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• Brown banded cockroach 


  Scientific Name: Suppella LongipalaFamily Name: Ectobiidae

  Control: pest proof containers, roach baits

  Identification: Brown w/ light band; bell shaped pattern on back of head
• American Cockroach


  Scientific Name: Periplaneta Americana

  Family: Blattidae

  Identification: LARGEST, reddish/brown

  Control: Cover areas with screens, sealed containers

  Moist warm and dark places
• German Cockroach 


  Scientific Name: Blattella Germanica

  Family: Ecobiidae

  Prefer warm and moist areas

  MOST COMMON COCKROACH

  Identification: Adults are light brown w dark stripes from head to butt, babies are darker
• Oriental Cockroach 


  Scientific Name: Blatta Orientails dae

  Family: Blattidae

  Identification: GREASY

  DISEASE CARRIERS

  Cool, dark, damp places
• Ants


  Order: Hymenoptera

  Family: Formicidae
• Pavement Ants


  Scientific Name: Tetramarium Caespitum

  Colonies live outside

  Sweet foods
• Red Imported Fire Ants (RIFA)


  Eats dead animals and sweet foods

  Nests in mounds

  18in high and 24in wide

  Extremely resilient

  Large eyes, 3 teeth, w stingers

  Floating rafts w queen inside safe
• Little Black ants


  Scientific Name: Monomorium minimum

  Native to North America

  Dimly lit sheltered areas

  Multiple queens

  Scavengers consume bird dropping and dead insects

  Predators of codling moth larvae

  ID: Shiny black in color, two nodes, smallest ant in OK
• Bed bugs


  Scientific Name: Cimex lectularius

  Order: Hempitera

  Family: Cimicidae

  Found in cities and populated areas

  Hotels, apartments, and homes

  Nocturnal

  Chestnut brown, Flattened oval bodies

  Heat treatment for infested items 120F and higher