by John Bozarjian | Apr 26, 2020 | Blog, Pest Control
Wasps include yellow jackets, hornets, cicada killers, mud daubers, sand wasps, paper wasps and digger wasps, all of which and more can be found in Massachusetts. Each one of these groups is comprised of wasp species of similar appearance and behaviors. For example,...
by John Bozarjian | Apr 23, 2020 | Blog, Pest Control
Powderpost beetles are well known common wood-boring insect pests. However, it is the true powderpost beetles, also referred to as Lyctus beetles, that are the most destructive species of common wood-boring insect pests. Lyctus beetles come in a close second behind...
by John Bozarjian | Apr 21, 2020 | Blog, Pest Control
It is commonly assumed that wasps and bees are exclusively social insects like termites and ants, but in reality, many wasp and bee species are solitary species. It is difficult to determine the exact number of wasp species that have been documented worldwide, and...
by John Bozarjian | Apr 20, 2020 | Blog, Pest Control
Arthropods are invertebrate organisms with segmented bodies that are contained within an exoskeleton, and fossil evidence shows that they are the most ancient terrestrial organisms. Arthropods account for 80 percent of all existing species on earth, and this group is...
by John Bozarjian | Apr 15, 2020 | Blog, Pest Control
For much of the latter half of the twentieth century, bed bug infestations were virtually non-existent in the United States. The introduction of an insecticide known as DDT during the 1940s nearly eradicated bed bugs from the country. Unfortunately, bed bugs rapidly...
by John Bozarjian | Apr 14, 2020 | Blog, Pest Control
More than 30,000 spider species have been documented worldwide, the vast majority of which cannot be found in urban or suburban settings. The United States is home to only a little more than 3,000 documented spider species, and while many of these species are...
