I have reached the limit of my patience with the lady bugs, Asian beetles, lady birds or whatever other aliases they go by. It's time to pull out the big guns. After a few phone calls, I settled on Ortho Home Defense which will guarantee the elimination of more than 30 critters and pests with a money back guarantee and a toll-free help line in English and Spanish. It's interesting that the ingredient label lists Bifenthrin 0.0500% and Zeta-Cypermethrin 0.0125% and Other Ingredients(not identified) 99.9375%. Those first two must be "somethin' else" or those "Others" must be on the Olympic Games banned substances list, because the first pass around the outside bins and inside cracks and crevices has yielded a major crop of "let's get out of here" bugs. Some came out with their wings in the air and I think I saw a few carrying white flags.
It' not a fair fight right now with my 1.33 gallon weapon of mass destruction, but the initial invasion wasn't fair either and it was long overdue that we took the offense and ran with the ball. Right now it's fairly quiet on the Georgia front, with a lot of casualties looking like armadillos on a Mississippi highway (belly up), and a few stragglers who are returning home to find that the ground rules for living here, or living at all, have changed. I'm not declaring a "George W" victory right now, but will hold out hope that we can get to the negotiation table in less than 6 days. We will settle for nothing less than their total surrender, and unless they want to start paying rent and do some of the chores (?), we will settle for nothing less than "bye-bye-bug".
The war is on.
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