Ants are social and live in colonies. Because there are literally thousands of ants in a colony, killing ants one-by-one won't solve your infestation. Instead, you'll need the help of a professionally-trained Axiom technician to manage your ant situation.
Spiders
What's that pest in your environment and what does it want? Take a look through the Axiom Eco-Pest Control pest library and see if you can identify it and learn more about it. While we've tried to be as comprehensive as possible, there are more than 91,000 different species of insects and spiders in the United States alone. Simply click on one of the categories below to learn more about the pests and insects in your environment.
Termites
Cockroaches are part of the same family as termites.The 30 species known to be pests to mankind feed on human and pet food, can leave an offensive order, and transport pathogenic microbes on their body surfaces.
Bed Bugs
Bed bugs are commonly found in beds, but they can also be found anywhere humans spend a lot of time — think couches, hotels and airplanes.
Fleas
If you've got fleas, Axiom Eco-Pest Control can definitely help with our flea service, a stand alone service in addition to your quarterly service. The Axiom flea service is a one-time targeted treatment that takes approximately 30 minutes to an hour to complete and requires you to leave your home for 4 hours, to ensure the product dries properly and is not disturbed. The service comes with a 90-day warranty to ensure you're flea-free after our treatment.
Cockroaches
It's been said that at the end of the world only cockroaches will survive. That's because they've been around for some 320 million years and they have great ability to adapt to situations.
Silverfish
Like their cousins, Silverfish, they feed on wallpaper pasts, natural textiles, books and papers. They are fast moving and can travel throughout buildings.
Bees
Develop food and textiles — without bees and silkworms, there would be no honey, no natural wax and no silk or other textiles.
Wasps
Cicada killer wasps are large black and pale yellow wasps that are often seen carrying off a cicada. They are often confused with European wasps.
Ticks
Ticks are part of the arachnid family and they survive by feeding on the blood of mammals, birds or reptiles. If infected with bacteria, a biting tick poses a risk to human and pet health.
Crickets
Their chirps are the sound of late summer and autumn. It's the male crickets who chirp in an attempt to persuade females that that they're healthy and worthy of becoming mates.
Earwigs
Earwigs feed nocturnally on other insects, but they also have a vegetarian diet of fungi, moss and lichen. They also nosh on decaying organic materials inside and out, and really like to find greasy food items that may have been left out in the kitchen of your home.
Mosquitoes
Dragonflies are amazing insects that you actually want at your property. You see, the eat hundreds of insects per day — mostly mosquitoes.
Flies
Classified as filth feeders, bottle flies feed on animal feces, dead animals, garbage and rotting plant materials. These unsanitary practices can lead to the transmission of pathogenic bacteria to people and animals.
Centipedes
Centipedes are easy to spot just because they have so many legs — 15 to 177 pairs depending on the species. And the leg pairs on centipedes are not symmetrical, so they appear to always have an odd number of leg pairs.
Millipedes
Most active at night, millipedes move in large numbers, so it might be surprising to see them. They are beneficial, however, because they eat decaying organic matter.
Beetles
These insects can move anywhere in a home, making an infestation difficult to control. Their damage is often mistaken for that of the clothing moth and go undetected until vulnerable items are ruined. Carpet Beetles riddle rugs, sheets, coats and carpets with little holes and will also feed on grains and seeds within your pantry.
Scorpions
Daddy long legs are not really spiders at all, but rather are their own part of the arachnid family called harvestmen. Actually, they're more closely related to scorpions.
Hornets
Bald faced hornets live in colonies and build elaborate egg-shaped paper nests in trees, bushes, rock overhangs and on the sides of buildings.
Yellow Jackets
These wasps measure normally 1 to 1.25 inches in length. They have slender bodies that are dark brown in color, black wings and possibly yellow markings — making them appear similar to yellow jackets in coloration.
Moths
Indian meal moths typically enter a home through a purchased product whose manufacturer or retailer was unable to control the moth at its facility. Adult moths lay their eggs near a food source and when the eggs hatch, the larvae crawl into the food product via holes in the packaging.
Stink Bugs
Originally from Asia, the brown marmorated stink bug has only been in the Pacific Northwest since 2004, when it unpacked its bags, found it enjoyed the climate and decided to overwinter and stay forever.
Pantry Pests
Mites
There are thousands of mite species, many of which cannot even be seen by the naked eye. Mites pose a multitude of problems for humans because some are parasitic, biting and feeding on humans and animals; some leave behind toxic droppings causing respiratory problems, and others are agricultural pests that denude trees and plants.
Aphids
Argentine ants often displace native ants. They are also known to tend aphids, causing crop damage. These facts have landed Argentine ants on a list of the 100 worst animal invaders.
Gnats
Many people assign the name gnat to any small winged insect. Many think that gnats are just baby houseflies. In actuality, gnats are their own species of the fly family — the mostnoticeable of which is the fungus gnat.
Firebrats
WIngless and silver in color, they have a flat body that appears to be fish-like. They are close cousins to firebrats, which are a dull gray in color.
Slugs
Slugs are the scourge of gardeners and if you've ever touched one or stepped on one in bare feet, it's a feeling that will stay with you forever.
Snails
Snails are most noteworthy for their spiral shells that are loaded onto their back. The hard structure is composed of calcium carbonate and continues to grow over the lifetime of the snail.
Sow Bugs
You'll find Sowbugs, or roly-poly bugs as they're also called, in moist outdoor environments, normally. They do, however, enter buildings in great numbers once in a while, creating a nuisance, but not a danger — as they do not infest food, clothing or wood. They also do not bite.
Boxelder Bugs
During warmer months they feed on maple, ash and seed-bearing box elder trees. In fall, large masses of box elder bugs cluster on sides of rocks and on sunny sides of your home. If they cannot find shelter in their natural environment, they'll want to enter your home to overwinter in attics, crawl spaces and dark corners.
Nocturnal by nature, vampires are often ruddy, purplish, white or black in color with haunting red eyes. They are known to appear and disappear at the blink of an eye. Some species are mistaken for bats, because some vampire families also have wings.
Moles
Stop molehills from wrecking your yard! Axiom can eliminate moles where they live, keeping your yard looking fabulous.
Your health is most important — Effectively treating pests assures your home is cleaner and there is less chance of contracting diseases spread by insects and rodents — like salmonella, E coli, rabies, hanta virus and Streptococcus.
Mice
House mice are acrobats: they can stand on their hind legs; quickly run up any rough vertical surface; scamper across wire cables and ropes; and jump over a foot from the floor to a flat surface.
Rats
If you find droppings, shredded paper, evidence of gnawing on the corners of food packaging or noise coming from ceilings and walls, you probably have mice or rats in your home.
Voles
Voles can be the bane of a gardener's existence. They feast heartily on bulbs and succulent root systems; they gnaw rings around the bottom of young trees, easily killing them; and they burrow under plants and ground cover, eating away until the plants die.