Insect Info
The exterminator came today after I sighted what turned out to be an earwig yesterday, a roach a week ago, and far too many centipedes last month. He agreed with me that the lone roach was probably a fluke. He did not seem nearly impressed enough that I’d had to presence of mind to save the corpse. Yet that’s what ALL exterminators ask for, and they often doubt that it was a roach, and I could prove it!
Sadly, I have had a fair number of roach outbreaks, all of which have proved to either be flukes, i.e., they came in from a box or paper bag, or overflows from somebody else’s roach nest. Even I’m beginning to be suspicious. Maybe it is me. I’m not the most sluttish housekeeper in the world, but the place isn’t sparkling, either.
As for the centipedes, he said the bad news about them and about spiders is that they’re the top of the insect food chain, so if we’ve got ‘em, it means we have other insects as well that they’re feeding off. So he sprayed inside and will come back to spray outside, and said that our dehumidifier, as well as the recent drier weather, should help a lot. Also, he noted that spiders don’t respond to spray because they just tiptoe over it, and don’t groom themselves like insects do.
Lovely image, don’t you think?
I did see one small centipede carcass already, so I’m feeling good about calling in the cavalry.