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What Is The Difference Between European Hornets And Paper Wasps
European hornets, paper wasps, and other species of stinging insects send over 500,000 people to the hospital every year. However, how can you tell the difference between the different species, especially paper wasps and European hornets? In this article, we’re going...
How Frequent Are Carpenter Ant Infestations?
Carpenter ants are well known for damaging the structural and cosmetic wood sources within homes for nesting purposes, and the ant pests are easy to recognize in the northeast since the primary species in the region, the black carpenter ant, is jet black and...
German Cockroaches Have The Entire Layout Of Your Home Memorized So They Can Forage And Spread Indoors Unnoticed
Businesses, apartments and single-family homes in urban and suburban areas all contain some amount of cockroaches. Manmade structures provide domestic cockroaches, mainly the German cockroach, hidden areas where they maintain a sizable population. At night,...
B&B Pest Control explores why Cockroaches can be difficult to eliminate from homes
Cockroaches are some of the most adaptable pests on Earth. These long-despised creepy creatures have been around for more than 280 million years, and in this time have evolved to display some unique behaviors and survival tactics that allow them to thrive in many...
You Wouldn’t Believe How Rapidly Bed Bugs Can Crawl From One Apartment Unit To Another
Bed bugs have an affinity for nesting on textile fabrics of any kind. Their preference for nesting on fabrics allows bed bugs to spread from one place to another. Spreading to new faraway areas by means of nesting on people's clothing is the most common and effective...
Which Types Of Assassin Bugs Exist In Massachusetts? And Are Any Species Dangerous To Humans In Residential Areas?
Assassin bugs are a large group of true bugs that belong to the Reduviidae family. The family contains around 300 documented species, several of which dwell in Massachusetts. Assassin bugs are often cited as beneficial insects for gardeners due to the bug’s habit of...
Winter Season Still Poses Pest Infestation Risks
With warm weather pests like mosquitoes and bees less active in the relatively colder winter season across the country, many homeowners may feel their pest-proofing duties are done until springtime, but that is not the case. B&B Pest Control is working to help...
Some People Have Attempted To Kill The Cockroaches Invading Their Home In Creative Ways That You Would Never Have Imagined
Everybody has found a cockroach within their home at some point, and some people are confronted with roaches within their home on a regular basis. If you have to kill roaches regularly, then there is probably a particular method of killing that you have come to...
Insect Pests That May Invade Homes Through The Chimney
Insect pests are well known for using a variety of obscure entry points in order to invade homes, and this is especially common during the fall season in the northeast when falling temperatures prompt insects to overwinter indoors. Some of the most common entry points...
Where In Homes Do Odorous House Ants Frequently Establish Nests, And Why Are These Ants Difficult To Control?
Tapinoma sessile, or “odorous house ants,” as they are more commonly known, are very common insect pests within homes and buildings throughout the US. These ants get their common name from the odorous defensive fluid they emit when threatened or crushed under foot....
