Re: Strength of Permethrin to use

Posted by Diane on February 26, 2004 at 09:53:36:

In Reply to: Re: Strength of Permethrin to use posted by Art on February 25, 2004 at 19:53:14:

Thank you for the advice. I dusted my bed last night (seams and bottom only) with Drione so hopefully it will keep them off. Will the Permethrin leave a noticeable residue on my bed frame? If it does, can it be cleaned off once I've gotten the bugs out of the house? It's a light wood..

Thanks again...

I can only tell you what the label recommends. If you decide to spray your mattress edges, it's your mattress and your risk. Even if it was/is `legal`, the mechanical problem with spraying any porous material with an emusifiable liquid (permethrin) is that most of it will be absorbed into the material and very little will remain on the surface to affect the bugs. To treat porous materials with liquid, you need microencapsulated, suspended, or wetable powder
: formulations, all of which are not labeled for use on prolonged human contact surfaces. I think putting your mattress is a tightly sealed plastic mattress bag would be a better way to keep the critters out of the seams and tuffs.

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