Tumbling Flower beetles, (TFBs) always reminds the BugLady of a flea on a flower. Tumbling Flower beetles are small, active, generally dark, caraway-seed-shaped beetles in the Tumbling Flower beetle family, Mordellidae, a family with some very fine genus names like […]
No matter how much we clean the house some pest or the other can be detected here and there. Some common pests that we generally trace are cockroaches, lizards, ants and quite often we see the silverfish bug. This particular […]
Yet another store on New York’s Fifth Avenue has been hit with bedbugs, The Juicy Couture’s two-story flagship store. The store was closed on Tuesday and re-opened by the end of that week. Apparently all of the merchandise in the […]
Silverfish is a type of insect that is typically found inside your closet. It is also popularly known as Fishmouth or Lepisma Saccharina. It is a very minute wingless insects and their length is not more than half inch. They […]
Golden Tortoise Beetle (Metriona bicolor), also known as gold bugs, are common in Northern United states. Adults are broadly oval to round and nearly convex in shape with some sculpturing of the surface and the edges broadly expanded. They are […]
Whitespotted Sawyer Beetle, (Monochamus scutellatus) eastern white pine is preferred, but other conifers including red and jack pine, alsam fir, larch, white, black and red spruces are also susceptible. Adult beetles are 18–25 mm long. Males are shiny black except […]
Bed Bug Bites With the news being flooded about the rise of bed bugs in cities across the United States most Americans are still “wondering what do bed bug bites look like?” and “how can they be treated?”. Bed bugs […]
You need a method that works if you have bed bugs at your home in Washington, DC. Bed bug heat treatment is considered among the top ways to get rid of these pests, and the staff at Environmental Solutions happens […]
Pearleaf Blister Mite Eriophyes pyri (Pagenstecher) also known as pear bud mite, and also by the synonym Phytoptus pyri Pagenstecher, is most often seen in unsprayed trees. This species is part of a complex of related species, which has confused […]
Most bedbug extermination treatments are extremely tedious, require multiple visits, a significant amount of preparation, and use insecticides to control the situation. Bedbugs are growing increasingly resistant, and there are fewer treatment alternatives as regulator restrictions have diminished many chemical […]
The small crawlers can also be spread by wind. The Adult females are covered in a white waxy exudate that gives a heavily invested tree a woolly appearance. Treatment with insecticide is best done during the crawler stage. Adults are […]
Three-Lined Potato Beetle are found on plants in the family Solanaceae, including potato, tomato and relatives. They are uncommon on potato, rare on tomato, but very common on tomatillo Physalis ixocarpa. Adults are 7-8 mm long (1/4 inch) orange-yellow, with […]
Adult rose chafer is a moderate-sized insect, measuring between 5/16-inch to almost 1/2-inch in length. It’s a slender beetle, pale green to tan in color with reddish brown or orangish spiny legs. It has short, lamellate antennae, i.e. a series […]
Bats are mammals, and members of the order Chiroptera. They are the second largest order of mammals in number of species. Western pipistrelles sometimes leave their roosts before sundown, and can be mistaken for late-flying butterflies, because they are so […]
Southern pine beetle Anthrenus flavipes, are slightly larger and rounder than the varied carpet beetle adult. Coloration and markings of the adult are highly variable, but they generally have a mottled appearance due to white and dark yellow to orange […]
Big Free Tailed Bats (Nyctinomops macrotis) is the largest bat in Colorado. The dorsal surface is pale reddish to dark brown; the ventral surface is slightly paler. The hair is bicolored with the bases nearly white. The ears are united […]
Cottonwood Borer, (Plectrodera scalator Fabricius) is found in the eastern US, New York. Larvae and adults feed on willow and poplar, with cottonwood being the most preferred. Adult beetles can be found on and around host plants during the summer. […]
Evening bats (Nycticeius humeralis) The evening bat is medium sized and externally nondescript. The pelage is dark brown above and slightly peler below. The ears are short and rounded, the tragus is blunt and curved forward. and the calcar is […]
Locust Borers are flightless as they lack significant wings and shell covering that appears as though a series of overlapping plates. Antenna are visible on the head. The insect can appear as a dull black or in some cases a […]
Chelicerae are short and have a clasping mechanism with a fixed and a movable finger. The pedipalps are longer and have a claw that resembles that of a scorpion. The abdomen has 12 segments but the last two are reduced […]