What is small, quiet, and freaks out any homeowner despite being the size of a paper clip? A palmetto bug. The creepy-crawly pests often appear out of nowhere upon opening a cabinet door or while ...

Palmetto bugs are as Southern as sweet tea and barbecue. But what are they really? They are big, ugly, gnarly, flying roaches that somehow got saddled with an unfairly cute name. Eric Benson, an ...

Summertime in South Carolina often brings long sunny days, vacation time, barbecues and, of course, insects of all kinds. No matter what you call them — palmetto bug, cockroach, water bug, or just ...

Floridians have a weird habit of renaming their bugs to something more pleasant. We call one of our most commonly found species of march flies love bugs or honeymoon flies. Cockroaches? Those are ...

Has the heat brought on an abundance of cockroaches around your home? Without proper pest control, these crawling insects easily become a common occurrence each summer. In South Carolina, many ...

Summertime in South Carolina often brings long sunny days, vacation time, barbecues and, of course, insects of all kinds. No matter what you call them - palmetto bug, cockroach, water bug, or just ...