Mosquitoes are the pest that kills more people worldwide than any other animal. And here in Arizona, we unfortunately have them. They are known for their blood suck mouthpart that suck the blood out of your system and sadly that is when they can transmit many different diseases to you. We take this knowledge very…
Earwigs are one of the most unique looking bugs we come across in Arizona. The history or myth, shall we say, of earwigs, is they lay eggs in your ears. That myth couldn’t be further from the truth. With pinchers on the back of them, antenna on the front and wings, they are very fun…
Did you know crickets are one of the most destructive insects? They eat fabrics (clothes), carpet, vegetables, fruit, and paper. This is why the population should not be left untreated. Not to mention that annoying chirping, which is only made by the males rubbing the edges of their forewings together to impress females. Another way…
One of the nastiest, dirtiest bugs we deal with is the cockroach. Some cockroaches can carry Cholera, Dysentery, Leprosy, Listeriosis, Salmonellosis and more. They transmit these diseases not through bite but by indirect ways with an item that has come into contact with the cockroaches. As you can see this is why we take our…
In this section we will talk about the differences between the centipede and millipedes. The word pedes means foot and centi means hundred while milli means thousand. While it does not translate correctly one of the main differences is how many legs each one has. If it has two sets of legs then it is…
These nasty reddish brown oval shaped little creatures love their food source, your blood. These guys travel in on their food source making them harder to control. If you do not discover who introduced them and from where you picked up bed bugs then going forward will be more difficult. Bed bugs tend to nest…
Basic description Ants are one of the hardest to control and identify. Hard to control because 90% of the colony is under ground and hard to identify because of their size and the very small difference between some of them. One way to identify them is by their nodes on their back, some have 1,…
