Our kitchens contain an array of stored food items that serve as welcome habitats for many insect pests. These include a variety of beetles and moths that are capable of infesting and destroying a variety of dried foods.

Slugs are slimy, soft-bodied, grayish, orange or brownish mottled mollusks - snails without shells. Slugs vary in length up to 4 inches and leave a slimy silver-colored trail wherever they travel. They can become serious pests in and around the home, garden, and greenhouse.

The Striped Cucumber Beetle (CB), Acalymma vittata (Fab.), is one of the most devastating pests of cucurbits (cucumbers, summer and winter squashes, all types of melons and pumpkins) east of the Rocky Mountains. Both adults and larvae feed on cucurbit crops. This insect is also responsible for the spread of plant diseases such as bacterial wilt and cucumber mosaic.