Pyrethrins, Pyrethrins, pyrethrins (some claim deet). These are available at your local nursery or even at Wal-Mart (vegetable pest spray). (NO PERMETHRINS! These insects are immune to all over the counter insect bombs, sprays and repellents. Wouldn�t you expect that from and insect that kills with benzene venom while producing Tylenol (acetaminophenol) to deaden its attack!
Thirdly:
These hardy little insects survive laundering at any temperature, including bleach and the hottest dryer settings.
In order to kill them in bedding, clothes, on smaller surfaces (keyboards and mice) Books etc. one must VACUUM SEAL these objects for at least 3 days or more. They cannot live without moisture and especially OXYGEN.
With the combination of pyrethrin lotion, pyrethrin spray, and Vacuum Sealing (everything regularly) one will get major relief
from these insidious pests!
Things to AVOID:
1. HUGGING. You must be prepared ahead of time. Carry a few fresh garments and plastic bags for this one. Within a few minutes after hugging, bow out quickly and immediately change shirt or blouse putting a fresh vacuum sealed one on and place the contaminated garment in a plastic bag not to be opened or touched until the laundry day ritual.
2. After hugging and on laundry day, watch for pimples in armpits and on hands and arms, spot treat any breakouts with pyrethrin lotion.
2. Telephone handsets that have not been thoroughly wiped down antiseptically. If within a few hours of use, pimples form around the neck, ears, lower arms etc. immediately spot treat with pyrethrin lotion!
3.Older Carpeting (upon arriving home, immediately remove socks and shoes) vacuum seal shoes and get socks clean and in Vacuum seal after laundering. Immediately treat feet and lower legs with pyrethrin lotion! My legs come under heavy attack at our local Barnes and Noble!
4.Car seats, sofas and chairs, which have been untreated with pyrethrins,
5. Sitting down anywhere in public or touching anything a non-hygienic carrier has handled (leaning against counters, pens, books, toys, tools etc.),
6.Old used books, computer keyboards and mice (unless previously vacuum sealed.)
Precautionary things:
1.Carry some garbage bags with you at all times_to place anywhere you are required to sit. Dispose of them immediately without over handling them!
2.Do not use regular cloth laundry bags. Upon arriving at home immediately remove clothes daily and keep them in tightly sealed plastic bags until laundry day upon which immediately after laundering and THOROUGH DRYING, ALL CLOTHES MUST BE PLACED IN A VACUUM SEAL FOR 3 OR MORE DAYS! Never wear clothes out in public for more than 1 day!
3. Have 3 or more pair of shoes and cycle them all through vacuum seal every day if heavy exposure is taking place!
4 Do not leave shoes and socks on after entering house for any length of time after being out in public. This only brings the bugs in! Place shoes only in one area to be pyrethrined or dusted with Diatomaceous earth regularly.
5. Bomb the car (or house if required) as necessary only with Johnson and Johnson Pyrethrin bug bombs. Make sure regularly handled tools, toys, golf clubs etc are either bombed with the above or vacuum-sealed every few weeks, especially if contaminated strangers handle them. Be aware if breakouts happen after handling any of the above. Spot treat accordingly.
6. Remove all carpeting in car or house unless you want to spend a fortune on Pyrethrins and their bombs.
7. Change and vacuum seal shower curtains weekly!
9. This should have been at the first position. Plastic off and Tape up seams of all bed mattresses, car seats and furniture, Wipe down and/or change plastic regularly. Pyrethrin all bed rails, car seats (regularly) and under furniture as necessary! Use 30 and 55 gallon garbage bags over all chairs, stools, and bucket seats.
Also do not waste your time boiling, freezing or storing away. Springtails will survive all of these techniques (after all there are around a million per acre throughout the world including the frost lines of Antarctica)!
It took me 8 years of suffering to discover all these techniques to control the most primitive �insects?� in the fossil record!
Better Health to All. I sure appreciate an actual reply to my mail. You must be sincerely interested and on the ball.
I have been experimenting on (for the last 11 years) and researching this insect on the web for the last 6 months. They've terrorized me and hundreds (thousands) of my neighbors, who choose to live with these creatures! I stumbled ,one day, upon a great scientific web site that listed/analyzed insects (animals) and their derivative compounds. After reading the chemical analysis of the colembolla's poisons/ camouflage, I finally discovered why my skin became pre-cancerous after a major attack.I think I saved the pages and a link to the site but it was on my old laptop. I backed up the files that day, but they are stored away on another usb hard drive. I will look them up and email you again next week if you can't locate that scientific site. I guess I don't need to tell you why the big drug companies keep most Dr.'s and the public in the dark about these dastardly creatures. They are their CASH COW! Colembolla (the most primitive creature found in fossil records) have been traveling on Icy comets and jump starting evolution (in the entire universe) since the beginning of time! I also found that they can (are forced) to evolve (in the presence of air) from a water animal into a land animal in seconds. When they come to the surface of the water and air is present, they cannot go back under because air bubbles form on their leg hairs. Also note Dr.s in our area are prescribing Acutane when they see the effects of a colembolla attack on my neighbors. I've contacted Hoffman La Roche' urgently, twice, to warn them of this, but alas, they're in on it too. What is our health care in America? In the hole for decades! The most important theory of mine (which should be added to your questionaire) is that, "The Colembolla's preferred food is bacteria (not yeast), this is why antibiotics work, albeit temporarily, and since most Americans eat so much medicated meat, these insects don't have many dining choices. I am a strict vegetarian(?) and they love me."
I hope to hear from you again and if (in your research) you can find when Tylenol was patented you will also know when this enormous conspiracy began!
Imagine that fire ants were swarming on everything, everyone and on every surface outside (and inside) your home. Would you not take precautions to protect yourself? Just because Colembola is invisible to the naked eye, you can't treat them any differently! They are more dangerous in the long run.
Obsessive compulsive has nothing to do with preventing insect-skin contact. Just one of their little benzene laden bites could/will develop into skin cancer within a few months/years and KILL you! If you're waiting for some magic pill or Dr. to solve this problem simply (like others I've been in contact with on the net), you've got an awful long wait!
5 years ago before I learned these control methods, I too considered suicide! As I sit here typing this, they are dying in my ears and on my face (strong homemade pyrethrins). I got exposed to some on a set of head phones my friend handed me at band practice. Get some cocoa butter (thick) lotion, pour out about 1/6th of the bottle filling it with pyrethrin (obtained at the local ,big, full service Nursery, or even Wal-Mart. Follow all instructions below to the letter. Carry a few bottles with you. I share them with my friends who are AWARE of being attacked.
I coated my legs and feet last night because I hand't been on skin patrol for a few days and at this point I only have about 10-20 on me that still live. If I see them starting to get out of control or even feel them crawling around on me at night , I slap a gob of pyrethrin lotion. and that either kills them or slows them down severely!
Write back please! Now the tough part. You have some work to do. Notify me if you don't have enough funds. Don't let them terrorize you like they are! I'll help you all I can because I know what you're going through, believe me!
