Most common household pests
Most common household pests
A pest is "a plant or animal detrimental to humans or human concerns (crops, food, livestock, etc) ; alternative meanings include organisms that cause nuisance and epidemic disease associated with high mortality (specifically: plague). In its broadest sense, a pest is a competitor of humanity.
Ants
Ants
Ants belong to the same insect group as bees, wasps, and hornets. Ants are social insects that live in groups or colonies. It is important to know that there are many species of ants.
Roaches
Roaches
Roaches are common insects, and they are one of the most adaptable and successful insect groups. Recent studies have indicated that roaches feces, cast skins can cause allergies among people, especially children.
Rodents
Rodents
Rodents can be a source of a number of infectious diseases that affect humans and animals. Rats and mice cause great economic losses. Without proper sanitary precaution traps and rodenticide alone are only temporary solutions.
Termites
Termites
Termites are among the most costly of all the insect pests affecting human beings. Termites are social insects that live in highly organized colonies.
Fleas, ticks, Bed Bugs & spiders
Fleas, ticks, Bed Bugs & spiders
Fleas are parasitic insects that feed on the blood of mammals and birds. They bite humans and pets, but also they can transmit disease. Ticks are not insects, belong to the same class of arthropods as spiders and mites and also transmit diseases. Bed bugs can create an allergic reaction to the saliva injected into the skin by bed bugs.
Mosquitoes, bees, wasps, flies & others
Mosquitoes, bees, wasps, flies & others
Some of the most deadly diseases of humans are mosquito borne. Wasps, hornets, and bees are known as social or solitary insects. Flies can multiply extremely quickly, producing new flies within a week.
Some pest identification
Some pest identification
