When the Weather Outside is Frightful, Keeping Ants Out is Delightful!
And though some ants drown during a rainstorm, these little buggers have learned numerous survival techniques that include colony warning signals, physical barriers to the queen, using leaves and sticks to float away on, and of course, seeking shelter in the comfort of your home.
Slippery Real-life Bookworms: Silverfish
Silverfish prefer warmer temperatures, so summer is their optimal time, and areas in your home such as laundry rooms, garages, attics, fireplaces, and even hot water pipes can become optimal breeding grounds. To attract a female, the male silverfish displays a very interesting tantric dance of love. One female silverfish can lay anywhere from 50 to 200 eggs.
US grapples with bedbugs, misuse of pesticides
“Bedbugs, infesting U.S. households on a scale unseen in more than a half-century, have become largely resistant to common pesticides. As a result, some homeowners and exterminators are turning to more hazardous chemicals that can harm the central nervous system, irritate the skin and eyes or even cause cancer.” -Matt Leingang, The Associated Press
Vampires Not the Only Bloodsuckers: Bed Bugs!!
Though not poisonous, bed bugs feed on human blood and live in beds, carpets, linens, toys, luggage, and clothes.
Millions of years old and still pesky: Cockroaches!
Imagine for a second, you wake up hungry for a midnight snack. Quietly, you feel and bump your way down the hallway and stumble into the kitchen. It’s dark. You fumble around and manage to finally flip the switch and FLASH, out of the corner of your eye you see it—a dark, skittering, streak across the floor. A cockroach! The ultimate home invader.
Summer Fun Can Come With a Sting: Yellowjackets and Paper Wasps
In late summer, large amounts of sugar are needed to feed the thousands of yellow jacket or wasp queens and workers, and this is when they become more troublesome to humans. It’s not uncommon for swarms of yellowjackets or wasps to aggressively forage around trash cans, dumpsters or human picnics and barbeques, where they may crawl into soda cans and sting when the unsuspecting victim takes a drink.
Spider Bites Rare, But Can Be A Pain
Symptoms of a spider bite may include pain and burning at the site of the bite, a circle of pale skin surrounding the red center of the bite, which may form a blister or ulcer and burst. Care should be taken to keep the bite clean and disinfected; seek medical attention immediately if infection sets in. In some cases, the victim may develop a red, itchy rash within the first three days, muscle and joint pain, fever, chills, swollen lymph nodes, headache, nausea and vomiting.
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