How to keep cockroaches and other pests out of your home

You may want to grant asylum to other types of tiny trespassers. Scaravella explains that house centipedes and spiders are often viewed as pests, but are actually rather harmless and even beneficial. “They’re predacious insects that don’t really bother us, but will eat a lot of smaller bugs like ants, springtails, even roaches, almost like personal exterminators. They aren’t going to resolve an issue, per se, but they are going to take down some numbers.”

Sorkin agrees. “They’re not a big problem at all,” he says, noting that spider and centipede bites are very uncommon.

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