You’re sitting in your home. It’s quiet, and you feel relaxed. At ease. And then suddenly, you see it out of the corner of your eye. It’s gross and winged and terrifying, and you spit the name like a ...

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 ...

Summer means warmer weather, a plethora of outdoor activities and likely encounters with hosts of creepy crawlies inside and outside your homes. Identifying insect pests can be tricky. At the top of ...

Here in the Lowcountry, we share a common hatred for palmetto bugs (a.k.a. cockroaches with a fancy nickname). “Usually when people are talking about palmetto bugs they’re talking about the smokybrown ...

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 ...