So many dogs and cats are running around bare-assed and bleeding, the school is climbing toward DEFCON 1 for lice and I need to replace mattresses but am too afraid to bring the ones I can afford into the house.
I’m not one for pesticides/insecticides, but holy crap! these post-chemically treated species have come back with a vengeance! —Itching just thinking about it
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i just read an article about the banning of DDT; fucking scam bullshit the most effective pesticide and no evidence of harn to humans
Marty, are you having a stroke or what? DDT is FUCKING POISON!!!!
read you history from the ’70s, I was there I saw the dammage done.
Do you happen to believe that Agent Orange is a harmless herbicide too?
You can get rid of lice without using harsh or toxic chemicals. We did years ago.
We also successfully dealt with a bedbug infestation two years ago without resorting to professional exterminators and toxic pesticides.
I can explain the simple methods we used in both cases if anyone is interested.
Also, blaming DDT bans and environmentalists in general for the resurgence of bedbugs makes no sense. DDT was withdrawn from widespread use decades ago. If there was a simple cause and effect relationship between DDT use and something like bedbugs we would have seen this resurgence decades ago. The exterminator’s treatment of choice for getting rid of bedbugs has, for many years, been a pyrethoid type insecticide, but some bedbug populations have now developed resistance to this.
Public health officials and entomologists alike know that bacterial and bug species eventually evolve immunity to our most powerful chemical treatments. The so-called “superbugs” that medical practitioners are dealing with today are the result of the widespread overuse of antibiotics for decades, both in treating human disease and in the routine dosing of all kinds of livestock by the agricultural industry.
We have created many of these problems ourselves. Obviously the solution will not be “more of the same”.
in a world without people, they will die off within a year.no human hosts for the parasites to suck blood from. now all we have to do, is get rid of all the people on earth. oh, wait, the governments are experimenting on chemical weapons to do just that. shit, what was i thinking there.
Wow, LS. I’m not exactly sure what to say about your comments today…
Commandante, do we think we can we apply this to humans as well?
That would be interesting… start putting a little cyanide in everyone’s drinking water.
Most will eventually die from it but those that survive will be ‘superhumans’, able to drink a nice, cool, diet, lime cyanide on a nice warm summer day in peace…
Is that the dream?
LS may have forgotten to take his meds this morning. Cross posting and nastiness abounds. But he’d be one of the surviving superhumans for sure, so might as well just makes friends, eh suckalicious?
I have heard that rinsing hair with tea tree oil and water will repel lice, but I am not sure how effective it is. And I wonder how useful it is in repelling fleas? As well, I also heard you can smother lice with a thick gel left on the head overnight.
I have no knowledge of natural bedbug repellents. But I know chili powder (the kind from India found at the ethnic store–hot hot hot) with keep ants and termites at bay.
But the fleas! Nothing I do seems to work. I have tried a collar, powder, spray and the drop on the back of neck (all things I really didn’t want to use) but they only worked minimally for a short time. As far as the shots the vets are now offering goes–I refuse to inject flea killer into my animal’s blood stream.
is there a button i can push, i wish to hell there were. and yes ralmn, i’m on a roll. no more mr. nice fuck. the ponn farr strikes again, early this trip out. you tell them about it col. ivan.
I always found that the stuff on the back of my kitty’s neck worked for fleas. You have to do it every 3 months or so if they’re an outside cat though, because of the cycle of the bugs. It’s a constant vigilance kind of thing if you’re letting your animals outside, unfortunately. And if you have carpets/rugs, they breed there and you’ve got to do everything all at once or they’ll keep coming back. But if you treat everything, and keep your pet up to date with flea meds, it should get rid of them.
we had epic battles with fleas in toronto ms kimmy…you have to wage war…or just burn the house down^^^
Lock up your daughters bitchers and let’s hope Dr. Zaius can prevent Suckulous from detonating the Doomsday Bomb. It’s Pon Farr and 28 Days Later Rage all rolled into one.
The Suckster is back and ready to par-tay. Be afraid – be very afraid >: 0
Burn the house down–tempting : )
Since I don’t want to expose my pet to any more crap, I simply plunge her kicking and screaming into a bathful of water each night and drown the little buggers (the fleas, not the animal). Of course, a clean white pet attracts more fleas, so in this way, I am slowly exterminating my house without using chemicals.
What a pain, though!
get a really good vacum, ya know one that will suck the curtains right off the hooks. fleas cycle every 7 days. we had a cat that was a flea magnet she would have hundreds and her brother would have one. the drops on the back of the neck work okay, we use sentinel, but if you can’t eradicate them from your cave they will keep finding warm bodies to feed on. thanks ivan now i can’t get rock me amaedus out of me head. “what’s wrong with me?” “i think you’re crazy” “want a second opinion” “you’re also lazy” heehaw
“DDT did a job on me, now i am a real sicky, guess i’m gonna have to tell’m , that i got no cerebellum; all the girls are in love with me; ima teenage lobotomy 🙂
You can buy those “Bug Bombs” on eBay. Fuck what the building owners say, if they won’t control the problem, start letting these suckers off in your apt and then leave for 3-4 days. Repeat monthly if you live in the towers down near the Dockyards.