I've usually picked up a few ticks by this time every year here. Not as many last year and none so far this year. I don't use chemicals. I guess the chickens get them when they are out checking the hill.
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I've usually picked up a few ticks by this time every year here. Not as many last year and none so far this year. I don't use chemicals. I guess the chickens get them when they are out checking the hill.
Tempo! wipes out spiders, ants, fire ants, fleas, ticks, chiggers, termites, roaches the list goes on and on. Safe on pets and can spray inside your house. Add a pyrethroid for outside use for even broader spectrum of control. May want to leave out pyrethroid if you have cats, pyrthroids are rough on cats. Do not spray the pyrethroid mix in your house!!! just straight tempo and follow label!
When hunting I always spray my clothes with sawyer tick repellant. You can get it at walmart. I used to you Duranon, but haven't found it in years. The active ingredient is Permethrine and it can be bought by the gallon at most farm stores such as Tractor Supply. I bought some a few years back and mixed it up and sprayed my property in the hills. I didn't have a tick or chigger one that whole year from the yard, and I would usually pick up a few each trip before that.
I spray Lorsban over the entire yard and the outside of the house. I have no fleas,ticks, fire ants, roaches or any other bug in the house.
Lordy, look at all these chemicals posted used in your yards. What are you killing beside pest you don't want?
Start googling tonics for this bug, but not for that bug.
At a garden center the other day a guy about my age was asking how to rid his yard of moles. Moles are after the worms and grubs in the soil. You can buy chemicals to kill all these pest and be rid of the moles too. I told him of a few gadgets that can be bought and a few tonics. I told him to collect male pee and pour a quarter cup in the tunnel every few feet, he said he would never touch pee. I'm thinking, boy you have lived a sheltered life, you need to go home, lock the door and never look outside again.
The best I can tell you is to buy the best flea & tick collar and/or pills from a vet for your dog. They aren't cheap, my dogs get the $85 collar for 9 months and 6 months supply of pills at $35 per month.
Some vets want to service your dog per month at $120.
I bet you don't! I hope you are growing field crops in your yard. That is an off label application, this is an organophosphate, as was Dursban, home use labels were pulled and banned several years ago. I sure wouldn't recommend it or get caught doing it. EPA fines at one time could go as high as $250,000.00. Great product just not legal to use anymore for home use. At one time it could still be used in commercial turf grass production and on golf courses, not sure if that is still legal.Quote:
Originally Posted by deltarat
I have an Ag consulting license and have worked in Ag for years, I have witnessed off label applications of several products over the years and it is not pretty. Be very careful about applications, recomending off label use or supplying products for others. They come after everyone involved. Dursban was widely used for years by professional extermination companies, when the label was pulled by EPA for termite control and home use a large professional exterminating company in MS just starting purchasing Lorsban and kept using it in homes and restaurants. Lorsban and Dursban have the same active ingredient, Lorsban was labeled for field crops and Dursban had a home label. Long story short the company was caught and it was ugly. Red dye was placed in Lorsban after this to stop inside off label use. Organophostates were determined to be carcinogenic thus labels for home use were pulled.
Talstar is Bifenthrin which is pyrethroid use for fire ants.Quote:
Originally Posted by "G"
Actually she was wearing a $60 Tick collar...thing about RMTF is tick just has to bite..not attach...I have always tried to be as conservative to the environment as possible with the use of poison..as far as ticks...I want them dead...moles are on the list also
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