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I was standing in a park with my running group in Phoenix recently, waiting to start our run, when I started feeling a burning sensation up the bottoms of my legs. I looked down to identify the cause, and guess what I saw…fire ants! They were running in droves, on the ground and grass around […]
This little guy was spotted hanging around the front door of one of our houses last week, so it inspired us to do another blog on the infamous palo verde beetles. We wrote about them once before, but due to their size, ability to fly, and overall ferocious look, we figured they were worth a […]
Remember when we mentioned in our last article that termites will eat through your personal items if they can? Well as luck would have it, shortly after writing that article we ran into exactly that situation with a new customer. We wanted to show you these examples of exactly how extreme termite damage can get, […]
Happy Termite Season! Just kidding – there’s nothing happy about it. But it definitely is the season. Have you had your annual termite inspection yet? Subterranean termites are rampant in Arizona, especially in the cooler months. Once they take up shop in your house, they won’t go away on their own. The damage they are […]
Ah, summer in Phoenix. Blazing hot temperatures and (mostly) dry air. With conditions like these, most organisms try to find ways to NOT act like busy bees. But carpenter bees are different. Instead of slowing down and hiding out for the summer, these guys are at their most active. How can you spot a carpenter […]
Everyone’s favorite house guests are back! It’s the summertime, and the house flies are out in full force. And though they like the heat, they don’t like it extreme or dry. The prospect of finding air conditioning, along with decomposing garbage in your trash bin (or yard, re: dog waste), are a combination of benefits […]
Ok, maybe not – Arizona Blonde Tarantulas tend to be solitary and docile despite their terrifying looks. We found this little one in our front yard a few weeks ago. Desert tarantulas are notoriously difficult to identify with certainty, but we think its an Arizona Blonde Tarantula. (Other common names for them include the Mexican […]
When the bees move in, they sometimes LITERALLY move in! We took this picture of a bee nest at a local mobile home club house recently. The bees got into the wall and built a huge new bee nest within it. Fortunately the park discovered it after hearing loud buzzing sounds in the area and […]
Our first draft of this post came after reports of the first death of West Nile in the Valley this year. In the short time since then, that count has risen to NINETEEN! An exceptionally high death rate in and of itself, according to a local news source we’ve also broken our previous record of […]
Just about any spider can inspire fear and disgust in the average person, which is unfortunate. Many spiders are harmless to humans and beneficial to the environment. Black widows on the other hand are an exception. Though they are beneficial to the environment in the wild, they are definitely not harmless to humans. Read on […]
