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I read your write up on handling nats but this is on the inside of the house because of a lemon tree outside the door with fruit rotting. They got the fruit but I still have a huge nat problem. Can a fogger be used in the house? It is a small unit and mainly in the kitchen. Thanks.

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hi jonathan,

i came across your website in search of a solution to my cricket problem. i have a finished basement and don't know where to begin with treatment for this problem. i have had someone professional come out in the past to spray in/out of the house and it seems to control the prob for a while, but they seem to be coming back in force now. they are mostly in the bsement, which like i said is finished and has two bedrooms where children sleep.

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What do you recommend ? I forgot to unpack two knitted mink items. A Stole and a Bolero Jacket….last spring. They were in a box all summer. When I discovered the box with the items, there were white maggots on the Fur. I dusted them off and hung up the items in the air. Don't know where the maggots went, what do you recommend? Fur Cleaning for the Fur pieces or one of your products??? Please advise. Thank you.

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Going to Longboat for a couple of months with small dog. I react to no see ums. Just returned Oct 1-15 from Sanibel with many bites. Is Atlantic coast better for not having these terrible pests?

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Hi, I have these little knats in my grass outside. When the grass is ruffled, they fly out of the grass. They also fly around in the air. I have a little dog and have to be very careful of which products to use. Do you have any recommendations? Thanks much.

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Question—we get a smell from a closet in one room—we feel it is coming from the attic (the only time we get this smell is when the furnace or air conditioner is OFF). There is no force air circulation going on.

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I have found some egg casings on my wildlife mounts. I am getting some hair slippage and took an antelope mount back to the taxadermist to check. He said there is a weavel infestation going on. What is the best product to use that won't stain the fur and is somewhat enviornmentally friendly as we have small children around?

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Hello, I have a case of whitefly infestation on my ficus hedge fence where the leaves have fallen approx 75%, and the remainder leaves will probably all be gone in the next week. Can the plants still be salvageable? If so, what is the type of treatment you recommend at this stage?

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We have a problem with tiny black spots the size of the head of a pin on our windows and door on front of our house. Do you know what is causing this and

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Help! I recently bought a couple of log beds that were stored outside. I now have an army of the little buggers, and have killed about 100 in the last 2 days. how do I get rid of them without harming my indoor cats? I can't take the beds outside to treat them, they are way to heavy.
Fortunately there are several options you can deploy which won't pose a hazard to you or your pets. The first (and most likely the best) would be to do a thorough job of treating the bed frame with some ECO EXEMPT AEROSOL. This is a food grade product that's actually so safe to use it's exempt from federal registration. We've been carrying this product for some time and during this time have learned it works well for certain pests. Earwigs are one of them.
Be sure to treat all the cracks and crevices as these spaces are where earwigs like to hide. All the joints where the beds fit together will be likely hiding spots as will any void that could exist if the frame is made of veneer and not solid wood. The good news about the Exempt is that you can apply it as is needed. In other words, you can treat daily if you need to. Based on how many you reported in your message, it could very well take several days of treating to get rid of all that are hiding.
I also recommend setting out some EARWIG TRAPS around the room where the bed frames are being set up. This way any earwigs that escape the treatment (or have already escaped) will be targeted by something besides the aerosol. You can use the Exempt anywhere in the home you want to use it but this could prove wasteful. The Traps are easy to deploy and work by attracting them so you don't have to make the placements in any "exact" location to get results.
Here are direct links to the information and products listed above:

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Hi there.

I have a skunk or something living under my main stairs in the front yard.

My wife is concerned if I use the Giant Destroyer product:

1. the animal will die, decompose and smell for a very long time.

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A red cedar tree in a row of the same trees looks dead (brown). On the bark are thousands of termite boreholes with sawdust and i saw some tiny termite-like insects crawling about. According to the info I gathered, termites do not affect or kill this type of tree. I doubt that this tree can be saved, but what can be done to save the rest? Here is a picture of the tree.

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Hi Jonathan,

I was reading your article on the website about scorpions and I had some questions.  I live in Tucson, Arizona and since I moved into my home in March of this year, I have found 4 scorpions.  I believe they are bark scorpions.  The first one was found in April and it was about 2 inches in size, found downstairs.  The next two I found were in July (found two weeks apart) upstairs, and were tiny..definitely babies.  And I just found one this morning downstairs in the kitchen…it must have come out maybe 10 minutes after I left the kitchen and when I came back there it was not moving.  It was a young – only half inch big.  Do I have an infestation?  I don't know if finding 4 in 5 months is a lot.  It is the monsoon season here so it's probably mating season.  I don't know but I am definitely worried that we have an infestation.  Could you please provide me with your expertise?  I intend to order Cy-Kick to treat the outside and inside of the house in the meantime. Thanks so much!

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Hi, we have had a pharoh ant problem for the last month or so.  I have done the "three prong" approach spraying with cypermethrin inside and out, spreading ant granules outside in the area where I think they may be entering the house, and putting out bait stations.  They don't seem to be lessening at all.  I even spread some delta dust outside to see if that has any effect.  The only thing I'm thinking is that the baits (which were from a box I bought last year) might be old and dried up.  Perhaps I need to get some new ones?

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Do your products work on gnats (i think they are black flies) as soon as we walk on the lawn we are swarmed by dozens and dozens of gnats aroung our heads… we live in hunterdon county in NJ and have about 2 acres of property to treat…

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