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SCORPIONS...
Who else has them and what do you do about it? Right now we just hunt them at night with a black light and smash them with a garden shovel. I'm thinking there has to be a more effective way to keep them away! We've now hired a bug guy to spray and hopefully take their food supply away.
I've heard that scorpions are impossible to get rid of, but if anyone has done the impossible...I'd love to hear about it and any tips you might have! We've been at our new house for almost a month and I didn't find one until last week (in the family room, yikes). Now we actively look for them and generally find between 1 and 13 in our yard at night. I check inside every night also and haven't found any since then. HELP, please! We have a small dog and don't want her to get stung.
Re: SCORPIONS...
Also I LOVE my pest control guy. I would totally have my cable and internet shut off before I stopped having him come. We have him come every 3-4 weeks to kill off all the bugs. We have yet to see any bugs in our new house and at the old house we didnt have a problem with Scorpions at all... I hate those things!
who is your best guy would love a rec!
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I pay $45/month but they go based off of the size of your house / yard. So if you call her she'll ask you some questions about your house. They will also come back out (at no extra charge) if there is a problem so it's not like they leave you hanging after you spray. We have them come every month (every 3 weeks in the summer) and they are just amazing people. I love love love them so much! They don't BS you either and are great to work with. Lyn actually cat sits for us occassionally. She will be doing so when we go away next month too!
We did the impossible! When we moved into our home, it was infested! There were 3 dead scorpions and 2 live ones inside the house (hadn't been lived in for over a year) and our first night out blacklighting we found over 30 in our front and back yard. Here's what we did:
1) Diatomaceous earth around the base of plants
2) Blacklight/hornet spray every chance we get (less scorpions = less babies to repopulate)
3) Deltamethrin (best product ever invented) - buy it at a weed and pest store in concentrate (very $$ but ah-ma-zing and cheaper than paying someone over time) We mix it up and spray it around the exterior every month, interior every 3 months. Eventually eliminated the need for #1.
Since we started the deltamethrin, we've gone blacklighting several times and have found maybe 2 or 3 total scorpions. Not a single one in the house since we started spraying. It took us about a year to get to this point, but my paranoid self finally doesn't check the bedsheets anymore!!
That's so reassuring! We called the bug guy and have been using DE in what had been the biggest problem areas. We only find 1 (if any) outside at night now and it gives me ideas of where to put more DE. We'll keep this up for about a year (and keep the bug guy forever!) and hopefully the one I saw in the house will be the only one I ever see inside. Fingers crossed!