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Old 09-23-2014, 01:07 AM
 
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I see many Centepedes at home outside in the garden and on a couple of occasions inside the house. One inside the washer and one on the tub. I regularly spray and that takes care of it but when I dig to do gardening outside, it disturbs their habitat and occasionaly a Centepede will surface. Anything with more than 2 legs creep me out. I have a feeling when the condo complex was being built it was brought in during construction. The ground floor in our complex is the same level as the 2nd floor next door.

Knock on wood, in my nearly 30 years of residence here I have only seen one Scorpion in Spring Valley and it was at my sisters house around Fort Apache/Russell area a long long time ago.
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Old 09-23-2014, 02:52 PM
 
Location: Sunrise
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Here's a smart thing to do for prevention of all hard shelled creatures, including scorpions and those huge roaches/palm bugs. In the spring and fall spread some diatomaceous earth all around the perimeter of your home. Wear a mask! Even though people actually EAT the stuff, it's not good to breathe. You can dissolve the stuff in water and spray it too. It's not a poison so it doesn't hurt the furbabies even if they lick it off their paws. And one of the best things...it kills flies too!

Most of the feed stores carry it and you can always order it on line. I know Sunset Saddlery has it.
DE is the way to go. As effective as poison, and it's basically an uncommon, pulverized rock. Boric acid is nice as well. I have it behind all the baseboards and under the floors of my house. Insects avoid both. I cannot abide poisoning the property just for what amounts to arachnophobia.
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Old 09-23-2014, 03:20 PM
 
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Wow. I forgot about DE. that's what I'll use. Just goes to show that one's memory gets flaky as we age. Thanks, yellowsnow, for reminding me.
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Old 09-23-2014, 04:01 PM
 
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Here's a smart thing to do for prevention of all hard shelled creatures, including scorpions and those huge roaches/palm bugs. In the spring and fall spread some diatomaceous earth all around the perimeter of your home. Wear a mask! Even though people actually EAT the stuff, it's not good to breathe. You can dissolve the stuff in water and spray it too. It's not a poison so it doesn't hurt the furbabies even if they lick it off their paws. And one of the best things...it kills flies too!

Most of the feed stores carry it and you can always order it on line. I know Sunset Saddlery has it.
I'll have to try that. I've seen it at either W-M or Home Depot. But I didn't know that it worked. Good that it's not harmful to the pets. We keep our property very clean, always spraying for bugs, no palm trees and we still get the scorpions outside.
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Old 09-23-2014, 05:28 PM
 
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Just don't inhale DE dust. Wear a mask, please.
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Old 09-23-2014, 06:44 PM
 
Location: Orange County/Las Vegas
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I was looking up info on the DE dust. I'm wondering if it kills spiders? It wasn't mentioned in the specs.
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Old 09-23-2014, 07:02 PM
 
Location: Las Vegas
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I was looking up info on the DE dust. I'm wondering if it kills spiders? It wasn't mentioned in the specs.
It kills anything that has a hard carapace/shell so I think it would be bye bye spiders too.
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Old 09-23-2014, 10:49 PM
 
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I'll have to try that. I've seen it at either W-M or Home Depot. But I didn't know that it worked. Good that it's not harmful to the pets. We keep our property very clean, always spraying for bugs, no palm trees and we still get the scorpions outside.
Search Results for*diatomaceous*at The Home Depot

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Old 09-23-2014, 11:09 PM
 
Location: Henderson, NV
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Food Grade DE is the way to go. Not the pool variety, especially if using in or near the garden!
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Old 09-24-2014, 07:48 AM
 
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is there anything else that doesn't look like you just sprinkled cocaine all over your front yard?

Is there more than one kind of DE... soluble and non soluble... that is effective?
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