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I had to learn when moving from the midwest where you only treat in the summer months that in the south you need to treat year round. Vet told me it’s because there’s such a short period there’s no fleas it’s easier just to use it every month.
Found a great way to kill bugs. For fire ants a 60/40 mixture of dish soap and water in a spray bottle. It removes some sort of waxy coating and they dehydrate immediately For other bugs we had to treat our dogs for fleas a few weeks ago and that meant treating the whole house. We got Comfortis from the vet for the dogs (works wonders and starts killing fleas in about 30 minutes) for the rest of the house we went to Walmart and got Hartz powder for the carpet and spray for the furniture. Now I’m finding dead flies, spiders and palmetto bugs every day. If the palmetto is still alive it’s so intoxicated it doesn’t move when you get near them or they’re belly up and floundering trying to move. I think we’re goint to be spraying the house for fleas every month or 2 whether we have fleas or not just to keep on top of the other critters.
On another note, I saw something dark run under the door from the kitchen to the garage a few weeks ago when I went to let the dogs out. Didn’t know if it was a mouse or a gecko so Don wouldn’t set traps. He likes to catch the geckos and release them. Last week Don saw a mouse next to my chair in the office so he FINALLY put traps out yesterday. Today one of the traps in the kitchen is gone and we can’t find it. Have no idea where it’s at. We’re going to pull the refrigerator and stove out a little later and see if it made it’s way under one of them. Figured with a trap connected to it there’s no way it could get under a door or through a hole so we’re stumped.
Here in Cali we have to treat all year (according to vets), because it’s warm enough most of the time (even in the northern part of state) to have the pesky critters all year long. And our town are intersects three rivers, a river bypass, several lakes, dams, etc., so there are a lot of ‘skito’s (as we call them) year long.
Heartworm and flea meds. My vet in CA, when she found out I was moving to FL, said if I didn’t do anything else for my dogs to give them Heartguard. So they get it every month without fail.
And as for fleas, the doggers were bothered terribly by them and the house was full of them before I started using Advantage. Now, I haven’t seen a flea anywhere in over 10 years. Once you get them off the dogs, they seem to go away from the rest of the house and yard. I guess when they don’t have to dog to feed on they die out. I feel very badly now that they suffered with them before. Of course there was no such thing before.
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