Malathion

Public had not been able to get his hands on a lot of these products, we'd probably still have access to some of them today.

But what happens is Malathion is a product you can buy.

It's a great product.

It's actually, believe it or not, it stinks to high heaven, but Malathion.

The label says one tablespoon per gallon.

Well, my daddy, rest his soul, he said, I'm going to put three tablespoons in that, and I'm going to kill every damn ant in the house.

I think you're pretty well on the ball there.

Okay, so what about, have you tried spraying them with Malathon?

Spraying the...

The grubs.

Okay.

One stronger.

Let's go for Malathon.

Okay.

You know, it seems like even though they're capped tight, you know, maybe there's been a little residue around the outside of the bottle.

Malathion is a classic.

That just sme- uh, well, it stinks.

Yeah.

Malathion's just, uh, such an offensive odor.

So I've found that putting those in a large Ziploc bag, uh, uh, i- it's just nice when I'm bringing them inside so there's no odor.

Uh, we do have a kind of a utility room in the basement that I move those to, but I, I don't wanna have that aroma, so I close them up in kind of an airtight, uh, uh, Ziploc bag as, as well.

Yeah.

So, um, I hit them with some Malathion mi- mixed with some pyrethrum.

Yes.

And about an hour later, um, they started dropping on the ground.

...

I, I, if they're still with us now, I don't think, um, you know, too much damage.

But, you know, using Malathion though, and, you know, if you kept on doing that and there was a large amount of the little bugs that the chooks came out and, you know, ate, then you'd have to worry about, you know, buildup of a residual chemical, um, inside them and therefore being transferred into the eggs, whatnot.

Um, so yeah.