hello all, let me get straight to the point, about 3ish weeks ago i noticed ants in my room (i do keep drinks and snacks in my room) i cleaned them up and completely moved all my snacks and cleaned that whole entire area. we found out some gushers melted in the box and thats where they were coming from. fast forward to today i was eating dinner in my room and i saw an ant crawl on the wall so i killed it and then noticed a bunch of them on my cookies, i just bought them yesterday at the store and they were NOT opened yet, they were sealed. i clean my room very frequently and idk if the ants are coming from some of the food like from the snacks sitting in the floor or if they’re coming from somewhere else. i clean up after myself constantly and i never leave food out or drinks out. my desk is right next to my snack area and no ants have been in the drawer of my desk or anything. i also have a window in my room and i’m curious if they could be coming through the window or something? first time having an ant problem and i’ve kept snacks in my room for years. i’m gonna have my mom get some ant bait at the store but is there any other way i can figure out exactly where they’re coming from? should i take all snacks and drinks out of my room until this is completely fixed? picture is the area i keep finding them in and where i keep my snacks at. i am deathly afraid of bugs, would appreciate any tips!

Hello all!

We live in a small 1950's 3 bedroom appartment in the Netherlands. We have had a mice infestation (if you could consider it that?) for about a year now since the elderly couple under our unit passed away. We think they had nothing left to eat in the empty appartment and builders started soon. Bit by bit we have found more holes and plugged them and found more sources of food and closed them off. At one point they chewed through an old wood cabinet. We see them running past on about a bi weekly basis. The apartment is small so we assumed the infestation wasn't too large. Just now, me and my friend/housemate were having breakfast at the table when my friend saw this one just sitting there. Mind you we were not even two meters (7ft?) away from it. I freaked, thank god my friend hadn't left for work yet. She approached and took a video this screenshot is from and she walked up from the table to right infront of it and it didn't move. Eventually she nudged it on a dustpan and brought it outside. We think it might have been so starved it stopped caring, does this mean it's almost over? Is there hope₍₍ (ง ˙ω˙)ว ⁾⁾?

TLDR: mouse was just chilling with my friend standing over it. Does this mean we are effectively keeping our food away and plugged most holes?

Lots of them appear to be living between the bricks on my outside house wall. They are slow moving and red when squished. In the UK

Located in Southern California
Freaking out

I’ve noticed small roaches in my bathroom, crawling behind the handles and inside the tub, around the sink, only in the bathroom.

I keep spiders, mantises, and isopods as pets. I’ve never once had a roach problem in my life so I’m panicking. I’m planning to move my insects over to another house while this is being situated which is a very bad situation for me. I would rather not stay away from my actual home for longer than I have to.

I need this solved asap without sprays or anything that might hurt my pets. My bedroom shares a wall with the bathroom and the house is small. I heard using gels and roach bait stations will help.. but I don’t know what brand or which one works best.

Please, advice is very needed and appreciated . I do not own this house, I do not rent it. I live with my dad who won’t call someone to handle this since we don’t have the funds so that’s not an option

Can anybody identify this and let me know possible treatment plan? A swarm showed up today and this is the second year in a row around this time.

Last year I sprayed them and they were gone the next day. Doesn’t seem like the best solution.

They are collecting at the corner of my paver patio and foundation. Thanks in advance.

I have signs of powder post beetles in my crawl space, which is very moist. I have a crew going down to get the seasonal wetness under control with a new vapor barrier and sump pump system, and had a pest control company come out to inspect

The pest control company seemed to try scare tactics saying that my whole house was going to fall down if I didn't immediately contract with them for 10k (with 10% off just to be nice!), citing the beetles, some signs of carpenter ants, dry rot, the works. After that I had some other folks come out with a very different assessment - that the joists all look fine and there is no measurable sag anywhere in the house- and I'm a bit confused.

Question is - how do I know if I should treat for powderpost beetles or do some kind of wood preservative treatment?

Hi,

We just moved into this house yesterday and while in the garage and moving stuff inside I found a huge roach climbing out of a hole in the garage from outside.
I immediately contacted my landlord and she said she will have pest control call in the morning. I immediately went through every single item and got rid of all the boxes, and looked all around the house and found and killed about 5 more roaches and they were only on the outside of the garage.
I then looked everywhere else and pulled the stove and fridge out and did not find anything. This house is also newly renovated besides the garage.
I’m just really freaking out because I don’t know if this means it was already an infestation or what.

I then did look at all 4 of the trash cans that they already had sitting at the curb for trash pick up and it’s all full of trash and roaches. Which all makes since why it’s only on the outside garage side where the cans were.
So do you think the renovators who left all the trash in the bins made them come or was there already roaches?
I’ve never had roaches before lol and I don’t know anything.

I found this bug in my room in my nyc apartment. sorry for the blurry pic i rushed to try to kill it (it got away)

i sprayed hella shit and oils around. and lit hella incense. and cleaned up. what else can i do to have peace of mind until pest control comes and treats my apartment

if it’s roaches? should i be worried? i just signed this lease. building didn’t have history w bugs so idk. and don’t freak me out real genuine advice would be awesome

Since traveling to an airbnb (quirky granny unit) in Reno, I've been washing my sheets every few days. I've had some bites, but stopped the past couple of days. After line drying my sheets, I found this while putting them back on. Is it too small to be a bed bug? Could it be something else?

Thanks!

I’m finding them in my kitchen they seem to be:
- very attracted to light
- smaller then a fruit fly
- black and shiny with like brown coloured legs
- winged
- have long antenna
- they kind of jump/ bounce around - also fly but they seemingly hop more

they are not coming from my kitchen sink

I don’t think they’re phorid flies because of the long antenna and don’t have an arched back, I don’t think they’re fungus gnats I don’t have plants

Last photo of a squished one you can kind of see the brown legs

Hi everyone! I am a potential first time homeowner with a property currently under contract. However, I had a WDI inspection done which showed evidence of subterranean termites in an isolated area in the front of the home. Currently the home has been unoccupied for a year and owned by a real estate company so it is likely the pest control lapsed. Technician from a pest control company told me that ~80% of homes in my area have termites, have had termites, or don’t know they have termites.

Considering the seller will pay for the recommended treatment (with warranty) and install the bait stations for monitoring I am wondering if i should move forward with the purchase of this home. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Only located under the kitchen window sill, it does keep reappearing. Location Raleigh, NC.

So in the spring I left my apartment for 3 months there where only a few of them but when I came back in the fall 3 months later my apartment is infested with them, I had no food in my apartment (1 cleaned it all out before I left) and I have no house plants. I set some yellow sticky traps up but they seem to ignore the yellow sticky trap. They love light and heat, they fly near my face and body. I already boarded up my windows and cleaned my drains and I have no visible AC until. I already called pest control too and it didn't so anything to them. They are pretty slow and they seem to just be everywhere. My location is in America and I live in southern Georgia. Does anyone have any ideas?
Tldr : these bugs appeared in the spring and I have no food or house plants. I've sealed all my windows and cleaned the sinks. The bugs are light and heat sensitive
(Edit: I forgot to mention they also come with phoid flies if that helps)

Storage unit is infested with em.

I'm in DFW Metro, specifically. These ants are all over my kids beds. Can you help identify?

Location- Georgia, UGA

I have found two of these in the past week. One randomly on my counter and another on my living room floor.

Hello! I need some help at the moment
This morning I found out that my bin was completely covered in grain mites. And upsettingly enough- but my guitar & my headphones we're also covered in them.
This isn't my first time having to deal with grain mites, however I never had this much of an issue with them before.
I've fully gotten rid of the bin, and I've thoroughly cleaned my guitar. However I'm having problems with trying to get rid of the mites on my headphones. I've cleaned them 3 times already - I've used things like bleach, elbow grease, and even alcohol.. And they keep coming back.

I don't want to replace them as I'm currently tight on money, I just came on here to ask advice from those who have dealt with this issue before- And I'm also looking for recommendations on what cleaning methods I should use

I moved into my house about a year ago during the winter. And after a month we noticed there were mice in our home. Finding dropping in drawers, and underneath the fridge. In that winter we probably caught 10-15 mice, over the spring, summer and fall, we only caught 3. I recently got a 3 month rodent program through orkin, which kind of feels stupid since I’d want it year round. But I guess I’ll figure it out once those three months end (I was also desperate to get it under control before the winter came.) He pointed out spots I’d be able to seal with caulking, and he also set up bait stations. He told me I could pay for expulsion, but since I live in a duplex and have an attached neighbour. It might be for nothing, since the mice could probably get into my home from their side, if they had an entry points.

So what I’m asking is, what is the best thing for me to do? Because I have no clue. Should I talk to my neighbours? Should I do the expulsion myself? Or pay possible 1-2 thousand for a professional to do it? I thought to ask her if anyone could help weigh my options because I have no experience with this. They’re also deer mice and I know about the risks they carry

If anyone could respond, much would be appreciated thank you. And if you have any questions feel free to ask and I’ll do my best to answer

I’ve recently started seeing these little guys in my house - about a month of seeing 1-5 per day. Everything I can find online says it’s not uncommon to find them near doors etc after rainy days. However, I am exclusively seeing them in the very center of my house. Quite literally the most interior point in my home. I most often see them in the area near my dog’s food bowl. There’s a large potted plant in the same corner. I’ve been seeing small ones in the past few days so I believe they’re breeding inside.

I’ve been in the same house for more than 4 years and this is the first time I’ve ever seen them. They’re a nuisance if anything but concerned it could be a sign of a more serious problem. Advice?

I live in the south of the UK in a fourth floor studio. Just sprayed this one dead with raid so it looks a little wet, is this silverfish?