History Series / Infested

* FromBadToWorse

* {{Jerkass}}: Several episodes have featured landlords or building managment that have either outright refused to help stop the infestations, or have blamed the people suffering for the infestation.
** One episode in particular featured a family whose apartment was infested by cockroaches. Not only did the building managment refuse to help (even when shown evidence that the exterminators were unable to stop the increasing number of cockroaches invading their home), but they also threatened to ''evict'' the family just for [[DisproportionateRetribution leaving behind some spilled baby formula]]. And, to make matters worse, this was all in the same week that one member of the family's own father died. Talk about KickTheDog.

** Any episode featuring rats, bats, raccoons, or oppossums will begin with the family either hearing strange "scratching" noises or stating the house has a "weird musty" smell.

** The second episode dealing with Garter Snake infestations played this trope straight though since the woman was a Ophidiophobe (person has a fear of snakes). Note, it seemed that only the smell from the musk (meaning the snakes were mating) was the main problem, not the urine or feces getting into food or the water supply. Thus...no one pointed out just to ''wait it out'' until mating season was over, and the snakes would disperse. [[spoiler: Oh, and because what, three, four snakes managed to get into the house, the woman pressures her husband to leave even though if they waited just a month more, the infestation would have taken care of itself!]]

** One man not only managed to get rid of the stinkbugs infesting his house, but start a successful business selling the traps he invented.

* BeeAfraid: One episode featured a family who discovered not one, but FOUR beehives in the wall of their house.B

* {{Creepy Cockroach}}es: Several episodes have featured cockroaches. One episode in particular featured an episode in which the infestiation overwhelmed an ''entire'' apartment complex just because one guy refused to let them be exterminated (it went against his religious beliefs to kill anything).

* EverythingsWorseWithBees: One episode featured a family who discovered not one, but FOUR beehives in the wall of their house.

''Infested'' is a live-action documentary series that airs on Creator/AnimalPlanet. It premiered in 2011 and the second season has just started earlier this year.

** One episode featured an exterminator who had to remove some birds to prevent bird mites (which feed on human blood as well as bird blood) from ivading the home. Said exterminator forgot to remove the birds' nest when he sealed up where the nest was standing to prevent other birds from nesting there. Guess what was still living in said nest and was still feeding on the family living in the house?

*** One episode showed a couple in Florida dealing with invasive [[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Rasberry_ant hairy crazy ants]] that were shorting out the electrical system in their house, threatening to possibly cause a ''fire''.

*** One episode showed a couple in Florida dealing with invasive [[http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Rasberry_ant hairy crazy ants]] that were shorting out the electrical system in their house, threatening to possibly cause a ''fire''.

''Infested'' is a live-action documentary series that airs on AnimalPlanet. It premiered in 2011 and the second season has just started earlier this year.

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: In some cases, the homeowners end up moving out because the infestations are far too great and overwhelming for them to handle. To make matters worse, they often have lost so much money trying to get rid of said pest species that they end up having to live with relatives until they can afford to buy/rent a new home.

* [[ImplacableMan Implacable Critter]]: In some cases, the infesting creatures seem to play to this; taking practically everything the humans throw at them and carrying on completely unphased.

* TheSwarm: One story featured a family being overwhelmed by a swarm of ants. We all know how annoying one or two ants crawling around the house can be. Now imagine '''thousands'''.

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Surprisingly subverted. While the infestation of garter snakes (to the point where the home was put up for market ''several'' times and had been dubbed "the Snake House") was shown to be very serious (due to the fact that snake droppings carry various diseases), the snakes themselves weren't portrayed as a threat to the family, as garter snakes are non-venomous.

Each episode focuses on three different families as they share their horror stories about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin different infestations]] from various pest species (often insects and rodents, but bats have also been featured and one episode featured an infestation of ''snakes'').