Garden spiders are a common and somewhat unpleasant sight in the summer and autumn. However, do they pose any threat to you or your pets? Are they poisonous? Let’s find out! What is a garden spider? Garden spiders can refer…
Roof rats, also known as black rats, can be identified by their long scaly tails and their large ears. Despite being known as black rats, they can be other colors besides black, and the name roof rat comes from the…
Spiders are a very common house pest, and for the most part they are harmless. However, if you end up with a species like the black widow, brown recluse, or even the hobo spider in your home, you have to…
Being able to hide well is essential for mice, and it’s why we rarely see them out in the open during an infestation. Luckily, they leave other signs when they are present, but these signs are often found when the…
In most cases, if you have a Norway rat infestation, there will be more than one rat present. Rats are social animals, living in tribes composed of family members. Whenever a rat finds a nice shelter with food sources, it…
The house centipede was first introduced in the US during the mid-1800s. This pest landed in Pennsylvania, and since then, it has spread out all over the country. House centipedes are quite creepy looking, and since they share similarities with…
Spiders have both fascinated and horrified us over the ages, becoming symbolic insects and characters in our stories. This naturally led to a lot of myths being formed around these insects, with some myths being widespread to this day. Let’s…
When we think of intelligence, we usually associate it with brain size. And it makes sense – if you have more brain cells, you are capable of better mental computation. It’s also observable in nature, humans and animals that have…
House flies are an insect species that belongs to the Diptera order, being about a quarter of an inch long with gray to black coloration. They are a pest that live pretty much everywhere people live, and they lay their…
There are tens of thousands of spider species across North America, but only a handful of them are dangerous to human beings. This danger is due to the spiders’ venom, which has evolved over millions of years to help them…
We’ve all seen a spider web, and we all know that spider silk is incredibly strong. But is there more to spider webs than that? As it turns out, spider webs are designed to store mechanical energy, just like springs.…
