Hello Everyone, You are all right. All your methods work. We all fall into the trap of it doesn't work anymore. OR 24 hrs and they are back. All I can say is you have to look at your situation and be smart. If you live in an apartment, expect roaches. If you live near a restaurant, expect rats. If you live in a house with landscape, expect spiders, ants and mice. Bottom line. MICE: Look around before you open the door, and don't leave your doors open. Make your screen doors snug around the edges. Try to screen off your roof vents or openings with metal screen. Plug up holes with steel wool. Leave traps up year round and eventually they will be gone. If not for good, a long time. An old building was demolished across our street and it took a year to get rid of them as they were looking for a new home. Been there!! ANTS: Its not just you.....what about your neighbor. My neighbor was collecting soda bottles outside his house as I discovered.......which created a SUGAR ANT SUPER COLONY. Guess where they decided to live?....That's right!!! in my garden. Borax and sugar bombs worked great. However, they were only control devices. We had to open up the ground and burst the colony, then spray. We left bombs inside and out, as well as next to all the ant ports. Eventually.......gone. But.....they are never gone, so don't be fooled. We also used bates of three Brand names....only temporary. Borax bombs worked best. ECO SPRAY Seems to do a good job. We also use peppermint and lemon essential oil as a spray to finish coat on our counters and other areas where they might wonder. Just a quick coat before we go to bed and no visitors in the morning. They hate that stuff and so do spiders. The spray mix so far does not damage anything. We use consumable essential oil...in other words we can eat it. If you need help getting some, I can direct you where to get it. We noticed in our new home that we had a different kind of ant. A protein ant as others have stated. So we left some ice cream on the counter all night for two days. Not a single ant. But, when we used a frying pan, and even washed it.....they came to visit again. Soooo............here are some tips. Ask the correct questions first. What are they going after? How big are they? What is our weather like? Where are they located? (Kitchen, Bathroom, Shower). Can I trace the ant trail outside? Do I think the nest is inside? Once you have done that...take it from there. SPIDERS: They really are a pain. Lots of trees? Lots of spiders. Lots of junk? Lots of spiders. And so on. Don't give them a home or opportunity, and you wont have a problem. Lemon pledge, Lemon and peppermint essential oil spray, keeping your house orderly, and window sills clear will help a lot. We use our diffuser with essential oils and they don't seem to appear anymore. I leave essential oils in bottle caps under the couch, closet and hidden corners, and again no appearances. Determine what type of spider you have the most in the same way you did with the ants. Sometimes they are just lost checking out your house and trying on your shoes!! (Joking) Do some reading and try different things. I read once where a couple had a super spider invasion and could not get rid of them. They were in everything and everywhere. When any pest problem gets to this level.............call a professional. ****No matter how you slice it....you share space with all of these creatures because your dwelling is on the ground somehow, and someway. You don't have to kill every spider you see...just keep it from coming in. You get what you put into it!! Bottom line. If you want to get rid of them....you have to go the extra mile. If you go the extra mile as I did when I dug up the ant colonies.......you get the big results. Like everything else in your house............its work. And it has to be done. And remember...the BUGMAN is like your Auto Mechanic.....do you think he will tell you everything!!??? It's up to you!!!!! Good Luck.

The people who feel earwigs are not damaging to roses are ignorant and uninformed. Just because they haven't 'seen' them doing their dirty deed doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It does-at night. They hide during the day. I just had to research,again, how to get rid of them, again, this year. They have proven so resistant to my efforts that I have pulled out 9 of 12 mature rose bushes just to minimize their creepiness. Using newspapers or cantaloupe or whatever cute little trick is advised would be a full time job for you. They are very prolific and if left unnoticed will take over your garden, depending on your climate. Females can lay 30 to 80 eggs over the winter. Multiply that by how many thousand already live in your soil...... One article on Wikipedia claims it is a myth regarding earwigs crawling into ears Not a myth. It happened to me and it took a lot of convincing to get my doctor to believe that the scab on my eardrum was from an earwig. He is now a believer. How to get rid of them? There are chemicals to spray but I've tried to avoid things like LambdaStar and anything coming from a chemical factory. To me those products are so damaging to the environment that I prefer to remove my rose bushes instead.. You might try "Safer Brand Ant and Crawling Insect Killer" which uses diatomaceous earth. Or spray insect soap containing a pyrethrum. Or sprinkle Borax around the border of rose bush stalks. Or do all 3. Good luck!

I had them myself for a while - this was when I was starting my leaves - so once I noticed that I had them - I took all my leaves and repotted them in NEWLY purchased soil. (sometimes I think you get them from the actual soil you buy from the store) Anyways then I put them all in individual plastic lunch bags and watched them very closely - squishing the bugs in the bags as I saw them. I weeded out the plants that still had the knats and I did not take them out of their bags until I was SURE I was rid of them. I have been free of them now for at least 5 months. They are hard to get rid of and they can multiply fairly fast - so you should start something soon. You can also buy sticky traps at the nursery which I used also. Good luck. Golden

Before you kill off all the wild onions, try some as a seasoning. We have both wild onions and wild garlic here, but wild onion is not as invasive as wild garlic. Although the plants may look similar, wild onion can be identified by its flat leaves, where wild garlic leaves are hollow. Both are used for seasoning here, in Creole and Cajun-style cooking, and in some soul food dishes. Wild onions are used as seasoning more so than wild garlic, but both are powerful! Some folks eat wild onions as a side dish when sauteed in a little olive oil or butter. Both wild onion and wild garlic can be chopped fine and frozen, but wild onion keeps longer when frozen. Judy D.