Pest Identification Information
Different pests sometimes require different methods of control. Identifying your specific pest(s) helps us decide on which method would be best. Brock Lawn and Pest Control will help you identify your pest problem. Here are some common pests found in the Florida Panhandle.
Fire Ants
Body Color: Dark Reddish-Brown Many of the ants of this genus are called fire ants because their venom, injected by a stinger, causes intense...
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Carpenter Ant Body Color: Large and typically blackish or very dark-bodied These are among the most conspicuous of the ants found in and around...
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Ghost Ant Body Color: Head and thorax are a deep dark brown with gaster and legs opaque or milky white Ghost ant workers are extremely small, 1.3...
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Body Color: light yellowish to brownish They seem to have become an increasingly common pest in the last few years. Pharaoh ants can be easily...
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Body Color: The head, thorax, petiole, and gaster are dark brown to blackish; the body often has faint bluish iridescence. Found scattered in all...
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Body Color: The color of the worker ant can vary from light brown or dark brown. Acrobat ants get their name from their unique habit of sometimes...
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Body: have a pair of scaled wings, a pair of halteres, a slender body, and long legs. The wings long and narrow, with scales along the veins...
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American Cockroach Body: reddish brown and have a yellowish margin on the body region behind the head The American cockroach is the largest of the...
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Body: Brown to dark brown in color with two distinct parallel bands running the length of the body The German cockroach is the cockroach of...
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The Florida woods cockroach is a large species of cockroach, which usually grows to a length of 1½ inch to 2 inches. It has a wide, glossy body...
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Body: Shiny black with hourglass-shaped red spot on bottom of adomen Black widow spiders are common around wood piles, and are frequently...
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Body: uniformly-colored abdomens that can vary from a tan to dark brown. In many species there is a characteristic darkened violin-shaped pattern...
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Body: A blackish (or brownish), medium-sized, slender rat with long, naked, scaly tail; tail usually longer than head and body but not always so...
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Body: brown, similar to the Roof Rat, but larger and chunkier; tail shorter than length of head and body The Norway Rat lives both as a commensal...
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Body: brown, with white belly, but can vary (see below) A small, scaly-tailed mouse with a distinct notch in the cutting surface of upper incisor...
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Body: Alternating dark brown and golden yellow sections Honey bees are social insects, with a marked division of labor between the various types...
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Body: twice the size of a honey bee, their adomens are longer and more narrow than a bee’s. Longer wings. Their coloring is alternating black and...
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