I get what your saying but the cops know what their getting themselves into before they sign up. There are some cops that use their "authority" to a whole new level. Take Rodney King and Daniel Chong for example. No one forced them to sign up for this job, if they cannot think and function...
Kills everything trust me(except your plants) ;-) you can get it at home depot or walmart and the vapor will kill the adults thus not allowing them to reproduce. Within 2 days there will be no pest.
NO PEST STRIPS
If you kill the adults off the cannot reproduce, once the larvae hatch the vapor from the no pest strips will kill them. The no pest strips are from Hotshot and it says they last 4 months but I change mine out every two months just to safe(I havent had gnats or spider mites since)
DO NOT GIVE THEM NUTES. Just plain ph water until they start getting stronger.
Good Luck
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If you start to see them dry out, get a party cup and spray plain water toward the bottom of the cup then place the cup on top of the plant to sort of create a dome. They might have gotten taken...
I live in San Diego.In Chula Vista, La Mesa, San Ysidro ect you will find many houses that are worth fixing for under 100k. I do cash only transactions because of the issues with banks. I know what you mean, before I flipped houses I worked for a realty company that dealt with mostly REOs and...
You could purchase houses from auctions or foreclosures and fix them up and resale them at market value. I've done this a few times even at a declining market and made almost double the profit.