Q. My daughter just moved into her college dorm room and is worried about getting bed bugs. There’s a rumor that one room on her floor already had to be treated for bed bugs. Is there anything she and her roommate can do to avoid getting bed bugs?
… VIEW MOREQ. Do mice make semicircular holes in baseboards just like in the cartoons? There’s a small hole through the baseboard of our downstairs game room that looks kind of like it’s been chewed open into the wall space. And we have seen a mouse down there.
… VIEW MOREQ. My wife is scared to death of spiders. I keep telling her that spiders are beneficial, that they kill other bugs and that we should just leave them alone. She’s not buying it. She’s deathly afraid of getting bitten by a spider. I tell her the spiders are not really interested in biting her. Can you confirm that?
… VIEW MOREQ. About six months ago, we had a problem with sawtoothed beetles in our kitchen. We eventually tracked them down to an old box of pancake mix. We got rid of that, washed down the kitchen shelves, and I thought we were done. But now they’re back. What should I do now?
… VIEW MOREQ. My son said he was bitten by a cockroach while sitting at the kitchen table. He watched it crawl onto his hand and bite him! He doesn’t have a welt or anything. Do they spread diseases with their bite?
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