Q. Hello. I’ve been meaning to write to you about a problem we had this past summer with bugs in our swimming pool. I think they’re what you call midges, little flies that look kind of like mosquitoes. We get big swarms of them that drown in the pool and make a real mess. Is there anything we can do? We can’t cover the pool every day to keep them out.
VIEW MOREQ. A couple of months ago, we had a serious problem with carpet beetles in an upstairs bedroom. A pest control company checked everything in the room and treated twice but we kept seeing the tiny beetles. During the summer, we had honey bees nesting in the attic above that room. We didn’t want to kill the bees, so we had a beekeeper collect them. Could there be some kind of connection? Can carpet beetles come from bee nests?
VIEW MOREQ. In my house, I have a low table in front of a sunny window. In the last couple of weeks, I’ve occasionally found very tiny crawling things on the surface of the table. I don’t find them anywhere else in the house. I think they might be clover mites. Do you think they’re getting in somehow through the window?
VIEW MOREIn the last few years, you have no doubt had several homes in your neighborhood that have been abandoned or gone into foreclosure. People rarely consider that there could be a connection between foreclosed homes and pests on their own property. Empty homes scattered throughout a neighborhood can become the focus of pest problems that can overflow the vacant property to infest surrounding homes. The following pests thrive in the conditions offered by a foreclosed property that no one looks after:
VIEW MOREQ. We seem to have an ongoing problem with millipedes getting into our house. In the fall, we get fairly large numbers inside by the back door. And it seems like I always find a few here and there, no matter what time of year it is. Where are they coming from?
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