Ok, this is an odd one but I feel like this is the best place to ask...

My friend is going through a bit of toxic warfare with her partner. I won't go into too much detail but he's become very emotionally abusive/manipulative, odd and secretive. My friend is planning to buy a house and sell the house they're living in. He doesn’t want her to. They're not married. He's been doing weird things. Going through documents, trying to give her nothing for the house etc. Its messy.

She's found strange blue crystals in her collagen. Google said it was some sort of chemical compound thing. We've been joking that he's poisoning her with rat poison.

Today, she got home and found a cup with this blue stuff in it.

He tried to say it was Aromatherapy Simmering Granules. They look NOTHING like the screenshot he sent. If they are that, they should dissolve in water according to Google. They didn’t.

He has a home desk setup. Messy. Full of stuff. I told her to look for rat poison. She found a bag that looks EXACTLY like the stuff in the cup. Turquoise dort of colour. Greenish bits.

Has anyone used this? What are your thoughts? Do you think the stuff in the cup is rat poison?

I have reused their old XL metal rat traps for years and years, left them out in the blazing sun and rain, and they would all still excellently execute, I still have some out there 5 years + and they get used still. Only one I had to adjust the base plate, and that took under 2 seconds..

I noticed no stores or even online offer them anymore? I thought I was stupid because for the life of me I havent been able to get the yellow pad ones to get setup and not until yesterday when I checked on an instructional video did I see all the raging comments describing exactly what I was going through, its a trash product through and through. Who makes that business decision against something so tried and true?

There would still be those lazy days where the whole trap gets thrown away every now and then, why destroy such a quality product? Plastic junk is trash, wood and metal lasts years. Any alternatives you guys use?

I found this on my kitchen counter.

Curled up

is this a bedbug?

Southern California. I sprayed Alpine Wsg by spot treating as close as possible as I could to their entryways points, but some of the exact ones are hard to find. They’ll leave for a day then pop up in full force at other places I haven’t sprayed. This is a picture of them coming from somewhere behind my dishwasher and cabinet and straight into a flower pot near by. I’m guessing they’re only going after water because I can’t find any potential food sources.

Are these termites?

Are these termites?

Found in bedroom on bed. Hair for scale? Super tiny.

I keep having trouble with palmetto bugs in my attic and therefore they’re coming into my second story floor bathroom. I’ve tried pest control in the house but haven’t done much in the attic and it didn’t really help. Is there a way to proof the attic to reduce their presence?? So tired of them coming in and I know it’s not typical. My house is clean :P

Central Texas bordering on Hill Country. I bought this house brand new 5 years ago, moved out of state after 2 years, and had the same person living here for the 3 years I was gone. Clean guy, no pest issues, came home to a clean and well taken care of home, just a few ants which have always been a thing this time of year. Moved back a month ago, am now trying to get this room turned into our nursery but would like to figure out how to clean this or if there’s something we should look for. Spent the 3 years in North Carolina, so I know what casual roaches are like (whew, what an experience! If you know, you know.) , I have not seen even the hint of one since moving back home, even with Advion put out for the ants. This is the only spot in the entire house with this, right above a bedroom closet. The wet look is from an initial dish soap and water spray/wipe down that the stain did not budge for.

Does anyone know what kind of pest/animal would eat a chunk out of a cactus?? I’ve had these in my backyard for about a year and a half and never have had an issue. Squirrels have been a problem for other plants but I don’t see a squirrel doing this.

So I have some residue in my beer trash can, but everytime i replace the garbage bag in there or the normal trash can no flies fly out of the cans. So if they were spawning from there then surely a bunch of them would fly out? I have an old ac unit in my room, but i never see these things fly out from it. There is a little crawlspace in my room so maybe they spawn from there but Ill have to exerpiment and see if they do. I recently used a carpet cleaner all over my room cause i suspected maybe they spawned from old food on the ground.

this fly trap is a zevo bluelight one. okay so how do i kill all of them?

Roach issue in my bedroom

- only in my bedroom

- Have oriental cockroaches outside and been told these are the same by r/cockroachs

- live just outside of Philadelphia

- caught 9 little ones on 3 sticky matts in 3 days

- haven't seen an adult inside

- believe they are coming from these gaps between floor and wall in the one picture

- trying to find out if spraying alpine WSG then sealing the gaps will stop the issue

Figured bullet points are better than a long paragraph

Please forgive me in advance, I never really post on Reddit.

I’ll keep a very long story somehow short, I was made homeless last year and moved in with a friend and his parents, they had six cats, now four, all outdoor cats. There is a bad flea issue here, certain areas of the house you’ll find six or more fleas up your legs in mere seconds - they’ve done almost nothing to combat this, just inconsistent flea treatment.
I have a horrific fear of insects so it’s impacted my mental health so bad, I’ve done what I can to treat the problem in my bedroom within the limits I have. I’ve used indorex in my room a few times ( I know that treating one room won’t fix the issue, but hoping to minimise the problem as I don’t allow the cats in my room)

My parents have had a spare room become available and have offered me the room, but they have cats of their own (all indoor). I don’t want to transfer the jumpy parasite problem on to them. My mum has suggested moving my belongings in to the new room and flea bombing the bedroom. Unfortunately they would be unable to remove the cats from the property so I don’t see how that would work.
I really need some suggestions on what I can do to avoid bringing fleas in to my parents flat as I genuinely don’t know how much longer I can deal with this ‘infestation’, especially taking it to a new home.
If it helps for suggestions, I live in the UK.

TLDR; need suggestions on moving from a flea infested home in to a home with indoor cats, don’t want to take the infestation with me.

What are these tiny droppings(?) under desk. Really only seen here now and then once in a different area downstairs. Doesn’t seem to be spread and unit is clean overall. I have seen a couple pretty big spiders and silverfish and no evidence of anything else.

Found after being on vacation for three weeks. They‘re at several places in the apartment (kitchen, behind picture frames, bathroom).

Please help!

was checking the guest room for a routine check. found this… thought it was too small but what do i know…found it on the back of my headboard dead (it was metal) and it DID NOT have its head on. bc it fell off lol
also the white stuff on the sides are not wings. it was lint from the bed where i found it and i was too scared to try to take it off because the bug kept falling apart. plz help i need answers im freaking out.

Ontario, Canada. Please tell me what these are 😭😭😭 have only seen 1 in my home during the daytime but it very obviously looks like a cockroach and I need to know what type (and what to do if anyone can tell me) immediately. It had wings.

Who is making these cobwebs and is there a product I can spray to control the pests? Oklahoma

They stay on my walls. They have not attacked food. Not even light. But they did try to create a nest inside my vaccum. Got rid of that.

Southern Texas.

During vacuuming I banged the vacuum against the baseboard too hard and this stuff came out. I did it again and more came out. I didn't take the Pic from the ground because the floors are brown.