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RPB wrote: Awwe, 'round here we don't worry about a little poison, the radioactive water though concerns us, imagine scorpions mutating into 5-foot long stingin' land-lobsters after they drink some of this
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Dang! Now I'm gonna have bad dreams

RPB wrote:Had 1 scorpion here in 2007 which got the tip of my finger as I brushed "whatever was tickling my face in my sleep", upon awakening, I swatted the critter with a flyswatter.

The next day, I spray-dusted boric acid powder (I get 5 gallon buckets of the blue powder at chemical supply in Pasadena, if prevents roaches, termites etc if inside the walls, so I put it everywhere) inside walls at every opening, then caulked all baseboards, window trim, (and under the trim) door frames etc ... then got Silicone rubber seal and sealed every wall plug, wall switch, ceiling fixture, breaker box and plumbing hole.

Then I sprayed the foundation with some oily poison, and put a 15 foot perimeter around the house of various stinky poison granules.

Goodness! Does the EPA know about you? LOL

Actually I did most of those things with little effect on the scorpions.

Nothing like a scorpion stinging you in the middle of the night in bed to get your attention.

The only issue we have is scorpions, and we have had plenty on our rocky hillside acre. Our indoor cats do a great job of keeping them cornered when they show up inside. They "point" almost like a birddog and make a distinctive noise. We know when they have one cornered and deal with it before one of them gets stung. Cats also take care of any other insects in the house.
Still we had scorpions. Best thing I ever did for that is buy a UV flashlight. Scorpions fluoresce like a neon sign under UV. You have to see it to believe it. About 10:00 every other night or so I walk around the house with the UV flashlight and a can of Raid. Takes 5 minutes. You will be amazed (and a bit creeped out) how many you find at first. It's actually kind of fun. I've had dinner guests get caught up in it LOL. We were almost disappointed when the scorpion population dropped to the point it was rare to find one.