Bay State Pest Contol’s Pest Identification
A set of common pests found in the New England area.
Ticks
Ticks are small arachnids in the order Parasitiformes. Along with mites, they constitute the subclass Acarina. Ticks are ectoparasites (external parasites), living by hematophagy on the blood of mammals, birds, and sometimes reptiles and amphibians. Ticks are vectors...
Webbing Clothes Moth
Webbing Clothes Moth - This moth is the most common clothes moth found throughout the United States. Wings and body are uniformly buff golden in color. Signs of infestations include holes in clothes, oriental rugs, and fur coats. Along with matted patches, tubes, and...
Clover Mites
Clover Mites - A very small red arachnid-type insect that is about 1/16th of an inch in size. This insect feeds on plants and shows a preference for heavily fertilized grass/lawns. Commonly found on walkways, cement porches and stairs, and along foundation walls....
Indian Meal Moth
Indian Meal Moth - This moth is most commonly found inside homes and mainly found in the kitchen. They are about ¾” in size and have 3 black zigzag transverse lines across their backs. Their wings are pale gray in color and the bottom 2/3 are a reddish brown. This...
Rats
Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents of the superfamily Muroidea. "True rats" are members of the genus Rattus, the most important of which to humans are the black rat, Rattus rattus, and the brown rat, Rattus norvegicus. Many members of other rodent...
Bald Faced Hornets
Bald Faced Hornets - This insect resembles a yellow jacket is white and black in color. Measure 5/8” to ¾” in size. Nests are mostly exposed on a tree branch, but can also appear on the side of a structure. At times bald faced hornets can be very aggressive.
Carpenter Ants
Carpenter ants (Camponotus spp.) are large (0.3 to 1.0 in or 0.76 to 2.54 cm) ants indigenous to many forested parts of the world.[1] They build nests inside wood consisting of galleries chewed out with their mandibles, preferably in dead, damp wood. They do not...
Termites
Termites are a group of eusocial insects that were classified at the taxonomic rank of order Isoptera (see taxonomy below), but are now classified either as the infraorder Isoptera, or as epifamiliy Termitoidae within the cockroach order Blattodea.[1][2] While...
Winged Carpenter Ants
The presence of winged carpenter inside the home during the summer, does not by itself, mean you have a carpenter ant nest in your home. Carpenter ants are one of the largest and most common species of ants.
Mice
A mouse (plural: mice) is a small mammal belonging to the order of rodents, characteristically having a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail and a high breeding rate. The best known mouse species is the common house mouse (Mus musculus). It is...
