NFM infestation in North Texas

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- August 22, 2020 at 2:06 pm #4083
  
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  My wife, son, cat and I live in a duplex in Fort Worth, Texas. Our apartment is now infested with northern fowl mites, because a bird built a nest in our chimney. It took a long time to identify the problem, especially because the mites were affecting my wife much more than me. We couldn’t believe that an exterminator couldn’t kill them.
  
  We read Year of the Mite by Jane Ishka and this really helped us to understand. We are trying to follow the protocol described in that book and on this web site as best that we can. Dehumidifiers have helped a lot and we are trying to keep everything as clean and dry as possible.
  
  We are hoping for more advice on how to finally end this infestation. We have it under control to a degree but the problem is recurrent. Maybe other people in our region have a better idea of the nature of this particular species of mites and good ways to exterminate them.
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