General

• Commercial Pest Control
  OKC metro realtors appreciate The Bug Guys prompt, effective service and attention to detail. From Wood Infestation Reports (Clearance Letters), Termite treatment bids and services to Weed and Pest Control services for your Home Owner Associations constituents, The Bug Guy is the single best choice for commercial pest control services. Additionally, The Bug Guy specialized in termite treatments using the industries best products.

Insects and Spiders

• Ants
  While most species of ants are fairly passive with humans, the fire ant is invasive and predatory. It’s not uncommon for a human or animal to be attacked by hundreds of fire ants in a matter of moments if they happen to passively wander across a colony.
• Spiders
  Feb 20, 2019 | Pest Control, Spiders What to Do if These Eight-Legged Creatures Bite You Oklahoma is home to a wide range of spiders, some of which can pose a danger to humans. However, the negative reputation of some of Oklahoma’s spiders is unearned. Read on to learn more about some of Oklahoma’s most...
• Termites
  The Bug Guy is Oklahoma City’s leading provider of termite inspections, termite control, termite treatments and prevention services. Our trained exterminators proudly serve the OKC metro area, Edmond, Mustang, Piedmont, Yukon, El Reno, Okarche, Harrah, Tuttle, and Guthrie.
• Bed Bugs
  Jan 9, 2019 | Bed Bugs, Pest Control How to Spot Bed Bugs Early Bed bugs are every homeowner’s worst nightmare, and it is essential to know how to identify a bed bug infestation as soon as possible, before it gets out of control. If you need help with pest control in Oklahoma City, The Bug Guy is the...
• Fleas
  Adult fleas are about 1/16 to 1/8-inch long, dark reddish-brown, wingless, hard-bodied (difficult to crush between fingers), have three pairs of legs (hind legs enlarged enabling jumping) and are flattened vertically or side to side (bluegill or sunfish-like) allowing easy movement between the hair, fur or feathers of the host. Fleas are excellent jumpers, leaping vertically up to seven inches and horizontally thirteen inches. (An equivalent hop for a human would be 250 feet vertically and 450 feet horizontally.) They have piercing-sucking mouth parts and spines on the body projecting backward. Also, there is a row of spines on the face known as a genal comb.Eggs are smooth, oval and white. Larvae are 1/4-inch long, slender, straw-colored, brown headed, worm-like, bristly-haired creatures (13 body segments), that are legless, have chewing mouth parts, are active, and avoid light. Pupae are enclosed in silken cocoons covered with particles of debris.
• Cockroaches
  Jan 23, 2019 | Brown Recluse Spider, Cockroaches, Mice, Pest Control 3 Household Pests You Need to Remove Right Now Some household pests can cause more damage than others, and it’s important to be able to recognize when you need professional assistance with a pest infestation. Though all pests are annoying, some are relatively...
• Bees
  Most Oklahomans have had an unforgettably painful experience with stinging wasps so that even the site of them evokes a feeling of fear. Although most bees and wasps live a solitary lifestyle and do not aggressively attack intruders,”social” wasps can pack a painful sting that can be used to capture prey or defend themselves and their colonies. Oklahoma is home to several species of stinging wasps and bees, among the most common known to the area are Paper Wasps and Yellow Jackets.
• Wasps
  Although considered to be beneficial to agriculture and vegetation, Wasps can be a serious problem throughout Oklahoma, particularly in the summer months.
• Ticks
  Feb 6, 2019 | Pest Control, Ticks Don’t Let a Tick Bite Make You Ill Ticks are notorious for being hard to spot until they’re well established, and tick bites can make you sick. Are you aware of all the risks ticks can carry? More importantly, are you doing all you can to prevent yourself, your loved...
• Crickets
  Crickets, from the Gryllidae are usually heard chirping before they are ever seen. Male crickets are the only ones that chirp. More than 900 species of crickets are described; the Gryllidae are distributed all around the world except at latitudes 55° or higher, with the greatest diversity being in the tropics. They occur in varied habitats from grassland, bushes, and forests to marshes, beaches, and caves. Crickets are mainly nocturnal, and are best known for the loud, persistent, chirping song of males trying to attract females, although some species are mute. The singing species have good hearing, via the tympani (eardrums) on the tibiae of the front legs.. They have long antennae and somewhat flattened bodies. They tend to be nocturnal, and they are harmless to humans.
• Mosquitoes
  Apr 25, 2018 | Bed Bugs, Cockroaches, Insects, Pest Control Pest Control OKC: What do other pests do in the winter? Pest Control OKC has a few more pests behaviors that let them survive the winter and come back to annoy you in the summer. Mosquitoes: Spend any time outdoors in the summer and you will eventually catch a bite...
• Flies
  Apr 11, 2018 | Cockroaches, Fleas, Flies, Insects, Pest Control, Spiders, Termites, Wasps Pest Control OKC: How to protect a summer home from infestation You work hard, you save up, and your finally able to afford a summer home somewhere nice. But then you get there to enjoy a vacation you find it overrun with pests! What can you do to make sure that...
• Centipedes
  Scorpions are nocturnal. They often ambush their prey, lying in wait as they sense its approach. They consume all types of insects, spiders, centipedes, and other scorpions. Larger scorpions may feed on vertebrates, such as smaller lizards, snakes, and mice if they are able to subdue them. They capture their prey with their pedipalps, paralyzing them with their venom as well if necessary. The immobilized prey is then subjected to an acid spray that dissolves the tissues, allowing the scorpion to suck up the remains.
• Scorpions
  Scorpions are easily recognized by their characteristic shape. All scorpions have a long, slender body with a five-segmented tail that can be arched over the back. The tail ends in a bulb-like poison gland or stinger. Scorpions have four pairs of legs and two large pincer-bearing arms (pedipalps) in front. Scorpions are well equipped to defend themselves or attack prey with their pincers and stinger. Between the last pair of legs is a comb-like structure (pectines) that is used to identify surface textures and to detect prey.
• Hornets
  Nests should be eliminated with great care and in a specific manner.When contemplating extermination of a yellowjacket or wasp nest, pleased be informed that you are entering a DANGER ZONE – there is no pest control scenario more frightening than a ‘blown’ wasp or hornet treatment. Consequently, it is often prudent to contact a professional, especially when access to the nest is difficult.
• Yellowjackets
  Due to their large colony size and defensive nature,yellow-jackets are more aggressive than paper wasps. Yellowjackets have effective means of defending their colonies. They often have “guards” at their nest entrances, and the colony can easily be disturbed by rapid movement and vibrations near the nest. For this reason, one will almost certainly be stung if a lawn mower or trimmer is used near a yellowjacket nest. In some species, an alarm chemical is released upon stinging that causes nest mates to join the attack.
• Mites
  Scorpions are not classified as insects but as arachnids. This makes them close relatives of ticks, mites, and spiders. There are approximately 50 species of scorpions that occur in the continental United States, but most of these are found in the Southwest. The exact number of species in Oklahoma has been estimated at between three and five, but only one species is common to the entire state, the Bark Scorpion.
• Gnats
  Mar 28, 2018 | Ants, Chiggers, Fleas, Flies, Gnats, Hornets, Insects, Pest Control, Spiders Pest Control OKC: Some more plants to keep pests out of your garden Last week, pest control OKC talked about some plants you can add to your home or garden to help keep away pests while adding some color and nature to your home. But those are just a few of the...
• Palmetto Bugs
  They are despicable little bugs, aren’t they? From the small German cockroach to the massive Palmetto bugs of the southeast, they are all disgusting, full of germ, and hard to shake. Cockroaches are notorious sewer dwellers. So, they bring all those yucky sewer germs into your home, often near your food. Additionally, they multiply extremely fast. If you see a few roaches in a week, there are likely hundreds more coming.

Animal Control

• Snakes
  Although their venom is extremely potent, (15 times more potent than that of the rattlesnakes; it is also reported to be much more potent than the venom of cobras and coral snakes), these spiders are not especially large. Compared to many other species of spiders, their chelicerae are not very large or powerful. In the case of a mature female, the hollow, needle shaped part of each chelicera, the part that penetrates the skin, is approximately 1.0 mm (about.04 inch) long, long enough to inject the venom to a point where it can be harmful. The males, being much smaller, injects far less venom with smaller chelicerae. The actual amount injected, even by a mature female, is very small in physical volume. When this small amount of venom is diffused throughout the body of a healthy, mature human, it usually does not amount to a fatal dose (though it can produce the very unpleasant symptoms of latrodectism).

Rodent Control

• Rodents
  Pests and rodents can slip in through the open cracks, attics, and foundations of your home. They can gnaw through furniture and electrical wires causing serious damage and costly repairs...
• Mice