Winter typically means no bugs, but one particular pest thrives in winter and will ruin your plans to stay pest-free. They are called silverfish, but they aren’t flapping fish. Rather, they are little slithering critters, ready to eat up anything and everything in your home.
If you’ve been seeing spots and smelling something odd, chances are, these bugs have been inviting themselves into your home. At first glance, they look like a cute ladybug, but get too close and they swarm, stink and nip. They’re called the Asian lady beetle and they are quite the pest.
If you’ve seen stink bugs around your home, you’re not alone. These small, smelly bugs run rampant in the fall and they’re coming to invade your Georgia home. But you can send them packing.
On Thursday, Nov. 14, the United States Department of Agriculture confirmed with the Georgia Department of Agriculture the first detection of an invasive plant hopper known to risk Georgia’s agriculture in Fulton County in October.
For the first time in over 200 years, certain parts of the country are experiencing a rare emergence of two periodical cicadas — those big, droning insects that mostly live underground until they finally, very audibly, do not.
The largest periodical cicada brood in North America will span at least a dozen states in the Southeast. The brief, but spectacular, emergence has entomologists buzzing with excitement.
A North Carolina-based company is looking for a few study participants who are willing to welcome roughly 100 cockroaches into their homes. It got more than 2,500 applications in less than a week.
Pennsylvania officials are giving the following advice to those who encounter the pesky invasive insects: "Kill it! Squash it, smash it ... just get rid of it."
