john m
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i have noticed ive got some kind of lice on my boat small white about the size of a pinhead mostly inside some cupboards has anyone else had them or know the best way to get rid of them
help ive got crawling insects on boat
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2nd_apprentice
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You'll need to be more specific than that. Bit like saying you've got a medium sized white yacht, usually kept in the water.
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whipper_snapper
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I was about to say more-or-less the same thing. From the description I have no ideas on what they might be and what they might be doing. Except that they are almost certainly not lice. Have you got a camera with a macro setting ? Can you take a photograph ?
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..............this is a good resource:
http://www.hygienesuppliesdirect.com/cat/pest_control
rob
..............this is a good resource:
http://www.hygienesuppliesdirect.com/cat/pest_control
rob
ReneJK
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kills almost everything
http://www.killsbugsdead.com/fop_fum.asp
http://www.killsbugsdead.com/bu_insect.asp
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http://www.killsbugsdead.com/bu_insect.asp
haydude
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If they are there it means they have plenty to live off!
Have you tried by keeping your boat clean?
Start with wet sponge and detergent, go around every corner. Don't forget to lift the floorboards, hoover, wash and rinse with plenty of fresh water.
I understand that in the UK cleaning standards are quite loose, but please, before using pesticides, just keep your boat clean!
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Alfie168
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It mostly depends on what you keep in you cupboards as to what they are. If you have any cardboard packets or even paper there are little mites that love the glue. If you keep flour there will almost certainly be flour weevils.
Either way step one is to give it a damn good clean out as previously suggested, but once you've got an infestation just cleaning is not good enough to get rid of them unless you can clean on a daily basis to catch each new hatch before they mature.....which is pretty well impossible to achieve.
Once clean and as dry as you can get it you need a persisting insecticide. I actually find our household cat flea spray as supplied by our Vet is as good as anything. Just don't drink it or spray it on your chips or near your pet goldfish or actually directly onto any animal. Read the Instructions of course.
It contains Permethrin, Bioallethrin and Methoprene, the last of which will persist for up to 12 months.
It kills virtually all mites/fleas/insects.
Also if you can keep you cupboards ventilated they don't like the dry, but thats difficult on a boat in a damp atmospehere.
Tim
Either way step one is to give it a damn good clean out as previously suggested, but once you've got an infestation just cleaning is not good enough to get rid of them unless you can clean on a daily basis to catch each new hatch before they mature.....which is pretty well impossible to achieve.
Once clean and as dry as you can get it you need a persisting insecticide. I actually find our household cat flea spray as supplied by our Vet is as good as anything. Just don't drink it or spray it on your chips or near your pet goldfish or actually directly onto any animal. Read the Instructions of course.
It contains Permethrin, Bioallethrin and Methoprene, the last of which will persist for up to 12 months.
It kills virtually all mites/fleas/insects.
Also if you can keep you cupboards ventilated they don't like the dry, but thats difficult on a boat in a damp atmospehere.
Tim
RobBrown
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Pscopids?
From the description, most probably "book-lice". not actually lice and harmless.
Some info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psocoptera
From the description, most probably "book-lice". not actually lice and harmless.
Some info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psocoptera
Topcat47
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I'd go with the flour weevils myself. We brought them home in rice last time we had them. Fortunately it was limited by the fact that we only had them in the "rice" Kilner jar.
I don't like using poisons in food lockers. I gave ours a damned good spray with "Detox" and left them open overnight. Alternatively, if the infestation had spread, I'd put the powder down over "winter", then give them a good scrub before storing grub in them again.
I don't like using poisons in food lockers. I gave ours a damned good spray with "Detox" and left them open overnight. Alternatively, if the infestation had spread, I'd put the powder down over "winter", then give them a good scrub before storing grub in them again.
john m
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The boat is clean with only teabags and coffe there was only about ten ten but some where in the cupboards without food I have washed it all down with bleach and spraid raid I will do spray boat every time there for a while and wil take a photo if I find more the boat is 35 foot grp kept in Scottish marina
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Interesting - I too have some little bug things - not enough for any body to even notice them unless you go looking for them. I mentioned this to a friend so we went looking on his boat and there they were. I've since noticed them on many boats. I haven't found any in lockers where I have painted, only on exposed unpainted matted area of GRP or hiding near any wood on deck.
mikemonty
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No, really? Who'd have thought!
Sounds like your date of birth is quite accurate too - who could possibly have written the above who had a degree of sense above a one-year-old.
I'm off to see if I can do anything about my cleaning standards, I might even consider keeping MY boat clean. I'd never thought of it before - but then again - I DO come from the UK.
