Pests - Identification

Rats are infamous for spreading disease including Typhoid and the plague. Even though the diseases are actually transmitted by the fleas they carry, their threat to public health is recognized. Read more »

This is a stump damaged by carpenter ants - but it could just as easily be a beam of your house. Carpenter ants chew away the wood in your house while they make the tunnels of their colony. Read more »

Hornets are a type of wasp and are are usally quite large. Unlike most other wasps, the white- or bald-faced hornet is white and black rather than yellow and black. Read more »

Cockroaches are well-known for their risks to public health. The American species is perhaps the most well recognized. Read more »