Almost everyone has experienced these uninvited house guests – ants! Ants are found on every continent on Earth except Antarctica. According to the National Pest Management Association (NPMA), ants are considered the #1 nuisance pest in...
You’ve probably spotted this at least once: tiny ants crawling around your house. It can be worrisome to realize your home has been invaded by ants of any kind, and when they’re small ones that you...
There are plenty of DIY pest control solutions floating around on the Internet. But are all of them true? Are they safe? In 2018, our resident doctor of entomology and author of Ask the Bug Doc,...
Spring is here…and that means that it’s ant season! Discovering ants in your home can be frustrating and annoying. Worse, once you see one ant, more are likely to follow, thanks to their ability to lay...
With nearly 1,000 known species of ants in North America, you’re bound to run into one or two in your home. Seeing a couple in passing may not alarm you, but when they’re coming into your house...
Carpenter Ants and termites are often times mistaken for one another this time of year. It just so happens that swarmers (termites and Carpenter Ants with wings that are released from the colony when the colony...