If you live in the South, do you do your own home insect pest control spraying? How often? What product do you use? What can go wrong? Pet issues? Anything else I need to know? All pertinent information appreciated.
You can do your own termite inspection. Learn what to look for. Keep the yard chemicals to a minimum. They are bad for your dogs. I put absolutely no chemicals down where my dogs are going to be.
Don't act like a puss and be scared of insecticides if you live in a bug zone! For biting and other bugs use deltamethrin and spray that [bleep] everywhere outside where it wont get rained on. Ie under eaves etc. Has a 3 mo+life, no smell and kills about everything with more than 2 legs. Try not to drink it or you will get real sick.
Roaches are the plague. Boric acid powder is the best. Sprinkle it in obscure places behind drawers etc and where wall and floor meet behind furniture etc. And on top ledges, attic + basement. Boric acid lasts for ever. it is a stomach poison which is ingested when the roaches etc groom themselves after walking thru the powder. Also dont bring cardboard boxes etc in your house/garage from stores. They hide in the flaps and re-infect your house.
If you have a basement crawl space then bomb it big time frequently.
If you get pissants then mix boric acid powder with maple syrup. Never use honey as it is an anticide.
I used to light their asses up with Demon EC, a secondary of Fenoxycarb IGR and chase the holdouts out with PT 565 pyrethrum and pipronal butoxide aerosol
Be looking like an apocalyptic scene with the ceilings crawling at Grandma Shîtbird’s ghetto hovel
I use Tempo and Demon and alternate months. Both of them are pet safe once they dry and last 30-40 days per application. Kills everything around here, so I don't have any bug issues.
Boric acid mixed with syrup kills some types of ants very well. I've dealt with tough indoor roach problems and as far as I can tell, boric acid is useless. Bifenthrin and some others basically just relocate roaches. Best for indoor roaches is to buy several brands of baits with different attractants and active ingredients, deploy widely and simultaneously. Then be patient.
With the cost of over the counter chemicals and depending on how bad of an infestation you have it may be cheaper to get a pest contract. I have Adam's come out every 6 mo. Cost $80. Termites will eat your house in no time if left unchecked and just 1 (one) German cockroache can multiply into 300,000 in a years time.
