Bird mites in my house 😩

[Cristyloks]

I got lucky and he crawled into an upturned end table that had a bit of a lip (basically became a shallow box with legs!) carried the whole thing outside we live in an area that gets a lot of snakes and rat snakes I'll typically leave be unless they're trying to get at chickens. We get a lot of copperheads and occasional rattlesnakes and those are kill on sight. Thankfully never had those in the house (knock on wood!) We are on the edge of a lake cove and it's all very rocky out here so we get all kinds of things. My mom calls it Jurassic Park .

 

[Chickerooni]

Did your mites ever go away on their own?

 

[Cristyloks]

Did your mites ever go away on their own?

They did! Lots of vacuuming, laundry washing and painting DE on the walls later, but we stopped seeing live ones at about the 2 week mark.

 

[Chickerooni]

They did! Lots of vacuuming, laundry washing and painting DE on the walls later, but we stopped seeing live ones at about the 2 week mark.

How did you go about painting DE on the walls?

 

[NoMagicJstMagnetic]

I think you can use permetherin spray inside. Should be well-ventilated, wear a mask during application, and let it dry before inhabiting the area again....similar to when you do a flea bomb...the active ingredient in most flea bombs is permetherin. Permetherin also happens to be one of the most effective and popular lice/mite treatments for chickens.

I wonder if a flea bomb in your son's room would work....

Permethrin works wonders!! Saved my sanity once....