If you have ever woken up to some scurrying in the wall or scratching in the attic you may have an uninvited guest living in your home. You also may have a problem with some unwanted wildlife if your outdoor trash bins are being dumped out and gone through. Whether they are in your home…
Black widows are nothing to mess with considering the reputation that have. They are painted as a menacing critter that is best left alone due to their toxic bites, characteristics and behavior. Only adding malice to their presence, their pitch-black bodies and the females baring the red hourglass shaped mark on their backs. As we…
It seems like every year as the weather cools, there is an onslaught of flies trying to dart in through the doors of your home any time they can. Cluster flies can be a nuisance and an unwelcomed houseguest. A-Tex Pest Management would like to help you identify cluster flies and share some tips to…
A common spider that will crawl into residential homes this fall is the hobo spider. Hobo spiders often get mistaken for the brown recluse spider, but they are significantly different when it comes to size and other characteristics. The hobo spider has a pattern of yellow markings on its abdomen; however, this spider is so…
The black widow spider is one of the most recognizable spiders. It has a very distinctive red hourglass shape on the underside of its abdomen. Female black widow spiders are known to have a tendency to eat their mates, and while they are venomous, their bite is rarely fatal to humans. Black widow spiders can…
