Customer Reviews for Talstar P Professional Insecticide

After reading reviews and talking to support staff I bought Talstar P 3/4 gal. to treat my house and perimeter of a very bad springtail problem. I sprayed 3-4 feet up (to bottom of windows), around windows, and then 3-4 feet out on my grass around the whole house. While it's decreased the springtail population somewhat it's not nearly what I was made to think, I still have thousands. I'm also using Bifen granules around the perimeter. Support is now telling me the springtails must be down under my foundation. I understand they can breed there but when they come up and out along my siding why isn't this stuff killing them then since it's suppose to last and be active for 3 months. There is no explanation for that. If you have a springtail problem I would hire a professional company and get a written guarantee they'll get rid of them and keep them away.

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16 of 21 people found this review helpful

I bought this to use around my house and for our church building as I am the building and grounds maintenance manager. I sprayed a couple of weeks ago and it seems to be doing a good job. I sprayed inside against the baseboards and under appliances. Ouside I sprayed up 2 feet on the foundation and about 2-3 feet out from foundation. I have only seen dead bugs inside and they seem to be fewer in count in both our house and at the church. I bought the 3/4 gallon to do several applications and I plan to do so over the next several months because I cancelled the expensive pest control service we were using. If all works as planned, Talstar P should save us several hundred dollars a year between my house and the church. I use a 4 gallon backpack sprayer using approx. 10 gallons to spray the church inside and out (BIG BUILDING). The 3/4 gallon Talstar should make almost 200 gallons of spray for our applications making this a very inexpensive solution to get rid of the bugs. Thanks for a great product!

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Pest control pricing in my area is ridiculous. they wants $90+ every three months and they only spray one time in the quarter unless I specifically request them to come back. I decided I would check in to doing it myself and I am sure glad I did. It is very easy and even with having to buy the sprayer and the pesticide, after one use I am already money ahead of getting a quarterly service from a local company. I used this for the first time on 6/26/16. The very next day I saw lots of dead bugs in front of my garage and front door including disgusting cockroaches. In my backyard we had trails of ants in several places plus fire ants in the yard. It has now been two weeks and no ants on the patio or in the house. As I said above, it was really easy to use. I have a two gallon sprayer so I measured two ounces and dumped into sprayer then slowly filled with water so as not to splash. Put the pumper back into the sprayer, pumped up the pressure and treated the perimeter of my house as well as the shrubbery around my house. Very little mess and cleanup was a breeze. So far, I am a happy camper.

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I have now sprayed my house top to bottom twice. I had oriental roaches, ants, wasps, pillbugs, and beetles when I moved in. After following the instructions the first time I noticed that the pillbugs and wasps were gone, but still had issues with the others. 2 weeks later I sprayed again, and I was still seeing the roaches, ants and beetles. I finally went and bought a raid fogger and already noticed a significant difference.

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1 of 2 people found this review helpful

I have used Talstar for a few ant treatments and I must say that the product works around the perimeter in and outside of the home. The only reason this gets a 4 star is because it is not as residual as some products on the market. In humid weather, like in Tennessee, this product comes off with ease and can allow the new infestations of creatures to come into the house.

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We still have "crazy ants", microscopic ones that have been sprayed inside and outside and all over the house. They show up on counters and cannot keep any type of food product that one usually keeps on a kitchen counter top. They'll even show up all over shampoo bottles in the shower in the morning and if you leave a dirty dish in the sink, they're on it! What to do?!

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

We live in the south and get a lot of what I call water bugs, which are gigantic roaches. I sprayed all along the inside baseboards, under the sink and behind the fridge. I then went outside and sprayed around the bottom of the house. All around the windows and door frames, I found a few dead bugs inside afterwards but nothing since then. I highly recommend this product.

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Stuff is great! Was tired of paying 40 bucks a month for our bug guy so i found Talstar P. I've seen dead spiders that i didn't see when our bug guy was spraying. I've noticed lots of dead roaches, pincher bugs and other spiders. Also let my dad use on bees that were around his house and worked on them as well. I will definitely be buying more.

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This is the only thing I've found (available to most homeowners) that will control spiders. Once a year, I spray it at the base of the outside walls of the house and other structures, around the outside of windows and doors, in the nooks and crannies of the patio lattice, around the security cameras, and underneath all of the patio furniture. Few spiders for the entire next year. I use PPE, and wouldn't recommend spraying inside a dwelling.

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I've been using Bayer advanced home pest control for years, they are fine, and does the job most of the time, but Talstar P is basically better in almost every way. It is more effective, much cheaper, less than $0.5/gal vs $7/gal. Since I am not a professional, I can't comment on its effectiveness of killing the toughest bugs, but I do know it does a good job keeping silverfish, ants, and roaches away from my house.

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I've been using this over the past year. Spraying 4 feet up the exterior walls, around windows/doors, 3 feet away from the foundation and garden beds as well as perimeter treatments. It seemed to work but not quick enough to stop the bugs from entering the house. I found some dead insects but I still had to manually kill earwigs/spiders every day. I just tried Tempo SC Ultra and Demand G Granules which worked 100% better.

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I live in an old house that is on the national register. For some reason ants and spiders like the old gal. I do have a termite policy and I used there ant and bug policy for a while then I came across Talstar which knocks them out better than the bug policy I had. It is a great product and the folks at domyown. com are very helpful and professional. Side note: follow the precautions on the container and protect yourself.

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Order arrived in 5 days. I drilled all the holes one day and had a friend of mine that owns professional insecticide equipment spray the next day. There were active termites crawling in some areas, he sprayed directly on them and within 30 minutes they were dead. Other creatures were running from the spray area. A week later an inspection of previous termite trails revealed no active activity. Talstar is not turmidor but it works.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

I used this for the first time about 3 weeks ago. Mosquitoes were so thick on my one acre place they would carry you away. I sprayed 16 gallons of solution at 1 oz. per gallon with a misting rig I made for my leaf blower. Took me about 45 minutes to use all the product. Went in the house, took a shower, came back outside, NO mosquitoes, gone, not one. Been mosquito free ever since.

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21 of 21 people found this review helpful

I bought it for springtails (although they are easy to kill. It's just a control system when you spray to kill them. Have to take care of the moisture problem before they will truly go away). I'm the midst of us getting the funding to fix the moisture problem we infested in this product. It has killed the springtails. (Though any killer could kill them). I was hoping it would kill other bugs as well. It hasn't. Ant problem is actually worse.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Always had problems with spiders and brown ants in my garage. Sprayed around whole interior of my garage, driveway and around perimeter of the house. What a difference. The only bugs I see now are dead ones. Reminder, this is not an instant kill product but once bugs cross over it it's only a short time until they die. Wear a mask and be careful if it's windy. Glad I found this vendor. Forget wasting money at the big box stores.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

I did a perimeter spray around my house and so far no insects have made it inside. To be honest, I didn't even do the perimeter treatment properly. I only sprayed about three feet out and one foot up, and just that little bit did the trick. No more roaches, no more millipedes. I will continue to buy Talstar as long as it continues to work.

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Great product. Had a guy coming quarterly to spray out house for several years. He quit coming and wouldn't answer phone calls. So I thought I would try it myself. Got a pint of Talstar locally. It works great. I've used it for roach's, spiders,wasp's. Tried it on a couple of fire ant mounds this week, their gone! Bought 3/4 gallon online from DoYourOwn. Saved $$. Highly recommend! No regrets at all. Will do again.

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I have used this product since I bought my home 3 years ago and will not go without it! My hairdresser told me about this and I'm forever greatful for her suggestion because my home has a crawl space underneath, no basement, which could become a bug city! We spray under the house, around the foundation, window sills, houseplants, yard areas and I never have any issues with bugs in my yard! I tell everyone about this product!

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Great chemicals again from do my own pest control! We always get what we ordered in a timely manner with quality, great products. I highly recommend. This kills the bugs and keeps them away when it is sprayed around and in the house every 3 months. We never have any bugs!! Was using with a pressure sprayer but a regular spray bottle works better and less waste. We've used this with a fumigation tool also and worked good too. Thank you!

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I was away from my home for 7 months due to a bogus restraining order filed by my ex husband we were still stuck in the same house (long story). He brought roaches home due to several apartments complex he was painting. The roaches were apocalyptic! Hundreds of tiny tiny ones. This stuff knocked them out in 24 to 48 hours. Its only been a week. See on or two but on the way out!!!

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I bought this to control insects around my home and mixed a couple of gallons to spray the perimeter of my house where once I would knock down spider webs one day and the next day there would be more so I sprayed on Monday and Tuesday there were no webs or ants and a few dead spiders here and there. This stuff works fast with noticeable results.

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We have used this product for 15 years. We spray around the base of our house once/month and very, very rarely do we see a crawling insect inside the home. We also use it to spray red ant hills in our yard. It is very effective in killing the entire colony and DOES NOT kill the surrounding grass. Have recommended this product to many of our friends.

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Wasted lots of money and weeks of time using DIY store spray inside and out flea problem only got worse. After first treatment with this stuff inside and out major difference. Had to treat twice following label instructions and no more problem, with any bugs I will keep a gallon of this stuff on hand from now on. Don't waste your money at the DIY stores for chemicals do it once and be done.

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

I bought a house in Arlington Virginia last January and I can't enjoy a minute outside because of mosquitoes. After checking in YouTube and find Talstar P. I went to do my own pets control and order it. They deliver it rapidly. I followed the instructions and I sprayed my back and front yard believe me I have no more mosquitoes problems. I will recommend talstar P to everyone.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

I live in South Florida and had a problem with every bug known to man. We had black and red millipedes, large and small ants, roaches, etc... Our swimming pool would fill with tiny dead ants every night. After spraying both inside and outside the house everything started dying. The millipedes have completely disappeared and my wife was sweeping up thousands of tiny dead ants for days after the spraying. Great stuff for a very difficult environment!

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

This stuff is great! Been using talstar for two years and sitting outside without having to swat mosquitos all summer is really enjoyable. We live in the woods in MN where the mosquitos are the state bird. A visit with the neighbors let's me know how good this stuff is as they swarm on you at their house. The price is great for the results compared to having the pros do it. Spray once a month and enjoy the summer.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

I have used this item in the past..it is the best pest control n the market for the homeowner....my neighbors have now started to buy it after seeing the difference in my turf and around my house ...I used it for white fly on my trees saved me a fortune over the "pest control" companies prices...one application was all it needed, they haven't come back...my yard and home is pest free...thanks for your help...

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Friends had told us of this product, so we ordered it & tried it ourselves. WOW! Overnight, magic! Dead spiders outside everywhere. We have problems with spiders webs also on the house & in some trees - GONE! We are in the process of spraying the attic & cabinets inside. We have all the confidence that no more bugs will be around here. Love this product & some other friends are getting it now too. Great product, easy to use & good price!

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Been using Talstar P now for three years and I have found nothing on the market to compare it kills the bugs and the mosquitoes as I live in the country with a ravine right behind the house. To keep it short and simple it's the best stuff I have ever used! (I use a pull behind sprayer and last time put down 17 gallons)

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful