Pest Control Services located in Puyallup, WA
Puyallup Pest control - Tacoma Pest Control - Hobo spiders or Brown Recluse? Hobo spiders belong to the family Agelenidae or funnel web weavers which is indigenous to western Europe that was introduced into the north western United States sometime before the 1930′s. The Hobo spiders’ introduction into the United States was almost certainly commercial shipping vessels from Europe, transported to and arrived in the Port of Seattle as egg cases attached to wood
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Rodents cause more then $1 billion dollars in damage annually in the U.S. alone. Rats can jump 2 feet vertically. Rats can jump 4 feet horizontally. Rats can fall 50 feet without injury. Norway Rats can swim up to 1/2 mile in open water, dive through plumbing traps and travel in sewer lines. Rats are transmitters of many diseases.
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German Cockroaches are about 1/2″ to 5/8” long as an adult. Nymphs and adults have two black stripes behind the head. Females can reproduce without males. Cockroaches are aggressive foragers that contaminate, devour, and destroy food. They can cause or aggravate asthma, especially in children. Cockroaches seldom if ever live outdoors in the Northwest. They are usually stowaways, carried indoors through both edible and non-edible purchases.
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In the Northwest there are several species of paper wasps & mud wasps, or mud daubers. Most are black & yellow, but some mud wasps are black with a metallic blue tint to them. These wasps are very beneficial insects. They are not aggressive and won’t do any damage to your home. They do have a stinger that they use to paralyze insects to eat, but they don’t use their stinger to attack people.
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