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Trap it with a Hav-A-Hart, and get it neutered. Start there. Whatever happens after that is largely up to the cat.
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devicenull posted:Any tips on house centipedes? I can coexist with a bunch of stuff but they have way too many legs. Well gently caress me, I went looking for leaks with the boroscope, and I've got a fairly decent leak under the tub whenever it's running.  So, I guess I'll fix that before I go crazy with other options
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PainterofCrap posted:Trap it with a Hav-A-Hart, and get it neutered. Start there. Yeah, I think later next week I'm gonna call my vet and arrange for this. They probably have a trap they can loan me.
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Current status, have been able to pet from the ladder, have been bitten (not at all full pressure....just "STOP TRYING TO PICK ME UP") have built a plastic bin tower and put food on it to try to get the cat down out of the ceiling. Still wearing leather gloves.  I guess I now have three cats instead of just two. E: yes, I definitely have another cat now and this one is definitely not feral. I need to figure out who this also belongs to. https://i.imgur.com/YtSkuwk.gifv Motronic fucked around with this message at 04:52 on Jul 2, 2023 |
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Jul 2, 2023 04:28
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Motronic posted:Well here's one outside of my experience and training. I thought I had a racoon in the barn because I was finding stuff knocked over and dusty (from the floor) paw prints on the tables and desk/keyboard/shiposting station in the back corner. I misidentified the paw prints. If you look for a local TNR (trap, neuter, release) program they might be able to help you out with a trap.
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If you want him/her to come to you, sit or lay on the floor and read a book. Drives them nuts. If they're still wary: do it next to a bowl of food. Stay low; every move you make should be slow & deliberate. Eventually your smell will become more familiar. PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Jul 2, 2023 |
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Jul 2, 2023 15:43
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Gotta love a post with the cat tax built in. It's like Europe's VAT! Edit: CAT!
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so whats your take on Alpine? for roach control?
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Fatman6942! posted:so whats your take on Alpine? for roach control? Everyone I've heard talking about it at the ag extension loves it, providing that what you are talking about is the gel baits and you are getting rotation 1 and 2 and putting them out at the correct times. Fortunately I have very limited first hand experience.
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Motronic posted:Everyone I've heard talking about it at the ag extension loves it, providing that what you are talking about is the gel baits and you are getting rotation 1 and 2 and putting them out at the correct times. No I m talking about alpine WSG. Its hard to control roaches when the people in the apartment next to you dont clean....sigh
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No control method is going to be very successful in that situation. Alpine WSG may work for a bit, but it's a compromise solution made specifically for commercial kitchens and such. They will most likely become feeding adverse to it pretty quickly and you'll be right back where you are now. The two gel rotation is specifically to prevent this feeding aversion long enough to kill them all. But you'll not be able to do that because you're not able to control/remediate the source.
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Bed bug update... so far haven't seen any signs again. Have been vacuuming, steaming, re-applying Di earth every weekend (7-10 day hatching cycle). We did see this on the bed the other day, can you all set my wife's mind at east? Pretty sure this is a silverfish and not a bedbug (thorax too torpedo-like, not bulbous) but want to make sure...  index finger for reference. It was really small.
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Hed posted:Bed bug update... so far haven't seen any signs again. Have been vacuuming, steaming, re-applying Di earth every weekend (7-10 day hatching cycle). That's definitely not a bed bug in the picture. I'm glad you're staying on top of them and hopefully killing them all. I'd keep at it for as long as possible. They are persistent assholes.
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Hed posted:Bed bug update... so far haven't seen any signs again. Have been vacuuming, steaming, re-applying Di earth every weekend (7-10 day hatching cycle). I'm not sure what it is but it doesn't really resemble a bed bug. This is a bedbug life stages image from the bedbugs subreddit: https://i.imgur.com/fKJU5mY.jpg They do some IDs there but it looks like maybe a springtail due to the large-ish antennae for its body? Possibly a booklouse or something, but I'm not a bug expert.
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Yeah, I’d almost certainly say that’s a springtail. Definitely not a silverfish in any case. Are there plants nearby? Springtails like the kind of environment damp potting soil and organics provide.
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Double post cause I came in here with a question: I’m interested in a pesticide I can spot-apply on a big grape vine I have to put a dent in the huge lantern fly population it’s sheltering. I’d prefer not to treat the whole thing since lots of other insects use it, so in my head that means I want a preparation that rapidly degrades in open air or under sunlight, or is only effective wet or something, but I’ve no idea if such a thing exists.
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If that existed we probably wouldn't have an SLF infestation anymore. Talstar the poo poo out of those things while they're still there.
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Motronic posted:If that existed we probably wouldn't have an SLF infestation anymore. Talstar the poo poo out of those things while they're still there. Word, thanks
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Any tips on getting rid of flies in an outdoor space assuming there isn't trash or anything in the yard? I live in a really urban area so I'm sure someone nearby has a trash problem but i would like to be able to eat outside without worrying about flies swarming.
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gay for gacha posted:Any tips on getting rid of flies in an outdoor space assuming there isn't trash or anything in the yard? I live in a really urban area so I'm sure someone nearby has a trash problem but i would like to be able to eat outside without worrying about flies swarming. Fly traps. Tricky traps work okay, the bag ones they use around barns work better. Put them around your property but not right near where you eat as they do attract flies. Be warned the digested fly juice that gets in them is pretty gross.
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Motronic posted:If that existed we probably wouldn't have an SLF infestation anymore. Talstar the poo poo out of those things while they're still there. While i'm looking at Domyown to get talstar, would you recommend it also for barrier treatment around e.g., doorways for what i think are odorous house ants
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the yeti posted:While i'm looking at Domyown to get talstar, would you recommend it also for barrier treatment around e.g., doorways for what i think are odorous house ants Yeah, that will work great. But make VERY sure you don't have any cats around it until it's completely dry. One of the active ingredients can not be metabolized by cats so it builds up in their bodies and makes them sick. It's safe for them once dry. Typically you'd use talstar granules for a perimeter treatment, but I only have liquid (talstar P) since that's what I typically need. When I'm doing a perimeter treatment I spray a foot or two of soil around the building as well as 4-6 inches of the bottom of the building as it meets the ground.
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Motronic posted:Yeah, that will work great. But make VERY sure you don't have any cats around it until it's completely dry. One of the active ingredients can not be metabolized by cats so it builds up in their bodies and makes them sick. It's safe for them once dry. it's in the same family as permethrin right? When I deploy permethrin on outdoor gear I just do that in the basement and keep the cat out of there until the next day and that's been fine so far, so reckon just keeping all the doors and windows closed while I'm working and changing clothes before coming inside would suffice? That kind of treatment is approximately what I had in mind, doing a band around the foundation, the porch and deck piers, bottom of the doorways, and so on.
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the yeti posted:it's in the same family as permethrin right? Yep. It's bifenthrin. the yeti posted:keeping all the doors and windows closed while I'm working and changing clothes before coming inside would suffice? I don't even bother with changing clothes. I just make sure I'm outside long enough for any overspray to dry before going back in.
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How should I know when I can use the same sprayer for different things vs needing dedicated sprayers? So far I have needed to spray Neem oil Castor oil (gophers) Pemerthin Rose rx (3 in 1) neem oil bit I can't find what else in the label BT And I plan on getting and spraying Garlic extract Talstar Other question I have is what do I do with excess mixture in the sprayer if I'm done. All the label instructions are for the concentrate not the diluted mixture. And the concentrate just says to contact my local solid waste agency 
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You probably want to class your sprayers as to what they are for/what they do. It can vary based on your specific needs. For example, I do not put wide action herbicides in anything other than dedicated sprayers, because potential residuals could cause issues. I wouldn't mix anything non-organic-certified in a sprayer that would ever service an organic area. Or non-crop-certified pesticides or herbicides in a spray that may spray fruit and vegetables. (I don't do these things except when I do: it's not like I own multiple tow behind spray carts, so you do what you have to do and clean things very well) In the end, you should be cleaning your spraying equipment well enough that none of this matters. But mistakes happen, and convenience is a thing, so plan accordingly. As far as what to do with leftover mixed product, you should look at the label. Worst case you are supposed to apply it where you can until it's gone. Some things can be saved in a container and labeled as to what they are. Rinsate from containers and sprayers needs to be handled per the label, but that's again usually applying it to a new area that can be treated or the already treated area. In reality you're dealing with small amounts and small concentrations. Rinsing and dumping in various places that are safe to the plants/animals/would already be treated around your yard is going to be just fine. Tripe rinse your sprayers (you are supposed to do this with product bottles before you throw them away also), including spraying a good amount of that last "clean" rinaste though them should be plenty to make any sprayer good for anything else. Motronic fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Jul 21, 2023 |
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Thanks much appreciate it! I'm getting a 2nd sprayer, but will follow the triple rinse strategy otherwise.
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Motronic posted:You probably want to class your sprayers as to what they are for/what they do. It can vary based on your specific needs. Assuming these compounds are generally beyond the realm of something like changing the pH of the rinsate to denature it into something less active?
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the yeti posted:Assuming these compounds are generally beyond the realm of something like changing the pH of the rinsate to denature it into something less active? If there is an approved way to do that the label will say so (I've never seen it on the stuff I commonly use). Most of these things are only approved to be sent out as hazmat which they typically incinerate.
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New to me in today, will have a trip report in a couple of months: I've been rotating through liquids like "liquid deer fence", I've tried the capsaicin pellets that you water in/plant with annuals. They all seem to work to some extent for some amount of time until either this time of year (momma deers at maximum nursing pressure as this years babies are JUST starting to graze) or dead of tough winters where it's "eat literally anything to not starve".
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Motronic posted:New to me in today, will have a trip report in a couple of months: I've got two packs of these so far - https://wirelessdeerfence.com/ It "works" in that it scares deer away when they touch them, we'll see how it does long term. The deer here are relentless. We cannot buy anything that isn't highly deer resistant, and even then we often have to cage it. We started moving on to buying poisonous plants!
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devicenull posted:I've got two packs of these so far - https://wirelessdeerfence.com/ Oh that's interesting. My biggest issue is the bed by the front door with cone flowers and my wife's favorite elephant hosta. It's all fine if i keep spraying until the hosta flowers than it's a losing battle. If I don't spray the hosta is consistently eaten down to the ground every day as is grows.  (those hosta should be taking up most of the bed - the leaves are huge if they don't get eaten) I have a herd that comes through en the evening. That's fine, but I've got one or more residents too. I've always got at least one mamma deer that drops off a doe for the day near that bed or near the barn. This year she has/has adopted twins. Everything is worse.  I'm not trying to keep them out of the yard. I don't even hunt this property because they are basically pets now. But I just want to push them away from a few landscape beds reliably.
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I would do an electric fence if I could, they have killed tons of things we've planted. We're by a river though, and apparently are a big pathway for them to go from yard to yard. If I could find someone to legally hunt them, I would. Hell, you could probably hunt them with a knife, they're utterly fearless.
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devicenull posted:We're by a river though, and apparently are a big pathway for them to go from yard to yard. The creek they follow is in the woods behind my house. So......yeah. devicenull posted:If I could find someone to legally hunt them, I would. Hell, you could probably hunt them with a knife, they're utterly fearless. Yes, mine are also this tame. I literally go elsewhere to bow hunt. (that will change if they get overpopulated - they are fine and healthy right now)
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slave to my cravings posted:Glad I found this thread. We were getting eaten alive by tiger mosquitoes last year. I tried spraying with bifenthrin last year and not sure how much it helped. We have a deck that is surrounded by arborvitae trees and some other ornamental grasses so I’m sure those don’t help. I bought some garlic barrier and a mosquitaire thing. I will report back. The mosquitaire trap thing while it does seem to catch mosquitos doesn’t really make a significant dent in the mosquito population for our backyard/deck area surrounded by trees/shrubs/grasses. It was particularly dry at the start of the summer when I initially sprayed with the mosquito juice there weren’t any mosquitos anyway. When the rains finally hit I didn’t have the time to spray every 3 weeks. What did finally work for us was a thermacell. I was skeptical at first but after seeing it in use at a friends house it seemed to work quite well. It’s easy to use and is portable so you can take it to other places and still have mosquito protection. The unit itself is around 25-30$ and refills are 45$ for a 3 pack that are 40 hours each. This is cheaper and easier than basically all the other options if we are only using it 2-3 hours per day on the weekend during the summer.
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I have an enormous bald faced hornet (?) nest under the second story eaves on my house. At this point, it's between the size of a basketball and a beach ball . I know I shouldn't have let it get to this point but I did and now I have a problem. I rigged up a small bellows duster on the end of a pole and dusted the nest with Delta Dust for 5-10 minutes at about dawn on Saturday and Sunday morning. I was concentrating on getting enough dust on the entrance that it would be unavoidable for any insect coming/going. It's hard to tell how much I actually got on the nest, but I think I the entire entrance was white when I was done. The plan is to kill as much of the hive with the dust as I can and then climb up and cut the nest off the house (yes I have a bee suit I can use). Today there are a few of them dead on the ground under the nest and caked in dust, but not much of a decrease in overall activity of the nest. Do I need to just go ham and cake the thing in dust? Try to dust the inside of the nest through the entrance? kreeningsons fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Aug 21, 2023 |
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I've never used dust application for anything other than ground wasps. I'd be hosing that nest down with Stryker 54. From a distance.
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What are the most effective ways to do termite prevention? I live in Texas where they are a real thing, but I'm trying to decide between paying a company to lay out the bait stations, paying more to have them dig a trench and pour chemicals in, or DIY (probably not for me owing to the liability if I don't do it correctly).
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How long do wasps hang around after their nest has been sprayed? I think they tried to start a nest above my front door, so I called the HOA guy, and apparently he came by to spray them yesterday morning. The nest appears to be abandoned but I still see some wasps hanging around in the general area. I'm honestly no expert, but I thought maybe they're yellowjackets based on the bright yellow I saw when one zipped by me and that their nest remnant looks like a downward facing honeycomb the size of a golfball.
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Trickortreat posted:What are the most effective ways to do termite prevention? I live in Texas where they are a real thing, but I'm trying to decide between paying a company to lay out the bait stations, paying more to have them dig a trench and pour chemicals in, or DIY (probably not for me owing to the liability if I don't do it correctly). Absolutely do not do this yourself. Not because it's all that hard, but because the reason you get a termite company to do it is to get a repair bond where if you get termites, they will fix the damage. If the cheaper company doing bait stations will still give you a repair bond, hey, let them-it's their problem. If neither company is offering a repair bond is only offering a retreatment bond, I would go with trench/drench treatment with fipronil. Termite companies are also shady af so watch out and keep every scrap of paperwork you ever get from them because your lawyers may need it one day. I unfortunately have experience with Termite Law, but I also learned a whole lot about termites in the process 
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