I've got a problem in my new apartment (which is in an old building)
with respect to bugs and am looking for some way of eliminating them
that won't harm my two senior cats.

I don't know much about bugs and don't know what these particular
critters are. They are very small and never seem to get much larger.
They seem to both hop and fly and they seem to like my cats' litter box
and places with a bit of water.

Is there any chance that they might have arrived in the litter itself? I
changed to a cheaper gravel litter when I moved in and the first place I
noticed them was in the litter. But I've also mistakenly received an
Orkin bill that should have gone to the property management company so
it's very possible that bugs have been present for a while.

Please note that I'm open to anything that might chase these bugs out as
long as it is safe for the cats so it could be a spray or a solid or
anything else as far as I'm concerned.

Am I going to need to catch one of these things and take it to a bug
scientist (entomologist) to get its species determined? Or is there only
a very narrow list of things it can be that all respond to the same
deterrent?


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Rhino