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[–] draaaak 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

You need screens for your windows, weather stripping for your doors, and maybe double stick tape for your thresholds (base of your doorways). Also caulk or sprayfoam seams and cracks that bugs can get through.

Windex kills ants on contact, and makes cleaning them up easy, and a vacuum works great on spiders and flyers. Allowing a few non-threatening spiders to set up shop is not a bad move, they will help kill things like mosquitoes and moths. Just make sure to kill them all periodically or else they will breed, and then you'll have a hundred tiny spiders hanging from your laundry room ceiling....

Consider getting some diatomaceous earth to stuff into crevices/cracks bugs can use to get into your house or as a nest. It will wipe out anything with an exoskeleton, takes some time though as it does so with dehydration.

Maybe also put a bug zapper somewhere.

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[–] slwsnowman40 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Ants don't like mint, grow some where they may have a nest and rub the fresh leaves where they are infiltrating your home. Do a simple test if you don't believe me, I didn't believe it at first either. They won't cross that spot for months. What you do is take some leaves and then rub their trail is, like you are scrubbing with a sponge.

This will result in your place smelling like fresh mint.

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[–] BB-3 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

That reminds me that spiders don't like cinnamon. You can get cinnamon oil and mix a little in a spray bottle with water to spray around your doors during spider season (fall) to discourage them from building webs right in your doorway.

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[–] slwsnowman40 ago 

And if anyone reading this has a cat using their garden as a litter box, citrus peels. My mom tried this, and a former co-worker had a citrus tree (I don't remember what kind) and he said his cats never went near it.

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[–] assert_patrimony 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

There is a big fat can of bug spray. I'm sorry, I don't know what it's called. But it's made for infestations. You close all the windows and spray it in every room of the house then exit and close the door. You leave the house for a couple hours, and when you come back all the bugs are dead on the floor. Maybe you can find it.

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[–] Marsog [S] 1 point 3 points (+4|-1) ago 

Don't worry friend i found just the stuff. It has great reviews so far and has been used for many infestations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyklon_B

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[–] stationJO 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Insecticide perimeter. We had someone spray this stuff around a warehouse I used to work at. Never once did I see any crawling insects like anywhere except the dead ones that made it under the fire exits.

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[–] Gargilius 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

...bring in another invasive species that will outbreed them, eat their food and lay eggs in their larvas.

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[–] Marsog [S] 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

sounds like something (((they))) would do

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[–] i_scream_trucks 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Yup. The Simpsons already did it.

Thanks Matt Groening

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[–] BB-3 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Parasitoid wasps. There's a species for every pest.

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[–] Gringojones 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Bug bomb first. Then use the granules that you spread on the ground. Wait until its about to rain before you spread them.

There are also plants that you can surround the house with that will keep bugs away. I'm not sure what they are. But an Internet search will tell you.

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[–] i_scream_trucks 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Insecticide in a carpet cleaner.

That just sounds like an overly agressive way to remove yourself from the gene pool.

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[–] lord_nougat 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

That's pretty good, but Fluoroantimonic acid is even better!

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