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Found this little guy wandering around on a rubber dish mat, at the center of our kitchen top.

The reason I find this odd is because,

1. The house is newly built and less than a year old.
2. The foundation got treated with anti termite that's supposed to protect the property for 2-3 years.
3. There are no other signs of termites around the kitchen.
4. The whole kitchen wall is concrete. The kitchen cabinets are termite treated (hopefully).
5. The floors are concrete and tiles. Dont these termites need some sort of connection from the ground soil to the kitchen cabinet woods? Unless there's a crack in the floor slab, i dont know how any piece of wood connects to the soil in the ground.

We've been monitoring for more signs but found nothing.

If there's no infestation, how did this little bug ended up wandering in our kitchen, and so obvious too and out in the open too? How far from colonies will these termites wander off to?

Or could this bug have hitched a ride on something from the outside? We've not introduced anything new in the kitchen, except groceries.

Oh and btw, can you tell how old this termite is already? and does that offer some clue?

Worried, and anxious!

Hi, the standard way to use Terro is to place the trap wherever there are numerous ants. I'm wondering can I just pour the liquid out? The reason is that there are ants places that cannot hold the trap stably. So I just want to pour the liquid out there. Thanks.

Hi All, title pretty much says it all. Wife sees ants, so, I spray what I used to for roaches, spiders, other insects. I put cyzmic CS around my exterior, basement and into corners around the interior. Clearly didn’t work and it just forced the ants into other parts of my house.

Is there anything I can do now? Will putting Alpine WSG help?

I live in MA and am experiencing a puzzling pest problem. The recommendations from a pest removal company aren’t making sense so I’m hoping someone can help out.

In the summer/fall of 2023, I started hearing an animal running around at night in the floor of the second story of my house. I called a pest control company that charged me $150 to come out and take a look. They said it must be a flying squirrel and quoted me $3,000 to remove it via a one-way door and then patch all of the potential entry points. I said I would think about it.

Shortly thereafter, the noise became vicious… the animal’s desperate scratching inside a wall turned into moaning which turned into silence. Clearly an animal had died.

I hired a pest removal guy who cut a hole in the wall and removed… a deceased weasel. He said it fell into the wall and couldn’t get out.

I also got a housing complex maintenance company to install screens in the vents and fix any other visible entry points in the roof.

This past summer/fall, I started hearing an animal running across the ceiling above my bed, which is on the second floor. Like clockwork, every sunrise it would run across the ceiling. And one time I was upstairs during sunset and I heard it rummaging around in the ceiling above the adjacent bathroom.

Once again, I spoke with the pest control company and they reiterated that it must be a flying squirrel that is running across the ceiling every morning when it comes back from hunting. And once again, they quoted me $3,000 to fix the problem. But then a few weeks or so ago, the noise stopped.

Last night at 2am I heard it scratching loudly in an inside wall of the bathroom on the second floor. This was different from last year where the animal was clearly in distress; this time it was just some aggressive scratching like the animal was working on something, but it was enough to keep me awake.

I went down to the garage where I had one of those devices that emits sounds that humans can’t hear but deters pests. I plugged it into the bathroom where the scratching was coming from and I never heard another sound (the scratching might have already stopped before I plugged in the device, I’m not sure).

Does anyone have a good guess on what kind of animal this is? Wouldn’t a flying squirrel be outside during the night instead of running around and scratching? Could it be another weasel? The pest control company said a weasel wouldn’t run across the ceiling every morning and wouldn’t be on the ceiling of a second story building. Could it be more than one animal?

And, what should I do now? I don’t want to close all the holes if the animal is still inside but I’m not even sure the animal will leave if I install a one-way door. Or could it have left already since I installed the sound device?

I appreciate any advice you may have.

About 2 months ago we noticed a strong smell behind our bed in the walls. We live in a mobile home park that they refuse to take care of. Definitely slumlords to the max.

My husband and I thought something died I haven't smelled that smell in a long time since I got married and moved out of my mom's but it was definitely different and pungent. However I noticed a few roaches this past month and now my mind is racing. I do not do well with roaches and rats. I keep the house clean, food sealed and off the counter, and make sure no dishes and standing water are around. I do not play since day one. However the park is a mess and I could see it being a park pipe problem then only my home problem. Plus we get a guy who comes around the park talking about roach treatment cuz the park seems to have this issue. Dude said everyone is dealing with it.

Anyway, I have seen some roachesike 6 or 7, just at night, spread apart never a nightly thing and just in the kitchen. And only one at a time never together or back to back. We started treatment and hopefully that will help, I know it takes time but how long? We got the Borax, diatomicious Earth, bate ..etc.

But now with my high anxiety worries, I am like is that smell in the walls in my bedroom; could be a roach nest, infestation!? However since we left the room (sleeping in the living room) the smell has subsided tremendously but still there 2 months later. Wtf!??

If it's not roaches, is it mold kinda smells like horrible old socks on top of a putrid smell. Trying to tell the park but they do not care! Anyone please let me know what you think. I want to be sure before I head up there raising even more hell than we already have.

Sorry if this seems a bit all over the place, I am freaking out to say the least. As I said I don't do well with this crap.

Hello! I have been living in my house since 2018 and every few months, specifically July and November, I see silverfish Like about 2-3 daily during these months. Exactly 14 days ago, pest control came spray inside. I have noticed dead silverfish but also I am still seeing live silverfish! I seen four today. I’m not sure what to do next. Should I call pest control again to come out? Why are some dead but some are still alive? I’m freaking out. Thanks!

Hi, does mouse urine ever have an oily consistency? Does it always crystalize within a few hours?

Thank you

I was wanting to know if any rentokil people are hearing rumors about rentokil being bought out or selling the company? I do know John Myers stepped down due to the share holders and the high rollers of rentokil. Just wondering if anyone else is hearing this.

hi, i used an ant trap (ant rid) after seeing a large mass of ants next to a window around a month ago 😰, initially started seeing less, but they kept DYING IN MY HOUSE, there was a black streak of dead ants next to the window, initially didnt clean them because i thought they would get carried back to the colony(?), but eventually got fed up after a few weeks, they keep coming and they keep dying, all inside my household, oh my goodness please what can i do i didnt even know there could be so many ants in one colony

I had an exterminator come out and figure out where the mice are getting into my mobile home two weeks ago. I've plugged almost every indoor entry point with steel wool, but they're still getting in through my built in dishwasher's pipes because I can't access them. Luckily my cats have kept them from getting out of the kitchen, though. They haven't even been in my pantry, just under the fridge.

The exterminator will be putting down poison bait when she comes back next week, and what can I say? I have anxiety. I'm going to feel a thousand times better if I know that the poisoned mice have no way of getting into my trailer and being eaten by my cats. One of my cats is from a feral colony and almost certainly hunted mice to survive for a time.

So, I have a few questions. Before I can seal the dishwasher I need to get the mice out from under the fridge, or else they'll be loose in the house with no way out. How do I do that? If I try to pull the fridge out of its alcove, will the mice panic and run under the dishwasher perhaps? Or is there some other way to get the mice out? I don't particularly want to start a day by stepping on half a mouse again.

Another question is what do I do about the dishwasher? Is it even going to be possible to plug all of the holes around the bottom of the dishwasher so that the mice can't get into the kitchen anymore, or am I going to have to pull the whole dishwasher out and plug the holes around the drain pipe itself? If so, is that something I'll be able to do without a plumber?

And finally, is steel wool actually that effective at plugging entry points? I noticed a few familiar looking pellets under my kitchen sink today, but I plugged every single entry point with steel wool the better part of two weeks ago. I haven't used any expanding foam yet because I need to use it to plug the holes in my trailer skirting and I wanted to wait for it to at least get above freezing first, would that have made a difference?

Thanks for any advice! Just for fun I thought I'd throw in a shot showing why I'm so sure there are mice under my fridge at this moment . . .

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Idk if anyone is in need of some help with fleas but we had tried to keep stray dogs in our backyard that had fleas and we couldn’t go back there without getting 15-20 fleas on our ankles in less than 10 seconds. We got rid of the dogs and decided to go extreme with a propane torch on our backyard. Granted it’s mostly dirt but we torched everywhere and safe to say they’re gone lol haha in less than 15-20 min lol even if you do a quick pass by it won’t melt thick plastic and just move the torch side to side you’ll be good.