Home Insecticide

[AgronAlum]

What are you using for spraying your house? I'm looking at getting a bottle of Temprid FX because the Ortho Home Defense stuff doesn't seem to do anything. We get a ton of spiders but also the normal stuff like flies, earwigs, stink bugs, etc.

We do have pets and kids.

 

[ISUAgronomist]

Taurus SC. Active is fipronil. Same active in some flea and tick collars and human treatment for lice. Very safe in a pet and kid situation. Use as an outside treatment.

 

[pourcyne]

Venus fly traps. All organic.

 

[DollaDollaBill]

Tempo works great

 

[herbicide]

How about for outdoor fruit plants? (Blackberries and raspberries)

 

[JM4CY]

Tempo works great

This is the way.

 

[cyphoon]

How about for outdoor fruit plants? (Blackberries and raspberries)

The label for Tempo SC (beta-cyfluthrin) states : "Do not apply to any food crop"

Consider zeta-cypermethrin based products for your berries. It is a pyrethroid like Tempo, but it breaks down in sunlight and has a very low pre-harvest interval for most crops.

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[Nococy]

What are you using for spraying your house? I'm looking at getting a bottle of Temprid FX because the Ortho Home Defense stuff doesn't seem to do anything. We get a ton of spiders but also the normal stuff like flies, earwigs, stink bugs, etc.

We do have pets and kids.

being an exterminator I will tell that spiders have to be killed on contact or eat other poisoned bugs. They don’t use there feet to eat therefore they can walk through insecticides. There feet never touch their mouth

 

[Nococy]

What are you using for spraying your house? I'm looking at getting a bottle of Temprid FX because the Ortho Home Defense stuff doesn't seem to do anything. We get a ton of spiders but also the normal stuff like flies, earwigs, stink bugs, etc.

We do have pets and kids.

tempo does work great on the others. make sure to go one foot up and two foot out for best coverage

 

[BCClone]

A little Lorsban will clear it all up.

 

[GrayerClone]

A little Lorsban will clear it all up.

Skip the lorsban and go straight to furadan

 

[BoomerClone]

DDT. Works wonders

 

[GTO]

Get a cat. Ever since I've had cats, no more bugs. In the odd event I see a bug, all cats go after it, kill it, and eat it. Or I find a dead spider missing some legs in the morning.

 

[jonnyb21]

Anyone have lucking get rid of the small, little red spider mites? Get them every spring and early summer on some east facing windows in my basement and I will spray but they keep coming back.

 

[Turn2]

Anyone have lucking get rid of the small, little red spider mites? Get them every spring and early summer on some east facing windows in my basement and I will spray but they keep coming back.

Clover Mites in the Home

Clover mites invade homes. They are only the size of a pin head, and can stain surfaces indoors. This bulletin describes how to identify and control this pest.

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