r/pestcontrol

Hi,

2 days ago I went into my kitchen and seen a rat/mouse on my washing machine, it ran and hid behind it.
Yesterday, I seen it/different one run across the kitchen floor.

I keep hearing rustling and cracking noises in my kitchen.

When I sleep, I hear loud thumps and scratching in my walls/floor, all night. I haven’t been able to sleep.
I’m afraid to go into my kitchen.
I have 2 young children.

If they are scratching walls or the floor, can they chew a hole to get into the room? I’m worried they will get into my kids bedroom. Will they attack me or my children?
My bathroom is downstairs, you have to walk through the kitchen to get to the bathroom. So I’m worried if the kids need the toilet in the night they will get close to it.

Contacted pest control, and they are coming out Monday, so in 3 days. Are we safe here until then?
What do I do?
I’ve never had to deal with this before and my anxiety is sky high.

Need some advice!
Called in pest control to spray my apartment for prevention. This was last Friday.
Today I found a dead German roach under my counter. Appeared to be dead for at least a few days. Should I call the exterminator to come out again?

Hi, they are near my bed, on the floor, kitchen wall literally everywhere. I vacuum the floor every 4 days. The air is always clean and I set different traps. What should I do? even on the walls of the house. Should I call someone and just give up?

I redid my small home and put in a cathedral ceiling it was very labor intensive, after some research I decided to do a hot roof install, utilizing spray foam directly to the underside of the roof sheathing.

Fast forward 2 years later, we started seeing the odd carpenter ant here and there, thought nothing of it.
Then all of the sudden 2 days ago we started seeing them all over. In one day I must have killed 100 at least just walking around including some with wings.

70 percent of my attic is inaccessible, the drywall is maybe 8 inches off of the spray foam.

I cut a small hole in and put an endoscope up there, and I’ve seen piles of dead ants everywhere and misc insulation frass. I believe this is the ant cemetery. I am unable to see the colony from there.

How does an exterminator handle this?

I don’t think interior and outdoor perimeter sprays are enough here.

Should I cut the ceiling open and find the colony?

I am afraid of it raining down ants,

I’m also afraid that opening up the ceiling will just make them all scatter and move the queen and eggs before I would have a chance to get someone to spray the nest.

What is the best method here?

Hey i have noticed some (maybe 3 or 4) dead carpet beetles close to my window some months ago and since then didn't pay much attention, now that i went back to sleeping there, i noticed that I often had itching on my legs and arms but didn't get alarmed until i decided to do a general cleaning of the room where i finally found em..

Yesterday i noticed under a heavy shelf (i usually put my clothes in there) some unidentified exoskeletons (maybe 8 of them) from nearly the same size and one of them was alive, i killed it and was curious to see if there were more, i moved it and in fact there was some small ones there and under my bed aswell (maybe around 3 or 4 more) and some on a carpet that was folded and stored there, i immediately throw that carpet away and moved all the furnitures, i cleaned the floor with a mix of bleach and other basic cleaning products, wiped all the corners of the furniture where dust clouds formed, and used clothes steamer around all the corners since apparently heat kills the eggs ect, i washed all the clothes that were laying around and left em sun drying (couldn't wash em at high temperature for some reasons but i know it is preferable to do so).

However, after movin that shelf to another place in my room, i noticed today two more exoskeletons near by it, and one larva on my bed, i took out the drawers, no sign of carpet beetles on the clothes, but under the last drawer i did find an exoskeleton, then immediately too it out wiped it as much as i can and use the clothes steamer there aswell.

I don't know if what i'm doing is efficient or not, or if this is considered an infestation or not and if i can totally get rid of them at this stage or not

( Specificities : i identified the bugs and its furniture carpet beetles if i'm not wrong, I don't live in an old apartment, I don't have parquet flooring, but tiles.i live in the Mediterranean Region. If you need to know anything more to help me I'll answer!)

In new jersey. In my apartment complex my car is the only one that is covered with them at night is there a way to prevent this. I also believe a good amount are getting in and staying in as well with nymphs as well. How would I remove them?