Pest Control Facts!

DID YOU KNOW?! Pest Control Edition

• Some male spiders pluck their cobwebs like guitars to attract female spiders.
• Ants do not sleep.
• When alarmed, Asian Lady Beetles spontaneously bleed from their legs.
• The American Cockroach has shown a marked attraction to alcoholic beverages, especially beer.
• In a study, Termites ate through wood two times faster when listening to rock music.
• Male fruit flies sing and dance to attract females.
• Researchers believe that bed bug populations spread so quickly because the females are constantly moving to get as far away from males as possible.
• During studies in which mice were exposed to the music of heavy metal band Anthrax, these guys killed each other.
  

  American cockroach (Periplaneta americana) drinking out of the cap of a beer bottle. Image Copyright: Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch

• A cockroach can live over a week without its head. The roach only dies because without a mouth, it can’t drink water and dies of thirst.
• Mosquitoes have killed more humans than all wars in history.
• Rats contaminate and destroy enough food worldwide each year to feed 200 million people.
• Crickets hear through their knees.
• Cockroaches can run up to three miles in an hour.
• When the only queen ant or termite dies, so does the entire colony because no new workers are born.
• Houseflies can taste with their feet — they have taste buds on them.
• To survive the cold of winter months, many insects replace their body water with a chemical called glycerol, which acts as an antifreeze against the temperatures.
• For every human there are about 1 million ants.
• Bed bugs can live for several months without a blood meal. This means they can linger in furniture for a long time until they are near a human host again.
• All insects on Earth would outweigh all animals if put on a scale.
• When honeybee queens are dying, they emit a pheromone that makes them smell like a stranger bee, so all the workers in the colony form a ball and kill her

If you are looking for Pest Control in Charleston, SC, reach out to Advanced Termite and Pest Control. We are highly experienced in a wide variety of pest control issues and would love to protect your property from pest damages.

Call us at (843) 795-6767