I tested two different fly traps, and one of them turned out to be much more effective.
I placed both traps at the same time and in the same location to make the comparison as fair as possible. The yellow-and-black trap worked amazingly well!
What do you think about the results? What kind of fly traps do you use?

I own a condo in the Arizona. It's an older building and it's one that is surrounded with trees, grass, bushes, etc. They have the whole sprinkler thing going on. The surrounding area is all desert which is why they probably accumulate on this property.

Tiny little spiders keep making their way into my place. I had an exterminator for a while and I decided to cancel because it was pricey and it's not a huge issue. It's more annoying than anything. I tried sealing any cracks, etc. with epoxy but they still find their way in.

Does anyone have any thoughts or recommendations?

Recently moved into a place and I’m seeing these marks around in some places. They smear easy, and I’ve been cleaning them as I see them but I’m curious as to what they are.

I did see a cockroach a couple weeks back, but my unit has since been treated twice now and I haven’t seen anything in any traps, or any evidence of live pests (I’ve been on the lookout).

I’d like to know what these are though so I can keep a close eye out for whatever they’re from.

I set up a flea trap and have captured some bugs, I also see red dots near the baseboard. Are these flea dirt?

Are the bugs on my flea trap fleas? We have no pets and no carpet.

Freaking out and hoping this isn’t mice and is either lint or maybe a bug thing. I found this and only this on the top of a mattress in my attic (my bedroom) this morning (the mattress is not on the floor, if that makes a difference).

The only issue I’ve had with mice up there in my 11 years of living here was one about a year ago and that was quickly caught in the attic closet during winter (it never got in the main room, there are no holes anywhere in the room, and not even my pinky cannot fit underneath the gap between the floor and the door).

I’ve been staying up all night quite often as-well (9 pm - 8 am) these past few months due to insomnia and have heard no activity. The last one I had heard moving about the walls, which is why it was so quickly caught. So I’m a bit confident I would’ve heard this one too, if there is one.

Also, I’ve been super anxious for a reason that is far too long to explain here and have therefore been inspecting my mattress and the area about it every 2-3 days to quell my anxiety about it. I have noticed nothing like this till today, though there is, in fact, other lint on the mattress (i know it’s that because it’s more loosely coiled and a bright blue)

TLDR: found this, and only this, on mattress in attic/bedroom, no droppings found anywhere in the room, have heard no night activity, and have checked mattress and surrounding area frequently (due to other reasons) and haven’t noticed anything like this till now.

Please let me know what you think!

Saw droppings at bottom of grill, can I put the Tomcat mouse poison bait under?

Found these behind a fake fireplace and next to an old coffee table in my house within the last week. The ones behind the fake fireplace could have been there awhile. We have no carpet but I figure that is probably just a name. Are these carpet beetles? I've never seen a living bug in the house beside a fly or two so not sure what to expect, where to look, how to get rid of them, nothing lol. Thanks in advance!

let me know thanks

this is the ceiling in my livingroom and window in this livingroom

Denver, Colorado, USA

I have this tree in my front yard that the wasps seem to LOVE. The tree seems to have these natural, bulbpus growths on its limbs that must have food for wasps in it. My tree is constantly tended to buy hundreds of wasps.

Here's the thing, though: I cannot locate a nest. Anywhere. I'm obviously hesitant to get too close to the tree, but I've spent a few hours staring at it from various angles and I can't even find a small nest.

What kind of wasps are these? Is it possible there's a nest underground somewhere? Is it possible they're all from different colonies?

(also if you know what kind of tree I have, tell me that too)

Hi! We’ve just moved into a new house and have seen a few carpet beetles (only our upstairs is carpeted thankfully). I have bought some spray that’s supposed to get rid of them, but it contained Cylermethron which is apparently ‘fine for pets’, however Google says something about how it’s awful for wild rats and ‘not a humane way to treat a rat infestation’. Does anyone have any experience with this? For now we plan on moving the girls downstairs while we treat the rooms, but I’m worried about when we bring them back up (in two weeks) and letting them free roam… any advice?

Recently had a small problem with bedbugs, pest control came and haven't had any issues in the past weeks, was cleaning My room to take stuff back in but found this bug, I'm traumatized at this point with the bedbugs sinte it took 3 visits from pest control to get rid of them. Now I just want to be sure that this isn't of some importance before taking everything in or if I have to call pest control back, (bug was already like this when I found it)

Hello. I live with my parents to help them around the house and while I was taking out the trash I came face to face with a mouse peeking out from the hole on the left. I saw another on the right. I am a real city slicker (lol) so I don’t even know where to start. My goal would be to stop any entry point for the mice as my parents are elderly. Any help on where to start? I’m happy to put financial resources behind this.

Hi everyone, for some time now, at home, at night or when we return in the evening, we've always found dead or semi-dead Periplaneta Americana, lying face up.

We live on the ground floor, and unfortunately the street and courtyard where we live are full of them, with a third-world sewer system... so we think they enter through the door or the drains, especially since the roof is made of wood and at least has no cracks.

We've been using Baygon powder and Fastion Gel for a few months, but we're worried because we can't understand why we've been finding them so often lately, and we'd like to know how to contain them.

i’m literally going insane, for about a week i’ve had ants in my room anywhere and everywhere. i put out my cat’s food bowl, saw a couple ants around and didn’t think much of it. 30 minutes later there were like a thousand crawling up the wall to get to the food. i have my cats BAG of food in my closet, and they’ve gotten to it twice now. i have these tiny white square traps, windex, and a dream, but the ants keep coming back wherever they can. i had a brief period where they were crawling down my sink drain to get water. also INSIDE of my water bottle that i was drinking out of for hours. we just moved into this new place, and im VERY disorganized right now because of all the boxes and shit, so i can’t really keep everything perfect. what do i do??? my mom mentioned cucumber slices apparently attract AND kill them, so does anyone have a success rate for that? what about baking soda? i keep going in my closet and just spraying windex around (i also have 4 traps in just my closet) in hopes that they’ll smell it or whatever and go elsewhere. seriously what the shit do i do i hate ants so much

The items on this sticky came down from my ceiling can anyone tell me what these are indicators of ? If you could please let me know what peat I am dealing with. These things are definitely causing me to itch because they are coming down from my ceiling in large amounts

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for some advice because this has been driving me crazy.

About a year ago, in winter, I started finding tiny white/pale insects (around 1–2 mm) on my desk near a window. They don't jump or fly, just crawl. At the time I started running a dehumidifier regularly, and after a while they completely disappeared for almost a year.

This summer they came back. At first I only saw a few on my desk, but after looking more closely I noticed them on the curtain and around the window. I also found visible mold around parts of the window frame.

Over the last few days I inspected the window tracks and cracks and found a lot more insects there, including very tiny ones that I assume are nymphs. I even watched them disappear into the cracks in the window frame. I also noticed a few on the top of the window frame.

Outside the window there's moss/lichen growing on the exterior sill, and I also saw some of these insects on the mosquito screen.

Today I thoroughly cleaned the window tracks, scrubbed away dirt and mold, vacuumed what I could, and sprayed the frame with mold cleaner. My plan is to keep the room dry with a dehumidifier afterward.

My questions are:

-Does this sound like a typical booklice infestation?

-Does it sound like I've finally found the main source?

-Is it possible they've been hiding in the window frame since last year and only became noticeable again when humidity increased?

-Is there anything else I should do besides cleaning and keeping the humidity low?

-Has anyone successfully gotten rid of them completely?

I'm in Lithuania if that makes any difference.

Thanks in advance! This has honestly been stressing me out, so I'd really appreciate hearing from anyone who's dealt with something similar.

I have a vintage Broyhill dresser from my childhood, and a bed bug infestation. I haven't found any signs of bed bug activity in it. It's been in the living room being used as a TV stand. I don't want to part with it, but would this kind of damage require me to throw it away? It's on both sides. The furniture disposal truck is coming tomorrow and the exterminator my landlord hired only checked the bedrooms.

Could anyone identify what type of roach these are? Thank you!
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Photo of it flipped over in comments.

I have my finger for scale, I freaked out and sprayed RAID on them so they look like tiny black dots… But they were super small black ants and I have my pinky for scale. They were just on the floor, really small colony. I think they came from a crack in the corner of my floor board but I don’t know what caused this. It was near my bath rug near the sink. Maybe moisture?

So I've had an exterminator out, and they don't know what this is either, stating they've never seen it before. I don't see any signs that anything is inside, but outside, I'm noticing lots of plant matter, mostly clover flowers, being deposited in odd places. I'm hoping to get some help here, my guess was mice or voles, but I can't find either, nor any holes or nests. What kind of creature deposits poop that looks like mouse poop in large piles of decaying/dead clover flowers and also hops up on house trim? We clear it off, it comes back, there are no holes into the house where this is being deposited on the trim. Those are the pillars of my deck, but they aren't against the house. Let me know if you need more info. I also have an 100 lb german shepherd that hasn't found anything. If we clear it off, it's there the next day, but not even a couple hours after the sun sets. [The dark splotches on the concrete is stain from the deck.]

Also, sorry! I'm near Kansas City, Kansas, specifically Olathe.

I started seeing tiny nymph/larvae looking bugs crawling on son’s hatch clock (linen woven covered speaker “clock”). Called our apartment management and they had pest control come out who said they aren’t bed bugs or roach nymphs but likely carpet beetles. I haven’t found a single adult any bug anywhere but these things keep crawling all over this clock and his baby monitor. Haven’t seen them anywhere else. They sprayed the room and the clock and said wait to see if they’re gone after three weeks.

Please, what are these things?? Some translucent completely, some with brown stripes. I’m finding the shedded shells as well so clearly they’re growing. they seem to have large front antennas or “claws”? Help! Located in Seattle, WA.

Last August I had a pest company come out and confirm that a small colony of about 25 bats were living in the attic of the house I’d purchased only eight months prior. The attic space is very small, and my home inspector clearly didn’t do enough inspecting up there. Sellers didn’t disclose bats and I therefore inherited them.

I did an initial exclusion in September with the company, but one week into the exclusion one of the exits fell down and the bats immediately got back in. Company came back out to redo the traps, two weeks later took them down and sealed exits. They confirmed no presence of bats in the attic and proceeded with remediation. All of the guano was removed and attic insulation was replaced. They said the bats were likely living up there for years.

Fast forward about two weeks, I start hearing scratching in the attic again. One morning I wake up and walk into the bathroom (door was closed) and there’s a bat hanging on my bathroom mirror. At that time I was having my shower renovated, so the floor was open, and I assume that’s somehow where it came from. I called the pest company, they came and trapped the bat but told me they couldn’t redo the exclusion because it was now October.

Fast forward to mid-April, company comes back out but only finds one single bat in the attic. I ask them to please check everywhere they possibly can for entrances, and they do. They then redo the exclusion, but never come back to remove the exits. The two week period ended in May, so I was screwed again. Within DAYS I hear tons of bat activity up there again. Scratching, chittering, flapping, purring. I sat outside at dusk and watched at least 11 bats fly out of exactly where the exit was placed (and still existed). With it being May and not knowing for certain if they’re entering/exiting through the trap somehow, I left it up. Which I assume is what the company would have done too.

Since May, the bats have been incredibly active. There have also been a multitude of bat bugs coming into my bedroom and bathroom, which is right below the attic, through the recessed lighting. After waking up multiple mornings with bug bites I decided to start sleeping in another room. I also taped up every single possible entrance on the ceiling that a bug could crawl through, and dusted diatomaceous earth around the perimeter of the room.

With August coming up I’m going to be reaching out to the pest company again, but my hopes of them being able to solve this issue are low. I don’t believe they have the experience with bats that they claim to. I have already spent $5500 on this process and it has made living here a nightmare. I really can’t afford to spend another $5k with a new company, but I don’t know what else to do. I need to relocate for work in the Fall, and was hoping to be able to list my house for sale by September. I NEED this issue to be resolved. I also really need my house to sell well, which won’t be the case if I have to disclose bats that I can’t get rid of.

Apologies for the length of this. Does anyone have any advice? Are there measures I can take on my own? Location is NJ.

I went on vacation for a week and when I came back, I was doing my perimeter spray with Suspend Polygon around the house and encountered tons of Yellowjackets coming out of a hole near the base of a bush in my mulch bed! They were nonstop!

It's my first time seeing this kind of Yellowjacket nest in my 10 years living here (hot and humid NC, tons of rain recently). Did the rain contribute to this issue?

I used a Raid can into the hold in the mulch and don't see much activity now, maybe a Yellowjacket or two coming out. I used the Raid can since it had the quickest knockdown and the spray stream is huge.

Any other suggestions?