“Bugs” and “insects” are often used as interchangeable words. Whether you call a critter a bug or an insect might depend on how you’re feeling, how casual the conversation is, or purely by chance. It’s common for people to use the word “bug” in casual conversations, while other...
With more than 70 species of cockroaches in the U.S., it can be hard to determine if you’re dealing with apalmetto bug infestationor something else. Luckily, there are important distinctions between palmetto bugs and other types of cockroaches. Palmetto Bug vs. Cockroach: Key Differences Size...
Wasp: More aggressive than bees, but not as aggressive as hornets. Social wasps live in colonies, solitary wasps are normally pretty harmless and are only on the look out for insects to eat. Hornet: Much more aggressive than other wasps and bees, these insects live in large social colonies ...
They are soft-bodied beetles that are commonly called fireflies, glowworms, or lightning bugs for their conspicuous use of bioluminescence during twilight to attract mates or prey. Glowworm A bioluminescent larva or a wingless wormlike female of certain insects, especially fireflies and beetles of ...
A noxious or mischievous animal; especially, noxious little animals or insects, collectively, as squirrels, rats, mice, worms, flies, lice, bugs, etc. Great injuries these vermin, mice and rats, do in the field. They disdain such vermin when the mighty boar of the forest . . . is befor...