Pesticides to use around kids and pets

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

      We used to have these in our house all the time.



Safe to use! Baby doesn't look so sure about that.

Also, I think Mom looks like Jenny from Call the Midwife. 

Comments

[progbear.livejournal.com]

God, I have very vivid memories of Shell No-Pest Strips from my childhood, in that ubiquitous 70s brown holder. My parents never had any in the house but frequently hung them over the front doorstep. I wondered what happened to them, then I looked up “Vapona™”. I am lucky to be alive. I understand that while No-Pest Strips have been taken off the market in the States, Shell is still selling them in Mexico.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Well, we DID use them in the house, in the kitchen no less.

This summer I had a horrible time with fruit flies and did not want to use chemicals. I decided to try some old-fashioned sticky strips and man do those things work! I put a piece of rotting fruit next to it and just watched the strip fill up with bugs. That was a much less toxic way to deal with the problem and since fly strips have been around forever, it's too bad they fell out of popularity.

[progbear.livejournal.com]

People probably just find them unsightly. My sister has always used sticky flypaper strips at her horse stables.

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

You still see them in horse barns a lot. They're still way cheaper than those fly predators you can buy. I think that they fell out of favor in houses because a bunch of dead bugs stuck to tape is kind of not pretty.

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

i dunno, as long as the kids aren't actually *touching* that strip, it seems to be a LOT safer than aeresol insecticides.

definitely a lot less disgusting than old-fashioned flypaper, anyway!

[misstia]

Every time I see those fly strips I think of fly paper and I know it works but it reminds me of a bowling alley in hell clinton iowa growing up that had a diner and they had fly paper (not even those fancy no strip ones) unfurled hanging above EVERY TABLE just COATED with dead flies......once a dead fly fell off it into the cottage cheese and gee, they didn't charge for that.....gag.....

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Now, that's gross! When I used the flypaper, I didn't have it near a food prep or serving area. It was by the garbage can.

[misstia]

by a garbage can makes sense!!! but above a table in a diner? still makes me shudder!!

[john-holton.livejournal.com]

My uncle had Vapona bars hanging in his attic. Kept the house relatively bug-free, but he warned us not to touch them. I guess that was the reason for putting a cardboard thing around them.

I always preferred bug zappers, myself.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Right, "don't touch that stuff, kids. It's not a slice of Velveeta even though it looks exactly like it."

[1geek-queen.livejournal.com]

The bug spray that's safe to use near your HUGE, mutated baby. o_O

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Not as huge and mutated as this baby:



I think that ad is kind of creepy.

[1geek-queen.livejournal.com]

It's definitely a weird ad. o_O