not used to all these bugs!
Jun 29th 2010, 11:32 am
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Re: not used to all these bugs!
I've used that too and it seems to help stop creepy-crawly type bugs from getting into the house. I use it outside and inside every few months.
I get a lot of fire-ants in the back garden and those are a pain to get rid of - they just seem to move from mound to mound.
I get a lot of fire-ants in the back garden and those are a pain to get rid of - they just seem to move from mound to mound.
The bug inspection guy said use a treatment that contains Fipronil, he swears by it. I cannot find it in Home Depot, Lowes etc, so if anyone knows a where to buy it please let me know.
Jun 29th 2010, 12:54 pm
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Jun 29th 2010, 1:03 pm
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Re: not used to all these bugs!
It was red, swollen, hot and itchy for 4 or 5 days then is started to subside. Saturday night I was in the shower shaving my legs and could still see a very slight discolouration in the area. It was really weird. Hubby thought it was maybe a spider, a girl at work said it looked exactly like the reaction she got to wasp stings, but I would have thought I would have felt that or at least had the stinger thing left in my leg. I still don't know for sure I just hope I never get biten/stung by the same thing again.
I wonder if it was a deer/horse fly bite. I can usually feel them...not always depends what I'm doing. A wasp doesn't leave it's stinger behind...a bee does and then dies.
Jun 29th 2010, 2:28 pm
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Jun 29th 2010, 5:13 pm
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Re: not used to all these bugs!
Not having a good time at the moment either with the mozzies. Had a whopper of a bite on my calf last week - my first one, got hot and grew to about four inches. I've had DVT and as I'd recently flown and calf hotspots are a trigger I was pretty worried until I discovered it was just a mozzie.
The little b****rs seem to bit through clothes too. My right knee is now swollen and quite painful because all the bites have merged into one huge one.
The little b****rs seem to bit through clothes too. My right knee is now swollen and quite painful because all the bites have merged into one huge one.
Jun 29th 2010, 5:32 pm
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Re: not used to all these bugs!
Not having a good time at the moment either with the mozzies. Had a whopper of a bite on my calf last week - my first one, got hot and grew to about four inches. I've had DVT and as I'd recently flown and calf hotspots are a trigger I was pretty worried until I discovered it was just a mozzie.
The little b****rs seem to bit through clothes too. My right knee is now swollen and quite painful because all the bites have merged into one huge one.
The little b****rs seem to bit through clothes too. My right knee is now swollen and quite painful because all the bites have merged into one huge one.
This product is fairly new...I haven't tried it but I imagine it's similar and probably cheaper.
Jun 29th 2010, 8:01 pm
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Re: not used to all these bugs!
This product is fairly new...I haven't tried it but I imagine it's similar and probably cheaper.
Jun 29th 2010, 8:37 pm
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I was interested in this when I read about it -- but just picked up the new Consumer Reports and they have a review. Apparently all their testers were getting bitten and had to stop the test! They also said that the instructions say not to breathe the product, but that is a little hard when a fan attached to your waist is blowing it around you all the time. So I guess it's back to the spray.
I saw a report on TV last summer...a man and a women went into a tent of mozzies testing out various products and remedies. The only thing that worked was eucalyptus or eucalyptus/lemon. I don't know what the Off product contains but you can smell the eucalyptus in the Lentek product..
Jun 29th 2010, 8:50 pm
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Re: not used to all these bugs!
I've always used Cutter products -- they used to have a stick that I liked, though nowadays they seem to all be sprays. I don't find them as apparently toxic as some of the others. However, I only use it when I'm going in the woods, and as sparingly as possible, and wash it off as soon as I get home. I would never sit around in it.
Jun 29th 2010, 8:55 pm
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Jun 29th 2010, 9:04 pm
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Re: not used to all these bugs!
Hi
ok so what bugs/creatures am I likely to run into in CA- Sunnyvale area/
ok so what bugs/creatures am I likely to run into in CA- Sunnyvale area/