Royal Pest & Termite Blog

Rats are attracted to a house by food, water and shelter, and the biggest draws are usually outdoors: pet food left out overnight, spilled bird seed, fallen fruit, open garbage cans, standing... Continue Reading

Cockroach droppings look like tiny dark specks or small cylindrical pellets, depending on the size of the roach that left them. Small roaches like the German cockroach leave droppings that... Continue Reading

Finding honeybees moving in and out of a gap in your soffit or wall raises two questions: how do you get them out, and is it even legal to kill them? In Florida, those questions have... Continue Reading

A tiny white insect darting across the bathroom tile or slipping into the gap behind a bookshelf is easy to dismiss. In many South Florida homes, it is a baby silverfish, and it says more about... Continue Reading

A cloud of winged insects circling the porch light on a warm, damp evening is how many South Florida homeowners first meet termites. Those insects are termite swarmers. They do not eat wood, yet... Continue Reading

What an Albino Roach Is The white insect is a regular cockroach that has just shed its outer skin. Albinism is a genetic lack of pigment, and there has never been a documented case of it in... Continue Reading

The fleas you can see are the part everyone focuses on. The part that keeps an infestation going is the eggs, larvae, and cocoons you mostly cannot see, and almost all of them are in your house... Continue Reading

You mow on Saturday, and by Tuesday there are bright, yellow-green tufts standing an inch or two above the rest of the lawn. They look like grass that grew faster than everything around it. Pull... Continue Reading

In South Florida, ants in the bathroom are usually telling you something about water, about the walls, or about a colony that is already closer than you think. Water Is the Main Draw Ants... Continue Reading