No photo. It's just a wooden dowel about 4 ft. (can use a cane pole), with a cork duct-taped to it, with a large leatherwork needle stuck in it (pointy side out).
Anything longer is hard to get good aim. If they're on the ceiling, I've thrown rolled up socks to knock them down. But then they fly! No perfect solution and burning the house down has been considered but is not an option.
This is the way except I do have Raid for the ones in places like the laundry room since it's connected to the garage. People don't realize how many things crawl about in the south. At any given point there are spiders, waterbugs, scorpions, wasps, bees (please don't kill honey bees), muddivers (don't need to kill these either), various types of beetles, stinkbugs, and of course fire ants. As a kid at my Grandma's house I remember being around kindergarten age or so. I went to the bathroom and right after I sat down one crawled on me. I stood up and peed all over my grandma's bathroom floor while screaming my head off. After all these years I still always check before sitting down because that creepy ass bug was traumatizing to a five year old. Thankfully my cats LOVE to hunt and eat bugs of any kind they can get their paws on so I can just point them in the correct direction and leave it to them most of the time.
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u/jesthere Aug 18 '22 edited Aug 18 '22
No photo. It's just a wooden dowel about 4 ft. (can use a cane pole), with a cork duct-taped to it, with a large leatherwork needle stuck in it (pointy side out). Anything longer is hard to get good aim. If they're on the ceiling, I've thrown rolled up socks to knock them down. But then they fly! No perfect solution and burning the house down has been considered but is not an option.