Bed Bugs infestations are becoming more and more common around Kansas City each year. 97% of pest management professionals have treated for bed bugs in 2022. Bed Bugs are parasitic-type insects that only feed on the blood of humans and animals. What makes it worse is you could get a Bed Bug infestation through no…
Spiders are common year-round, but in Kansas City, when the Fall season comes, spiders become much more noticeable around the house. This is because Fall is the mating season for most species, and they will also be needing better shelter for the cold winter, such as the same for insects the spiders prey upon for…
Rodents, identified by their large teeth, which are also called incisors. They use their incisors to chew through just about anything. Mice and rats want food, water, and shelter. If they find any of those three, they will not be easy to get out. Kansas City ranks top 30 in the worst cities for rat…
Carnivorous plants are one of nature’s most intriguing creations. These plants have evolved best fitting their environment’s typical nutrient-deficient soils, such as those found in swamps, bogs, or heaths. Their evolution has introduced many different types of bugs, rats, mice, and other small animals to their diet. These plants have become the perfect traps for…
The Musca domestica, also known as the Housefly, is by its name suggests, the most common fly found in or around homes. House flies believed to be nuisance pests flying around and making buzzing noises on your windows are actually transporters of many different diseases. Many of these diseases come from the house flies’ unhygienic…
Every spring, millions of ants and termites fly off from their home colonies to begin their own. One of the biggest mistakes made when it comes to pests is misidentifying termite swarmers as flying ants. At a glance, their size can make these two appear similar; they are different in many physical and behavioral differences…
Ant colonies are biologically programmed to have strict roles for each member of their colony. With upwards of 100,000 in a single nest, that structure is vital to their survival. This complex system divides nests into three different roles, queen, breeders, workers. Queen ants are born typically when a colony is reaching max population and…
According to the CDC, there are over 200 different species of mosquitoes in the United States. Twelve of those species will spread diseases such as Zika, Dengue, and West Nile Virus. Two of those twelve are known mosquitoes in Kansas City, the Yellow fever mosquito and the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus).…