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| Specialty Pests |
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Pantry Moths
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Pantry Moths infest dried fruits and all grain products including rice, pastas, flour, beans, etc. Moth maggots can eat into unopened packaging. Only sealed glass or plastic containers can keep these predators out of your food. Prior to treatment, customers must discard or freeze all grain products. Larvae leave white silken cocoons and cocoon webbing. Adults are about ½-inch long and fly. |
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Clothing Moths
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These are ½-inch, shiny white larvae eat and destroy fabrics and furs. The adults are white and ½-inch long. They flee light. |
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House Crickets
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Yellowish-brown and about one-inch long, House crickets are heard more often than they are seen. They create a distinctive chirping sound, especially in the dark. They are happy to be outside, but will stray toward warm interiors. They eat just about anything and can bite if captured. |
Centipedes
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There are many different species varying in size and color. Each body segment has a pair of legs, anywhere from ten to one hundred segments. Centipedes seek out damp environments. They are just as content outside, under a rock or some leaves, as they are in a damp basement. Centipedes feed on insects and spiders. They have large jaws and can bite humans, with a sting comparable to a bee or most scorpions. |
Millipedes
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Their bodies are dark and tubular, but vary in color and size, anywhere between ½-inch and 12-inches in more exotic locales. Millipedes have two legs per segment. They live in moist soils, usually covered by plants, rocks, or leaves, and they eat decaying organic matter. |
Pillbugs / Sowbugs
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Sometimes called rolly-pollies or potato-bugs, pill bugs and sow bugs have been given a lot of different names. They are dark segmented critters about ¾-inch long. They feed on decaying plant matter and live in damp areas. They prefer to be underneath the cover of leaves or rocks but can also be found under boxes in damp, ground level basements or storage rooms. Pill bugs can roll up into balls. |
Silverfish
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These guys like to eat paper, glue, starch, and textiles. Silver fish will feed on wallpaper and are often found in books or cardboard packaging. They are nocturnal and flee from light, they might even jump away. They are silvery-white, cone shaped and ¾- to ½-inch long. |
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