Homeowner Forum / Pest Control / April 2006

I've got a problem with what appear to be odiferous house ants. Dark
brown/black, 2-3 mm long, stink when you pop 'em.
They are in the kitchen and an adjacent room (which happens to be our
son's play room). Coming out between cracks along windowsills,

I recently purchased Demand CS to spray inside and outside my house to ward
off any bugs wanting to come around and visit. It was suggested to me
because it had a good residual effect and killed almost everything i have a
problem with--wasps, carpenter bees, millipedes, spiders, ...

i was not aware that binaries were allowed in a regular alt. newsgroup.
per the posting of:  Rob P <rpalino@mailandnews.com>
                           subj:  Identify this bug?  ;-)
which, for some reason, refused to open on my mac.

Hi, there:
My house have some termite problems. After reading some post in this
group, I'm aimed to    use Phantom. (I'm in NY). However, one of PCO
says that due to the sandy condition of soil in our area, liquid

    I have deer eating up my flowers around the house. Is there a
home remedy that can keep the deer out of the shrubbery . No, I don't
want to get a dog!

My home is about 25 years old.  While doing some other repair work in my
garage, a worked noted what he thought might be termites present in one of
the walls.  (He doesn't do pest control, so no incentive to "find"
problems.)

I had subterranean termites in my woodwork and the pest control company
treated the house with termidor.  They claimed that they would treat
the perimeter of the house, both under the crawl space and outside.
They also claimed they would treat around each support pillar.

do swarms still come out after treatment?

On and off for about two years now, we've tried to get rid of the mice in
our house and garage with Hawk bait blocks
(http://www.motomco.com/h_hawk.htm ) with bromadiolone. We've probably put
out about 30 of these blocks in bait stations and out of the way places, and

This time of year starts the invasion of bees, hornets, wasps and all other
types of stinging insects. They seem to love the front of my house and wait
for me to leave so they can buzz all around my head.
I've searched for nests and can't find any. Is there anything I can spray

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