1. Mice: "Huh. I'll keep an eye out for a present from my mouser." The cat who kills mice has taken care of every mouse within 24 hours but once presented it to me still twitching.
2. Cockroaches in someone else's house: I would be shocked in Minneapolis, but this is a regional issue. My mother is an impeccable housekeeper but did not want to use poison when she had young kids, and when we lived in Houston, we had the Texan tree roaches despite her best efforts. (That said, a roach in a teacup served to a guest? ZOMG.)
3. Miller moths in someone else's house: Are these flour moths? I would warn them about the possibility of serious infestation (I had a massive pantry moth infestation one time) and suggest pheremone traps from www.bugspray.com. (If these aren't flour moths, I wouldn't even notice.)
4. The other vermin in my parents' house: wasps. We had wasps that would build nests behind our shutters, and despite my mother's aversion to poisonous sprays, I don't understand why they didn't take measures to get rid of them. I got wasps in my bedroom on a regular basis and was stung many, many times.
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2. Cockroaches in someone else's house: I would be shocked in Minneapolis, but this is a regional issue. My mother is an impeccable housekeeper but did not want to use poison when she had young kids, and when we lived in Houston, we had the Texan tree roaches despite her best efforts. (That said, a roach in a teacup served to a guest? ZOMG.)
3. Miller moths in someone else's house: Are these flour moths? I would warn them about the possibility of serious infestation (I had a massive pantry moth infestation one time) and suggest pheremone traps from www.bugspray.com. (If these aren't flour moths, I wouldn't even notice.)
4. The other vermin in my parents' house: wasps. We had wasps that would build nests behind our shutters, and despite my mother's aversion to poisonous sprays, I don't understand why they didn't take measures to get rid of them. I got wasps in my bedroom on a regular basis and was stung many, many times.