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Old 08-15-2022, 11:21 AM
 
Location: Tampa
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With doing your own spraying, what all does that entail? Do you do any spraying indoors or just outside?
If your house is sealed well enough then outside spray should work enough. If it is an older house you will need to spray inside and outside. You can also use pest granules to make a line burrier around your home exterior. Trim any trees or bushes that touch the home so that there is nothing touching the house, that will keep ants down.

I have a company that sprays the home exterior quarterly and I spray the yard quarterly with one of those hose attached pest sprays. We never see roaches in the home (built 1983), rarely ants - but some interior spot spraying takes care of them. We also keep food waste only in the kitchen garbage and empty it every other day or so (more often if it is something that might smell of course).
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Old 08-19-2022, 06:10 AM
 
Location: Central Florida
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People in this thread are funny, trying to make it appear that palmetto bugs are somehow different from roaches. They are not.

According to Orkin.com: The term "palmetto bug" is a general name commonly used to refer to several species of cockroaches in the southern U.S.
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Old 08-19-2022, 06:49 AM
 
Location: South Tampa, Maui, Paris
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People in this thread are funny, trying to make it appear that palmetto bugs are somehow different from roaches. They are not.

According to Orkin.com: The term "palmetto bug" is a general name commonly used to refer to several species of cockroaches in the southern U.S.
YES. This is a very Florida thing. People in Florida like to say "We don't have roaches we have palmetto bugs." Well, palmetto bugs ARE roaches.

As a Florida native, I can assure you. WE HAVE ROACHES. All manner of types and styles and sizes and wingspans; big ones, small ones. There is no sugar-coating or putting a PC name on them. WE HAVE LOTS OF ROACHES.
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