Martin's Insect Growth Regulator - 4oz

People seem to need an immediate solution to home pest such as fleas, ants and such. They spend $$$ for spray cans that kill on contact, ... but subject the user to air-borne particulates. Then why not PURCHASE THIS PRODUCT? IT WORKS!! I've been using this product for the last 3-5 years (always plenty with some left over), and I won't use anything else. We have 4 dogs and 5 cats, live in a 'Cape' on a quarter acre lot. The cats aren't allowed to go outside, but they go out on our porches. The dogs have their own yard space where they bring in fleas, which can certainly be spread to the cats, then to our furniture, carpeting and into the bed of my wife and I. Into the floor-boards and hidden areas of our woodwork, where these little blood-sucking boogers suddenly jump out and say "BOOO". Used as instructed, ... in the use of a pressure sprayer, ... and diluted as instructed, ... we are flea free as we have been for since we started to use this product. Just follow the instructions, ... use a pressure container, and spray all areas from woodwork to carpeting, ... kitchen, bathrooms, cellar, yard, ... even dog bedding itself. MIND YOU, ... LET IT DRY BEFORE INTRODUCING PETS AND CHILDREN INTO THE AREA, ... but there are no fume residues, ... and no clean-up needed. Just make-up no more solution than one will use in a two day period, as after this is mixed, ... it will degenerate if allowed to stand. One bottle will make gallons (believe it's 4 gallons) and it really does work. It prevents insect reproduction of offspring, ... and though they may lay eggs, ... those eggs will never hatch-out to produce little blood-suckers. End of the life cycle for these little bastards, in the house and out. A new infestation? Then one is NOT doing what they need to do, ... so while finding out what and why you screwed up, ... just re-spray a new solution, ... end of problem. Keep your pets (cats and dogs)protected with a good quality flea-collar. Cats should never be allowed outside without supervision, ... and definitely NOT AT NIGHT! Let the kitties sit in a window sill with the window open. No more fleas in your house, ... no more agony for your pets with insect bites, and no more scratching of your ankles and shins late at night when you're trying to get your sleep for work the next morning! Great stuff, ... it really is.

We had flea issues for a couple of months and although some products had a short term impact on them nothing was actually getting rid of them!!!!!!!!!!!! Those who say cocrashes are strong, they have never met fleas!!! We even laid a bomb in the house in one of the first weeks - everything died, we found several dead bugs including grasshoppers and cocrashes, but the fleas not only were alive (!) they just got excited and tried to eat us more aggressively!!! 🙀😿 At the end, this product saved us. After a lot of struggling for survival we found this product and spread a bit around the house and in the corners inside the house and in the bed. Truly a miracle sent by the gods, they were gone in less than 3 days 🙏 It's also a lot more than it looks, we only needed one Oz (it comes with 4 one-oz mini packages) because it comes to be mixed with water. Essentially 1 Oz was 1 gallon. Also it does smell bad but the smell is not strong and it dries very quickly so you don't have to leave the house or buy a mask or anything. Just keep the pets away for a few hours for it to dry and you're good. (Specailly if your dogs likes randomly biting and licking stuff). In terms of the smell, imagine permetrine diluted with water. It's the same type of smell but a fraction of the stretch. If you were spreading permetrine all over the house (we tried btw, it didn't do anything to them) you would need to air out the house for a day for the stretch to leave. Whereas for this one, you can leave a window or two open for it to dry faster but you don't even have to (we have a room without windows and it took a bit longer for the smell to leave it but even then it wasn't unbearable and it left also in just a few hours). Definitely recommended. If you have little devils, consider this the holy water.

After a year of battling sewer flies in my camper (which I live in), trying all the usual suggestions and everything else I could think of, I read about insect growth regulators. I found this product on Amazon, read the reviews and gave it a try. Here's how I used it: I had already figured out that the flies were coming from my holding tanks, around the edges of my toilet and tub, not the actual drains. I did this by keeping the drains closed when not in use. So I closed both the black water and gray water tanks and filled them completely with water. I poured and ounce of the Martins IG Regulator, along with some RV toilet treatment, in each tank (via the toilet and the tub) and let them sit for 24 hours. In the meantime, I left the bathroom light on to attract the adult flies that were already in the camper, and turned all other lights off, then sprayed the bathroom full of permethrin spray (intended for lice). That killed the adult flies. After 24 hours I emptied both tanks. I closed them off again, but didn't refill them, and poured another ounce of Martins IG regulator and some RV toilet treatment in each. There were no more flies for 1 week. Then I began to see some, but they were small and slower moving that before. Remember, this product does not kill the insects, it inhibits their ability to reproduce. So the permethrin killed the adults inside the camper, and the IG kept the new ones hatching in the tanks from reproducing. I repeated the treatment 1 more time. That seems to have ended the problem. After a year of battling those nasty creatures, constantly killing them, having them in my face because they were attracted to the light from my phone, and being embarrassed to have anyone over, they are gone. Gone. $18 was a cheap price to pay for such relief. The smell of the product is very mild, and it was easy to use. I know it is marketed for fleas, but it works for other insects as well, and I'm going to keep it around. Who knows what use I might find for it! I'm a happy customer.

The roaches that were affected look more like crickets than cockroaches. I noticed it didn't kill them right away but now they were sterile as advertised!!!

This product is giving me hope. Our apartment was bombarded by hundreds of tiny, black flies or gnats. When they first appeared in June, no problem. We treated them like fruit flies and set out small glasses with apple cider vinegar with a few drops of dish soap like we did last summer... one week and they'd be gone, right? The 2018 summer flies didn't even go near last year's tried and true solution. So we bought the cute little red apples with bait from Raid. This trapped dozens of flies over time, but the flies just kept on coming. We now enlisted the help of apartment management who sent the professional exterminator over... he came out three times over a period of 7 weeks. His treatment of poisonous spray down the kitchen sinks worked for one day each. The gnat troops were relentless. All this time, we're keeping every kind of food that deteriorates in the fridge, even the bread, potatoes, and onions. Dishes are cleaned immediately after use, counters scrubbed and cabinets wiped free of grease and food spills. We researched online everything we could find about these horrid, relentless, tiny flies. This is now war, and I am gnat Rambo, spraying each single gnat with nonchemical cleaning spray. I have pets, after all, and don't want to harm them or my family. (It would be nice to have visitors, but it's too embarrassing to invite friends over right now with these gnats zooming around.) It's nearly November, for crying out loud. My tactic of spraying gnats every time I see them land on my kitchen walls or cupboards helps considerably. I smash and wipe them with a paper towel once they're covered in spray and are disabled. I've been thinking this will be how things are forever. I see black spots before my eyes wherever I go in or away from my home. I dream about tiny black flying things. This is nuts. During my most recent internet search, I discovered this product mentioned in someone's blog about these pests. I'd never heard of it before but ordered it immediately. With my numerous little plastic Raid apples retired as useless in this war and my spray bottles of nonchemical cleaning sprays set to the side, I rolled up my sleeves and added some IG concentrate to a full sink basin of hot water. The IG liquid swirled menacingly in the water, which was actually fascinating. I used long tongs to reach down and pull out the sink stopper, allowing the solution to flush down the drain. That was last night at 8 pm. I've since scrubbed the sink basin itself, but I'm not using any water in that sink until the morning. I've been waking up every few hours through the night (naturally... who needs an alarm when you have gnats in your dreams) to check the kitchen for these filthy critters. I haven't seen a one. No tiny black things fluttering before my eyes, no black spots on my cupboard doors. I'm daring to hope. Even if I have to do this same drain treatment on a regular basis, if this works, this product should receive an award, especially for the simple provision of hope.

So glad I bought this!!! I purchased this to use to eliminate a flea issue in our home. We moved to FL and had no idea fleas were a major issue here. Our cat escaped and decided to bring in the flea hitch hikers that are like major vampires!! Anyway, I mixed this with Bayer Advanced 700480 Home Pest Plus. Followed the directions of both bottles completely. After vacuuming the heck out of the house I opened the windows and sprayed the furniture, floors, cracks and crevices, under furniture I couldn't move you name it. I have become a self proclaimed expert at flea termination. I used almost the whole bottle of the IGR since I have a large house and a gallon and half of the Bayer Advanced. Aired the house out until the sprayed solution was dry. I vacuumed every day thoroughly. The furniture, rugs, tile, cracks, you name it. I wasn't going to let these buggers win. Washed the cats daily with Dawn dish soap and combed them with a flea comb. Took them to the vets and now have them treated with a flea control medication to avoid re-infestation. Evidently in FL these vampires can come in the house even on us, what a nightmare!! I also have an exterminator that comes every three months for maintenance previous to this problem. I discussed with him what I had done and he was very impressed. Told me that what I had done would be what they would have done. He also suggested to spray again in two-three weeks in case any areas were missed or if there were any newly hatched monsters. So two and a half weeks later I repeated the spray process. I did notice a flea the other day in my bathroom on the tile floor (a month after this nightmare began) however, he was spinning around in circles acting like he was dying!!! Yeah!!! I will use this again in about 3-4 months to be sure we have no new hitchhikers and continue treating the 2 cats even though they stay in, just in case one comes in on any of us. Sure do not want to experience this again!!!! When spraying and drying I put box fans on the floor to ventilate the slight odor outside quickly. I isolated the cats and I have a parrot so they were room mates for a few hours. No ill effects to any of them so they remained safe during this process. Would hightly recommend, best combo out there!!!

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Using for a bad flea infestation in a cement basement. It has reduced the number of fleas greatly. It NEEDS to be used WITH an adult insecticide also. Even though as this product does what it says....it will stop the eggs & larvae from hatching HOWEVER....NOTHING stops the pupae from hatching into adults...thus you have to keep using the adult insecticide every 7-10 days until the pupae are done hatching and eliminated. I've done a LOT of research on fleas.....I think I know more about a flea than any human should that doesn't do professional pest control. LOL And I definitely recommend this product!!! I have also used DE on my carpeted areas rather than spraying & I'm using prevention (Advantage for dogs, Frontline for cats, Revolutions for the ferrets) on all my animals monthly now. The DE is good for carpets & cloth areas (such as mattresses, etc) but doesn't really do the trick for cemented areas!!! I have eliminated all problems in my living area now with the prevention, DE & vacuuming but the basement remained the problem!!! You must also remember that vacuuming (taking the bag out each time so the buggers don't get out) is important as well. I'm not able to vacuum the basement where the fleas are confined & contained as often as I would like to due to time constraints.....I'd say if I did that too more often the problem would be eliminated faster....but for someone like me who has a super busy schedule....or has a cemented area they are treating.....TRY THIS with the adult insecticides!!! I will continue to use until the fleas are completely gone but I can say for sure this has greatly reduced the population of adult fleas!!! I have ordered another bottle of this for future use just to be POSITIVE it's all under control!!! I also use the "flea traps" (the ones with the nightlights and sticky tapes that look like little flea tents) to evaluate the progress of the situation & have seen less of them in the traps. (The traps cannot be used alone by the way but ONLY as an indicator when you have a bad infestation) Also....do yourself a favor and use a yard sprayer to spread the products!!! It makes quick work of the project!!! I HIGHLY recommend this product if used with an adult insecticide (such as Essentria IC3)!!!! It's definitely working!!!