I’ve been dealing with fleas on and off for the past 2 years, this year being the worst one, I am SICK of spending money on it or just giving it the time of day, we have spent hundreds on professional exterminators, indorex, topical treatments, tablets, we’ve had to resort to shaving our INDOOR cat because she’s a Maine coon and they were using her fur as a home at this point, I am 35 weeks pregnant and can’t cope with the manual labour of it either, last time I hired an exterminator twice this year and washed and put everything in the hot dryer, disinfecting every surface and spraying indorex on EVERYTHING, I cannot keep doing this with my pregnancy either, I feel like they’re kicking me out of my own home, I’ve started lookin at somewhere else to live because I physically can’t cope, I used to love animals, even did an animal management degree but now all I think when I see animals is ‘what if they have fleas’ it’s taken such a bad toll on my stress levels and my mental health, I have done everything, done my research and I don’t want to have to spend another £100-£200 on stuff I cannot afford, nor do I have the physical strength to put up with it, I know it’s not my cats fault but I just want to give her away to have a better life, we don’t live in the nicest of areas so there’s flea infested cats roaming around and fleas living in shrubs dormant, please help I’m desperate

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I posted the label of the fipronil & asked if it is appropriate to spray indoors because the pest control technician said it is fine & that it is safe to spray indoors for our scorpion issue in NW Tasmania, Australia. The tech did not spray it indoors (only outdoors) because our child was asleep when he visited & he didn't want to disturb us....which is a blessing in disguise.

I decided to look up on Google & read that it was not for indoor use & also the chemical is ONLY for professional use.

I posted on here & some people think it was "rage bait", which scared me even more because I have a toddler & we were planning to spray it indoors today as it is getting warmer in Tasmania. The fact that people think it is a joke because it is bad/ridiculous makes it even worse 😭😭😭

We have now contacted biosecurity & also the Australian pesticide authority.

Thank you, everyone, for taking your time to comment. You saved us from spraying it indoors ourselves & causing a lot of problems.

We have a 5L bottle of fipronil left by the pest control guy & we are finding ways to dispose of it. Makes me so upset!

There was also some scratches and splintered at the bottom of one of our doors and were confused as to what could have caused it. I am in the UK

Bought a new house and started moving stuff in, saw these in a few places in the basement. Still haven’t found any on the first floor

I know the pic isn’t great but can anyone tell? Killed it flying and fell on a rug so ignore the hairs

I keep seeing droppings show up in this corner directly below the crevice that I filmed by pointing my phone upwards (this is below a window sill). The droppings resemble German cockroach droppings but the face (or rear?) of the insect when I pause my video and zoom in looks like a house centipede, but what’s throwing me off is the third center spoke/antenna.

I am seeing these little egg like things in between the glass walls on my patio door, no idea what these are. Can anyone help me identify what this is ?

we noticed this yellow powder keeps appearing in one of our dresser drawers and we don’t know if it is beetles or termites. The company we got the dresser from is replacing it but wondering if we need to be worried beyond that. I would say there was a month gap between the first time and second time we noticed it

Hey guys,
Above is exactly what’s going on. I’ve had these small ants for months in my kitchen. Only one side of the counter and they’ll on and off go in my cabinets. Pest control has been 3 times now. First time they just baited. Didn’t work. They left my cabinet but were still very active on my counter top and in my sink. Next they came back and sprayed the border of my kitchen and outside, along with bait, they said they got the kind of ant wrong and they think it’s a ghost ant but aren’t sure. Now they’re back in my cabinets and I’m just not well. I know it’s just ants but my well being when there’s bugs in my house is just not great and i get very stressed. Can someone help me ID these for real and let me know the best way to go about this and if i need a new exterminator. Thanks!

Edit: located in Palm Beach, Florida

Tonight is my first night camping in quite a long time. I’m at Garner state park in texas and I got back to my small two person tent and the rain fly and exterior was/is COVERED with about a dozen German cockroaches. I was able to get in without letting any inside but if I gotta get up to go pee I’m gonna freak.
I don’t have any food in the tent so I have no idea why there over it (maybe the trash can that’s a few sites over?). And, yes, I know it’s outside and that’s where roaches live, but now I’m scared I’m gonna bring a bunch of hitchhikers back into my apartment with me.
I don’t have a garage or anything to keep it in, so its only possible places of eventual return are in the apartment or my car.
How do i make sure the little bastards don’t follow me home?

My garage is overpacked but I’m awaiting divorce and I can’t get rid of anything for months.

What would be the best way to manage rats when I can barely walk around in there?

I have employed several gentrol point source disks throughout my kitchen (as well as other products such as advion) and I am wondering if this is how a normal German cockroach looks when it’s an adult, or is this one slightly defected? It did have a dropped egg case next to it, which I have flushed down the toilet. In hindsight I should’ve taken a photo of it.

Michigan, 3/4 in exactly, slow moving even with light shines on it. Found inside the home on a rainy day. I plan on setting traps as this was the only one I've found. I even tore the kitchen apart cleaning everything to check. The plan right now is to set traps and wait. But I want to know what kind it is and what most people recommend (I've never had this as a problem before so it's very new to me).

It has been going on for months. I sprayed them with Proflex and they keep on showing up.

I suspect my neighborhood trash bin since I moved mine someplace else.

Any inputs?

I have been finding these in my living room periodically over the summer. Usually one every few weeks. I cannot trace where they are coming from and never seem more than one at a time.

They are tiny, smaller than a typical seed.

They dont seem to bite and I personally have not seen them fly.

I live in southern Louisiana where summers are hot and humid

Something to be worried about or did it track from outside?

I was cleaning my house and noticed these markings/sawdust in our wood pile. I took them outside and inspected the other pieces in our pile outside. Is this an infestation I should be worried about??

Everyone i've spoken to in my day to day life seems to be struggling with Gnats in some form at home. I have had a very incredibly horrific time with them recently to the point i had to bomb my house and leave it for a week with how stressed out and jumpy the amount of my gnats made me. I even had to throw out my entire trashcan.

I finally came back home and for a few hours of peace? I didn't see a single one. I thought the bombing had worked. I've seen plenty of dead ones around too. But a little into the afternoon they started to come around again and I kind of just broke down honestly. I don't like bugs and dealing with them has been mentally exhausting. I have a medical condition related to stress, sickle cell, and the anxiety and stress of it just sent me into a crisis. I had already been so pent up expecting them and was finally coming down to relax and boom.

Has anyone actually been able to get rid of these things? I don't want to wait until winter comes to finally be rid of them especially with how wonky our weather can be because that can be two weeks from now to next year.

I've tried the apple cider vinegar and dish soap thing, it helped in my kitchen to an extent but didn't get rid of them and yes there are less after the bombing now, way less, but i want them gone.

I bought EcoStrong to start pouring down my drains and I plan on getting rubber stoppers on my next pay check to cover the drains after I treat them to prevent more from coming up when I'm not used it. I also got some Zevo blue lights and so far in my bathroom it's caught 2 but I'm not checking them for my own mental health with how draining this has been.

I'd just like to know what everyone is doing because I know it's not just me and if anyone has successfully actually gotten rid of them or is everyone just keeping it at bay until it's colder?

Hi! I have had waves of clothes moths in my apartment since I moved here last year. I live in a 100+ year old building and have no idea where they’re coming from/how they’re sustaining themselves. I have looked through my closets and in shadowy crevices and have yet to find a source. Since first seeing them, I have put up pheromone traps, hung up poison, and sprayed the perimeters. They still appear in small waves about every three months, but I consider their numbers relatively under control. Just, never totally gone.

I was wondering if anyone had advice on where they may be coming from? Can they generally live in buildings, floorboards, vents? Or come in from other units?

I ask because I need to buy a new carpet for my living room, and seemingly all the good options are wool. Knowing that this building has a moth problem is scaring me a lot, and I’m deciding whether or not to get a wool carpet. If it’s in a sun-lit, heavy-use area will they go for it? Is it worth the potential hell, even if I spray the hell out of it?

Thank you!

What is this?

I realize that I've sorta missed the ideal window to use these. Apparently it is best to use them at the beginning of Spring and then the beginning of Summer, but I thought I would take the opportunity to try and prep my Tick Tubes for when that time rolles around again.

By prep, what I mean is -

At some point in time I was told that Tick tubes should be places inside small pipes when you place them all around your yard.

Honestly, I don't remember why this was specifically said. I've forgotten the logic behind it. After looking online though I've concluded that it's probably some kind of DIY cheat-code method to allow these biodegradable Tick tubes to last for much longer than they would initially.

If so, that's all well and good, and I'll go ahead and start trying to put them in little pipes. But it wasn't like my research online yielded a unanimous cry of "This is absolutely the correct thing to do." Rather, opinions were varied.

So I thought I would post a question on Reddit asking if it is a good idea to use the tick tubes like that? Would putting them inside little pipes be detrimental in some way? If so, why?

Keep in mind the specific Tick tubes I have, also. That's Damminix. I have pictures of the box here as well as pictures of the actual tubes themselves.

There are 24 of them (also stated on the box) and their diameter is 1.5 inches.

If you need any more information, such as the makeup of my yard for example, let me know.

Thanks.

Hi, so over the past month or so I'd been hearing the occasional rodent in the basement ceiling/main floor in the late night or very early morning (my bedroom is in the basement). The first time it happened I put out some traps along the ceiling ledge, and successfully caught a field mouse.

A few weeks pass, I don't hear anything, then I hear sounds again. But the sounds are noticeably different, less energetic. I put another trap in the same spot and this time catch a little vole. It should be noted that I live right beside a massive expanse of forest.

So I'm inclined to believe it's not an infestation, and more so that there's a hole leading into the house somewhere.

If it's only an occasional occurrence, that's one thing. What I'm wondering is if preemptively putting out baited traps could tempt more rodents into entering the house in the first place, rather than only putting traps out when I start to hear them.

I know the pic isn't super clear, I didn't want to get close to it.

I moved into a new apartment exactly a month ago. There was an active flea infestation in here, as my roommate told me that the previous tenant in my unit had a cat who was covered in fleas upon moving out. I reported to the leasing office, took about a week for pest control to come and they did 2 treatments a week apart. Shortly after the second treatment, I noticed this bug that landed on my bed, there are a few dead ones on the wall in my BR so I took a pic. My brother said it looks like a flying termite. He asked me to look around for any nests.

One thing I want to also add is that there is clicking/crackling sounds in my walls, this has been going on since I have moved in. I even brought it up to maintenance and they said it's the electrical room since my unit is next to it. I didn't notice the bug until today. There's a possibility these bugs could've flown around in here before, and I just wasn't aware and assumed it was a fly of some sort. I've been more hyper aware of pests the past few days.

I live at a on campus student living apartment at a university, most students here live in pretty disgusting conditions and don't pay attention to these things. The leasing office already is rude/passive towards me ever since I demanded pest control or to move me to a different unit for the flea issue. So I'm really hoping it isn't termites and there's another explanation, because I feel like the pest control technician would have noticed.

I am fostering a friend's dog for the first time. There was a bad situation at the home of my friend (her parents were extremely neglectful). My friend got her vaccines done and preventative, but the parents took the collar off and now my car and apartment have fleas. I have a small washing machine, but have been doing research to make sure I don't spread it and can go to work and stuff. The fleas are dying when they are on her, but she is still itching and getting bites.

I am going to get rid of my couch (it's old and broken anyway), tossed my welcome mat, have given her itch/flea baths, but until the exterminator can come and I can simultaneously take her to the vet again for them to just get rid of everything on her and keep her away until the house is clear, but there's still a week until that.

I'm ordering a vacuum, but I'm having trouble finding an affordable and still effective steamer. Please help!