[pandora]

Aaargh - I just wrote a really long post and the internet connection crashed and lost it.

Basically, I was asking how long it takes for Milbenex to kill mites? I sprayed the inside of the shed today at noon, and thousands of little suckers crawled out from every nook and cranny, but by this evening they are still not dead. The shed stinks though, so plenty went on. If Milbenex is supposed to kill them dead instantaneously then I am in trouble - some kind of super-mite.

So far I have covered EVERYTHING with Diatom, ends of perches smeared with vaseline, gone through gallons of Permethrin, even had a go with a blowtorch. Me and my mum had a week of not talking after we painted the insides of the shed with that paint you use to cover cracks in ceilings - it does have 2 advantages; 1. the smaller cracks are all filled in, and 2. because the shed is now white inside you can see where the blighters are hiding. But they just won't die. I am getting a bit fed up, and am hoping someone tells me the mites die a slow death with Milbenex, otherwise that hasn't worked either. 

[lucylou]

youve got me itching!! im afraid i dont know the answer to your question - but i noticed an article  in the poultry life mag for a product called duramitex, they claim it is insecticide free and kills mites at evey stage of the lifecycle - im going to put a post up and ask if anyone has tried it

[GrannieAnnie]

Because the mites have a hard outer shell it takes a couple of days for these treatments to break them down.  I think they also have a jelly like substance around them when they are together. You only have to look at them moving around, they seem to move as one when they are together, horrid things!

[meterman]

Got mine just over a week ago it killed the ones on show immediately they just went black the others died within 24 hours but each day there was a few on the perches on advice i sprayed under the coop and legs this as done the trick