{"id":396,"date":"2020-06-22T17:25:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T17:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/residentiallife\/?page_id=396"},"modified":"2023-06-06T17:05:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T17:05:19","slug":"pests","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/residential-life\/procedures\/college-property\/pests\/","title":{"rendered":"Pest Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- Inserted by Dropdownizer plugin. Forces video embeds contained in dropdowns to have a size --><style>.dropdownizer__dropdown iframe { width: 100% !important; height: 100% !important; }<\/style>\n<p>Under community living conditions, pests can become unwanted guests. You can minimize problems by being proactive:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Keep kitchen areas clean, wash dirty dishes, wipe counters and vacuum or sweep often.<\/li><li>Use sealed containers to store food items, condiments, etc.<\/li><li>Never leave food in open containers; use glass, metal, heavy plastic or other sturdy, tightly-sealed containers.<\/li><li>Do not store paper bags or cardboard boxes; they can encourage nesting by roaches and mice.<\/li><li>Use plastic trash bags for storage and for trash.<\/li><li>Should a problem develop, submit a service request for pest management on the Residential Life website.<\/li><li>The Office of Residential Life and Facilities Operations conducts room and apartment inspections on a regular basis and also as needed to address extermination and other concerns. See room entry for more information.<\/li><li>Bed bug infestation has been on the rise nationally in the past few years. Should you suspect that you have bed bugs, contact the ROC by submitting a service request via the Res Life webpage. Craig Thomas Pest Control is an outside vendor utilized by the College to address pest\/nuisance issues.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under community living conditions, pests can become unwanted guests. You can minimize problems by being proactive: Keep kitchen areas clean, wash dirty dishes, wipe counters and vacuum or sweep often. Use sealed containers to store food items, condiments, etc. Never leave food in open containers; use glass, metal, heavy plastic or other sturdy, tightly-sealed containers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":379,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-396","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/residential-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/residential-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/residential-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/residential-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/residential-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/residential-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/residential-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/396\/revisions\/1146"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/residential-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/residential-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}