Pest Problem

[MrFun]

I don't think there is any significant space between the door's bottom and the floor.

What exactly is polymer?? I mean, I have some gaping holes in some corners of my apartment that need to be shut off too.

[Kuciwalker]

poly = many
mer = pieces or things

A polymer is a long chain of organic molecules.

[Dis]

first of all crickets are good because they eat other bugs. And crickets don't bother me nearly as much as roaches. I have no problem having a few crickets in the house. I think crickets eat roaches. And I they don't crawl around creepily like roaches.

I ****ing hate roaches!

I never had a problem with beetles though.

As for getting rid of them. Call an exterminator. Once you get them, they are there forever. If you have messy neighborhoods they will return. But it helps to have them spray their high powered pesticide stuff under near all access points to the apartment.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Dissident
first of all crickets are good because they eat other bugs. And crickets don't bother me nearly as much as roaches. I have no problem having a few crickets in the house. I think crickets eat roaches. And I they don't crawl around creepily like roaches.

I ****ing hate roaches!

I never had a problem with beetles though.

As for getting rid of them. Call an exterminator. Once you get them, they are there forever. If you have messy neighborhoods they will return. But it helps to have them spray their high powered pesticide stuff under near all access points to the apartment.

There has to be less toxic, yet effective ways rather than fill up our homes with toxic fumes.



skywalker -- thanks for the definition

[Dis]

you fill up your apartment with bugs that eat roaches.

I just told you.

Or you spend you entire life searching for bugs and kill them manually.

[lightblue]

Get a couple of mice or rats to deal with the insects.

[Drake Tungsten]

Just be thankful you don't have giant poisonous centipedes or deadly spiders from Australia.

[Drake Tungsten]

[Kuciwalker]

ew

bugs = bad

[Lefty Scaevola]

Boric acid bait is far supior to spray posion in all aspecs except visible quick kill. Cheaper (particularly if you skip the stuff with the duibiously additive of sex attactatn, they go for the plain stuff nearly as well), more effective, safer. I am not sure how well it work on crickets, but it obliterates raoches and ant. You get it is basic form of white powder or tablets, and the more expensive stuff with extra attractant in mnay version of roach trap/ roach hotel/etc.

[mrmitchell]

line spots on your floor with duct tape, sticky side up. wait a while for the bugs to try to crawl over it, and bam, they're stuck.

[Japher]

Yeah, there are plenty of bait and trap devices out there to try. You may have to cycle through a few as the stupid bugs are quick to build tolerances.

Polymer resins are o-k to seal small holes. Most common ones that are used is apoxy resins. For larger holes/cracks go with a Caulking agent (you know, the stuff in the tube that hooks into the gun thing)...

We use to have pest problems but I got Terminix service and they seem to have vanished (an ant now and then towards the end of the quarter) and we have huge holes in our walls under the sink and stove...

Good luck, the guys at hardware stores usually know how to handle this kind of stuff. So, go find and corner a cute one

[st_swithin]

Don't leave food sitting in the sink or anywhere else where you might be encouraging the little bastards to live.

[Lefty Scaevola]

Rocahes come for other than food as well, around here the biggest raoch house invasion come when they are looking for water during a dry spell.

[MrFun]

Swithy -- thanks for telling me the obvious -- insects like to eat food.

Originally posted by Japher
Yeah, there are plenty of bait and trap devices out there to try. You may have to cycle through a few as the stupid bugs are quick to build tolerances.

Polymer resins are o-k to seal small holes. Most common ones that are used is apoxy resins. For larger holes/cracks go with a Caulking agent (you know, the stuff in the tube that hooks into the gun thing)...

We use to have pest problems but I got Terminix service and they seem to have vanished (an ant now and then towards the end of the quarter) and we have huge holes in our walls under the sink and stove...

Good luck, the guys at hardware stores usually know how to handle this kind of stuff. So, go find and corner a cute one

thanks for the info