Homeowner Forum / Pest Control / August 2005

I'm contemplating doing some more spraying for bed bugs (assuming I find I
have any still - not sure on that score,  though slightly suspicious) this
time using Suspend SC.  So have these questions, (some of which I've asked
about other insecticides).  I'd be using the .03%, the ...

I have discovered a large colony of ants living and eating my hot tub.
The ants have black heads and abdomens but the thorax is red in colour
they are also quite large maybe 1/4 - 3/8 of an inch in length.
I have sprayed some ant killer in the foam surrounding the tub and they

In Central Texas, I have a roach problem in my drains. Have lived here
for fifteen years and never saw this before. The city did some sewer
work about fifty yards away, and that might have something to do with
it.

Hey Jeff,
What's this I hear you got fined in Kansas.  $1,140 dollars for being
fined for using a chemical less than the labeled rate?

I have seen a recent post about an exterminator fined for a treatment.
I also, looking back, notice a post about an exterminator in court for
assaulting a state "regulator". Both of these posts were started by
someons here called "ipman", and looking back over the posts, this guy

Just returned from training at a Naval Facility on Diego Garcia (Atoll
owned by the British in the Indian Oceam). Island has two species of
Coptotermes...one is most like formosanus, but could also be vastator. I
 collected some samples but haven't looked them yet. Because of

OK. I have a sunroom attached to the back of my house- it's supported
by a brick pillar at each corner, so there is a space underneath the
room that is somewhat inaccessable.
I recently noticed frass on the sunroom floor underneath a window,

We have used the ECO ACU Aerosol and liked the knockdown it had but the
residue was very oily. Any PCO"s in here used any other ECO products?
I've been hearing good results with thier products.

It boggles my mind. Most times of the year they don't even send in
sentries. Generally, twice a year they do. Winter I can understand. It's
warmer, maybe they can't find enough food. Right now, it's neither hot
or cold and there's ripe plums all over the ground outside. They're

Just found this group. I have had a problem last summer and again this year
with a skunk. Its seems he comes around about 2 hours past sun set. Some
nights its like he is inside the house. I live within the City limit and
discharging a fire arm is against the law. I heard moth ...

I think I got them all, but every once in a while (several weeks beween
incidents) I get a mark that bleeds that makes me very suspicious.
Since members in this group have stated emulsified concentrate of
permethrin (as in Insectrin X) actually soaks into

With the summer heat, and increase of mosquito attack, and increase
instances of mosquito related diseases,
We hope to inform our members that the population rate of the mosquito
are your responsibility.

My magnolia tree seems to be emitting a type of sap. It gets all over my
car, especially on my windshield. A large number of wasps have started
gathering around these sappy excretions and it is getting dangerous out there.
I've read that the sap is actually an excretion of a bug, ...