#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.

[los-plantalones]

D:

[wolveryene]

His name suits him ngl.

[itz-spirit]

Another set of doodels

REGRETEVATOR

[farmobileo3]

[guerrilla-operator]

PEST CONTROL

[ansidotorg]

House Flies:

-Are 6-7 mm long

-Live 15-20 days

-Can lay up to 500 eggs in 3-4 days

-Breed in manure

-Can travel up to 2 miles

-First make contact with their legs before tasting

-Need sugar to survive

-Are known carriers of E. coli, salmonella, and other bacteria and pathogens

[pest-control-jerp]

Hey fella! Merry Christmas!

I have a job for you.

@jolly-billy

What is it?

Also.. it’s not Christmas anymore-

[mindblowingscience]

Recent findings that plants employ a drought-survival mechanism to also defend against nutrient-sucking pests could inform future crop breeding programs aimed at achieving better broadscale pest control. Using an advanced fluorescent biosensor (ABACUS2) that can detect tiny changes in plant hormone concentrations at the cellular scale, scientists saw that abscisic acid (ABA), usually linked with drought response, started closing the plant's entry gates within 5 hours of being infested with spider mites. Microscopic leaf pores (stomata) are important for gas exchange but are also the major sites for water loss. When there is a water shortage, plants act to conserve water by producing the drought stress hormone ABA to close their stomata.

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[bugsapplesample]

[ckswitch]

Tw - violence, blood, Nifty

Pest Control

Little animation sorry not sorry

[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 gazebo on the right?

Alec photo - filmweb.pl

[startissuu]

She’s ready to punish some BAD BOYS…

and Valentino has been VERY, VERY BAD.

[blakesdoggo]

Wallter is the imposter

[rushed faster then the speed of light ong]

[HELP I RANDOMLY GOT HYPER LMFAOAOAPOSOAOAOOAOA]

[conkreetmonkey]

So can you get diseases or bedbugs from picking up pieces of clothing you find abandoned in the wild while just walking around town? Is there like a process for de-bugging and disinfecting them that goes beyond just tossing them in the wash, maybe with some bleach? Is it at all unadviseable? Is this a thing people do?

I see like 5 abandoned jackets, hoodies, work gloves, hats, you name it, every time I go for a walk (meth town, dumping your shit in random parking lots is the norm around here apparently), and I always just think "man, like 90% of this stuff just needs dried up and cleaned and it would be perfectly good, or at the very least could be scrapped for materials. Feels like an awful waste to just leave them to rot." But at the same time, I am paranoid about bedbugs (you'd be stupid not to be ngl).

Any advice? I'm of course not talking about stealing obviously lost hats or mittens, those I prop up in obvious areas near where I found them, as is considered polite. I'm talking about jackets found by dumpsters or on the curb. Stuff that was clearly discarded.

[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.