#pest control

[thehmn]

Advice nobody ever asks for but every time I tell someone they find it extremely useful:

If you want to get rid of ants in your house mix a cup of icing sugar and a cup of potato starch 50/50 (dry, no water) and spread it near the holes where the ants get into your house. They won’t be able to separate the sugar and starch and will feed their larvae with the mixture. The starch will kill the larvae. So you won’t see results right away but if you keep it up you’ll get rid of them over a few weeks. I make a batch every summer to combat ants in my kitchen.

Because the mixture is non-toxic to humans and other mammals it’s perfect if you have children or pets. God knows my dogs eat anything on the floor and this way my only worry is they might get cavities if they get into my pest control powder.

[urbansoulfarmer]

[bugsapplesample]

[cfray8]

Pesticide

[ckswitch]

Tw - violence, blood, Nifty

Pest Control

Little animation sorry not sorry

[onenicebugperday]

Do you have any advice on controlling sugar ants without pesticides? I've removed all reachable food from my room, made sure to keep my desk clean, change trash bag whenever I throw food trash in there... But despite having nothing left to eat in my room, the ants keep coming back!

We've used the borax terro before for a severe infestation, but I'm hesitant to use it again because I don't know if it's ethical/bad for the local ecosystem (east TN, near the smokies). Do you have any advice?

I'm afraid I don't have any advice as I've never had to deal with ants! But I know in the past when people have asked this, some of my followers have had some advice to offer, so hopefully someone can give you some ideas for things that have worked!

I would not recommend using the borax terro baits for a number of reasons, though.

[angleshades]

Clive's house got done up at last...

...but they are obviously lacking a good gamekeeper

He can sort out your mole issues no problem

Filming location Wilbury Park after restoration - photo Peregrine Bryant Architects. Thanks @expo63 for link - is that the grotesque announcement nook on the right?

Alec photo - filmweb.pl

[danskjavlarna]

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Abuzz: vintage flies.

[izurunity]

If you believe your home or place of work or study to be infested by Enoshimas, follow these steps as soon as is practical:

Bring in one or more Naegi(s). These are the natural foe of Enoshimas, including their subspecies.

If male Naegi: kiss, ruffle hair, tickle belly, and improvise further techniques to elicit laughter, which is inherently painful to Enoshimas. If female Naegi: ask about favoured reading material. Appear deeply invested. Ask follow-up questions. If Enoshimas have not yet fled, begin to LARP the Naegi's favourite scenes.

Feed Naegi(s) in exchange for their time. No dried mackerel or firm-pressed tofu. Either prevent Naegis from stealing each other's tonkatsu or prepare additional.

[chefskjss]

She’s ready to punish some BAD BOYS…

and Valentino has been VERY, VERY BAD.

[deathkatastrophe]

[bluepartyhat3d]

Februarys sticker club theme is old school runescape

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[futurebird]

bug biomass load will be filled

Every environment has a "bug biomass load" that load could be a diverse collection of species or it could be all American Roaches. It's up to you!

If you use general poisons you are killing the ants, the isopods, the beetles, the flies, the spiders, the centipedes. Most spray poisons aren't targeted. They have to be extra strong to kill the poison adapted Roach.

Baits are better, not ideal. Even better is environmental management. Eliminating the places and foods that attract the unwanted guests while supporting or being neutral to the wanted ones.

A basement w/ spiders, centipedes & ants will not be as welcome of a place for roaches.

[balkanradfem]

So, after getting the bad news about my neck, I spent a few days in bed, depression-playing Stardew Valley. Eventually I managed to get up and get to my real-life garden, which was sad-looking and neglected. I was very overdue for cleaning it up, weeding, clearing out the dead plants and covering it with mulch for the winter. I also went to plant some onions and garlic, I did plant a few broccoli earlier but it was immediately all eaten by slugs.

My highest priority was strawberries; they're the first thing I look forward to in the spring, and they've been overtaken by weeds and other big plants, overshadowed, and were generally looking very sad. I started clearing that stuff up, and immediately realized that I need a bucket to put slugs in, because they were so filled with slugs, and I mean, there were millions. Under every plant there was several families, they were hiding in the soil, laying eggs, hatching, it was a whole country in my strawberry bed.

It reminded me of the spring when I planted strawberries and beans together, and all of the beans ended up getting eaten by slugs. Also there were no slugs on other parts of the garden, where there were no strawberries. And now, clearing out the strawberry area, again, thousands of slugs.

This made me come to the conclusion that slugs,... love strawberries, and will multiply insanely on any area that I grow strawberries in. But, I love strawberries, and I allow them to grow on 70% of my garden, they're so small I can let them grow around everything else. Coincidentally, everything I planted in that garden for the last 5 months was immediately devoured by slugs. So this brings us... to a painful dilemma.

My garden used to not have a slug problem, in fact, last 3 years there were barely any slugs. And whenever there was a few, I could simply pick them out before they did any damage. The situation now is that slugs are here to stay, and they're staying in my strawberries, which I love. But, they are now going to eat the rest of my garden, repeatedly, before it even grows, unless... I take out strawberries.

I was trying to make this decision and I cannot do it, taking out strawberries is unmanageable, every spring I spend months just looking forward to strawberries and they're the center of my life. But.. I also need other food to grow at my garden. I can't just let slugs overtake everything forever, and having taken out 3 buckets, and my garden still getting eaten up, I know I can't keep fighting this.

So, what would you do?

[savagechickens]

The Tiny Menace Returns.

And more ninja, for Day of the Ninja, Dec 5!

[infographicjournal]

DIY Pest Control for the Savvy Gardener

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Check out the full size infographic at - https://builderszone.com/diy-pest-control-for-the-savvy-gardener/