Get a professional to do this job. These are too dangerous for anyone but a well-equipped exterminator to take care of.
Yellow Jackets, for instance, will sting you multiple times and chase you 100 yards.
Once stung, it causes the rest of the hive to chase you.
Once they attack they can kill you if you are alergic to them. They can still kill you from their poisonous stings. The poison does not break down in your body over time. It stays active.
Bees will die once they sting you. Their poisonous stings can kill anyone if you get stung enough times. They will chase you.
Stepping on or swatting a stinging insect will send out a pharamone to tell the other insects in their colony to attack. Never step on or crush a Yellow Jacket. Never swat one. Kill it with pesticide. Call an exterminator.
There is a good technique exterminators use. They wait until after sunset when the insects are all in their hive. They place a strong flashlight on a chair or ladder to point to the insect from one angle while they attack the nest from a different angle. If the insects do fly out they go toward the light, not the exterminator. He can then either inject insecticide into the bottom hole of the nest and kill them as they try to swarm out. He can put a plastic bag over it and trap the entire nest. He can remove a tree limb with the nest on it and put it into a bag. Various techniques are used. But one thing is for sure. The entire nest must be removed. If not the insects will rebuild it.
Do not try to do for yourself what only trained professionals cand do with specialized equipment and protective gear. Don't expose yourself to serious injury or death. Don't mess with stinging or biting insects.
There are also bees that infest the ground instead of making a hive. Ground bees attack you when you are mowing your lawn and go over their nest. You'll find your yard dotted with little openings over as much as an acre of land. They will come out, sting you and you'll be well advised not to ignore the threat.
Flies cause a great deal of disease. They are not to be tolerated. When a fly lands on your food or table top they leave disease. Remember. They are born in animal dung so whatever they take from there goes into your house.
They eat by vomiting digestive juices onto whatever they find nourishing. They then absorb the digested food with spongy mouth parts. Therefore if they land on your food they have emptied their stomach of whatever it was they ate last - including animal dung. Don't eat what they have landed on!
If you have more than a couple of incidenal flies in your home it is almost certain you have a source of flies. Look for hidden piles of rotting food in your drains, trash, backyard. A dead animal is a prime source of flies.
The fliies lay hundreds of eggs in carcasses which will turn into flies in a day and a half. The fly will live about two weeks and die. So if you have a source of flies the fly infestation can NOT be controlled without a thorough cleaning of the premises to find the source.
I have seen fly infestations in houses where they form a large swarm with an audible buzzing. I have personally used a fly swatter to kill 500 plus flies in a single trailor. They are relentless. They will take over.
Fly strips are useful for a few dozen flies. Fly swatters for an occasional fly. There are ultra-violet light fly zappers. But if these don't control them and you have to catch or kill more than a few every day, do that deep cleaning and get rid of the source.
Hint: Get a rectangular floor fan and bolt it to the top of the front door with the fan facing down. Flies do not pass a down draft. This technique is used in many buildings to keep flies from entering. It works. A constant downdraft careated by a fan keeps flies from entering. You can see their effectiveness because you see them in school gymnasiums and the like.
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Roaches:
was in the pest control business for 25 years. Here's what you need to know about roaches:
If you do then you are in real trouble.
They probably entered your house in just a few common ways:
1: They came in the paper bags and/or products you got from the grocery store
2: They walked in from outside.
Danger: They carry a large number of diseases which will remain virulent on your counter tops and plates/food for weeks after they crawl off. Put your food, plates and silverware and any food products in plastic containers and seal them tightly. How tight? A baby roach can find its way up the inside rim of a peanut butter jar or into a box of flour or cereal that you thought you sealed. Get the idea?
If you touch a roach or something it crawled across you can wash your hands raw, put your fingers in a petri dish and it will grow bacteria from the roach. Never expose yourself.
From roaches you can get streppe throat, intestinfal infections, the bubonic plague. Its skin oil causes ashma attacks (one of the leading causes of attacks among asthmatics) and can cost you thousands in doctor bills every year. People who are alergic to them (common!) can show any number of symptoms. Just let a roach crawl across some cabbage. Boil the cabbage - it doesn't matter. The roach oil will still bring alergic sysmptoms upon eating.
Roaches (the german roach and brown-banded roach are most common) will lay between 28 and 40 roaches a month. Each one mates within 30 days and begins the cycle of reproduction. They try to hide any way possible so if you see one during the day time it is because they have no other place to hide. If you see a baby roach, that is especially indicitive of a massive (thousands of roaches) in your home. If you see a white one, it has just shed its skin. It takes 45 minutes after molting for that to turn brown. If you see a white roach it means dinner to the other canabalistic roaches. It also means there is NO crack or crvice in your place that isn't filled with roaches. Tough luck, honey. You are in for a powerful war.
Do not! DO NOT try to use foggers. They stun the roaches and simply, if they kill any at all, will lessen the population to make it more easy for the rest of the baby roaches to thrive. You see, the only roaches that are killed by a roach bomb are those who can't find a hiding place and may be only 1% of the population, if that. So what does it matter if you kill 2,000 of them? Roach bombs may seem to work but don't kid yourself. By the time you need a roach bomb it is absolutely too late for one.
Good news: Professionals can get rid of the WORST infestation with just one visit. You don't need a yearly contract! That's right. The pesticides used to day are safe and they last for months, if not years, with one application. They usually don't even have and odor! They work in several ways.
1: Kill directly by being absorbed through the roach's skin
2: Keep the young from being able to grow to adulthood (growth inhibitor) so they dehidrate and die.
3: Chitin inhibitor: This keeps the roach from forming its outer skeleton so it can't molt.
4: Bait: The most effective way and the only one really required. Baits will be eaten by one roach and that roach will die. The other roaches will eat its carcass or its poop and be poisoned. It can kill one roach after another this way. It will take care of the popluation virtually all by itself and it never gets too old to work. It can keep your place roach-free for years. Baits take many form and can even be sprayed from a spray can!
There are many other techniques to kill roaches. The thing you have to do is to choose a company where the person who comes to the door is the company's owner. Make sure he uses bait, growth inhibitors (IGR'S) and chitin inhibitors.
RULE NUMBER 1: By the time you know you have roaches it is too late to do anything about it yourself. You'll just waste your money.
#2: Delay in the professional treatment will mean bigger expense because the population grows very, very fast. (Each femal roach (1/3 of the population) produces 25 to 40 viable eggs a month! It becomes adult in 30 days! Each roach lives a year!)
#3: Choose a company that guarantees the work, not someone who will simply force a year contract on you. Companies know they can get rid of the problem in 1 visit.
#4: NEVER use a company that claims it has to service your home once a month. The pesticides, maybe 50 years ago, were applied that frequently. Today they last a very long time! Over applying the pesticide just makes the roaches run away from it! Their antennae detect it like your tongue would sugar - at the melecular level. Overapplying pesticide might make a customer "happy" but it is bad practice.
#5: Never ask the exterminator to use a spray tank if he doesn't want to use it. They are still used but are not primary. The exterminator can use only bait and it will take care of the whole problem by itself. Let the professional apply his trade. It probably won't even leave an odor.
#6: Empty your cabinets when the exterminator asks you to do it in advance. It can take 3 hours to do this. Don't wait for the guy to arrive. Don't ask him to apply pesticide to your dishes and cups because "you'll be sure to wash it off afterward". The pesticide is supposed to be placed in the cabinets, not go down your drain. They can't be put on eating utensiles. Sorry. Against the law for obvious reason.
I hope this helps. Feel free to ask questions. By the way, it has been a number of years since I picked up a spray tank. Modern methods probably include things that make control even better than ever. This is the 21st century. The roaches don't have a chance!
