Dr. Buggs Exterminators

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German Roach: 1/2 - 5/8 inches long. German Roaches live with humans. They harbors in the home, usually in kitchens, bathrooms and areas where food and water are located. They carry bacterial diseases which can be transmitted to humans American Roach: About 1.6 inch long. American Roaches live in moist areas, typically in basements, sewers, crawl spaces, and trees. Not common in homes, but may enter via opening in the structure. Brown Banded Roach: About ½ inch long with fully developed wings and distinguished by the two brownish, broad bands across the body at the base of the abdomen and at mid-abdomen. They prefer warm and dry locations such as near refrigerator motor housings, on the upper walls of cabinets, and inside pantries, closets, dressers, and furniture in general. Smokey Brown Roach: 1.25 – 1.5 inches long with aantennae as long as, or longer than their body. Smoky-brown cockroaches require high humidity for survival. They are found outside in wooded areas that provide shade and moisture. Silverfish: Nocturnal, elongate, and flattened insects typically between 0.5 - 1.0 inch. They consume glue, book bindings, paper, photos, sugar, coffee, hair, carpet, clothing and dandruff. Silverfish can also cause damage to books and tapestries. Cat Flea: Primary host is the domestic cat, but this is also the primary flea infesting dogs in most of the world. Cat fleas can transmit other parasites and infections to dogs and cats and also to humans. The most prominent of these are Bartonella, murine typhus, and apedermatitis. Spider: Air-breathing chelicerate arthropods that have eight legs and mouthparts that modified into fangs that inject venom. Spiders are found worldwide on every continent except for Antarctica. House Fly: Accounts for about 90% of all flies in human habitations, and indeed one of the most widely distributed insects found all over the world. It is considered a pest that can carry serious diseases. Tick: Ticks are blood-feeding parasites that are often found in tall grass and shrubs where they will wait to attach to a passing host. Ticks are vectors of a number of diseases, including Lyme disease, tick-borne relapsing fever, ehrlichiosis and Tick-borne meningoencephalitis. Earwig: Earwigs have characteristic a pair of forceps-like pincers on their abdomen. They often hide in small, moist crevices during the day, and are active at night, feeding on a wide variety of insects and plants. Florida Carpenter Ant: Large, from 1/4 - 3/8 inches long and are dark brown to black. They nest outside in moist wood or partially decayed wood and eat a variety of plant and animal foods, as well as sweets. They excavate and can damage wood but do not eat it. Drywood Termite: Occur in dry wood that may be above ground level. Drywood termites build colonies in structural wood, where they eat and cause damage to the wood structure. Subterranean Termites: Live in underground colonies and feed on buried wood. Subterranean termites feed on wood or other items that contain cellulose, such as paper, fiberboard, and some fabrics derived from cotton or plant fibers. They cause more than $2 billion in damage each year, more property damage than that caused by fire and windstorm combined. Centipede: Centipedes have a rounded or flattened head, slender body and one pair of legs per body segment. Some species of centipede can be hazardous to humans because of their bite. A bite to an adult human is usually very painful and may cause severe swelling, chills, fever, and weakness Pest Footer

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