December 30, 2020Spider Spotlight: Black WidowBlack widows are poisonous arachnids—animals that have a skeleton outside their body, a segmented body, and eight jointed legs. While they may have quite the reputation as a dangerous household…Read More
December 21, 2020Why Are Formosan Termites More Difficult to Control Than Native Subterranean Termites?The Formosan subterranean termite has been found in Japan, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Guam, Hawaii, South Africa, and the continental United States. Although officially reported in Hawaii in 1913, newspaper…Read More
December 7, 2020Spider Spotlight: Brown RecluseIt’s brown recluse spider season. That’s the spider with the violin markings on its back – sometimes called the fiddle back spider, brown fiddler, or violin spider. Brown recluse spiders…Read More