Sacramento Area Pest Library

Common pests in the Sacramento region

Short guides to the pests we see most often, how to recognize them, and what to do next. Each guide links to the matching Zap service.

• Roof rats: Roof rats are slender, dark brown to black rats with tails longer than their bodies.
• House mice: House mice are small, gray-brown rodents with large ears.
• Argentine ants: Argentine ants are small, light to dark brown ants that travel in long, busy trails.
• German cockroaches: German cockroaches are small, light brown roaches with two dark stripes behind the head.
• Black widow spiders: Female black widows are shiny black with a red hourglass on the underside.
• Drywood termites: Drywood termites live entirely inside wood, with no connection to the soil.
• Subterranean termites: Subterranean termites nest in the soil and reach wood through mud tubes.
• Bed bugs: Bed bugs are flat, oval, reddish brown insects about the size of an apple seed.
• Silverfish: Silverfish are slender, silvery, wingless insects that move quickly.
• Earwigs: Earwigs are reddish brown insects with pincers on the back end.

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