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The weather is cooling, and the leaves are beginning to turn. What a wonderful time of year the Fall season is! But, with fall comes the onslaught of relentless pests trying to invade your home. They're seeking shelter for the winter months and your home is the ideal location providing warmth, darkness, and food. This week, Best Pest Control is sharing with you 5 common home invaders you'll likely run into this fall in Missouri. House Centipedes House centipedes like the cool, damp, environment found in places such as bathrooms, basements, and crawl spaces. They feed on other insects such as a bed bugs, cockroaches, spiders, termites, silverfish and other pests. Like most insects, they are very crafty when it comes to getting indoors. House centipedes will seek out a place that is warm and where they can hide and seek prey. They will get in under doors, through cracks and just about any opening. They are very small and narrow, so the space doesn’t have to be very big....

Many people are startled by the multi-legged pests that run across the floor or are spotted in their tub or sink. These are either centipedes or millipedes and many cannot tell them apart. It can be difficult to tell whether you have an infestation of centipedes or millipedes because there is no direct evidence, other than spotting them throughout your home. If they become an issue, the best course of action is to contact a pest control company at the Lake of the Ozarks . Best Pest Control can perform an inspection and find out the source of the population. Below are some interesting facts about these crawly insects: How Many Legs Do Centipedes and Millipedes Have? Although the word centipede literally means "100-footed", most centipedes do not have 100 legs. The number of legs a centipede has depends on the number of body segments that make up its body. Most species of centipedes have one pair of legs per segment. Millipedes have 2 pairs of legs on each segment of...