Walt mystery solved & new product recommendation

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I'm mortified. My entire career is accuracy-based! This forum talked

about doMYownpestcontrol. Walt is from doYOURownpestcontrol. (Caps mine

in both names.) A totally different experience.

DoMYown hesitated to recommend Bifenthren or even an IGR without a

positive mite ID, although they admitted my bird-mites case was made

persuasively. They said that since mites are so terribly difficult to

get rid of, and since using something that irritates them rather than

eradicates them can cause an increase in breeding activity, a positive

ID is critical.

Naturally I explained that I have never seen one, that people on this

site have gone through years without a single sighting. After some

conferring, they recommended something called Steri-fab. Alcohol based,

so repeated use should not interfere with dehumidifying. Here's the

product description:

http://www.domyownpestcontrol.com/sterifab-gallon-128-oz-p-649.html

I'd love to get a sample in the way does--watch for them floating

in bathwater--but I have an additional problem: I can't bathe or shower

because of aquagenic pruritus. (I swab myself down with alcohol instead

and spot-bathe critical bits. Fortunately water doesn't affect face,

scalp, and feet, so I can scrub away at each end unimpeded.)

Tonight I'll try the method of warm water surrounded by sticky strips

with a light above. used black light; others have used IR. I'm

going ahead with Home Depot befenthrin for the car. In fact, need to get

to that ASAP.

ES