Preparing the Indoor and Outdoor of Your Home From Stink Bugs

Preparing the Indoor and Outdoor of Your Home From Stink Bugs By Horizon Pest Control Stink bugs also known as shield bugs, are flying insects that can invade your house and create destruction. They are not an insect that originated from the U.S. This insect came from Taiwan, China, Korea, and Japan as an agricultural […]

How to NOT Bring Pests Home With You While Traveling

How to NOT Bring Pests Home With You While Traveling By Horizon Pest Control When you go on vacation or a trip you want to bring back good memories, great experiences, maybe even some awesome pictures and cool souvenirs. What you don’t want to bring back are bedbugs, roaches, ticks, or termites. Since so many […]

Carpenter Ants vs Black Ants

Carpenter Ants vs Black Ants By Horizon Pest Control How to Identify Carpenter Ants and their Difference with Black Ants A successful ant elimination does not just involve a simple spraying here and there or providing baits when they are seen. To eliminate the enemy it is also important to determine the species of the […]

How to Avoid Deer Ticks

How to Avoid Deer Ticks By Horizon Pest Control The offensive deer ticks are known by its so many different names, such as the blacklegged tick or the bear tick. But, it is not its name that made this tiny bloodsucker popular. They are made popular because they are the only known transmitters of the […]

The Insects That Are Killing All of America’s Maple Trees

Spotted Lanternfly on tree

The Insects That Are Killing All of America’s Maple Trees By Horizon Pest Control Gloomy scales are insect-pests that love to feed on trees that are already stressed from abnormal environmental conditions. The GS insects don’t just feed on maple trees; they also reproduce, live and altogether, thrive on these trees. According to researchers these […]

How Salt Benefits Some Spiders

How Salt Benefits Some Spiders By Horizon Pest Control Humans can survive brutally cold winters with much greater success than every kind of bug species. Even if a grasshopper could throw on a parka and muffs it would still die from the extreme cold since spiders cannot regulate their internal temperatures, in other words, spiders […]

How Regular Ants and Carpenter Ants Differ

How Regular Ants and Carpenter Ants Differ By Horizon Pest Control Ever wondered why there are so many ants crawling in your kitchen? And, why they are so different from each other? Most are even confused about the different types of ants they see and confuse whether it is a regular ant or a carpenter […]

How Fast Do Bed Bugs Spread?

How to Avoid Bed Bugs Coming Home from College with Your Kid

How Fast Do Bed Bugs Spread? By Horizon Pest Control While bed bugs were once thought to be near extinction, these pests have made a shocking comeback – and more than a few headlines – in the past few years. Bed bugs spread via infested spaces and items, and once they do, infestations happen seemingly […]

Giant Funnel-Web Spiders Fangs

Wolf Spider

Giant Funnel-Web Spiders Fangs By Horizon Pest Control Giant Funnel-Web Spiders Have Fangs Big Enough to Bite Through Your Shoe As long as I can remember spiders have been scary, sure, but experts were always claiming that while some spiders can bite through human skin and harm us, they can’t bite through clothes or shoes. […]

Carpenter Ant Tunnels and Ways to Search/ Control Them

Carpenter Ant Tunnels and Ways to Search/ Control Them By Horizon Pest Control Protecting your property from Carpenter Ants Carpenter ants are one of the most common indoor pests that are found in the United States. When these ants invade homes, they construct their nests in moist wood and destroy the wood. Unlike termites, these […]