About Kate & Jeff McGovern

  Fiction: Odorous house ants (OHA) or Tapinoma sessile, are easy to kill. Fact: OHA can be managed with customary professional ant control products and techniques. The sooner they’re identified and......

Fiction: I froze my foodstuffs, but I still have Indianmeal moths (IMM) flying around my cabinets. Fact: Freezing stored products (grains, cereals, spices, dried fruits, nuts, etc.) for a minimum......

Fiction: Feeding pigeons makes the world a better place and doesn’t hurt anybody. Fact: Feeding pigeons, deliberately or unintentionally, is the foundation of most pigeon problems. Once the birds have identified......

Fiction: If you have cockroaches, you don’t have to worry about bed bugs. Fact: Cockroaches do eat bed bugs; however, we’ve seen firsthand where the cockroaches couldn’t keep up with......

Fiction: Deer mice are just outdoor versions of House mice. Fact: House Mouse (Mus musculus) and all its fancy domesticated cousins are commonly found in houses and other structures, in......

Fiction: Treated wood will stop carpenter ant damage and infestation. Fact: Carpenter ants don’t eat wood; they excavate it. No matter what kind chemical treatment is used, they remain unaffected......

Fiction: Subterranean termites only eat wood. Fact: The bulk of their diet is cellulose, but they get it from eating plant materials and fungi as well as wood. To break......

Fiction: Sawtoothed grain beetles and merchant beetles are different names for the same thing. Fact: Although closely related and occupying the same roles in the environment, sawtoothed grain beetles (Oryzaephilus......

Fiction: Formosan termites chew through everything, including steel and concrete. Fact: Formosan termites (Coptotermes formosanus) will attack non-wood substances such as plastics, foam insulation, plaster, asphalt, sealant between water pipes,......

Fiction: Yellow Jackets are a type of bee. Fact: Yellow Jacket is a common name that refers to predatory North American wasps belonging to either genus Vespula or Dolichovespula. They......