Homeowner Forum / Pest Control / January 2004

I am a pest controller treating a residential apartment block (62 dwellings)
in London, England, for 'Ghost' ants.
The block has been infested for over 6 years and the previous contractors
had been using Biopren (methoprene) with follow-up treatments to individual

I guess what we've got is a norway rat. We've heard the munching in the wood,
have plugged up holes (he is persistent) with that foam stuff that comes in a
can. Bait, he's shy. He sleeps in the ceiling (heard him chittering around in
there), and 2 days ago, I guess he broke through, ...

This thread is from another group. Please review and comment, if
you wouldn't mind. The original question was about "sonic flea
things" were any good. Thanks, Sue

Wasn't sure what group to post this in.
I discovered in our water heater shed a "guest" resident rat.
He ran away in terror when I opened the door. He's been nibling at
our dogfood bag.

As a manufacturer rep what do you think about what PCT is doing over at
their site?
Just curious
Tim W

Is there a store in St.Petersburg area where i can buy the Advance
Carpenter ant bait.Much appreciated.Tom

For those of you that are in the industry what do you think is really going
on at PCTonline? Doesn't it make more sense that they would have done this
while the Teach issue was going on?

I've started having a problem with ants coming in through the heat vent in
the bathroom.  They just started when it started getting cold outside.  No
other places are affected.  I live in northwest Ohio and wanted to know of
what the best thing to do to get rid of the ants.  I've ...

I have house mice. At first I thought I only had one, but I soon
learned the fallacy of such thinking. I have since caught 3 more
on gluetraps. My entire kitchen is covered in the gluetraps. Is this
enough? What more do I need to do? When will I know that I have caught

Per its sterling recommendation on this board, I've talked with our supplier
about replacing our dwindling supply of Ficam-W (our current c/c material)
with Cynoff.  Can anybody out there tell me what the most practical
formulation is for use in B&G's?  Is it available in packets?  ...