Kitchen ant trails and overnight fire ant mounds after every Gulf storm aren’t a coincidence. Why rain drives Mobile’s ants indoors, which species you’re seeing, and what actually works.
The first sign is usually a sound. A faint scratching in the wall after the house goes quiet, a skitter across the attic at 2 a.m., or a few dark, rice-grain droppings tucked behind the toaster. If you live in Mobile or anywhere across Baldwin County, the cooler stretch from fall into winter is exactly … Read more
You pull a towel off the bathroom floor or move a potted plant on the porch and there it is: a slim, dark-brown insect with a pair of menacing-looking pincers curling off its rear end. It scuttles for the nearest crack, and your first thought is whether the thing can hurt you. If you live … Read more
If you’ve ever pulled a mattress away from a garage wall and found a roach trail behind it, or moved a stack of forgotten boxes and watched something small and fast scatter, you already know: clutter and pests go together. Piled cardboard, old furniture, stacked yard debris, and a garage that hasn’t been cleared out … Read more
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You walk into the garage the morning after a Gulf Coast downpour and the concrete is dotted with dozens of dark, curled-up millipedes — some still inching toward the door, plenty more already dead on the slab. Or you flip on the bathroom light and a fast, leggy house centipede darts behind the baseboard before … Read more
Not all cockroaches are the same problem. Spot a single large, reddish-brown roach lumbering across the floor at night and you have a different situation than finding several small, fast tan roaches scattering when you open the cabinet under the sink. In Mobile and Baldwin County, telling those two apart — the American cockroach and … Read more
You move a stack of towels or pull a box down from the attic, and a small, metallic, teardrop-shaped insect wriggles away in a quick, fish-like motion before disappearing into a crack. That is a silverfish — and while it is harmless to you, it is telling you something specific about your home. In Mobile … Read more
It usually starts after dark. You are lying in bed, the house is quiet, and then you hear it — a scratching, scurrying, gnawing sound moving across the ceiling or inside a wall. If you live in Mobile or Baldwin County, there is a good chance the visitor overhead is a rat, and which kind … Read more
You flip on the kitchen light at 11 p.m., something the size of your thumb skitters across the counter, and your stomach drops. If you live in Mobile or anywhere along the Baldwin County coast, that reddish-brown insect is almost certainly a palmetto bug — and you are not doing anything wrong to attract it. … Read more