Learn how to identify bugs in your home with our handy pest checklist and you'll quickly be on your way to banish them for good. Our guide features the 17 most common household pests, details their ...

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All sorts of pests are capable of invading your home throughout the year. But some of them are more problematic than others. Insects like boxelder bugs are more of a nuisance pest than a burden on ...

In addition to seeing bugs themselves, other signs of a tiny brown bug infestation include insect bites, holes in food packaging, and damage to materials like wallpaper and carpeting. Drugstore ...

This bug, which can live for up to a year, has six legs and two antennae jutting forward from its shell. They can grow to up to 1.6 inches tall. A common Florida pest is the American cockroach, which ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." While it isn’t an ideal scenario, it’s common to spot the occasional bug crawling around your home. Some, ...

The Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB) is an invasive species that was introduced to North America in 1998. In a very short time it has established itself as a major agricultural pest in orchards in ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Most of us aren’t experts at bug identification—especially because most common house insects look alike.

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With increasing concerns about bedbugs, the numbers of insects brought into extension offices for identification have increased. Not many bedbugs have been brought into my office, but I have seen bat ...

It's that time of the year again. With warm weather and people going on vacations, an unwelcome visitor is making a skin-crawling appearance: bed bugs. After the 2020 pandemic, entomologists said bed ...