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Helloi Caï<br>
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Can you tell me more about the lime-wash?<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<br>
Dries Kennes<br>
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Caï van Hoboken schreef:
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type="cite">Hé Rikki,<br>
<br>
To disencourage the reappearance of "them bugs' you could also make use
of a lime-wash,<br>
once you`ve solved the moister problem.The alkalic surface is also
resistant to fungi,alge and bacteria.<br>
Good luck,Caï<br>
Amsterdam,NL<br>
<br>
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Rikki,<br>
<br>
I don't remember the latin name. Some call them "plaster beetles".<br>
No use killing them (no idea how). They come out of the walls if the<br>
walls are moist and if there are cracks to come out through.<br>
So:<br>
- check out from which walls they come<br>
- vacume one or twice a day<br>
- check if there could be a humidity problem in those walls<br>
- check out where the cracks are (and fill them up once the invasion is<br>
over, so that the wall is a better insulator and will absorb less<br>
moisture from air passing through)<br>
Say: "thank you little beetles" (they are a 'nuisance', not a 'problem')<br>
If they come back again after a year (in the same building) then there<br>
defenitely is a moisture problem in straw!<br>
<br>
Bye,<br>
André<br>
France<br>
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Rikki Nitzkin a écrit :<br>
<div class="im">> HI all,<br>
><br>
> Just last year I remember asking about how to get rid of them
little<br>
> white insects that sometimes appear in the plaster the first year<br>
> after building...<br>
><br>
> There is another case of them and I want to send the contacts/info
to<br>
> the person menaced with them, but I can't remember what they were<br>
> called (or the when we talked about them) to find them in the Straw<br>
> Archives. Can anyone help me?<br>
><br>
> I seem to remember that the only solution was to kill them...but
with<br>
> what? Any non-toxic/natural solution?<br>
><br>
> thanks,<br>
> Rikki Jennifer Nitzkin<br>
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