The house itself definitely has an influence. The house I grew up in didn't have any pest problems that I remember - maybe an occasional cockroach. I really think this was largely climate/geography related more than cleanliness. I mean, you walk around outside at night there and you don't see cockroaches. You walk around here, and you do.
I've never had a mouse in the house before moving here (where we have a lot of open space around us), and we've lived in much worse cleanliness conditions in the past. So, we set traps, and try to make the kitchen less appealing (all food stored in chew-proof containers, that sort of thing).
Ants are endemic here, even in the brand new houses. All you can do is set bait - even if you're perfect about food they'll come in after water this time of year.
That said, if CPS was over, I'd make damn sure there was no roach in the cup/tea/water before serving it, though perhaps it fell in afterwards.
And I have no experience with Miller moths (and didn't know for sure how to tell if we had them or not until reading comments), despite having problems with the other three here.
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Date: 2008-08-18 03:52 pm (UTC)I've never had a mouse in the house before moving here (where we have a lot of open space around us), and we've lived in much worse cleanliness conditions in the past. So, we set traps, and try to make the kitchen less appealing (all food stored in chew-proof containers, that sort of thing).
Ants are endemic here, even in the brand new houses. All you can do is set bait - even if you're perfect about food they'll come in after water this time of year.
That said, if CPS was over, I'd make damn sure there was no roach in the cup/tea/water before serving it, though perhaps it fell in afterwards.
And I have no experience with Miller moths (and didn't know for sure how to tell if we had them or not until reading comments), despite having problems with the other three here.