Insect Growth Inhibitors
Growth regulators have helped out big time with pests this last year. They successfully control a range of pests including bed bugs, ants, roaches and fleas. They work for battling fleas both indoors and outdoors. Growth regulators work because they disrupt the life cycle of insects. That means that when you kill the parent pests, there are no new ones to replace them. Insect growth regulators mimic hormones in young insects. They disrupt how insects grow and reproduce. IGRs can prevent reproduction, egg-hatch, and molting from one stage to the next. IGRs are generally low in toxicity to humans. IGRs do not kill adult insects.
