Here’s a pest you don’t want to find in your soup bowl (or any food for that matter!). The flour beetle’s favourite food is fairly obvious: flour, cereal, pasta, and grains. These need to be ground up in order for flour beetles to survive. They...
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This varmint is more of a nuisance than a harmful pest to humans, but they’re a real pest to your favourite houseplants! The fungus gnat is tiny, measuring about 2 to 8 millimetres in total, and are usually identified by their longer, spindlier...
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Here’s another creepy varmint we’d rather not find in our homes! The grain beetle, next to the flour beetle, is the kind of nightmare you don’t want to find in your pantry at home or within your restaurant. These flat, brown or dark red-coloured...
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Listen well, young grasshopper, for what we have to say about this pest will benefit you. The grasshopper is a single branch on the vast tree of the genus Caelifera from the Orthoptera family. It`s easy to confuse grasshoppers with other pests...
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The name ‘hornet’ is used interchangeably with that of wasps and yellow jackets. However, there is one Canadian hornet we need to beware of. The bald-faced hornet, pictured above, is the most commonly found hornet that exists within Canada. Like...
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The meal moth, or the Indian meal moth, is often confused for the clothes moth but is in fact very different. For one, their wing colours are not two-toned like the clothes moth, nor do they eat the same materials. For another, meal moth wings...
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Not to be confused for its centipede cousin, the millipede is one of those varmints that looks creepy but is more annoying than harmful (that is, unless it gets right in your face). These arthropod pests possess a super long body with tons of...
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These varmints may look creepy, but most mites are more of a nuisance than anything. Regardless, they can cause a wide variety of problems from crop damage to mild irritations to asthma attacks. Some of the most common mites you’ll want to...
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Moths are one of the most common pests you’ll find in Vancouver BC! These varmints like to nest in dark places, however they are also quite attracted to light. So, if you switch on the lights in your living room and see something flickering...
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