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Slugs and snails back as most troublesome pests
Royal Horticultural Society Online Slugs and snails are once again number one in the top 10 of garden pests in 2011. Viburnum beetle temporarily knocked the gastropods off the top spot in 2010, but the latter have made a return to number one last year. The RHS Entomology team, … |
Pests in the NewsJanuary 14, 2012
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New insect moving this direction
digitalBURG.com One of these insects, which are prone to hitchhiking, was found at a rest stop on I-70, west of Kansas City, Kan. They have a confirmed presence in 33 states and are causing severe damage in five states. It was apparently accidentally introduced in … |
Pests in the NewsJanuary 14, 2012
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These preventive sprays control overwintering insects, disease and fungus which create so many problems in the garden.
Pests in the NewsJanuary 14, 2012
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QUESTION:
A customer has German roaches, primarily in their kitchen by a dishwasher area. The house is REALLY nice and they are very clean in terms of food waste. I am surprised the roaches have somehow been there for months or longer to some degree. On my initial visit I focused more on gel bait application in the kitchen – cabinets, around dishwasher, under sink, drawer tracks, behind stove, etc. After 2 weeks they said they have noticed a decrease, but still have some. On this visit I focused mainly on non-bait approaches, including CB-123 flushing agent mostly around the dishwasher, which is between a sink and an end cabinet. Those 3 areas have been the most active areas. There’s a hot water heater under the sink, and that along with the dishwasher, and maybe the fridge motor are, in my opinion, likely warm spots roaches might be seeking. It appears to be at a place where they have a low-med degree of live roaches, dead ones found as well, but I don’t know what to do. Do you think more bait and less flushing would be a more effective approach?
Does CB-123 aerosol provide a residual that is good for longer than a few hours or days?
Does it repel activity from the areas it was sprayed for that time length, or is it likely for those treated areas to be considered clear and vacant harborage to potential other insects a few days after they were treated? I used DeltaDust in some areas, one of them being a square metal electrical box that seemed like it would be a likely roach hiding place. I sprayed the baseboard areas in the kitchen with Masterline Bifenthrin 7.9 mixed about as high as legally allowed, and hope it works well with the flushing agent and dust.
Would more gel bait would be a wise choice if they still have roaches, or do you think it would not really be effective now that above chemicals have been applied? Do you think in a week or two, the residual poisons will have affected a good portion of the current roaches?
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You had a pretty long question Christopher, so I did abbreviate some of it but hopefully did not detract from the overall meaning. You also ask quite a few questions, so let’s see how well I can organize my responses to them. First on CB-123, which is pyrethrum. This is a very non-residual active ingredient that should be used primarily for flushing of German roaches, and by “flushing” we really mean it is best used as an inspection tool, not a control product. Pyrethrum is highly irritating to roaches and will drive them out of hiding quickly, showing you where you have pockets of roaches so that you do not miss treating those harborages. Pyrethrum by itself, even synergized as it is, will kill some roaches but would not be expected to kill them all, so even the ones driven out could recover. Even though the pyrethrum residual, from all I have gathered over the years, is no more than a few hours it could leave some repellency in the voids and crevices you treat. This is not necessarily a good thing, for roaches are going to find somewhere else to hide that may be more difficult for you to find and treat. Best to use pyrethrum sparingly as an inspection tool only for roach control.
Pest QuestionsJanuary 14, 2012
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Pest control sent in to deal with road's rats problem
Get Surrey By Carl Gavaghan NEIGHBOURS in a Chertsey street are battling to stop their road being overcome by rats. Residents of Fordbridge Close said the problems with the vermin began 13 months ago when Runnymede Borough Council started to park recycling … |
Pests in the NewsJanuary 13, 2012
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Cuccinelli Smells a Rat in DC
ARL now “Those pest control people… aren't allowed to kill the rat. They have to relocate the rat. And… that's actually not the worst part. They cannot break up the family of the rat.” “Oh no,” one of the hosts said solemnly as another loudly gasped. … Cuccinelli Uncovers Our Massive DC Rat Smuggling RingDCist.com |
Pests in the NewsJanuary 13, 2012
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Honeybee problem nearing a 'critical point'
The Guardian Anyone who's been stung by a bee knows they can inflict an outsized pain for such tiny insects. It makes a strange kind of sense, then, that their demise would create an outsized problem for the food system by placing the more than 70 crops they … |
Pests in the NewsJanuary 13, 2012
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Residents of a south side apartment complex are facing an infestation of bed bugs for the second time in just over a year.
Pests in the NewsJanuary 13, 2012
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Resort to warn visitors about insects following Hotline complaint Friday, January 13th, 2012 11:09:00 VISITORS planning a trip to Gold Coast Morib Resort will now be better warned of the “uninvited guests” there in the form of sand flies. This is because management of the resort will be erecting signboards at the beach warning visitors of the troublesome bugs soon.
Pests in the NewsJanuary 13, 2012
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EcoFirst raised $13,000 in their first company holiday fundraiser that served more than 30 families from the inner city community of Salt Lake. All of the donations went toward providing Christmas for more than 100 people and also helped them …
Pests in the NewsJanuary 12, 2012
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