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Re: Box alder bugs- how to get rid of the little bastards?
« Reply #25 on: April 28, 2011, 07:02:55 PM »
We've got cicadas coming out down here...loud bastards they are.

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Re: Box alder bugs- how to get rid of the little bastards?
« Reply #26 on: April 28, 2011, 07:58:31 PM »
First, you need to buy a BassOmatic (tm)........
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Re: Box alder bugs- how to get rid of the little bastards?
« Reply #27 on: April 28, 2011, 08:18:30 PM »
should be TTT, again. well that or bump. ;) [popcorn]
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Re: Box alder bugs- how to get rid of the little bastards?
« Reply #28 on: April 28, 2011, 11:08:52 PM »
Why does soapy water kill them  ???
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Re: Box alder bugs- how to get rid of the little bastards?
« Reply #29 on: April 28, 2011, 11:26:02 PM »
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Why does soapy water kill them
Probably low surface tension, gets sucked into their breathing orifices which are designed to keep out water with normal surface tension. *shrug*
It kills them dead very fast, however it does it.

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Re: Box alder bugs- how to get rid of the little bastards?
« Reply #30 on: April 29, 2011, 01:44:46 AM »
When we were cleaing out my late uncle's farm I found a full, sealed, gallon jug (glass) of Chlordane. I'm good to go for a while =D
I also still have a full gallon of Diazanon concentrate for back up.
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Re: Box alder bugs- how to get rid of the little bastards?
« Reply #31 on: April 29, 2011, 08:18:19 AM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on April 29, 2011, 01:44:46 AM
When we were cleaing out my late uncle's farm I found a full, sealed, gallon jug (glass) of Chlordane. I'm good to go for a while =D

No thank you. 

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Re: Box alder bugs- how to get rid of the little bastards?
« Reply #32 on: April 29, 2011, 08:21:18 AM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on April 29, 2011, 01:44:46 AM
When we were cleaing out my late uncle's farm I found a full, sealed, gallon jug (glass) of Chlordane. I'm good to go for a while =D  I also still have a full gallon of Diazanon concentrate for back up.
Wish I still had some . . . but I used up my stockpile a while back; The "green" bug killers aren't a fraction as effective as Diazanon, Dursban, or the other stuff they took off the market.
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Re: Box alder bugs- how to get rid of the little bastards?
« Reply #33 on: April 29, 2011, 09:14:38 AM »
I'm saving my Chlordane (have a little less than a quart of 74%) in case I ever have to deal with termites.  For anything less than that, I have Diazinon, Cygon, a little bit of Dursban, and I think I have a bottle of Lindane (maybe have used up all the Lindane treating borers.)

I really don't use much pesticide, but when I do I don't like to mess around.
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Re: Box alder bugs- how to get rid of the little bastards?
« Reply #34 on: April 29, 2011, 11:50:42 AM »
i lindaned a pine tree that got eaten up by borers

they all died and the infection did not spread
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Re: Box alder bugs- how to get rid of the little bastards?
« Reply #35 on: April 29, 2011, 09:45:25 PM »
I wonder if a squirt gun with soapy water will kill the buggers. I'm gonna find out, sounds more fun than smashing them.  [ar15]
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