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Household Insects – Homeowners ` CAUTION: All Insecticides Are Toxic to Some Degree; Therefore, Care Should Be Exercised in Their Use Household Insects – Homeowners ` CAUTION: All insecticides are toxic to some degree; therefore, care should be exercised in their use. The manufacturer’s directions on the label in the use of the material must be followed explicitly. Insect Threats Insecticides and Treatment* Remarks Ants Feed on foods and Baits (active ingredient and Remove food and clean up the area. Place (several may damage product): bait where ants occur or congregate. May species) clothing; may also sodium tetraborate decahydrate use several different baits at the same time sting, causing severe (Amdro Kills Ants Liquid Bait, Terro to discover one that ants will consume. reaction to some Liquid Ant Baits); Care should be taken not to contaminate people. hydramethylnon (Amdro Kills Ants foodstuffs. Also treat nests in yard. Follow Bait Stations and Stakes); label. orthoboric acid (Terro Perimeter Ant Bait); fipronil (Combat Max Ant Killing Bait Stations and Gel); abamectin (Raid Max Double Control Ant Baits, Raid Ant Baits III); dinotefuran (Hot Shot Ultra Clear Roach & Ant Gel Bait, Hot Shot Ultra Liquid Ant Bait); spinosad (Ortho Home Defense Liquid Ant Bait); thiamethoxam (Raid Precision Placement Ant Bait Gel) Crack and crevices: Follow label. prallethrin, esfenvalerate, pyrethrins, pyrethrum, permethrin, tetra- methrin, phenothrin, beta-cyfluthrin, cyfluthrin Indoor space: prallethrin, esfenvalerate, pyrethrins, pyrethrum, permethrin, tetramethrin, phenothrin, cyfluthrin, bifenthrin Outdoor barrier: prallethrin, esfenvalerate, permethrin, beta-cyfluthrin, cyfluthrin, bifenthrin, malathion, carbaryl Outdoor broadcast: hydramethylnon, pyriproxyfen, beta-cyfluthrin, esfenvalerate, bifenthrin, cyfluthrin, malathion, carbaryl *Labels on insecticides should state “material may be used in the household” and should be registered by the EPA for that purpose. Household Insects – Homeowners ` CAUTION: All insecticides are toxic to some degree; therefore, care should be exercised in their use. The manufacturer’s directions on the label in the use of the material must be followed explicitly. Insect Threats Insecticides and Treatment* Remarks Ants Damage wooden Baits: Spraying infested areas in midspring will (carpenter structures, making fipronil (Maxforce Carpenter Ant usually reduce populations for the season. ants) smooth, round Bait); holes in wood for abamectin (Advance Granular Ant Solve moisture problems and leaks. Stack nesting purposes. Bait) firewood away from the house. Carpenter ants may move into houses from trees Crack and crevice: located near the house. Trim tree branches deltamethrin (D-Fense Dust); that contact structures. Seal cracks and dinotefuran (Alpine PT Aerosol; openings for electrical and water lines that Alpine Ant and Termite Foam) enter the building. Sprays: fipronil (Taurus SC); fipronil and imidacloprid (FUSE Termiticide & Insecticide) Ants (fire ants) Sting people who Baits: For areas with heavy fire ant infestations disturb a nest. indoxacarb (Advion Fire Ant Bait, and low numbers of beneficial native ants, a Multiple stings often Ortho Fire Ant Killer Mound Bait); two-step method is suggested. The first occur, and stings are fipronil (Maxforce FC Fire Ant Bait); step is a broadcast application of a bait painful. Cause hydramethylnon (Amdro Granules insecticide over the entire yard in early- to severe reaction to Fire Ant Bait); midfall, and the second step is to treat people who are hydramethylnon and s-methoprene individual problem mounds with an allergic to the (Amdro Kills Fire Ants Yard approved bait, drench, granule, or dust venom. Treatment Bait; Extinguish Plus Fire insecticide. Ant Bait); spinosad (Payback Fire Ant Bait); abamectin (Ascend Fire Ant Bait, Award II Fire Ant Bait); metaflumizone (Altrevin® Fire Ant Bait); pyriproxyfen (Distance and Esteem Fire Ant Bait); fenoxycarb (Award Fire Ant Bait) Contact (various active ingredients): allethrin, resmethrin, sumithrin, tetramethrin, bifenthrin, cyfluthrin, cypermethrin, deltamethrin, fenvalerate, fluvalinate, lambda- cyhalothrin, permethrin, s-bioallethrin, esfenvalerate, tefluthrin, tralomethrin, carbaryl, acephate, fipronil, boric acid. Botanicals: d-limonene, pyrethrins, rotenone, pine oil, turpentine. *Labels on insecticides should state “material may be used in the household” and should be registered by the EPA for that purpose. Household Insects – Homeowners ` CAUTION: All insecticides are toxic to some degree; therefore, care should be exercised in their use. The manufacturer’s directions on the label in the use of the material must be followed explicitly. Insect Threats Insecticides and Treatment* Remarks Ants (pharaoh Indoor nuisance Baits: Difficult to manage. Spray applications will ants) pest, especially in indoxacarb (Advion Ant Bait Arena, break the colonies into multiple colonies hospitals; causes the Advion Ant Bait Gel, Advion Ant Bait and make management more difficult. Place spread of infection, Kit); baits where the ants are trailing and in all contaminates abamectin (Advance 375A Select Ant areas ants are found. Use fat-based and sterilized equipment Bait); sweet baits in combination. Try small and supplies, and fipronil (Maxforce FC Ant Bait amounts of baits to see which ones are disturbs patients. Stations); preferred before applying extensive baiting Also causes hydramethylnon (Amdro Kills Ants (use less than 1 percent concentrations). electrical Bait Stations); interference and boric acid; contaminates food. borax Ants (crazy Damages electrical Baits: Most ant baits are not effective for these ants) and computer hydramethylnon (Maxforce Complete ants. Baits alone are inadequate to reduce equipment. High Granular Bait); high densities of these ants but may be number of ants abamectin (Advance Carpenter Ant effective when densities are low in the (particularly tawny Bait) spring. Use fresh bait and apply it when the crazy ants) can ground is dry and no rain is expected for cover the yard or 24 hours. Broadcast bait over the entire landscape. Causes a infested area. negative impact on ecological systems by displacing other Perimeter sprays: The tawny crazy ant must be specifically organisms. dinotefuran (Alpine WSG); identified from a parish before Termidor imidacloprid (Dominion 2L can be used for this pest. Louisiana received Insecticide); a Section 18 quarantine exemption-use permethrin (Hi-Yield Lawn, Garden, label for Termidor SC insecticide to be Pet, & Livestock Insect Killer, Hi-Yield used in management of tawny crazy ants. 38 Plus Turf Termite and Ornamental The renewed exemption was authorized on Insect Control); April 1, 2016, and will expire April 1, 2019. bifenthrin (Ortho Home Defense); The following parishes are included in the acephate (Orthene Spray 97); exemption: Ascension, Assumption, fipronil (Termidor SC) Beauregard, Calcasieu, East Baton Rouge, Iberia, Iberville, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lafourche, Livingston, Morehouse, Orleans, Rapides, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, Vermilion, Vernon, Washington, and West Baton Rouge. When dead ants accumulate, carefully remove them with a leaf blower outdoors or vacuum indoors. Do not disturb or remove the insecticide from the treated surfaces. Do not vigorously wipe or scrape clean treated surfaces. *Labels on insecticides should state “material may be used in the household” and should be registered by the EPA for that purpose. Household Insects – Homeowners ` CAUTION: All insecticides are toxic to some degree; therefore, care should be exercised in their use. The manufacturer’s directions on the label in the use of the material must be followed explicitly. Insect Threats Insecticides and Treatment* Remarks Bedbugs Feed at night by Crack and crevice and mattress: Eliminating bedbugs from a house is very sucking blood of deltamethrin (Buggslayer Insecticide difficult and requires killing the bugs in all sleeping persons. RTU); infested sites throughout the entire house diatomaceous earth (Hi-Yield at the same time. The insecticides must Crawling Insect Control; InsectiGone contact the bedbugs when they are applied. Crawling Insect Killer); Bedbugs may walk across insecticides and diatomaceous earth and pyrethrins not be killed. Eggs are not killed by these (Results Indoor Insect Killer); insecticides. There is little residual from phenothrin (Pronto Plus Bedbug & these insecticides, and applications may Dust Mite Killer, Ortho Home have to be repeated. Aerosol bombs are Defense Max Bedbug Killer) not effective. Few, if any, insecticides are labeled to treat mattresses or electrical Residual sprays: wiring. Follow the label. bifenthrin (Bifen IT); esfenvalerate (Stop Bugging Me!, Spray lightly in all cracks and baseboards, FenvaStar EcoCap); crevices of floors, behind loose wallpaper permethrin (Martin's Permethrin and other hiding places. Termiticide/Insecticide); lambda-cyhalothrin (Demand CS, Additionally, heat treatment, steam Surrender Brand Pestabs) treatment, cold treatment, mattress encasings, CO2 monitors and traps are Indoor spaces: important tools in managing bedbugs. These cyfluthrin (Cy-Kick CS Controlled tools should be used in combination with Release Insecticide); insecticides. Treating wall voids with deltamethrin (Black Flag Home Insect diatomaceous earth may be very Control Concentrate); advantageous. Do not use swimming pool synergized pyrethrins (CB-40 grade diatomaceous earth. Insecticide, Clear Zone Double Impact Farm Fly Spray) Sulfuryl fluoride products are restricted-use pesticides that can
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