Clover mites, also called concrete mites, are small oval-shaped arachnids with 8 legs. Fully grown, a clover mite is a little smaller than a pinhead and has a red to reddish-brown coloring.
Clover mites are usually found in the garden and feed on lawn plants. These tiny pests are difficult to see with the naked eye and when crushed, they can leave a red stain on your concrete pathways, furniture, floor, walls and other surfaces.
Harvest mites, berry bugs, chigger mites, trombiculid mites — or whatever the name you know them by, chiggers are unwelcome everywhere! These beings may be microscopic in size but the pain and inconvenience they bring can be quite humongous.
The worst part? Due to the size of chigger mites, you won’t even know that you’re a victim of a chigger’s angry bite till the big, itchy bumps on your body beg your attention—and most specifically that of your fingernails.
Spring brings along endless numbers of tiny, black sugar ants that can pop up in your home anytime looking for food. Sugar ants are quite common in the US and are also known as odorous house ants because when they are crushed, they give off a sweet-smelling, coconut like odor.
Sugar ants are attracted to all kinds of sugary foods, scraps, plant pollen, fats and proteins from other insects. And, once they locate a source of food, they carry back the food to their ant colony. While sugar ants are not harmful to humans, they are quite annoying and rather difficult to get rid of.
Maple leaves are gorgeous, with their vibrant red and interesting shapes—perfect in every sense till gall mites take over!
How do you deal with these well-known maple bladder gall mites that are invading your maple tree?
Read on to find out!
Your beautiful, landscaped lawn is your pride and joy. And, if you notice some parts of your lawn sinking because of shallow tunnels or if there are small circular hills, then it’s a sure sign that you have moles in your yard.
While, in general, moles are quite harmless, their mounded tunnels can spoil your landscaping and make your otherwise flawless lawn look unsightly.
And apart from the many mounds on your lawn, the tunneling causes the roots to separate from the soil, killing all the vegetation and grass.
You could totally be anticipating this because you’ve been a slob or it could happen by accident. Either way, ants in your car are as bad as ants in your pants. So, let’s figure out why it happens and what you should do about it, shall we?
Ants can be quite a big nuisance and not just in your pants! Long lines that extend from your kitchen to your garden, colonies in your closets and just running around, ants can make your skin feel like it’s crawling (generally because there are a few ants making their way up your arm, too!).
Additionally, though it may be easy to dismiss them because of how minuscule they are, ants can be quite damaging to your house, such as carpenter ants. Some ant varieties can be damaging to you, too, such as fire ants and harvester ants that can neatly rip a chunk of your flesh out!