PEST LIBRARY · ALABAMA
Know Your Alabama Pests
Identification, behavior, and control for the pests we treat across Alabama — from termites and mosquitoes to the humidity-loving bugs in your basement. Family-owned since 1958.
AntsArgentine, odorous house, carpenter, pavement & fire ants
TermitesEastern subterranean termites (the #1 wood-destroying pest in Alabama)
CockroachesGerman, American (palmetto bug) & smoky-brown roaches
SpidersCommon house spiders, wolf spiders & the venomous brown recluse
MosquitoesAsian tiger mosquito & southern house mosquito
TicksLone star, American dog & black-legged (deer) ticks
SilverfishSilverfish & firebrats
CricketsHouse crickets & camel (cave) crickets
CentipedesHouse centipedes (the fast, many-legged ones)
MillipedesThe dark, coiling "thousand-leggers"
Pill BugsRoly-polies (the only crustacean that lives its whole life on land)
Sow BugsWoodlice — close cousins of the pill bugPest photos courtesy of Wikimedia Commons (CC / public domain) — full attribution on each pest page.
