Lavender oils/scents vs BP

[KingWheatley]

Do not use essential oils around snakes or other reptiles. If possible do not have the room that the snake lives in sprayed with pesticide and do not bring the snake into any room that has been treated for several weeks (I honestly don't know the actual safe time frame here). If all rooms will be sprayed the snake will need to be removed from the apartment completely.

You can kill bed bugs with borax powder. Sprinkle the borax in carpets, across doorways and all along the edges of rooms and in corners. This treatment is 100% safe for reptiles as long as the reptiles do not come into contact with the borax (don't let your snake crawl on the floor where borax is). I have used this method in my reptile room to help control ants and other pest bugs.

ETA: Don't ever use the spray bottle with the alcohol/lavender mix in it for Cookie again. Get a new one.

I didn't use (edit: MY Lavender-alcohol spray) around Cookie's room at all. just the carpet powder with Lavender.

I asked the exterminator not to spray in the reptile room because I (will) have diatomaceous earth down. He said he still has to spray in there but putting a towel over his tank will be fine. He said they use a non-residual, so after 10 minutes it won't be in the air at all. "They are all natural and made out of plants." And instructed me not to use anything else other what they are using or their warranty will not be in effect.


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