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What's the best way to deal/control the mosquitoes, gnats, humidity and palmetto bugs?
1st. Should I plan to purchase a home dehumidifier?
Is the Charleston area trying to bring in "Bats" to control the mosquitoes/gnats? Also wondering do Geckos eat palmetto bugs?
If you don't want bugs in your house, keep them out of your yard. You can get a variety of lawn treatments for insects at your local hardware store. Follow the instructions and keep the yard treated. If they can't survive in the yard, they can't get to the house.
A couple of years ago, my mom had ants in the kitchen and asked me what to do. I said go look on the side of the house (kitchen had an outside wall), sure enough there was a mound right next to the house. She had her lawn guy treat the yard and never saw another ant.
I personally see more roaches on my back porch than inside so I put stuff down when it starts to warm up every year to kill them and I don't have to worry about inside at all.
You can get products of varying toxicity depending on your needs (I have a dog and my neighbors have kids so I try not to go for the kill everything under the sun stuff).
Mosquitoes are a different story. You can't really get rid of them. I find that the Cotronella (and similar) torches and candles work well for keeping them away if you're doing something in a relatively small space but it can get pricey for larger areas.
Is it something that you sprinkle around as a perimeter deterrent?
Yes - The roach will eventually try to lick it off it's legs and die.
I always shot it behind drywall through small openings around electric sockets. My dog's eat and lick everything so I never used it anywhere else.
I've said this quite a bit on this forum, but if you have pine straw around your home, GET RID OF IT!
Palmetto bugs breed in pine straw. (I know, YUK!) When we bought our house here in 2011, we did that and have not seen a single palmetto bug in or around our house since then. Believe me, IT WORKS!
TealDreamer,
What is best as a natural mulch that keeps weeds AND palmettos at bay? (Pine straw drives me crazy anyway, because when you pull up weeds, half the straw comes up along with them.)
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