Every fall the same thing happens. As soon as the weather starts to get cooler, we get mice inside. We find mouse droppings in the garage and then it’s not long before we see them in the house in various places. How can we keep the mice outside? M. Z., Revere, MA There’s a one-word…
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I’ve been unpacking my family’s sweaters and other winter clothes that were stored in the attic. When I opened one box of sweaters, I saw a couple of what looked like tiny beige moths running around inside the box. I’m assuming that these were clothes moths since, sure enough, I found holes in some of…
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We’re lucky here in the Northeast when it comes to cockroaches. Ours don’t fly…at least hardly ever. In warmer, southern parts of the U.S., larger cockroaches of more tropical origin are common. In Florida, the quite large (1-1/2 to 2 inches long) American cockroach (they call it the “palmetto bug”) can be seen climbing walls…
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Raccoons can be charming and fun to watch but they can also be harmful to your health. Besides the risk of rabies, raccoons pose another health risk that few people are aware of – raccoon roundworm (see Raccoons Can Be Hazardous to Your Health). People acquire the roundworm parasite from raccoon feces. The parasite, Baylisascaris…
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Our house keeps getting invaded by those gray roly-poly bugs that curl into a ball. When we were kids, we called them pillbugs, but when I looked them up on the Internet, I found “sowbugs” instead. Whatever they are, how can we get rid of them? A. G., Deerfield, NH Pillbugs and sowbugs are actually…
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