Click beetles are not dangerous to people. They can cause some minor damage to crops and plants but are mainly viewed as a nuisance pest.

Despite their frightening looks and size, these insects are not a danger to people. Dobsonflies only bite when handled roughly, and while the bite is painful, the effects of a bite do not last very long.

Like other species in Apterygota, silverfish are completely wingless. They have long antennae, and move in a wiggling motion that resembles the movement of a fish. This, coupled with their appearance, influences their common name. Silverfish typically live for two to eight years.

Using vacuums to remove them and sealing up the cracks, gaps, and holes they use to enter homes are the best ways to reduce click beetle problems. Insecticides should rarely be used and are not recommended in most cases. Your local Orkin technician is trained to help manage click beetles and similar pests.

Click beetles, like most other beetles, are susceptible to pyrethrin-based sprays. If you see click beetles in and around your garden, use a spray such as PyGanic or Safer Brand Yard & Garden Spray. This should take care of the beetles on the surface.

Once mated, click beetles seek egg-laying sites in grassy areas which may be pastures or other sod areas. For this reason, wireworms, the larvae, are most likely to be a problem in fields that have recently been broken out of sod or grass crops.

Those with just minimal wireworm damage should be safe to store, although they will need to be eaten first. But those with larger holes – like the individual above – could also be hosting slugs. Storage may not be an option and they will have to be eaten quickly.

Potato wireworms look at first glance like small, thin earthworms. They burrow into the potato leaving holes which allows rot and other diseases access. Wireworms can attack other root vegetables, especially carrots, leeks and the stems of seedlings just below the soil.

Most wireworm larvae are hard, chestnut brown, smooth, varying from 1/2 to 1-1/2 inches in length when grown. Some species are soft, and white or yellowish in color. Wireworms are especially destructive to corn, but all the small grains and nearly all cultivated and wild grasses are attacked.

Wireworms. Wireworms are the larvae of click beetles. They are found throughout the United States, and are especially common on land that is poorly drained or has recently been in sod. Wireworms are 1/3 to 1 1/2″ long, dark brown to yellowish, jointed, hard shelled and cylindrical.

Millipedes in of themselves are harmless (do not bite, sting transmit diseases), and in fact are beneficial in their natural role as decomposers (feeding on dead organic matter).

White grubs are the larval or grub stage of several species of beetles and chafers. These beetle larvae are usually C-shaped and can be found feeding among grass roots. They are typically cream-colored with a brown head.

All grub worms turn into some kind of scarab beetle. Eight different kinds of scarab beetles are common in yards throughout the United States: Japanese beetles, Asiatic garden beetles, June bugs, green June beetles, oriental beetles, northern and southern masked chafers, European chafers, and black turfgrass ataenius.