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E-PrinceWhen Wilson College resident Karen Wang ’14 woke up one day and got out of bed, she heard a suspicious crunch beneath her feet. She looked down and saw a cockroach scrambling away with its body half-squashed.
“I did not ...
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Please, PLEASE do not let infestations go unreported! It is so selfish: that's how they spread! I have found housing to be very responsive about pest problems in my apartment (in graduate student housing), but the man who would come to help said he had knocked on doors to ask students if they'd had a problem - and they said yes they had - but hadn't got round to reporting it! I understand how extremely frustrating it is if you feel your complaints are not listened too - but please just keep trying to get through to the relevant people - and if you really think it necessary go to higher authorities/different channels. The bugs round here really freak me out, they ARE a health risk (esp cockroaches) and I really don't like to think of people not dealing with them properly.
Geez Karen, you can't squish a cockroach yourself and then wipe up the mess with a paper towel and throw it out? You don't need to trap it and make someone else deal with it, just kill it and toss it. Sure, it's kinda gross but you'll have to deal with stuff way grosser than that if you have a kid, babysit, etc. So grow up and kill the bug already.
really?
It is critical that the identity of any suspected villain (whether bed bug or other) be confirmed before taking action. Students and the representatives of the institution might find useful the educational information and helpful resources offered by IdentifyUS LLC (see the website). Bugs can be sent, and digital images uploaded, for rapid, independent, confidential and expert evaluation.
As Jack Donaghie of 30 Rock so rightly pointed out: :I don't have bed bugs, Kenneth. I went to Princeton."
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What are silverfish?
^Google it. Also affectionately known as the house centipede.
My freshman year we had a cockroach problem, and housing services came and sprayed our room within a couple days of us calling.
It is called food and cleanliness. I lived in some of oldest (then unrenovated) dorms on campus (Campbell Hall, Dod and Henry Halls) and we never had a bug problem b/c we always picked-up our trash and didn't leave food on the floor, open beer cans about and vacuumed on a regular basis. Bugs can get into the newest of structures or old ones and while infestations do occur 80% of the time simple housekeeping will keep the bugs at way. Cockroaches are attracted to decaying garbage, take out your trash and they will go away.
why aren't they using safer IPM methods to control this? Pesticides kill ... they ARE harmful to your health too!