Can you spot the problem? ;)

[tombogan03884]

Jeezus.

[Hazcat]

Absolutely right Tom. I just figured I would check him out a little before I did a damn thing. Plus I had a bit of a captive specimen there. He was stuck between a rock and a hard place or in the case a blower and a housing.

Taking about infections, I went to a house that was something slightly less worse then a sewer pit. Another dryer not running. Tilted it forward to look at the vent and saw what I thought was a snake tail sticking out.

Grabbed my Leatherman and pulled on it hoping it would just come free and I wouldn't have to go in after it. After a bit of a tug, I pulled out what happened to be the tail of a VERY large rat.

Had to dismantle everything and found a rat the size of a chihuahua stuck in there. He had been gnawing on the plastic blower wheel and got caught when they turned it on. He was dead which made things easier.

When I returned with the new part, I was sure to wear some old mechanics gloves I had in the truck and those have since been retired. I keep a large bottle of hand sanitizer and wipes in my truck. I took a bath in the stuff and went to the nearest bathroom to scrub up to my elbows.

Sad thing was, as I was leaving the second time, another VERY large rat ran past me and jumped through a hole that had been gnawed in the hinge side of a wooden door between the lower and middle hinge. The hole was about 3 inches in diameter if that gives you any idea of how big that bastard was.

Their account is now flagged for refusal of service.

Ya got ta wonder about people like that!  Simple cleanliness will solve a lot of 'infestations'.  That along with a little bit of upkeep and you should be able to live like civilized humans!

[fightingquaker13]

It ain't necessarily their fault. My senior year in college I got a sweet hookup on a rental house (high six figures minimum) through an old high school acquaintence because the owner was an FSO on a 2 year deployment. This thing was three stories, four bed rooms, 5 baths and a finished basement in walking distance of school. Problem was, DC was building a new metroline. The explosions from the drilling made the rats leave the sewers. I kiiled one with a nine iron in my dining room. My room mate reached into one of those 2 cmpartment SAMS club size boxes of Hefty bags and had one run  right up his arm, no BS. We took it as goood sport and had our folks send us or buy us pellet guns.We had a blast baiting them with peanut butter (and yes Timothy, in this case pellet guns and alchohol DID mix and I was very, very wrong ). However the tipping point came when a great big rat in the basement avoided fire and dived, in true James Bond fashion,into a toilet to make his escape. At this point our girlfriends, who to this point had been good sports, put their foot down, figuing that what goes down could come up. We called an exterminator the next day. No rats, but it ruined our fun.
FQ13

[Hazcat]

FQ,

I like you, live in FL the roach capital of the world.  Every month I spray around the base of the house and around all windows and doors.  I don't have a bug problem.

I use stuff from Lowes that ya mix 1oz to a gallon and use a pump sprayer.  No great cost.

When I was in AL I lived in a duplex.  The landlord (old lady) lived on the other side.  Roaches galore when I moved in.  I sprayed my area and made sure to set a spray barrier between her wall and mine.  No bugs.

It just takes the will.

[Rob10ring]

OK Haz the Exterminator, what do I do for black widows? I probably kill 20 a week right around the house.

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[sledgemeister]

What are rattlers are they like a toy snake? 

I cant see them on this list:

List of Deadliest Snakes in the world as per their ranking : -
 
1) Fierce Snake or Inland Taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus ), Australia. The most toxic venom of any snake. Maximum yield recorded (for one bite) is 110mg. That would porbably be enough to kill over 100 people or 250,000 mice. These rare snakes are vitually unknown in collections outside of Australia.
2) Australian Brown Snake (Pseudonaja textilis ), Australia. One 1/14,000 of an ounce of this vemon is enough to kill a person.
3) Malayan Krait (Bungarus candidus ), Southeast Asia and Indonesia. 50% of the bites from this snake are fatal even with the use of antivenin treatment.
4) Taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus ), Australia. The venom delivered in a single Taipan bite is enough to kill up to 12,000 guinea pigs.
5) Tiger Snake (Notechis scutatus ), Australia.
6) Beaked Sea Snake (Enhydrina schistosa ), South Asian waters Arabian Sea to Coral Sea..
7) Saw Scaled Viper (Echis carinatus ), Middle East Asia.
 Coral Snake (Micrurus fulvius ), North America.
9) Boomslang (Dispholidus typus ), Africa.
10) Death Adder (Acanthopis antarcticus ), Australia and New Guinea.
11) Black Mamba, both species of Green Mambas, and the Mojave Rattlesnake.

[True_Texan]

OK Haz the Exterminator, what do I do for black widows? I probably kill 20 a week right around the house.

Move maybe?  

Joking of course. I have been using Ortho Home Defense for the last couple of years. It seems to work pretty darn well. You spray it around the base of the foundation and window frames and any other place little creepy things get in. It's supposed to keep them from crossing the line you spray and coming into your home, plus kill anything already there.

It's supposed to last for a year, but I never really timed it. Time doesn't seem to affect me anyway (that's why is is 3:20am and I am typing a response.) You can tell when the stuff wears off though. You'll start seeing the spiders, ants and water bugs/roaches showing up inside again.

Not endorsing it fully, but it works around here at least. There are other brands that make the same kind of thing. I just grabbed it the 1st time because it was on sale then.

http://www.orthohomedefense.com/smg/brand/homedefense/?campaign=rdhdmdotcom

[Rob10ring]

What are rattlers are they like a toy snake? 

I cant see them on this list:

List of Deadliest Snakes in the world as per their ranking : -
 
1) Fierce Snake or Inland Taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus ), Australia. The most toxic venom of any snake. Maximum yield recorded (for one bite) is 110mg. That would porbably be enough to kill over 100 people or 250,000 mice. These rare snakes are vitually unknown in collections outside of Australia.
2) Australian Brown Snake (Pseudonaja textilis ), Australia. One 1/14,000 of an ounce of this vemon is enough to kill a person.
3) Malayan Krait (Bungarus candidus ), Southeast Asia and Indonesia. 50% of the bites from this snake are fatal even with the use of antivenin treatment.
4) Taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus ), Australia. The venom delivered in a single Taipan bite is enough to kill up to 12,000 guinea pigs.
5) Tiger Snake (Notechis scutatus ), Australia.
6) Beaked Sea Snake (Enhydrina schistosa ), South Asian waters Arabian Sea to Coral Sea..
7) Saw Scaled Viper (Echis carinatus ), Middle East Asia.
 Coral Snake (Micrurus fulvius ), North America.
9) Boomslang (Dispholidus typus ), Africa.
10) Death Adder (Acanthopis antarcticus ), Australia and New Guinea.
11) Black Mamba, both species of Green Mambas, and the Mojave Rattlesnake.

It almost takes a lot of trying to die from a rattlesnake bite. We average only 5.5 deaths by rattlesnake bite in the U.S. each year. Many rattlesnake bites involve alcohol. They do have a nasty bite and even during treatment, there can be a fair amount of suffering. In the US, if you get bit and seek help as fast as possible, you'll probably be fine.

I'd always read that the puff adder was the most dangerous snake in Africa and kills the most people. Not that it is the most venomous, just camo'd, fat and slow, so people stumble upon them.

[True_Texan]

What are rattlers are they like a toy snake?  

I cant see them on this list:

List of Deadliest Snakes in the world as per their ranking : -
 
1) Fierce Snake or Inland Taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus ), Australia. The most toxic venom of any snake. Maximum yield recorded (for one bite) is 110mg. That would porbably be enough to kill over 100 people or 250,000 mice. These rare snakes are vitually unknown in collections outside of Australia.
2) Australian Brown Snake (Pseudonaja textilis ), Australia. One 1/14,000 of an ounce of this vemon is enough to kill a person.
3) Malayan Krait (Bungarus candidus ), Southeast Asia and Indonesia. 50% of the bites from this snake are fatal even with the use of antivenin treatment.
4) Taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus ), Australia. The venom delivered in a single Taipan bite is enough to kill up to 12,000 guinea pigs.
5) Tiger Snake (Notechis scutatus ), Australia.
6) Beaked Sea Snake (Enhydrina schistosa ), South Asian waters Arabian Sea to Coral Sea..
7) Saw Scaled Viper (Echis carinatus ), Middle East Asia.
 Coral Snake (Micrurus fulvius ), North America.
9) Boomslang (Dispholidus typus ), Africa.
10) Death Adder (Acanthopis antarcticus ), Australia and New Guinea.
11) Black Mamba, both species of Green Mambas, and the Mojave Rattlers.

What do you mean? It says it right there.   

[Rob10ring]

What do you mean? It says it right there.   

Good spot!

I'm using the same pesticide.

I have a friend that is an exterminator and he says that Black Widows are one thing that they won't write a guarantee for, because they don't pick up enough poison. He says that you have to keep going out in the evening and spraying them individually. I sprayed one tonight that was in a web where i killed one last week.

The Ortho works pretty well on our ants though.