From the Field: Interesting '05 Photo Contest Entries

Critter control successfully captured this squirrel, but a hawk also appears to have an interest in this rodent.

Photographer: Taken by a Critter Control manager and submitted by Critter Control’s Joe Felegi.

German roaches having supper. Health officials condemned and eventually tore down the house.

Photographer: John G. Stewart, Abell Pest Control, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Photographer snapped this photo of Coptotermes formosnaus during inspections of termite bait collection stakes at Stennis Space Ceneter in Costal Mississippi (Regular Kodak Digital Camera).

This photo of R norvegicus was taken in a residential apartment in London. The photographer had been called in to investigate an ongoing rat problem in an apartment and opened the door of a small disused toilet to be confronted by this rat. Rats were constantly going in and out of this toilet and were nesting in the corner behind it as well.

Photographer: John Simmons, Belton, Loughborough, UK

Worker termite with spores.

Photographer: Jim Luck, Schendel Pest Services, Topeka, Kan.

Raccoon eyes. Photographer snapped this shot one morning after a hurricane, which is why the tree is so bare.

Photographer: Lynn Hoffer, Al Hoffer’s Pest Protection Inc., Coral Springs, Fla.

A female carpenter bee, Xylocopa virginica (Linnaeus), emerging from her gallery. Shot with a Cannon 10D, 100 mm lens and ring flash at 1/60 sec and f/32. Taken in State College, PA in May 2005. .