Pests and Electronic recycling - Page 2

Originally Posted by miked

From years of selling used junk at the flea markets I have battled bugs for years. I just found "Combat source kill max" which has worked far better than anything else I have ever used. Its packaged in a large plastic syringe. It has a brown jel. Requires small amounts to be applied. I think instructions stated a dap of about a nickel to quarter sized. Very happy with this product. Price was just under $8 as I recall, Mike.

This uses Fipronil as the active poison ingredient. Pretty much anything with Fipronil will work pretty well to kill roaches. MaxForce gel also contains Fipronil and I've used it with pretty amazing results in the past to control greenhouse roach pests. Take a piece of thin PVC pipe, an inch or so wide, cut it in 8-12 inch lengths and squeeze the poison as far into the tube as you can. This reduces/eliminates the risk of accidental contact with people, pets or objects and the roachs like it since it is free food in a nice comfy enclosed space. We went from having an infestation to no detectable roaches in just a few weeks. It also came close to eradicating our large cricket population in the greenhouse as well.

Originally Posted by GeorgeB

Why were you collecting roaches for?

I was an entomology major in college so many of my classes required an insect collection. Cockroaches are their own order of insects, so it was all but mandatory to have this representation in most of the collections I did.

Originally Posted by drozenski

Doubt it.

It includes a full spraying on the outside of my garage and home.
Commercial grade rodent bait and traps.
Trained inspectors to mark trouble spots and note changes
Chemicals to treat anything that they find.

So it saves my time and just the trips back and forth between homedepot and applying the posion are worth the $40.

Not to mention they use special equipment to keep my pets safe. Cant get that from a spray bottle.

I agree I did it myself for two years successfully until one day that freaken stereo had hundreds of not the German, but they look like them... Can't think of the name... Some kind of roach. Even though I kept the radio outside they ended up thriving in the yard and woods. Eventually 6 months later I saw one in my house, then saw them once a month... Then once a week... Then I saw one a day and called a guy. $30 a month.... I have not seen one bug in my house in months!!! Well maybe a mosquito or fly, but nothing is moving in!! LOL

Things all Scrappers should have:

Bug Guy
Safety Gear
Magnet
Bigger Tools
Tetanus Shot

=)

Originally Posted by bjybjy

This uses Fipronil as the active poison ingredient. Pretty much anything with Fipronil will work pretty well to kill roaches. MaxForce gel also contains Fipronil and I've used it with pretty amazing results in the past to control greenhouse roach pests. Take a piece of thin PVC pipe, an inch or so wide, cut it in 8-12 inch lengths and squeeze the poison as far into the tube as you can. This reduces/eliminates the risk of accidental contact with people, pets or objects and the roachs like it since it is free food in a nice comfy enclosed space. We went from having an infestation to no detectable roaches in just a few weeks. It also came close to eradicating our large cricket population in the greenhouse as well.

BjyBjy

Would you recommend that i try the gel myself first prior to paying the company? Prior to me getting on the payment once a month plan i need to pay the 250 for the initial treatment.

I would go to the store and buy two tubes and give it a week. For under $20 I doubt you can do better. I've used many different products and pest companies as well and this stuff is great. You will need to re-apply. Since I live in the south these bugs live outside and travel from yard to yard at night. We tend to get reinfested in the cold weather as the roaches head into the warmth of the house. I'm going to treat outside my house and see how it helps. Mike

Originally Posted by drozenski

BjyBjy

Would you recommend that i try the gel myself first prior to paying the company? Prior to me getting on the payment once a month plan i need to pay the 250 for the initial treatment.

To me it is sort of akin to paying someone to change the oil in your car... You can buy the oil yourself a lot cheaper, but if you'd rather not get your hands dirty then paying someone else to do it can be worth the extra cost.

Probably 75-90% of what they'll do is basic preventative stuff. Dropping a few roach stations around the place, putting a few sticky cards down to monitor for pests, and if you have mice putting a few mouse trap stations out. At this time of year I'd argue that almost anything they do outside your place for insects is basically pointless. Not many pests are going to be outside moving in (ever, really) and basically none this time of year with the cold weather. Mice could be a different issue, but you really aren't going to get those out of the blue from computers.

If it were me I'd buy $50 or so in different mice bait stations, a half dozen sticky cards and a couple tubes of MaxForce and do it myself.

Originally Posted by Filthy

all summer long every appliance and electronic that had been left outside overnight had at least a dozen of these in it. very weird

I hate them stink bugs!!!!!!

Originally Posted by KZBell

Camping in a travel trailer sometimes we had problems with ants so we would run a ring of Ajax all the way around the trailer when setting up to keep them out.

I've used coffee grounds, i've never heard of using Ajax before!