small openings around windows, doors, and foundations prevents pests from entering.
What are Cracks (or Gaps/Entry Points)?
Myth: You are safe from termites if your home is made of this material. Fact: Termites can bypass the exterior to eat the wood framing inside.
What is Brick or Concrete?
Rodents and raccoons often nest in this upper part of the house to stay warm and dry.
What is the Attic?
Invasive pests that release a foul odor when crushed and often invade homes in the fall to overwinter.
What are Stink Bugs?
Even in freezing temperatures, these pests stay active indoors, chewing wires and nesting in insulation.
What are Rodents (Mice/Rats)?
You should keep this fuel source stored away from the home's foundation to avoid attracting termites.
What is Firewood?
Myth: "Daddy Longlegs" are the deadliest spiders. Fact: They are not actually spiders (they are Opiliones) and they possess no amount of this
What is Venom?
Fruit flies breed primarily in this part of a kitchen sink.
What are Drains?
These large, solitary bees bore tunnels into wood to nest but rarely sting unless handled.
What are Carpenter Bees?
On sunny days in winter, these "overwintering" insects may emerge from walls and appear around windows.
What are Overwintering Pests (or Boxelder Bugs/Lady Beetles)?
Switching outdoor bulbs to this color can help reduce the number of flying insects attracted to your home at night.
What is Yellow?
Myth: All stinging insects die after stinging you. Fact: Only Honey Bees die; these pests have smooth stingers and can sting repeatedly
What are Wasps / Hornets?
Paper wasps often build nests under these roof overhangs.
What are Eaves?