Don’t assume that every pesticide for sale is a legal product. There are products circulating on the street or sold mostly in neighborhood Asian and Hispanic stores that are imported from other countries. Many of these imported products are illegal. In other words, they do not have labels approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). But to add to the confusion, some of these illegal products are also available to the public in legal, EPA-registered versions.
… VIEW MOREQ. I’ve had a problem in the past with clothes moths that I think I’ve finally solved. What can I do to keep from getting clothes moths again?
A. Good for you, being proactive. You already know that there’s something about your situation that clothes moths like so it’s important to change those “conducive conditions,” as we call them in the pest control business.
… VIEW MOREWe think of yellowjackets nesting outside in the ground or up in trees. Fact is, more and more, yellowjackets are nesting in houses. If you’re lucky, you’ll never be confronted by them.
… VIEW MOREQ. We have this tiny, black ant that has invaded our house in the last couple of weeks. My son got out his microscope kit and we could see that the ants have a heart-shaped abdomen. Can you tell what kind of ant it is from that?
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Q. I’ve read more than once that cockroaches have been around since the days of the dinosaurs and that they will be the only survivors after a nuclear holocaust wipes out everything else. How come we can manage to exterminate other insect pests, but not cockroaches?
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