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Pest Identification |
Misc. Pests |
Centipedes usually live outdoors in damp areas, such as under leaves, stones, boards, or tree bark or in mulch around outdoor plantings. If provoked, larger centipedes may bite, causing some pain and slight swelling. Actually, their "bites" are not caused by their jaws or mouthparts, but by their front legs, which are modified to look and function like jaws and contain venom glands. Centipedes do not damage food supplies or household furnishings. Since they eat insects, spiders, and other arthropods, they are beneficial. Centipedes have one pair of legs per body segment, and millipedes have two pairs per segment. Recommended products: Tempo, Suspend, Delta Dust |
Millipedes normally live outdoors in damp places, such as under decaying leaves and in mulch around outdoor plantings. They feed on damp and decaying vegetable matter as well as on new roots and green leaves. In wooded areas millipedes live in piles of leaf litter. In dry weather they will migrate out of the litter piles as the leaves dry, and they may cross roads and enter buildings in large numbers. This behavior may also occur in lawns that contain thick thatch layers, or yards where large piles of leaves or compost piles are present. Millipedes that commonly invade homes are 1/2 to 1-1/2 inches long and tend to coil up when resting. Recommended products: Tempo, Suspend, Delta Dust |
Centipede |
Millipede |
The house cricket lives outdoors but may invade houses in great numbers. Adults are about 3/4 inch long with three dark bands on the head and long, thin antennae. The body is light yellowish brown. This cricket is active at night, usually remaining hidden durring the day. They are omnivorous, eating or drinking almost anything that is available. In households, they may chew on or damage silk, woolens, paper, fruits, and vegetables. Recommended products: Tempo, Maxforce Granular |
Both pillbugs and sowbugs are crustaceans, so they are more closely related to shrimp and crayfish than to insects. Sowbugs possess two tail-like appendages at the tip of the abdomen and are incapable of rolling into a tight ball. Pillbugs lack these appendages and can roll itself into a ball. Both pillbugs and sowbugs feed on decaying vegetable matter and are found under mulch of vegetable debris of all kinds beneath objects on damp ground. A heavy infestation indoors generally indicates that there is a large population immediately outside the building. Recommended products: Tempo, Suspend, Delta Dust |
House Cricket |
Pillbug |
Silverfish |
Earwig |
Earwigs are insects that are readily recognized by the pinchers or forceps-like appendages at the end of the abdomen. They sometimes build up to large numbers in warm weather and then may invade homes or other structures. They are primarily scavengers on dead animal and plant material, but some species are predatory. Other species may actually feed on living plants. They are active at night, and some species are attracted in large numbers to lights. During the day they usually find shelter beneath stones, boards, and debris. Only a few of the winged species are good fliers. Earwigs are often transported great distances in potted plants, nursery stock, or other plant material. Recommended products: Tempo, Suspend, Delta Dust |
Silverfish have long and slender bodies, broad at the front and tappering gradually toward the rear. Three long, slender appendages are found at the rear of the body. Silverfish may be found almost anywhere in a house. They eat a wide variety of foods containing proteins or carbohydrates. Such things as rolled oats, dried beef, flour, starch, paper, cotton, some synthetic fibers, sugar, beef extract, dead insects, glue, paste, and linen are all normal items of their diet. In damp basements or attics they can also feed on the surface molds that grow on cardboard boxes and other substrates. Silverfish can live for long periods of time without food. Recommended products: Delta Dust, Tempo, Suspend |
Plaster Bagworm |
Psocid |
These insects are quite small, attaining a maximum size of only 1/25 to 1/12 inch. The booklouse is wingless, while the deathwatch has very small, scalelike wings. Both species have similar habits. They may be found either outdoors or indoors. Outdoors, they live in damp places, such as under bark, in grass or leaves, and on damp wood. Indoors, they find similar situations in stored grains or other foods, in crawl spaces under houses, in insect collections, and around books. Some other species may be found infesting bagged feed in warehouses. Their food consists of microwcopic molds and fungi, so they prefer damp, warm, undisturbed situations where these molds are found. |
Plaster bagworms are similar in appearance and closely related to clothes moths. Bagworm larvae live in a flattened, gray, watermelon seed-shaped case about 1/2 inch long. The case is made of silken fiber and sand particles, lint, paint fragments, and other debris. The case has a slit-like opening at each end so the larva is able to move around and feed from either end. Plaster bagworms are easily seen on light-colored walls. Close examination of the house may reveal bagworms attached to the underside of chairs, bookcases and other furniture. The larvae mainly feed on spider and other webs; however, they also eat fabrics made of natural fiber. |
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