ANTS

IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS & SYMPTOMS
Come inside looking for food and moisture, especially in dry weather

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** Ants move further into the ground in the summer; mounds should be treated in spring and fall for best results

BOXELDER BUGS

IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS & SYMPTOMS
Black, inch long, winged bugs with red stripes

Feed on flowers, leaves or fruit of boxelder, ash and maple trees

Congregate in house, on window screens, under porches

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CARPENTER ANTS

IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS & SYMPTOMS
Carpenter Ants are wood-damaging nuisance pests that can destroy wooden structures and ornamental trees. Unlike termites, Carpenter Ants do not digest wood, they carry wood particles away to make their nests. Because colonies require a constant source of moisture, they usually live outside in dead tree limbs, tree holes, stumps, and landscape timbers.

Symptoms include wood damaging nuisance pests that destroy wooden structures and ornamental trees. Make colonies in dead tree limbs, tree holes, stumps and landscape timbers.

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CHINCHBUGS

IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS & SYMPTOMS
Chinchbugs are surface-feeding lawn pests that damage St. Augustinegrass. You may see them on grasses such as Zoysia, Bermuda, and Centipedegrass, but infestations usually occur where high populations have built up on St. Augustinegrass. Signs of infestation include small, round patches of brownish-yellow grass that first appear in hottest, driest areas of lawn. Left uncontrolled, large areas of lawn may die.

Symptoms include yellow to brown patches in St. Augustine grass; usually show up in hottest, driest areas of the lawn first.

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COCKROACHES

IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS & SYMPTOMS
Inhabit fields, forests or damp, moist places

Frequently invade homes looking for food and moisture

Most active at night; hide in dark, damp places during the day

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EARWIGS

IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS & SYMPTOMS
Small, slender-bodied insects with rear pinchers

Chew plants and foodstuffs both outdoors and indoors

Often infest pantries, kitchen cabinets

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EUROPEAN
CRANE FLY

IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS & SYMPTOMS
European Crane Fly Larvae are soil insects that feed on the roots of turfgrass from fall to spring. When found in large numbers they can cause extensive damage to turf grass. Signs of infestation are bare spots of yellow patches of grass in the lawn.

Symptoms include soil insects that feed on the roots of turfgrass from fall to spring and can cause extensive damage.

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FALL ARMYWORMS

IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS & SYMPTOMS
Fall Armyworms cause damage by consuming foliage. Outbreaks can be sudden and very severe. Damage usually begins to show up as leaves chewed around the edges. Because most feeding is at night, Armyworms can cause significant damage before the problem is ever identified. As the name implies, Fall Armyworms damage is most common from September until hard frost.

Symptoms include arcs or circles of dead, browned grass.

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FIRE ANTS

IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS & SYMPTOMS
Fire Ants are notorious for the fiery stings they repeatedly inflict on people and small animals who disturb their mound. Many victims require medical attention, but in extreme cases a Fire Ant sting can be fatal. Fire Ants can also cause expensive damage to outdoor electrical equipment (heat pumps, air conditioners, junction boxes, fuses and wiring). The mound is populated by a Queen who can live up to 7 years and can lay up to 1600 eggs per day. Up to 250,000 ants may inhabit a single mound. Control can only be achieved with an insecticide that kills the Queen.

Symptoms include fiery stings repeatedly inflected on people and small animals when mound is disturbed.

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FLEAS

IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS & SYMPTOMS
Fleas are biting pests that can become a great nuisance to family, pets and home. Skin irritation caused by flea bites can range from minor to severe. Because fleas live and breed both indoors and outdoors, control is best achieved with simultaneous, coordinated effort involving both indoor and outdoor treatments on the same day.

Symptoms include biting pests that can become great nuisance to family, pets and home. Bites can cause skin irritations.

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FLIES

IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS & SYMPTOMS
Life cycles can be as short as eight to 10 days

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MOLE CRICKETS (FLORIDA)

IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS & SYMPTOMS
Mole Crickets are turf insects that cause severe damage to Bermudagrasses, Bahiagrass, Zoysiagrasses, and Centipedegrass. Some Mole Crickets feed on grass roots, but most feed on a variety of organisms in the soil. As they forage, they tunnel and uproot turf grass which dries out and dies. Infested lawns turn yellow, weedy and eventually die.

Symptoms include thinning, torn-up looking grass dries out or turns brown in patches where mole crickets form underground tunnels.

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MOSQUITOES

IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS & SYMPTOMS
Breed in stagnant water, puddles or ponds

Eggs can remain dormant and survive out of water for months or years

Often hide in shrubs during the day

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SOD WEBWORMS

IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS & SYMPTOMS
Sod Webworms are surface insects that feed on the roots, stems and grass of desirable lawn turf. Signs of infestation include arcs or circles of dead, brown grass. Damage is worse in late summer when grass isn't growing rapidly.

Symptoms include arcs or circles of dead, browned grass; webbing and threads on grass.

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SPIDERS

IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS & SYMPTOMS
Prey on other insects; a few will bite humans

House spiders hide behind furniture, in corners or around dusty crawl spaces

Poisonous spiders include black widow and brown recluse

Black widows nest close to ground

Brown recluse hides in dark places

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TICKS

IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS & SYMPTOMS
Ticks are frightening and harmful nuisance pests that attach themselves to warm-blooded mammals, humans, and pets to feed on their blood. At minimum, Tick bites cause mild skin irritation. At worst, a Tick bite can transmit Lyme Disease. Although ticks live and breed outdoors in lawns, wooded and grassy areas, they can be carried indoors by pets. Effective control requires both indoor and outdoor treatments.

Symptoms include nuisance pests that attach themselves to warm blooded mammals, humans and pets to feed. Can cause mild skin irritations and possibly transmit Lyme Disease.

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TROPICAL SOD WEBWORM (FLORIDA)

IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS & SYMPTOMS
Symptoms include notches chewed on grass blades; lawn almost completely stripped.

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WASPS

IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS & SYMPTOMS
Nest outdoors in outbuildings, under leaves, in the ground

Attracted to food and drink, react when nests are disturbed

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WHITE GRUBS

IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS & SYMPTOMS
White Grubs, the larvae of certain Beetles, are the most notorious of all turf-damaging soil insects. In the spring, Grubs live in the top few inches of soil, feeding on the roots of lawn grasses and destroying the turf above. In early summer, Grubs become Beetles that emerge from the larvae to become leaf-feeding adults that dmaage roses, trees and other plants above ground.

Symptoms include dead or dying grass in brown patches that lifts up easily when you pull on grass; grass wilts even when watered.

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