We've had a lot of scorpions around the house lately, some of them pretty big. Any suggestions?
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Any suggestions to treat home for scorpions?
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Last: 16 yr ago by chev46
Scorpions like cool, wet places... especially wood. You need to take a multi-pronged approach if you want to get rid of them.
Create a vegetative-free zone around your house using rock... a foot and a half or so should do. This also helps drainage around your foundation, so it's a good idea anyway. Seal areas where they could be getting in like holes around faucets, doors, windows, and chimneys. Move anything like piles of firewood away from the house.
They prey on other insects, so remove any of their food sources that you can find. Treat the yard every few months. (Despite my otherwise hippie nature, my favorite DIY treatment is triazicide.) Inside the house, you can use traps with water and boron (the scorpions are attracted to the water and the boron kills them), and treat areas like your attic and around baseboards with dessicating powders ... even food-safe powders work, like talcum powder and medicated body powder.
Create a vegetative-free zone around your house using rock... a foot and a half or so should do. This also helps drainage around your foundation, so it's a good idea anyway. Seal areas where they could be getting in like holes around faucets, doors, windows, and chimneys. Move anything like piles of firewood away from the house.
They prey on other insects, so remove any of their food sources that you can find. Treat the yard every few months. (Despite my otherwise hippie nature, my favorite DIY treatment is triazicide.) Inside the house, you can use traps with water and boron (the scorpions are attracted to the water and the boron kills them), and treat areas like your attic and around baseboards with dessicating powders ... even food-safe powders work, like talcum powder and medicated body powder.
find any and all entrances for them and caulk, caulk, caulk! I have recently found that bugs are even coming in by way of my electrical outlets! The electricians left some space around the wiring boxes when they cut the drywall, and then my switchplate covers aren't completely flat to the wall due to our textured walls,letting all kinds of spiders, etc. into our house. Caulk around pipes in your cabinets and anywhere else you see possible entry points!
My parents were told to use diatomeceous earth a few years ago and it's worked like a charm.
http://www.environmentsensitive.com/DiatomaceousEarth.htm
http://www.environmentsensitive.com/DiatomaceousEarth.htm
robert
We use diatomeceous earth (DE) in our pool filter. We never have scorpions in the pool, so it must work!
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We use diatomeceous earth (DE) in our pool filter. We never have scorpions in the pool, so it must work!
the pool DE is not the same as used in pest control.
Fire ants..
I use ABC Home and Commercial Services and haven't seen a single one...or any other bug for that matter.
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haven't seen a single one...or any other bug for that matter.
Gotta be some potent stuff they're laying down.