← Pest Organisms

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Red Imported Fire Ant
An aggressive, stinging, reddish-brown ant from South America that builds dome-shaped soil mounds across the southern U.S. and swarms to sting when its nest is disturbed.
Smokybrown Cockroach
A large, uniformly dark mahogany-brown peridomestic cockroach of the warm southern U.S. that breeds outdoors in mulch, woodpiles, and tree holes and flies indoors, especially into attics, on warm humid evenings.
Yellow Fever Mosquito
A small dark, day-biting container mosquito with lyre-shaped thorax markings that breeds in standing water around homes and is the primary vector of yellow fever, dengue, Zika, and chikungunya viruses.