Triangle Pest Control Learning Center
Is a mystery pest bugging your household? Triangle Pest Control has compiled an informative database of common pests found in central and eastern North Carolina. Here, you will find helpful information detailing featured insects, their habits, characteristics and where they may be commonly found in or around your Raleigh or Durham home.
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Acrobat ants may nest both outdoors and indoors. Outdoor nests are most often in dead and decaying wood such as logs, stumps, dead...
Ants are a common pest found in central and eastern North Carolina. Although they can vary by species, colonies often range anywhere...
Bed Bugs are small, flat parasitic insects that feed on the blood of human hosts. Although bed bugs had largely disappeared during...
There are a number of stinging insects common to the Raleigh area, many of which pose a threat to human and pet well being. In every...
While more of a nuisance than a threat, earwigs are still an unwelcome home invader. Common to the Raleigh-Durham area, earwigs are...
First introduced to the Southern United States in the 1920s, fire ants are characterized by their copper color and painful bite/sting,...
A common threat to dog and cat owners in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, fleas often attach themselves to family pets, feeding on...
Flies are adapted for aerial movement, and typically have short and streamlined bodies. They live around rotting food, decaying meat and...
While posing more of a nuisance than a threat to humans, house crickets are omnivorous scavengers that feed on almost anything and are...
Related to flies and gnats, mosquitoes are undoubtedly one of the most-dreaded pests for humans, not only as a disruption to outdoor...
Cockroaches are found almost anywhere where humans reside. Not only can they wreak havoc by feeding on everything from food to...
Rodents, including mice and rats, can pose a number of threats to homeowners here in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area. Nesting...
Although they are not vector pests that spread disease, silverfish are difficult to eradicate once they have invaded a home because of...
Spiders are not insects; rather, they are arachnids, which are closely related to ticks and scorpions. All arachnids feature eight...
Causing more than $5 billion in damage to homes across the nation each year, termites are common home invaders in the Southeastern...
