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Just wondering if anyone has had issues with inside bugs or spiders that required insecticide when they had torts indoors? If so which products did you use?
We do get ants every summer, those little teeny tiny black ones. They come to the kitchen sink through the cracks in the wall or electrical outlet. Then when I was feeding my sick old cat in few different areas where dry food and fresh water stations were created for her all over the downstairs to encourage her to eat and drink there would be a trail of those bigger ants coming in to that through the front entrance door. I'd then just wipe them off the floor, remove that food station and spray the herb oils at the entrance treshhold. They always come back after a while and yhis is just something I have to deal with here every summer. Winter is not cold but other than occasional silverfish or spider, there are no bugs outside the tortoise tankI make sure the tank is covered tightly so no overspray gets inside, then I use aerosol Raid ant and roach spray. I generally spray the area where the tank is going to go first, let it dry, then set up the tank. Later, after the residual seems to have faded, if it's required again (I have a bad ant problem here), I use the above method.
We do get ants every summer, those little teeny tiny black ones. They come to the kitchen sink through the cracks in the wall or electrical outlet. Then when I was feeding my sick old cat in few different areas where dry food and fresh water stations were created for her all over the downstairs to encourage her to eat and drink there would be a trail of those bigger ants coming in to that through the front entrance door. I'd then just wipe them off the floor, remove that food station and spray the herb oils at the entrance treshhold. They always come back after a while and yhis is just something I have to deal with here every summer. Winter is not cold but other than occasional silverfish or spider, there are no bugs outside the tortoise tank
When I had inside tortoises, tortoises that never left their inside closed chamber except to go outside. I used and still use house hold Spectracide by Ortho in the one gallon pump/spray bottle.
I spray inside the house once a month. Especially in the summer time due to palmetto bugs. Heavily around exit doors and inside my garage.
We have many animals including two canaries. No issues. (But none of our animals are ever in contact with the poison.)
Food grade diatomaceous earth around edges of house..windows..doorways, really does work.
it should work for any insect with a thoraxWork for what? Ants alone or other critters as well?
Not close. Usually the edges of the walls and floor around each room .How close do you spray it to their enclosure? Like your situation they would not come into direct contact with the poison as they are always in a tub or enclosure when they are inside.
Work for what? Ants alone or other critters as well?
I think our gigantic palmetto bugs would use if for a nice after bath powder. Better to dump out the D/E powder and then bash them with the can.Waterbugs...ants...silverfish..earwigs..insects with exoskeleton.
No, man. Bash them with the full can and then dump it all.I think our gigantic palmetto bugs would use if for a nice after bath powder. Better to dump out the D/E powder and then bash them with the can.
Ages ago, when I was redoing all of the switches and wall outlets in my house, I dumped as much D/E as I had into the walls. I also dusted the attic. It still looks like a snowstorm up there. I can't say for sure how effective it's been.
mine came in a big bag so........I think our gigantic palmetto bugs would use if for a nice after bath powder. Better to dump out the D/E powder and then bash them with the can.
Ages ago, when I was redoing all of the switches and wall outlets in my house, I dumped as much D/E as I had into the walls. I also dusted the attic. It still looks like a snowstorm up there. I can't say for sure how effective it's been. It's pretty likely that it does control ants, since I almost never see one in the house.