Pests and Electronic recycling

Originally Posted by miked

From years of selling used junk at the flea markets I have battled bugs for years. I just found "Combat source kill max" which has worked far better than anything else I have ever used. Its packaged in a large plastic syringe. It has a brown jel. Requires small amounts to be applied. I think instructions stated a dap of about a nickel to quarter sized. Very happy with this product. Price was just under $8 as I recall, Mike.

This uses Fipronil as the active poison ingredient. Pretty much anything with Fipronil will work pretty well to kill roaches. MaxForce gel also contains Fipronil and I've used it with pretty amazing results in the past to control greenhouse roach pests. Take a piece of thin PVC pipe, an inch or so wide, cut it in 8-12 inch lengths and squeeze the poison as far into the tube as you can. This reduces/eliminates the risk of accidental contact with people, pets or objects and the roachs like it since it is free food in a nice comfy enclosed space. We went from having an infestation to no detectable roaches in just a few weeks. It also came close to eradicating our large cricket population in the greenhouse as well.

Originally Posted by bjybjy

This uses Fipronil as the active poison ingredient. Pretty much anything with Fipronil will work pretty well to kill roaches. MaxForce gel also contains Fipronil and I've used it with pretty amazing results in the past to control greenhouse roach pests. Take a piece of thin PVC pipe, an inch or so wide, cut it in 8-12 inch lengths and squeeze the poison as far into the tube as you can. This reduces/eliminates the risk of accidental contact with people, pets or objects and the roachs like it since it is free food in a nice comfy enclosed space. We went from having an infestation to no detectable roaches in just a few weeks. It also came close to eradicating our large cricket population in the greenhouse as well.

BjyBjy

Would you recommend that i try the gel myself first prior to paying the company? Prior to me getting on the payment once a month plan i need to pay the 250 for the initial treatment.

Originally Posted by drozenski

BjyBjy

Would you recommend that i try the gel myself first prior to paying the company? Prior to me getting on the payment once a month plan i need to pay the 250 for the initial treatment.

To me it is sort of akin to paying someone to change the oil in your car... You can buy the oil yourself a lot cheaper, but if you'd rather not get your hands dirty then paying someone else to do it can be worth the extra cost.

Probably 75-90% of what they'll do is basic preventative stuff. Dropping a few roach stations around the place, putting a few sticky cards down to monitor for pests, and if you have mice putting a few mouse trap stations out. At this time of year I'd argue that almost anything they do outside your place for insects is basically pointless. Not many pests are going to be outside moving in (ever, really) and basically none this time of year with the cold weather. Mice could be a different issue, but you really aren't going to get those out of the blue from computers.

If it were me I'd buy $50 or so in different mice bait stations, a half dozen sticky cards and a couple tubes of MaxForce and do it myself.