*Update at bottom of first page* DIY insecticide for roaches and spiders?

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Bifen will work just fine also. The bottles comes with enough to spray repeatedly every few months.

I use Talstar P. Just did my most recent pest control spray at the house last week.

I actually ended up changing my mind about the Lambdastar and cancelled it before it shipped. Went with the much more expensive and less quantity Suspend SC based on the much larger number of high reviews than Lambdastar.

Hope I don't regret that decision. It comes in tomorrow and I'll be spraying the crap out of that house this weekend before and after the Bama game. I'll come back and update this thread with my results.

The reviews are all great so I guess I'm going to be happy with it.

Does Suspend kill mosquitos? I should probably start my own thread. I have a bunch of suspend and love it for indoors. Throw talstar granules along the outside of my house.

But I have a decent amount of construction material from a remodel going on outside that collects pools of water every time it rains. This has led to a mosquito problem in my backyard. I was lazy for a couple weeks and let the pools sit. I’m going to get rid of them all this weekend, but I was wondering if spraying my backyard and everything with suspend will help with the mosquitos?

yes it does. I read before that talstar was better outside and suspend inside as well. Then i read that the active ingredients in eat are basically the same thing chemically and do the same things to the bugs. So i use the one i have for outside.


I still use suspend inside because i ready it is pet safe once it dries.

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I'm optimistic about my pint of Suspend SC.

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you should be.....but if you want longer protection you can get the Suspend Poly. is it truly longer? idk. but thats what is said. 30 days vs 90 days i believe.

but in my experience in south la nothing will kill everything for 30 days.

it should. but you could always spray your grass. I spray my back yard a day before i have people over and it works for regular bugs.

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I'll come back and update this thread with my results.

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Okay, so I mixed the Suspend in my 4-gallon backpack sprayer from Harbor Freight a tad bit stronger than the instructions called for and sprayed the inside and outside.

Outside was sprayed about a foot in either direction of where the eaves meet the bricks and about four feet up from the foundation. As well as all window and door perimeters outward to about two feet.

I sprayed inside in a continuous line all along the entire perimeter of each room along the baseboards and in the wall corners of most rooms. Under sinks, behind toilets, inside closets, etc..

I'm here to say that 5 days later I went back to check on things and although I didn't see anything outside other than a dead beetle, the inside was ROACHMAGEDDON!

I'm not saying the spray didn't work on the outside, it's just hard to tell since it's outside and spiders and such just were no longer there but also weren't dead on the ground that I could tell, either. HOWEVER, the spray worked as good or better than every single review I read said it would.

I counted 52 dead roaches, three dead beetles, two dead crickets, and 1 dead gecko.


This Suspend stuff is amazing. Thank you to everyone who recommended it!