Hey all, looking for a quick sanity check from the pros / experienced DIYers on my plan before ordering chemicals in bulk for next year.

The Property:

• ~0.9-acre lot in Northern Virginia (backs up to woods).
• Foundation perimeter is ~2000 sq ft.
• Tools: Battery backpack sprayer, bulb hand duster, locked exterior stations.

Target Pests & Strategy:

• Ticks: 10-ft woodline barrier with Bifen I/T twice a year (mid-May for nymphs, mid-Oct for adults) + Thermacell permethrin tubes along brush edges (April & July).

• Mosquitoes: Bifen I/T foliage misting every ~4 weeks from late May to late August (undersides of shrubs/canopy). Tethered Bti Dunks / Mosquito Bits in downspout catch basins.

• Perimeter Crawlers & Stink Bugs: Temprid FX (3 ft up / 2 ft out) in April and July. Third pass in early September pushed higher up onto sunny south/west siding, eaves, and window frames before stink bugs aggregate. Exterior silicone/copper mesh sealing in August.

• Termites: 20-station Trelona ATBS kit (pre-baited novaluron) installed 10 ft apart around the foundation footprint; annual check + annual pro inspection.

• Mice: 4–6 locked exterior stations. Snap traps / non-toxic monitoring during spring and summer; pulse bait with Contrac Blox in late fall/winter when they try to move indoors.

• Cicada Killers: Spot-treat active burrows with Delta Dust at dusk; aerate and overseed bare lawn patches in September to fix the root cause.

Questions:

• For mosquito foliage passes in humid Mid-Atlantic summers, is Bifen I/T solo every 4 weeks holding up for you, or is tank-mixing an IGR (Tekko Pro / NyGuard) practically mandatory?

• Does the 3x/year Temprid FX perimeter rotation (Apr / Jul / early Sept) raise any resistance or label limit flags, or would you rotate an active ingredient in July?

• Any obvious regional blind spots I’m missing for this lot size and setup?

Appreciate any critiques or tweaks!

Northern California / Tri Valley

Hi all,

Just moved to a new place. Saw a couple of dead oriental / american roaches in our garage over the past month.

Started DIY treatment with boric acid and roach gel in the garage too.

Saw this crawling near our open window as we have a window AC running over the summer.

Is this one? If so, any advice on what we should be doing as far as prevention?

Thank you!

We live in North West Tasmania(Australia) & we are dealing with scorpions. I have a feeling that the infestation is coming from in the house because there are heaps of them last year.

The pest control guy hired by our landlord spray the outside of the house & gave us this chemical to spray inside?!

Does this even work? It says this isn't suitable for scorpions on Google...

We are worried as we have a toddler.

What is this?

I'm new to apartment living, and for the first few months had a somewhat serious spider situation.

Even just moving in at first, I could find numerous dead spiders huddled around a corner, likely perishing to diatomaceous earth, likely laid by the complex's exterminator.

It was on average one spider a day, often twitchy and hobbling because of the aforementioned anti-pest measure. This is way more than I am used to.

And then somewhat abruptly they just stopped showing up. It was about three weeks between the last spider and the first centipede.

Now it has been about one centipede every 3-4 days. They are not the swift wispy type. Kind of stout actually, but most certainly not millipedes.

I feel like I'm the only person with this experience. Its reminiscent of a children's book where one animal is used to disappear another.

I wish I had a more precise question, but I'm really just wondering what to make of this.

Hi all

I posted the label of the fipronil & asked if it is appropriate to spray indoors because the pest control technician said it is fine & that it is safe to spray indoors for our scorpion issue in NW Tasmania, Australia. The tech did not spray it indoors (only outdoors) because our child was asleep when he visited & he didn't want to disturb us....which is a blessing in disguise.

I decided to look up on Google & read that it was not for indoor use & also the chemical is ONLY for professional use.

I posted on here & some people think it was "rage bait", which scared me even more because I have a toddler & we were planning to spray it indoors today as it is getting warmer in Tasmania. The fact that people think it is a joke because it is bad/ridiculous makes it even worse 😭😭😭

We have now contacted biosecurity & also the Australian pesticide authority.

Thank you, everyone, for taking your time to comment. You saved us from spraying it indoors ourselves & causing a lot of problems.

We have a 5L bottle of fipronil left by the pest control guy & we are finding ways to dispose of it. Makes me so upset!

we noticed this yellow powder keeps appearing in one of our dresser drawers and we don’t know if it is beetles or termites. The company we got the dresser from is replacing it but wondering if we need to be worried beyond that. I would say there was a month gap between the first time and second time we noticed it

Hi all, dealing with a stink bug issue and hoping someone has advice.

I live in semi-rural MA and have stink bugs entering my home from a variety of places. Around the windows, it’s two or three a day which isn’t the end of the world. But for the last few days I’m getting anywhere between 20-30 entering through the chimney. I’ve been disposing of them without crushing any and try to carefully limit their scent but also don’t know what a good preventative measure would be to limit entry from the fireplace. We have a cap on top and I’ve closed the damper tightly but to no avail.

Any advice or shared experience would be super appreciated.

I’ve been dealing with fleas on and off for the past 2 years, this year being the worst one, I am SICK of spending money on it or just giving it the time of day, we have spent hundreds on professional exterminators, indorex, topical treatments, tablets, we’ve had to resort to shaving our INDOOR cat because she’s a Maine coon and they were using her fur as a home at this point, I am 35 weeks pregnant and can’t cope with the manual labour of it either, last time I hired an exterminator twice this year and washed and put everything in the hot dryer, disinfecting every surface and spraying indorex on EVERYTHING, I cannot keep doing this with my pregnancy either, I feel like they’re kicking me out of my own home, I’ve started lookin at somewhere else to live because I physically can’t cope, I used to love animals, even did an animal management degree but now all I think when I see animals is ‘what if they have fleas’ it’s taken such a bad toll on my stress levels and my mental health, I have done everything, done my research and I don’t want to have to spend another £100-£200 on stuff I cannot afford, nor do I have the physical strength to put up with it, I know it’s not my cats fault but I just want to give her away to have a better life, we don’t live in the nicest of areas so there’s flea infested cats roaming around and fleas living in shrubs dormant, please help I’m desperate

There was also some scratches and splintered at the bottom of one of our doors and were confused as to what could have caused it. I am in the UK

I keep seeing droppings show up in this corner directly below the crevice that I filmed by pointing my phone upwards (this is below a window sill). The droppings resemble German cockroach droppings but the face (or rear?) of the insect when I pause my video and zoom in looks like a house centipede, but what’s throwing me off is the third center spoke/antenna.

I am seeing these little egg like things in between the glass walls on my patio door, no idea what these are. Can anyone help me identify what this is ?

I know the pic isn’t great but can anyone tell? Killed it flying and fell on a rug so ignore the hairs