Looks like I only have a pint or so left of my agricultural Chlordane. It keeps the termites away from the foundation and the cockroaches from coming over from the school next door. Mix up 1.5 ounces, spray around the house once a year. However, with a beagle that eats everything, I am limited to where I can spray the stuff.
Maybe eight years of protection left. I wonder if the stuff is still potent?
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Probably still potent, as original. But the termites have probably evolved to be better termites.
Termites are nomads.
They don't stay very long in any one spot if there is ANY resistance to their existence.
Cockroaches are the worse!
Stick around for centuries is what I'm hearing. But...for both?
(you may or may not like this idea.)
Ants.
Yeah...ain't that a shine in the head?
Natural predatorial allies in the war against insects that bring destruction, lower property prices, and a general lifting from noses that spot them....
If ants are too strange a choice, or, you're afraid of the Australian plague (not now. Maybe a future post) then there's yet another ally that you can really love. It comes as Thurgicide.
(I dunno how to spell it, and we slacked off of it for four years, but, it's a powdery form of microbe that gets eaten by aggressors like cockroaches (yeah, again, go figure. Who knew they were aggressive at all?) and termites.
Also japanese beetles and especially to bagworms and web worms.
They are an animal that gets eaten, but are so small they turn around and munch on the innards of the bad guy bugs.
That's the good news.
The bad news is, watch also for a decline in your ladybug and praying mantis populations.
And, no. I'm not a thurgicide spammer.
First off, I LIKE spam. Sliced thinly and put on a frozen pizza about five minutes before it's done cooking (or seven minutes if you sprinkle on some more shredded cheese, too)...
Second off, I think I've solved the GW puzzle.
Mike Groundwater (GW) IS from California...that is true enough.
But, I think he may be older than you.
So, quick recap. Thurgicide will eliminate your aggressive insect problem, spam is good on cheap frozen pizzas, and a speed hump IS where one gets a quickie in the designated neighborhoods.
d=))
Thanks, I'll look into the Thuricide, after the Chlordane is used up. But we need the ladybugs and Mantises. I usually let ants have the run of the yard.
Second off, GW has nothing to do with my real name.
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