I thought I had gotten rid of the fleas I became infested with over Thanksgiving break, but when I came back to my apartment after winter break, the fleas showed up again. The fleas had originally come my bedroom in my house since we used to have a stray cat but gave her away since we couldn't take care of her. After we had given her away, my room was absolutely infested with fleas. Which I happened to accidentally bring back with me to my apartment in college. Like I said before, I had been treating my room in my apartment to the point where I thought I had gotten rid of them because there was such a small amount. But a few weeks after I came back from winter break the fleas showed up again. Once I noticed they were back I begun spraying treating my room and my hair again trying to get rid of them. I went to the laundry mat to clean everything on my bed and have been washing my clothes every day on high heat and drying my blankets each morning. I spray multiple times a day and have been treating my hair with lice treatment since it worked so effectively before. But now I'm not so sure. I'm still treating my room and washing every single day. And treating my hair maybe every other day. But I'm afraid the lice treatment isn't having such an effect on the fleas anymore how it used to. So I bought a new lice shampoo to hopefully combat this. For super lice even though, they're fleas. Which also comes with a lice spray. I have yet to use the super lice shampoo and spray since I had just purchased it and had already treated my hair for the day. The fleas have started biting me again on my legs, feet and now waist. I'm going to see if I my apartment can do anything to treat the fleas in my room. The fleas don't attack anyone else, just me. I don't have any pets. I've never brought nor had my cat in my apartment, the fleas are all from me.

What can I do to better get rid of them? Please help.

I've had a mouse problem since I moved into this apartment due to various small holes behind the cast iron radiators or in crannies I'm unable to locate. I've killed at least 4 since I've lived here, but I have one that is smart & avoids my traps. I don't leave any food out on my counters, I always wipe the counters down after I finish cooking & all my dirty dishes go into the sink before being washed. I think it only comes up to my kitchen counter to drink the tiny bit of water that sometimes pools up in the corner of my sink after washing the dishes. I dropped a few blueberries & thought I got all of them but apparently I missed one, I found it under where I had dropped it over a week ago yet...the mouse hadn't seemed to even take a nibble.

I have an electric stove that the top part opens to clean under the burners & pans. This is where my little friend comes up & out from. It either crawls up & under the control panel or under the burner & through the hole where the burner connects to the electric.

I'm not talking about steel wool, I know that's highly flammable. But the steel scouring pads they sell to clean pots & pans, that isn't flammable so it should be okay to stuff in the back of the oven where it's crawling up to right?

I live in Ontario, it’s super cold. The last couple days I have killed 5 carpenter ants in random areas of my house. It’s a freehold home with a full basement built in the 70’s in good shape. I’ve lived here 10+ years and occasionally in the summer I’d find a few but never after the freeze began.

It’s a finished house, I don’t even know where to start to find a nest if there is one. Feels like there almost has to be if they are here, not like they crawled in, we got a foot of snow on the ground.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

I have a mobile home and have found some rodent traces under the skirting. I'd like to avoid poisons as we have a lot of wilife in the area.

Recently I got an apartment in London and have been finding cockroaches in the kitchen and bathrooms. Does anyone have suggestions for pet friendly pesticides I can use for them? I have a 9 year old cat who roams freely around the apartment and while I don't know if he'd eat the pesticide, I wouldn't want to chance it.

My neighbor across street identified termite in their house. I asked for an inspection by my pest control provider and didn’t find any thing.

However, I do wonder if I need to start termite control now, given how far they can go. The service isn’t cheap and cost $500 one time payment and $20 per month.

Just started to notice them a few days ago saw 3 last night .

I saw a clothes moth in my room the other day so I'm trying to nip this issue in the bud and wash/ dry clean my clothes before eggs hatch or I get a swarm. I know you need to use hot water to wash but my issue is that a lot of my shirts are black cotton tees from bands with prints on them. If I wash them in hot water snd dry them, they'll shrink, but I read that dry cleaning can ruin the printed image, so does anyone have suggestions on how to clean them? I don't have a chest freezer as I'm in a small apartment and my fridge freezer isn't super big/ cold. Thanks in advance!

I have a small Maltese and I leave a bowl of food out for her so she can eat when she feels like it. She’s 17 years old. I woke up today and her food bowl was almost empty except for a neat little pile. It wasn’t her because she sleeps in my room with me at night. There were no droppings anywhere. Is it rodents?

Why are all of the mice, that my glue traps catch, always only stupid babies? I want the adults to die as well, dammit!!!

*So far, my traps caught nine, but only eight perished, because one of them was only tip-of-its-tail trapped. When I reached down to try to end its miserable diseased life it yanked free.

*My most recent captures were last night. One was trapped behind the bedroom door and the other was trapped under the stove.

Long story short, we had a bunch of squirrels and birds in the attic. A bunch of them died and it started to smell. I called the company to take a look and there was still a bunch of them up there.

They remove the dead animals, trapped the remaining ones, and sealed a mess of potential entry points into the attic. Their service (already paid for as part of the removal package) includes fogging in the attic with DSV, but I have young children and a pregnant wife. We also have cracks on a few ceilings due to structural issues that were resolved but not yet patched, so I worry the DSV may leak into the house after fogging. They said it should be fine if i just open some windows and give in a few hours after they spay.

Is this a really bad idea in our circumstance? The best “work around” to give me piece of mind I could come up with is having them spray and taking a trip to see the grandparents for a few days. Meanwhile, a neighbor can open the windows in the living areas the day before we return to air any potential DSV leaks out of the house. We can then mop the floors, change sheets, etc when we get home. This assumes DSV clears out on its own with time and solid ventilation.

Any thoughts from the pros in this sub? Is this plan sane or is this too risky and I should just skip the service? Am I overthinking this?

A few days ago deep cleaning toddler room and in one of her cubbies beside her bed right next to her stuffed animal I found mouse droppings and a small dry almost looked like oil pee spot 😢 I am concerned and disgusted/on edge. This is the first time I’ve seen any evidence but I’ve heard noises at night sometimes and just thought it was the train a street over which causes things to shake. Anyway I bought these paper foldable rectangle box traps and nothing. Then today got tomcat glue traps. Just heard something I thought in the bathroom went in there it wasn’t disturbed went into kitchen and the trap beside kitchen door was moved and had a footprint in it. My mom had mice few months ago and I bought her tomcat ones hers were white plastic and green sticky and she caught 3. Couldn’t find those same ones and mine were black plastic clear sticky. I have two questions(sorry for long post) 1-am I now screwed bc it/they now know not to go near anything resembling a trap? 2- what is ur best recommendation for succeeding in catching these? Idc about kill/ no kill I just want something effective my daughter was born with defects and I can’t let these things infect out r entire house especially the toys she plays kisses everything everyday!!!!!!! Please and thank u for any advice (pic of trap in comment)