Comments on: Have You Caught The Organic Bug? http://blog.ecosmart.com/index.php/2010/02/17/have-you-caught-the-organic-bug/ Keep your family & pets safe from toxic pesticides. EcoSMART organic pesticides, bug spray & insecticides kill bugs fast. Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:00:27 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: EcoSMART Brian http://blog.ecosmart.com/index.php/2010/02/17/have-you-caught-the-organic-bug/comment-page-1/#comment-27129 EcoSMART Brian Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:25:01 +0000 http://blog.ecosmart.com/?p=12673#comment-27129 Hello Geoff, Thanks for the praise! We really appreciate your business. Budding is a difficult ant tactic to stop from happening, but there are a few ways you can help limit its occurrence. Successful ant management requires a multitude of approaches, such as caulking the areas where the ants invade, improving the cleanliness of the area in question, and by using our Ant and Roach Killer. We can't guarantee our products will prevent budding, but using our spray is quite successful in preventing and eliminating current and future ant infestations. Hello Geoff,

Thanks for the praise! We really appreciate your business.

Budding is a difficult ant tactic to stop from happening, but there are a few ways you can help limit its occurrence.

Successful ant management requires a multitude of approaches, such as caulking the areas where the ants invade, improving the cleanliness of the area in question, and by using our Ant and Roach Killer. We can’t guarantee our products will prevent budding, but using our spray is quite successful in preventing and eliminating current and future ant infestations.

]]> By: Geoff Carpenter http://blog.ecosmart.com/index.php/2010/02/17/have-you-caught-the-organic-bug/comment-page-1/#comment-26997 Geoff Carpenter Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:15:34 +0000 http://blog.ecosmart.com/?p=12673#comment-26997 I would like to preface this by saying that I am a licensed Certified Applicator in Texas and as such I proudly admit to not only using your commercial products in favor of synthetics most of time, I have also swayed the opinion of all of my fellow techs and the owners of the company I work with. When I explain the way Eco works (EcoPCO AR-X is my favorite), everyone, including the die-hard do not treat my unit clients, are happy with the results, effectiveness, and quasi long term residual your products have produced so far. The only thing I see lacking is a bait for ants. I never recommend (sorry for this) spraying ants. In most of the "piss" ant species this will cause budding. Budding is the splitting of a colony resulting from the death of "scouts" who lay a pheromone when attacked or killed (as by an aerosol spray). The queen will produce another queen who will splinter off another colony to assure the species survival. Unfortunately, this can go on forever. Baits, if used correctly, will kill the whole colony, with no budding. If you could produce an ant bait, which is green, there would be very little reason for most techs and CA's to use any synthetics on a normal daily basis. This is of course relating to general pest control not commodity or fumigants and so forth. You have a most excellent product line and I/we appreciate your forethought for our future health and well being. Long winded soap box speech over. Thank you. I would like to preface this by saying that I am a licensed Certified Applicator in Texas and as such I proudly admit to not only using your commercial products in favor of synthetics most of time, I have also swayed the opinion of all of my fellow techs and the owners of the company I work with. When I explain the way Eco works (EcoPCO AR-X is my favorite), everyone, including the die-hard do not treat my unit clients, are happy with the results, effectiveness, and quasi long term residual your products have produced so far. The only thing I see lacking is a bait for ants. I never recommend (sorry for this) spraying ants. In most of the “piss” ant species this will cause budding. Budding is the splitting of a colony resulting from the death of “scouts” who lay a pheromone when attacked or killed (as by an aerosol spray). The queen will produce another queen who will splinter off another colony to assure the species survival. Unfortunately, this can go on forever. Baits, if used correctly, will kill the whole colony, with no budding. If you could produce an ant bait, which is green, there would be very little reason for most techs and CA’s to use any synthetics on a normal daily basis. This is of course relating to general pest control not commodity or fumigants and so forth. You have a most excellent product line and I/we appreciate your forethought for our future health and well being. Long winded soap box speech over. Thank you.

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