I was told to come to this sub for more level headed advice because the carpet beetle sub is going to put me into psychosis. Basically everyone saying that they live in your hair, lay eggs on you, you can’t get rid of them etc and other things that are making me have panic attacks. I have been dealing with carpet beetles for about two years now. I have tried alpine wsg, nyguard plus, gentrol point source, home defense, cimexa etc.

Am I doing something wrong. I vacuum multiple times a day, but it’s not realistic for me to wash everything I own so my question is, how much trouble am I in ? The house was infested when I bought it and they have probably been here for years so I understand it will take time to get rid of them but is it possible?

If you had to pick a choice is this the best way to deal with them ?

They sound so similar from everything I read. Is there an actual way to distinguish?

USA, Baltimore, Maryland. Garage, basement, doorway/entryways, and in rooms.
We bought the house in summer of last year and spent almost a year renovating. There was a major camel cricket problem over summer due to the construction and vacancy of the home. We treated the house by spraying around the perimeter. By the time we did this though, it was already fall.

We moved in about three weeks ago. It was still cold out. Now, it's starting to warm up, flowers are beginning to bloom outside... And the crickets are back.

These are my PHOBIA. I have literal repetitive dreams about them infesting my body. I am paralyzed by them. If I think about them, my skin crawls. Now for the twist- we are insect keepers. We own 66 tarantulas, 30 scorpions, various centipedes, we have snakes, and we breed dubia and redrunner cockroaches. All of which I care for and love... I handle, with joy, venomous spiders but somehow.... I am paralyzed by harmless sprickets... I would "bomb" our house or do whatever it took to get these sprickets, but I can't risk harming our insect pets... What do I do?! Is there a powder or spray that if put around the house, will not affect my insects that I keep?

The only thing I can think of is tape, and that also horrifies me, and I would not want mice or snakes or any other insect to get stuck to it. I know this sounds as delusional as it is, but I need advice.

I know I could -put out soapy water buckets for them to jump in and drown but that's not a good enough idea.

I don't want a home-remedy to sprinkle around that will just cause a mess and do nothing.
Help.

I just bought a new build back in July 2023. It was treated for termites and the company who originally treated reached out if I wanted to renew. This is my first house so not sure how common termites are? Should I renew since it’s a new build? It’s only $175 a year.

I know this is a problem for many people who have purchased new builds in the U.K and people who have done refurbishment to old properties.

I have had a book lice problem for 3 months now. I just refurbished my house and finished in January. They started appearing where our garage used to be(joined to our house via a door in hallway) which was renovated to a room and mainly in the small toilet built underneath the stairs in the garage.

I have booklice crawling around the walls and small tiny flies that have come out of no where as-well. They started off in one area at first (toilet under stairs/garage) and now they are around the house. I have left the de humidifier on for 24/7 for about 3 weeks. I had a full house fumigation and residual spray and it has not worked. Pest control has recommended to do a second fumigation but after speaking to people with similar issues they said it did not work for them after two treatments.

Has anyone actually done something that has worked?

I’m TERRIFIED of yellow jackets. I’ve heard of some crazy stuff they do. I just found one in my house and I killed it. I read that if you kill them, their friends will come looking for them bc they release pheromones when they die. I took it super far away outside immediately after I killed it but now I’m worried more will get in the house. Will more come inside all angry or should I be okay?

I don’t have a problem with ants coming inside my house but they LOVE to crawl around my door frame and on my siding. It’s super annoying since I’m trying to repaint the outside of my house right now. Is there something I can spray around my door to keep them off, or an effective way to kill the colony?

I live in Hawaii and have a row of about 120 feet of areca palms on one side of the property. Lately I've been hearing a kind of chirping or squeaking sound from that direction throughout the entire night. Given that rats are nocturnal and likely a good place for them to nest, I suspect it is rats. I was dismissed by r/hawaii who think I'm just hearing geckos, but this is too loud and much different.

I ordered night vision binoculars to verify, but they have not yet arrived.

I also tried placing snap traps around the bases of the palms, but so far have caught nothing. They were baited with fancy organic almond butter, which I think is part of the problem - I should probably use some sugary cheap peanut butter (but didn't have any at the time). I also think they likely do not spend much time at all near the ground? And if that is the case, how should I set up traps for them? Or bait, or whatever will be effective.

After 6 years or so I finally found carpent ants nests in two maple trees both of which are 20 years old and talll trees. They've been hiding n previously old pruned branches in the maple tree and dug multiple circurlsr tunnels. I sprayed DE powder into each entrance hole yesterday but maybe not enough since I checked tonight and they are still coming out of the holes maybe died to wind blowing off some powder. Should I fill the holes full with DE earth powder in each hole then seal off each hole in the tree trunk with plastic caps to trap their escape routes and prevent rain and wind from wetting the dust in the holes? This way they'll be trapped in the home and the colony forced to go through the dust and hopefully starve out the queen? Trying to avoid using any toxic insecticides and destroy the colonies in the two maples trees (one front yard one backyard) as I think there is a 3rd nest in window siding by chimney on backyard side as there is constant carpenter ant straggler activity on the deck for years but they are covert and sporadic and his under the deck planks to go into the window ledging. Any advice is appreciated as I tried using cayenne powder and lemon and cinnamon and vinegar sprays for years to not much success. Thanks in advance!