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1. Termites have straight antennae, while ants have elbowed antennae.

2. Termites have straight, wide bodies, and ants have narrow, pinched bodies.

3. Wood damage indicates the presence of termites. Ants do not leave wood damage. 

4. Ants are drawn to food debris. Cellulose-rich things like wood and paper will attract termites.

5. Ants have a short lifespan, about a few months. Termites can love for a couple of years.

6. Winged termites have wings of equal lengths, while flying ants have an unequal wing length. 

1.Bedbugs are small, oval, brownish insects that live on the blood of animals or humans. 

2. Adult bedbugs have flat bodies about the size of an apple seed, but after eating their bodies swell and are reddish-brown.

3. Bedbugs do not fly, but they can move quickly over floors, walls, and ceilings. 

4. Female bedbugs may lay hundreds of eggs, which are about the size of a speck of dust. 

5. Immature bedbugs, called nymphs, shed their skins five times before reaching maturity.

6. They can mature in as little as a month and produce three or more generations per year. 

7. They enter the home by hiding in luggage, clothing, beds, couches, and other items.

8. In the home, they hide in mattresses, box springs, bed frames, and headboards. This provides easy access to people to bite in the night. 

9. Over time they may scatter through the bedroom, moving into any crevice or protected location. 

10. Bedbug bites are painless at first, but later turn into itchy welts. 

1. You wake up with itchy areas you didn't have when you went to sleep.

2. There are blood stains on your sheets or pillowcases. 

3. There are dark or rusty spots of bedbug excrement on sheet and mattresses, bed clothes, and walls.

4. You find bedbug fecal sports, egg shells, or shed skins in areas where bedbugs hide. 

5. You smell an offensive, musty odor from the bugs' scent glands.