Q. My daughter was just told by a doctor that she has scabies in her skin which is caused by a mite. Can you treat our home for mites? I don’t know where the mites came from but I’m worried that the rest of us might get scabies too .
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Q. I have a lot of these same spiders in my house. They’re roundish and light brown and their webs are all over. I keep destroying the webs that I can reach but it seems like they’re back in no time. Do you know what kind of spider this is?
VIEW MOREQ. My great uncle lives in a very old apartment building and has always had a cockroach problem. Often when I visit him I see white albino roaches mixed in with the other regular brown roaches. Are these really albino roaches or is it a different kind of cockroach?
VIEW MORENo, we’re not talking about holiday pests like your cousin Lou. You’re on your own with that one! But we can offer some tips to help keep your holidays pest-free.
VIEW MOREQ. Is it true that you can predict how bad the winter is going to be by the colors on the woolly bear caterpillars? I heard that the narrower the rust-colored band in the middle, the more severe the coming winter will be. In that case, this winter should be a doozy based on the woolly bears I’ve seen!
VIEW MOREQ. I am totally freaked out by this thing that I found in my toilet! It looks like a very long worm, or worms, I can’t tell since it’s sort of a mass, and it moves. I managed to put it in a jar because I’m worried that it’s a tapeworm or something that came out of one of us! Have you ever heard about anything like this?
VIEW MOREQ. We’ve had an ongoing problem for about 4 months with little gnats. We see dozens at a time running across countertops and walls, mostly in the downstairs family room. I thought they were fruit flies but an extension agent said he thought they were phorid flies. We had a pest control company spray and the flies were gone for awhile but they soon came back. Can you give me any idea what they’re feeding on?
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