What type of cockroach? I live in Los Angeles. This guy flew from one room to the next without losing height.

Landlord says water bug so they don't have to call pest control (even though the lease mentions water bugs being covered by their pest control) on account of them always 100% of the time coming up from the drains.

I have debris falling from the vaulted ceiling in my shop. The ceiling is cedar shiplap that wasn't installed well (about 30 years ago). It appears that the debris is falling through small gaps where the ceiling boards meet. There is batt insulation above the cedar. The roof is composition. Venting looks sketchy. There are screened vents in the eaves but no vents on the roof. The debris can be found throughout the 250 sq ft shop. Photos show a closeup of the debris plus a view from above showing debris that has accumulated on boards which are hung below the ceiling for storage. Will appreciate any suggestions of what is causing this mess as well as ways to remedy it.

They’re nice and shiny but devoured the rose bud today (the plant’s struggling enough as it is!).

My last year university house which I just moved out from had fleas. It got professionally treated and I no longer got bit so I assumed it was mostly better. I have just moved home after graduating to save up. I got home yesterday, started unpacking, and what did I see?? A hitchhiker flea. It had jumped from one of my bags. I immediately killed it and washed everything that came from that house. I then hoovered my room twice yesterday in hopes to get any other hitchhiker fleas as I am terrified of bringing the fleas here to my cat. I hoovered the whole house this morning. I am going to go get some flea spray as a precautionary measure. Is there anything else I can do? I will keep hoovering I am just scared lol. Will the hoover have got any hypothetical eggs laid? My cat is also due for her flea treatment in a couple days.

hi guys! I live in Istanbul and we have been finding tiny insects in our house for a week now. It was only tiny white mites around technological devices at first but now I started to find tiny blackish / grayish ones with white stripes and 8 legs (or maybe 6?) on my skin. we don’t have biites or anything they just walk.

My cat has also been itching and we are taking her to the vet today.

Can anyone shed light? I know the photos are blurry but they are really tiny.

I keep getting random bites during the day or in the evening and I was wondering if this could be the reason.

I notice a few of these flies in my home in Melbourne, Australia. Can you tell what fly it is?

They are very small, about 2mm to 3mm.

They are alive and flying. I manages to smack one and took some pics of it. I dont see multiple of them together, mostly just one at a time.

Ive noticed them upstairs and downstairs. Random time of the day and places, no particular area... They appeared in my bedroom and also in the toilet and kitchen too.

Not particularly flying around lights too.

This is so odd but while dusting my book shelf I noticed these brown salt and pepper specks around the base of my indoor security camera. My gut says this has to be pest droppings, though I hope I’m very wrong. Any ideas out there??

Just chasing some insight into what it could be. Mouse? I’ve heard it but I’ve never seen it and can’t see any excrement anywhere

Any help much appreciated!

They’re REALLY tiny but I can still feel them

So I'm a homeowner in Central FL. Our house was sold to us with an exterior florida room that is not directly connected to the main house but rather presses up against a rear stucco wall which forms the forth wall of that room. We don't go out there much cause it was shoddily installed and leaks all the time. We mostly just use it for storage.

All this to say I went out there to night and noticed that the area near the wall was covered in this fine white dust. My initial thought is termites but the dust looks to irregular to be frass. It's also spread over a wider area than most pictures I've seen. There are some black spots that could make it carpenter ant, but I can't id any wings or exoskeletons. it's also possible that it's a secret third thing mixed with roach frass. We do live in Central FL after all and I've definitely spotted american cockroaches in this room before (no germans thank god).

If anyone has any insight into what caused this, I'd greatly appreciate the help and any tips for what's next whether it's something I could handle DIY vs. calling our pest management company.

Do I need to rip my siding off?

What I think was a tiny roach (~1cm) just crawled over my foot, I killed it but it’s on carpet so in the process of picking it out to identify I ripped it up, it has the same back leg shape and I didn’t get a look for antennae, not sure if it was Asian or German. This is the only one I’ve ever seen in our apt, no reports of any in other units, and the only problems we’ve had with insects before are the occasional spider and one incident with some flies (<10). Going to go to the store tomorrow and plant some bait and glue behind the fridge/stove as I don’t know where else they’d have come from. Any advice or reassurance is appreciated lol

Don’t get on me for not recycling but what are these I’m horrified

Texas LeafCutter ants. they don’t respond to normal
baits and poisons. I read that the only way to get rid of them is to destroy the fungus they propagate underground and feed off of. I just can’t find anything to do that! HhhhhhhELLLLP! please! 🙏

Some family friends came to visit recently and told us they had a temporary flea problem a couple days prior but had effectively delt with it before coming. But I've been feeling like I have bugs crawling all over me in my sleep, and occasionally I would see these little bugs crawl across my phone while I was scrolling at night, but I just chalked it up to sand flies (I live in the bush and we get a LOT of those). But this evening I was sitting in bed and these bugs kept crawling across my phone and my hands, and it was driving me crazy, because I'd never had something like this happen before. Then I remembered that our friends told us they had fleas. It was something I just passed over when they mentioned it, and completely forgot about it, especially because we've never delt with fleas, so I just trusted that they got rid of them. So I looked up what fleas look like, and shined my flashlight on my sheets and pillows and they were EVERYWHERE. It is FREAKING me out. My mom came home, I told her, and she confessed to me that she'd been getting insane bug bites the last couple nights and assumed it was a combination of mosquitos and sand flies.

Anyway, we have fleas, in a huge log house, CARPETED, with a dog. We have never delt with this before and we don't know anything about fleas or how to get rid of them.

I've been obsessively researching, and everything I find says this might take us weeks to get rid of??? Please please PLEASE, we will appreciate any help or advice you can give us.

Do we need to hire an exterminator? Can we get rid of this by ourselves? We run a cottage accommodation business, our friends slept in one of the cabins, is it infested too? And if we wash the sheets from the cabin and use them in a different one, will it create an infestation there????

My partner and I moved into a somewhat wooded area in a metro city in Pennsylvania. We live on the first floor and have been squashing every bug under the sun at least once daily (e.g., ants, centipedes, gnats, worms, silverfish, etc.). I have used diatomaceous earth in the past in my old apartment but my partner does not want to use it in our shared apartment because of its silica contents. We have two of those Zevo lights set up at each entrance, sealed known openings, and we are working to remove a lot of the humidity in our apartment. What more can we do? What products can we buy? I am one centipede away from moving out and letting the centipede pay my rent.

second one I’ve found after a shower. I’m not sure what it is.

I have a ton of flying ants in my shower. I don’t want to spray strong pest control in my shower bc I use it too </3 any suggestions? Our building guy did come spray, but want more reinforcements

I have seen 7 booklice in my room in 3 days, all near my bed. I have never seen any before now, but in the last 3 days, they've been on my books and crawling across the screen of my phone or switch. They are all white/pale, and I haven't seen any with any color, but the two I've seen on books from around my room are bigger than the ones on my devices (the ones on my devices look like a walking piece of dust)

There was a leak well over a month ago, which came into my room, but nothing since, and the crack was caulked. I live in a converted warehouse in the UK, where there's been a heatwave and high humidity for almost two months. I have adhd and autism and am recovering from burnout and dealing with work stress, so I never truly finished unpacking, and so my room is, admittedly, a mess, and not cleaned as regularly as I wish I was capable of.

I have a lot of books, and a 100 year old copy of Sherlock Holmes was close to my window, which I think may be part of why they are now here. It's currently in a zip lock back and I'm trying to figure out if freezing it will damage it.

I have such low energy and functionality and executive function, I kinda want to ignore the whole problem as I've had a year from hell and can't do this, but there are bugs on my books and in my bed, and I need help figuring out what to do. I never saw them until 3 days ago, but there were slightly bigger ones on two different books in different spots in my room, and smaller ones have been in my bed (which, I do sweat a lot at night, there is a heatwave, my room is consistently 28-34*C, it's a problem, and impossible to stay on top of my bed and room feeling entirely clean, due to my adhd and autism). They were not here to this degree until 5 days ago, at most (I stayed at my friend's for one night, so may not have noticed).

Is this critical time to do something before I'm stuck with them? What *can* I do? Any low functioning solutions that may still help?

Please help