jon haney Posted May 14 Posted May 14 (edited) Those are big ants, or you have a very small hand.🤔 Edited May 14 by jon haney Quote
SwampNut Posted May 14 Author Posted May 14 5 minutes ago, jon haney said: you have a very small hand.🤔  Well at least my skin isn't orange.  Quote
jon haney Posted May 14 Posted May 14 6 minutes ago, SwampNut said:  Well at least my skin isn't orange.  🤔  I don't get it. Quote
SwampNut Posted May 14 Author Posted May 14 Small hands, orange face. Â Type that into google and guess whose picture shows up? Â Fits the micropenis I suppose. Â Quote
Zero Knievel Posted May 14 Posted May 14 17 hours ago, XXitanium said: ...are they unnion?  Hope so...then they won't accomplish much any time soon. 1 Quote
XXitanium Posted May 14 Posted May 14 TDS + Swampnut must be in great mental discomfort over the current resident at 1600 PA Ave. Â ...like me the previous 4 years. ...and the 2009~2017 term... Â I don't recall seeing his orange-ness ever hold a real tool, beyond maybe a pen. Â Quote
SwampNut Posted May 14 Author Posted May 14 57 minutes ago, XXitanium said: Swampnut must be in great mental discomfort over the current resident at 1600 PA Ave. Â No, why? Â Quote
CALCXX Posted July 26 Posted July 26 Carlos, the ants were on break. Union rules. You stole their fukn tools. Give them back. The have walls to tear out. Quote
superhawk996 Posted July 31 Posted July 31 I was seeing signs of termite activity and kept putting it off. Then I got a new roof and allowed the guy to convince me that dormer vents are better than the whirly birds I had. The attic temps confirmed that they're not, at least not for me. A while later I noticed that there was no more termite evidence. Then I learned that they can't handle high temps so I guess the roofer's ignorance helped me. I'm still going to replace he dormers with whirlies, but may occasionally block them for termite control. Quote
blackhawkxx Posted July 31 Posted July 31 Quote it looks like we have carpenter ants Carlos, I know this is the wrong thread but what is the name of the stuff you use for yard pesticide? The wife has been getting bite up every time she goes in the grass. Is it super toxic to humans or to have anywhere near wear we are growing vegetables? Quote
XXitanium Posted July 31 Posted July 31 Diatomaceous Earth if you can get it where they walk it locks up their little joints and fucks em up. 1 Quote
SwampNut Posted July 31 Author Posted July 31 3 hours ago, blackhawkxx said: Carlos, I know this is the wrong thread but what is the name of the stuff you use for yard pesticide? The wife has been getting bite up every time she goes in the grass. Is it super toxic to humans or to have anywhere near wear we are growing vegetables?  This is bug eradication 3.0 for me and my friends. Super effective. "Toxic" is always controversial, but it's considered safe to pets and humans once dry. I don't put it ON the food plants but around them. I do the trunks of the fruit trees and the borders of the veggie areas. I spray a standard wall-ground border around the house, door frames, and sometimes limited inside spaces where an issue has or could happen. For "leaky" houses I'd go all around all leak areas like windows. Our house is really sealed so I ignore window frames.  https://www.domyown.com/talstar-professional-insecticide-p-97.html  Very effective, very long-lived. I apply it at whatever the max mix ratio is plus a splash or two more. Still crazy cheap for the amount it takes. Previously we all used Bayer Suspend then Suspend Polyzone. I'm the lead researcher and then everyone tries it and tells me what they think.  I used to use DE directly all over the food plants. This is not just people/pet safe but there are claims of health benefits to eating it. But the Talstar just being NEAR them kills everything. I stopped using DE. One thing about DE is that breathing it is all kinds of horrible. As in you may never get it back out. So I'm generally a fan but it can't be treated as benign either. Also it lives only until the next rain, lawn watering, or major wind. And using too much is counter-effective, they will see it and walk around it. Funny timing, my DE blower is having problems and also the storage for it is being replaced; I think I will toss it all and stop using it.  A question for you guys; we suddenly have silverfish coming up the drains. Ideas?  1 Quote
SwampNut Posted July 31 Author Posted July 31 3 hours ago, blackhawkxx said: The wife has been getting bite up every time she goes in the grass.  Also, it's early, I'm uncaffeinated, and I just pictured her rolling and snorting on her back like our dogs do in grass.  For short term, small-area problems, with flying and "migrant" problems, I use a yard fogger. So what does this mean? For the gazebo, or the patio, or the shop, during bug season, I do small-area treatments with a fogger to get the bugs that came in today and aren't dead yet. Does that make sense? They can walk over poisons or DE and not die for a little while. Or fly in obviously. So if we have a dinner party in the gazebo, it gets fogged before. The patio is used every morning so it gets fogged every 3-5 days.    Again, it's generally considered safe once dry. Do not breathe it. Quote
superhawk996 Posted July 31 Posted July 31 49 minutes ago, SwampNut said: Funny timing, my DE blower is having problems and also the storage for it is being replaced; I think I will toss it all and stop using it. If it's not too big to shove into a corner and disappear, and you think it's not beyond repair, I'd take it. I had pretty much retired DE but have started having something eat some of my plants. Namely the mint and cabbage that I don't want to spray Talstar on.   Is Talstar P what you use in the fogger? I thought it was something else.  59 minutes ago, SwampNut said: A question for you guys; we suddenly have silverfish coming up the drains. Ideas? There's this stuff called Talstar P, I hear it's great.  😂 According to the interwebs, they don't actually live in or come from the drains, they're coming in somewhere else and going to the sinks because of the water in them. Quote
superhawk996 Posted July 31 Posted July 31 1 hour ago, SwampNut said: A question for you guys; we suddenly have silverfish coming up the drains. Ideas? Keep them as pets. They're not as valuable as goldfish, but they're lower maintenance. 3 Quote
SwampNut Posted July 31 Author Posted July 31 50 minutes ago, superhawk996 said: and you think it's not beyond repair, I'd take it.  I think the plastic is about to all explode. That box it lived in with the dog food is retiring, the dog food is inside, the space has been claimed by that outdoor cooking thing I posted about, etc...  51 minutes ago, superhawk996 said: I had pretty much retired DE but have started having something eat some of my plants. Namely the mint and cabbage that I don't want to spray Talstar on.   Just use a kitchen mesh strainer to dust it over the plants, you don't have that much. The blower is for whole-yard dusting, and you have to wear both eye and nose/mouth PPE. DE in the eyes...ugh...  53 minutes ago, superhawk996 said: According to the interwebs, they don't actually live in or come from the drains, they're coming in somewhere else and going to the sinks because of the water in them.  Sort of, except that AI also says to look for cracked sewer pipes, which is a thing going around my hood lately. They won't come from way in the sewers, but can come in via a local crack. There's just no way I can see them getting to the downstairs bathroom, up the sides of the sink and tub, to then be stuck inside the sink and tub. Makes no sense, right? They'd have to beat the perimeter poison, crawl up a vertical, and then get stuck in a bowl? Nah. Quote
blackhawkxx Posted July 31 Posted July 31 6 hours ago, SwampNut said: Also, it's early, I'm uncaffeinated, and I just pictured her rolling and snorting on her back like our dogs do in grass. My wife is at the doctor right now because a bug bite of some kind and her leg is all red a swelled, it has been getting worse for about five days now. For some reason as she has gotten older, just walking across the grass to look at a veggie plant will net her multiple bites and it's like she is allergic to them . They don't bother me at all.   6 hours ago, XXitanium said: Diatomaceous Earth if you can get it where they walk it locks up their little joints and fucks em up. It rains here this summer so often, I don't think that would be of use and I wouldn't want that in the grass that I mow. Quote
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