Lyme disease and Ticks

Lyme disease and Ticks

What is Lyme Disease? Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States. Lyme disease is transmitted to humans through a tick bite. The initial symptoms of Lyme disease are fever, fatigue, chills, headache, muscle and joint pain, and a rash....
Lyme disease and Ticks

Carpenter Ants in Western Pennsylvania

Carpenter ants are a larger species of ant that is a wood loving pest. They get their name from their nest building, where they will excavate the wood and form smooth tunnels inside of the wood. They do not actually eat wood.  However, these pests tunnel and chew...
Lyme disease and Ticks

Aprehend treatment for Bed Bugs

Aprehend treatment for Bed Bugs Bed bugs are nocturnal insects that feed on human blood. In rare situations, they have been known to feed on the blood of pets if a human host cannot be found. Bed bugs have become resistant to many chemicals over the years. A new...
Lyme disease and Ticks

Powder post beetles in Pittsburgh

Powder post beetles are a wood destroying insect. Last week we discussed carpenter bees and the week before swarming termites. The bane of any homeowner’s existence is the wood-destroying insect. But, especially in the Western Pennsylvanian countryside area, there are...
Lyme disease and Ticks

Termite Swarmers in Western PA

Termite swarmers – sounds like the stuff science fiction is made from, but termite swarms are common and are needed for the survival of termites.  And we have had enough of science fiction come to be real here in western Pennsylvania. We have talked about the...