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Termites are the ones to worry about - they can do serious damage. Don't buy a house without a termite inspection, and get regular checks after. Everything else is just a nuisance.

Spread Traizinon around the perimeter of your house and yard once Spring, once Fall. Bug problems are mitigated

Used to pay a Pest Control Co to come quarterly and put a few drops of his commercial grade spritz here and there, plus a few granules of ant killer. It was costing me about 90 bucks per trip. Still had bugs! So on the advice of the bug technician I got a gallon of Home Defense from Rural King ($25). Spray it around the outside walls on the stucco about afoot above ground. Put a little behind the dishwasher, and in pipe penetrations under cabinets. Works great! The jug lasted a year and a half with 3 applications. Wife has to undergo psychotherapy if she sees a roach, so saved a lot on that as well. I have not told her about the rats and snakes.

Years ago, we signed an agreement with a local pest control company to keep our house and garage sprayed monthly. They show up once a month, and they spray inside for the crawling critters, put bait stations out for mice, spray outside at least once a year, and are on call as needed. That same contract today would be over 3 times what we paid for it way back when.

Termidor.

Hey RS, living in the South means dealing with bugs, that's for sure! I used to do my own pest control spraying, mainly using a general insecticide spray every few months.

Frontline for dogs is 9.8% Fipronil - about 60$ every few weeks in warm months

Torus termiticide is 9.1% fipronil , 80$ for a quart

lol

Put Roach Prufe in n your dogs, cause you jack off to Paul Harvey, got it

For my yard and woodline, I mix up about 50 gallons of Cypermethrin and do outside perimeter of the house too, eaves, soffits, window frames, shutters, spray my ginormous firewood pile too.

Maybe do that 3 times over the summer

This and will instantly kill fire ants.

Suspend Polyzone is the latest darling around here. 90 day residual means season long control. Pretty bitchin.

What's good for carpenter ants?

BULLS HIT!

Ginnie hens

You think it is OK for humans to inhale pesticides?

For ants and termites.
Harmless to humans, dogs, cats and anything other than ants and termites.
About $50-$60 for a pint. Mixes 1oz per gallon of water, to treat an average size house.
Spray twice the first year, and once a year after that
Your ants will die, your neighbors ants will die, any property within 100 feet of your treatment zone, the ants will die.

I kinda like the harvester ants around here.

They are one of the known eaters of the damn yellow alyssum weed seeds.

Still have a good supply of chlordane left, a gift that keeps on killing

Most of the actually effective long term sprays and powders are no longer sold to the public, you must have an applicator's license to buy the "good stuff."

Add in the invasive species no longer exterminated at ports of entry and it would be a good idea to have a real pro do the job in the south. Tried it both ways and when you run out of the good stuff, better have a stand by pro with the new slow release encapsulated sprays with annual spray plus in ground termite traps around all of the structures..

Perhaps it would be advisable to not make comments on subjects where your knowledge is obviously lacking.

Tempo and Demon Max. They both work.