Cluster Flies
Flies are extremely common and can be found one to a few at a time in homes or businesses during the warm spring and fall months. They are attracted to buildings by food odors and also warm air currents escaping through cracks around doors and windows or through doors propped open for ventilation purposes.
Drain Flies
Adult drain flies are small, fuzzy, dark colored insects with the body and wings densely covered with hairs. Their wings appear large for their body, are held roof like over the body when at rest, giving them a moth like appearance. They are weak fliers and fly only a few feet at a time. Larvae are legless, about 3/8 inches long, wormlike and gray, with both ends somewhat darker.
Fruit Flies
These flies are about 1/8 inch long, light brown, and with clear wings and red eyes. The immature stages (maggots) are small and pale white. The adults are attracted to the odors produced by decaying fruits and vegetables. The eggs are laid directly on the food and the larvae hatch soon after. They can complete their life cycle in 5 to 10 days. Adults live for about 30 days.
Ants
Ants are social insects living in colonies
comprised of one or more queens, and hundreds or thousands of workers.
The queen generally stays deep and safe within a nest. Depending on
the species, foraging ants may be similar in size, or there may be a
range of sizes. Ants come in a variety of colors from pale yellow
to bright red to jet black. Winged ants are the reproductive form
of most ant species and their presence is an indication of an established
colony located nearby.
Bats
All species of bats found in Ontario are voracious
insect predators. Bats eat up to half their weight every night in moths,
mosquitoes, beetles, crickets, grasshoppers and flies. A single Little
Brown Bat may catch up to 600 insects an hour. There are 16 species
of bats in the province and all are protected under the provincial Wildlife
Act.You can; however, still evict bats from your property.
Bed Bugs
Bed bugs are an increasing problem and are appearing in hotels, single family homes, used clothing and furniture stores and many other structures. They can hide behind baseboards, electrical switch plates, picture frames, even wall paper. They have not been found to transmit disease but should be taken seriously.