FMC Talstar P Professional 96oz (3/4 gallon)

We've lived in a heavily wooded neighborhood for the past 3 years and the mosquitoes have been an absolute terror. We've treated our yard before and this season we opted to purchase tru green services that promised a mosquito free yard. After three months of service, they only came out one time due to weather and they only sprayed a few bushes and trees. Mosquitoes were very present and the $79 a month price tag did not live up to the guarantees. After cancelling our service, enough was enough. I purchased a $400 backpack sprayer from the local Stihl dealer and packaged it with Talstar Pro. Tonight when I got home from work I loaded up the sprayer and treated our acre of property. I sprayed the front and back yards, trees and bushes. I plan on doing this a few times a month during the summer. Tonight, I sit on my back patio enjoying a mosquito free yard. I am shocked to see how quickly this works. I never write reviews on here but this product is literally helping my entire family stay healthy and bug bite free.

When the pest control service started changing $90.00 every three months, I became sufficiently motivated to do it myself. The cost of Talstar Pro, a decent respirator, box of exam gloves, sprayer, and protective goggles was less than $110.00. There is enough in a 3/4 gallon of Talstar Pro to last over three years for a moderate size tract home. You do the math, but over 3 years, less the costs, I have been able to keep $970.00 of the money I would have paid the pest control service. Each application takes about an 1 1/2 hours, from prep to cleaning. I am in the 4th year and about ready to place a new order.Talstar Pro can be used safely, read the manual, read it twice. This is a powerful poison and remember that you are responsible for your own safety.It is very effective. I have dogs and they are not allowed out back for at least 24 hours. The documentation says they can go out after the solution dries. I just don't want to take any chances.I use the product outside and in the garage, not in the house. If I needed to use it in the house I would, but Talstar Pro creates a protective barrier if used as directed.Why all the protection gear. Well, you know the old adage, "Better safe than sorry". I ware long pants, long sleeve shirt, hat, protective goggles, exam gloves, and a respirator when applying the product. After the application I shower and the clothes are washed right away. Overkill? You bet it is, but I believe in handing dangerous products safely as possible. I want to live to be 97+ years old.

The back of my house was a war zone. I moved here 1 year and six months ago with my loyal dog-in-paws, Mikey. The situation early on was manageable. When the cobwebs got one too many, or the flying pests were pestering too much I would spray some ortho here and there. Mikey would help on clean up duty, sweeping up the remainder of scattering earwigs with his mighty tongue. This went on for months, insecticide usually made an appearance at the bottom of my shopping lists once every few weeks. The enemy were at war with one another, I simply played the role of supervisor, sterilizing the battlefield after extended tours of combat, not letting it escalate. Everything was under control. Until IT happened.Seemingly overnight the tables were turned. I'll remember the event vividly until I die. I opened the door and walked into numerous, well-made webs with HUGE arachnids on them. These guys must have been alive for months, training for this day. Caught off-guard, I started swiping and stumbled my way out of the back door into more spider webs. I tripped over and landed in bushes CRAWLING WITH TICKS, ANTS AND EARWIGS. Only one thought was in my head now: "ITS AN AM-BUSH." They instantly crawled onto me and invaded my hair. Instantly I got up and ran into the shower scratching my hair and clawing at my skin like a schizo. The enemy began working together. At night, they kept me from enjoying the back yard with air attacks. During the day cobwebs were laid out like boobie traps with giant 8-legged freaks waiting for one wrong step. Getting to my car was like stealing the mona lisa from a museum.I went to Lowe's and bought every insecticide possible. The bill was over $150. Begin, OPERATION: INSECT MASSACRE. I went ham sandwich on the back wall of my house. I spared no square inch of space nor the bushes. I sprayed individual bugs and enjoyed watching them wriggle in pain and die. The chemical stench was mind-numbingly satisfying. Fast forward 1 week and its like I never sprayed. I kept spraying and spraying and spraying but the enemies would come back, higher in number and intensity. They even used my dog as a trojan horse for a team of ticks in a well thought-out attack. They left me with less money in my pockets and less brain cells to think with. Google searches would amount to home remedies that did not work. It was just more wasted time as the bugs reproduced and recruited other bugs to their cause. I was a very proud, do it yourselfer only hours away from calling the Ortho guy. These damned creatures were eating away at my pride.And then, like a divine miracle, amazon (aka God) put this in my suggested buy list. Its like they knew. I used to be against cookies being stored on your computer that see previous internet searches then shape ads and suggestions based on them but now i see the good in it.When this jug arrived in the mail I opened up the bottle and no offending chemical aroma met me. Sure there was a smell, but compared to the other products i used this was like whiffing a bouquet of flowers. HOW THE HELL WOULD THIS KILL A GIGANTIC WELL-TRAINED EVIL BUG ARMY? I started to think I wasted more money on something that wouldn't work. Thoughts of dismay clouded my mind as I attached it to a pre-diluting mechanism on a hose. The spray was easy-going on the bugs I thought. They ran away like it was regular hose water being sprayed at them. No wriggling in pain. They simply ran away. I went inside, disappointed I did not get the retribution I thought I would get from reading the other reviews of this.Fast forward a week, I have to literally sweep thousands of bodies of bugs off of the back patio, and my house has not one single insect on it. No webs, either. I can keep the backyard light on for my dog when he relieves himself and they wont even go anywhere near the light. I'd like to think what happened will be known as The Bugpocalypse. When bugs terrorizing other people hear about it they will spread the legend. The legend will strike fear into other bugs and they will not mess with 1708. Only the bravest of the brave, the largest of the large, the nastiest of the nasty insects will migrate here to continue the fight. And I hope they do come.Because I'm saving the other half of this jug for next year.5/5. Kills. Prevents. Prevents. Prevents.

My property is surrounded by woods and mosquitoes are always a problem, even during the daytime. I began spraying the perimeter of my lawn, the edge of the woods, this spring. I saturate the ground and spray up the foliage about 10 ft high. I have resprayed every 3 weeks or so and my yard is completely mosquito free. Even at sundown when they would typically be the worst, there are none. For the first time in years, I can enjoy the back yard and deck.I use a sprayer attached to 100+ foot run of garden hose. I also have a small pump up hand sprayer for the locations I can't reach with the garden hose attachment. I had wasps in my shed this spring. I set off a bug bomb in there to quell the swarm. Then hit the shed with this spray and the wasps did not return. I use the spray on all of my eaves for spider prevention and the perimeter of the house to keep the carpenter ants at bay. We are also into July, and no one has had a tick yet, usually we have several, so I assume this product deters them too.After 3 months of spraying, zero mosquitoes. The product is supposed to be safe for foliage, which it seems it is. It also holds up well to rain. There is also an included booklet that outlines the dilution ratio for various pests. Just make sure you are utilizing safe practices when spraying. Keep kids and pets inside for several hours, wear a mask, wash your hands.