Still have a few thrips

I wash all laundry in hot water and hot rinse. I use 1/2 cup Borax at begin of wash filling, mix well with hot water to avoid lumping and add detergent then. I spray blue window wash over the lint before removing, doesn't kill but aids in removing quickly. Next spray with ammonia on lint trap. I spray inside dryer if I found a couple bites from handling clean clothes. Finding fewer in clean laundry than  before.

Spraying ammonia inside washer after every load, I always allow the ammonia to dry - I don't know what it may do to the clothes.

I bag up everything I wash in Gallon bags if big enough. I bought really big Ziploc bags for blankets, etc. and to keep clothes organized shirts and pants and stuff. I will get cedar blocks & rounds to put in each gallon bag of clothes.

I will change to beech tree fiber bed sheets as they will stand up to the hot water wash without shrinkng because thrips love to lay their eggs on cotton.

If I get into some bites from something I touch somewhere, I spray my arms down with window wash after wetting them down at sink. Then rub in until feeling not bit by them. My skin on my arms feels better and more smooth from the window wash sprayings, not as many bumps as before.

I spray the plants outside that have thrips on them with peppermint soap solution - 1 teaspoon to one quart and spray anywhere in the house where I get some bites during the day. Spraying inside and outside every other day.

I wash with staight peppermint soap on my skin in the shower, then rinse off as soon as I am done with 1\2 my body as it gets a bit tingly if I wait until completely soaped up. I wash my face with the same minty soap at the sink, being careful to not get in eyes.

I will change to a bug killer that prevents them from reproducing; spraying only once with that type later on, after I can cut the bugbit parts of the plants away and clean the whole area up. I will use insect killers only once per type, so they don't become immune.

I will keep after these thrips as I could get Tetanus from them.

I am a lot better, but not "out of the woods" yet. 

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