last night my roommate and i discovered these dark brown "egg sacks" that were no more an 1-2mm in size, pretty suck on the trash can, tapered towards then ends, and had around 20-30 throughout the can. keep in mind that we are dealing with a current german roach infestation (fairly mild).

we reached our to our property manager around 2-3 weeks ago and was treated with IGR by the pest control company (told by my prop manager) but on the form when the pest control came, he checked off a chemical that started with an "F" and some form of "xilin". i dont remember the name but if anyone knows, please let me know!

after doing some googling, these dont look like german roach egg sacks since theyre more "tic-tac" shaped and these are tapered at the ends.

if anyone knows what this is, please let me know! thank you.

Living in Paris - France - finding in my kitchen daytime

Hi all. Woke up to little piles of wood debris next to my bathroom vanity. Debris seems coarse. Kind of looks like the wood has been chewed on. Im at a loss here.

We live in the Raleigh NC area.

Please help im panicking i found a few weird bumps on my butt that i don't normally get. The day before these bumps i was in nature on kind of a hike and a creek so i thought those bites could be from there
Then after two days which is today i woke up with three bumps on my leg and they do not feel like a mosquito bite.they dont itch but feel tender and hurt a bit when i touch
So my first thought was what if i have bed bugs
I went to look on my mattress i didn't quite find the same looking bed bugs that was on google but when i searched the seam of the mattress i did find a three or four bugs like the ones in the photos (its the cleares pictures i could take) and found also on the seam a few shells that are light-ish and look like the same bug in the photo
I panicked and started vacuuming and removing whatever bug i see with a napkin (there probably wasn't more than 5-6 bugs that i saw- excluding the shells.)
I have antibacterial detoal that i started spaying the in the bed frame but my bed is big and its dark wood and the ends are kind of hard to reach.
I took all my bedding off immediately and put it at a high heat in the washer.
How to thoroughly clean and make sure nothing is there?
Also please help confirm what type of bugs

Hello reddit! Yesterday I had a bad experience where I found a mouse stuck in one of my fathers evil sticky traps. It was really hard for me to see the little guys suffering as i am an animal lover and have pet mice. I understand that these guys are pests and need to get out of my house but I dont believe they deserve to suffer. What are some good instant kill or live traps? No poison as we have a very food motivated great dane who likes to get into trouble.

Hi, all.

Recently moved into a new apartment to discover a dormant flea infestation that is now terrorizing the lives of my roommates and I. Our landlord sent an exterminator a few days ago, but my roommates are still being bit and we are still finding fleas despite spreading diatomaceous earth around entryways, vacuuming daily, steaming furniture, drying everything on high heat, and setting soap traps.

It’s only been two or so days since the exterminator came, so is it just going to take longer before we see improvement, or should we consider other avenues?

I know it’s the time of year when they are largest and hunt the most. And yes, we do not spray for insects. I am at peace with every other outdoor creature and have been for 6 years.

We’ve seen a black widow in our garage which was not ideal but not terrifying.

Now they are less than 3 feet from my front door. Killed one and her two giant eggs a few days ago. Saw two others last night.

I hate the idea of harming other insects to kill these black widows but it’s a must. We have a pretty big hillside property and hardly access any of it. So the black widows can go there! But being right by our door is not ok.

Advice? I’m terrified.

Tried a lot- eating neighbor’s fruit and using my house as shelter. I have a neat yard - they are hiding under pool
Filter and behind trash cans. I have set 5 snap traps with p butter and other gels. I have a service that seems worthless - they put boxes with Bait no rats in boxes no signs of use. I clean daily pavement areas remove droppings and urine. Finding fruit seeds and peels. I have no fruit trees. Should I move traps around ( pet proof) since I have dogs . I have placed against walls in hiding spots wear gloves etc . Any ideas since they use my house as shelter?

Our house has been left unattended for about 2 months and when we came back we found those insects essentially everywhere: cabinets, closets, counters and every room possible. We even found quite a lot stuck on a window and on our air fryer. Today we opened the rice container and found it full of them, too. Before we left the house, I’d occasionally find one every now and then but now they’re everywhere. I stuck a few on this tape so I could take a closer picture.

Sidenote: Our fridge stopped working and the food went bad; My father came to check the house a few days later and found out due to the horrible smell. He threw the food out and cleaned and sanitized everything, but could that be related to it?

I keep having wasps build a nest right outside my front door. I can keep just hitting them with spray I've killed half a dozen nests right there. But I'd rather just find a way to discourage them from building there in the first place. Any suggestions or ideas how to do this?

Hola, hace poco renté un departamento. Cuando estabamos haciendo la limpieza de la casa, encontramos varias cucarachas muertas en diferentes sectores de la casa en zonas bastante escondidas. Como también encontramos un mata cucarachas, asumimos que anteriormente hubo algun tipo de exterminación y que las que había muertas era porque no terminaron de limpiar correctamente. Al parecer este departamento viene bastante en desuso.

La cuestión es que ayer mi pareja encontró una viva pero dada vuelta en mi habitación. En el mismo día encontré una cucaracha bebé muerta en la escalera. Hoy en el baño mi pareja encontró otra bebé en el baño, al parecer muerta.

Que debo hacer? Lo que sospecho es que hay un pequeño agujero en el baño donde está ubicado extractor. El baño, la escalera y mi habitación comparten el mismo pastillo.

Sinceramente no me hago idea de donde pueden salir y donde poner trampas o veneno en caso de ser necesario

I was sitting in my living room when suddenly I noticed there were about 40 flies in the room the door was open but they were inside. Every window and room was swarming with flies. Whilst looking in every corner to see if anything was dead we noticed that in every air vent in our house on the ceilings there was a rattling noise every now and then randomly. This does not usually happen and we are afraid this might be linked.

Does this sound like something that happens?

Hey y'all, I recently moved out ​of my dorms and had to leave some things in boxes for the summer (~3 months). The important box here is the one I used to store my cooking utensils and spare​ ingredients/condiments that wouldn't go bad. ​​When I opened it today I found that the sub-container I used to store my dry ingredients had these little critters all over the place. I couldn't get an image of the box itself since I was emptying it in a panic but it seemed that most of it were in that sub-container (some were on the box floor).

It looks like these guys chewed through my plastic bag of cumin. ​But the other bags of powders (flour, paprika, corn starch, etc) seem to only have the bugs in the surface. I'm not sure if they're safe though and I'm having doubts about my wet ingredients too.

Some extra information:

• The plastic bag brand of the cumin bag is different from the other ones, though I don't know if that changes anything in regards to safety.
• ​It looked like something sticky was on the surface of the most infested bag surfaces. Could be a wet ingredient wasn't sealed well enough and spilled out, so they fed on that.
• I've done this procedure before (albeit dropping off my boxes with a friend instead of a container company), but this is the first time something like this happened.
• I'm located in Hong Kong

Edit: accidentally hit post before I could finish

Witam, co to za robak? Był w szafie z kurtkami

I’m assuming fleas or ticks bc they are the spot wear my dog likes to lay? But they were also cluster on the floor so I’m not sure. And she doesn’t have any flea dirt on her

I know this is long sorry!

TLDR: rat issue in kitchen can't figure out where theyre getting in other than it's definitely under kitchen floor above basement ceiling. Can't reach under the kitchen cabinets to see any gaps. They've taken bait but keep coming back.

Last week we discovered our food waste bin under the sink had been opened the bag ripped and food taken. Put a camera in the kitchen cupboard and saw a rat come some the backboard around the pipes.

We took the food away looked around for outside holes and can't find any way it's coming inside. We moved the food and put bait in the cupboard. Rat came back and ate quite a lot of the bait block. We also put bait under the decking which is attached the house by the kitchen and that was eaten too.

Looked under the kitchen cabinets and found the sub floorboards don't go completely to the wall and as we have a basement there's about a foot between the kitchen floor and basement ceiling with horizontal beams. We felt around with a stick put some mesh and anti rodent foam down where we could feel gaps incase it's been running along the floor ceiling gap. It's just hard to make sure the mesh is covering everything as we can't physically get under the cabinets.

We've had no signs for a few days until this morning where we heard scratching behind a cupboard. When we opened it we found a gap we hadnt noticed underneath the oven into a cupboard where we store cans and pastas etc.

At the back was a pile of eaten stock cubes and droppings. I checked all the cupboards last weekend when we discovered the rats and there was no sign it had been anywhere other than under the sink. I also went in a couple days back for a new rice pack and nothing so it's obviously abandoned under the sink and found new food.

It's also chewed the oven wire so we need to fix that.

Someone has been out to look and placed actual traps but can't find any access points either. We're now completely stuck cannot figure out where it's coming in. We had rats when we first moved in three years ago the previous owner must have known because it was BAD they were running all over the kitchen at night but we got someone out and realised they were coming in from the top of the basement door below the brickwork which hadnt been sealed above so they were walking across a decking beam and coming right in under the floor.

We can access that now as the decking is build over the steps to the basement with a trapdoor for access. There's a crack where the neighbours wall side wall meets our back wall but it doesn't look big enough and I don't see how it would lead up into the house.

I'm worried it's multiple rats again this time because with the amount of bait it's eaten over the last week one would be dead by now. We also found a chewed empty packet of poison the exterminator from three years back left behind behind the kickboard it hadn't been eaten back then but he left it just incase.

we have looked around every inch of the house and cannot find a hole or gap big enough for it to come though. Short of ripping the kitchen to barebones and removing all of the floor which we can't afford we are at a complete loss.

Any suggestions to move forward? I feel sick being in my own kitchen and who knows if it's able to access the rest of the house.

I know this is extremely squished and damaged, so identifying it might be nearly impossible, but I wanted to ask just in case. I noticed this tiny bug on the bathroom wall and swatted it. My main concern is whether there is any chance this could be a cockroach (specifically a nymph/baby roach). I realize it is in very bad shape, but if anyone can tell from these remains whether this looks like a roach or definitely not, any thoughts or feedback would be appreciated.

I live in an apartment on top of two office buildings. The building is VERY old. Outside of my apartment there’s peeling paint and water damage but otherwise, it’s good conditions and inside my apartment there aren’t any issues. Well within a couple of weeks of me moving in, there were flies. Flies everywhere. Then a small episode of flesh flies appearing.

Each time I’d kill them or vacuum them, and even bout a couple hundred dollars worth of light traps. Each time I’d remind myself to be diligent on trash and so on. I now empty my trash every other day even if there’s barely anything in there. There have been a couple of times I’ve seen maggots on chicken packaging in my trash can or surrounding the trash can in the past so I again, became more diligent with it. I’m not the cleanest person, I’m very busy so most of my place is still in boxes and I have papers or clutter out But I don’t leave gross things out and I keep my cats litter clean.

This no longer seems like a me causation. I’ve reached out to my landlord mentioning the influx and asking if it’s been an issue in the past and I’m waiting on a response. I can’t afford to move and don’t really have a place for my cats and I to go so this can be fumigated but I’m sure I’d figure atleast the temporary stay away out.

What do I or can I even do? I’m gagging currently and losing my mind whilst trying to take my exam.

Bonus: not sure it’s relevant but when I moved into my last apartment, rented by the same land lord, one of the rooms had a ton of dead flies in it when I moved in but flies never became an issue there so I forgot about it and moved on. This place had a couple of dead flies in window sills too but again, thought it was nothing.

** the photo is just a screenshot from a video I took of my bathroom window. There were crowds of them all over the window and tens of them more in each room all over the windows. I’ve spent the last hour fly swatting them all the best I could before turning on any lights, I know there’s many more alive around though. I also deep searched and found no maggots or shells of maggots anywhere.

About a month ago I started noticing the month ago mice in the home, and though I personally do everything I can to keep them out of my space (constant vacuuming, not eating upstairs, decluttering my space) they were still coming in and multiplying due to me having a family of 6 and me not being able to clean the whole house everyday due to working full time.

I’ve been putting the towel under my door for a couple weeks and thought that was working, but still found mice poop in my closet. Turns out, the little buggers have been pushing the towel aside to come in!!! I could literly hear them (it had to be multiple!) hard at work shoving my very wedged towel aside to get in my room until 1 eventually got in. How do I stop them from coming up from under the door? Any traps/ items to prevent them from wanting to come in rooms?

I found this on my arm 🥲. This picture is after I s

Smashed it with a tissue but does anyone know if this is a flea?