Do you fumigate when home?

[Mousy]

Reading a recent article about somebody flying home from Turkey and finding a bee in their suitcase, which poses a threat to our native bees, got me thinking....

Does anyone fumigate their motorhome when coming home from abroad? Are we risking bringing back creepy crawlies which might cause problems?

I’ve been on plenty of flights where they spray the plane before landing, should this be something we should start?

We’ve recently returned from Greece and and could be harbouring something

 

[Just smiffy]

Will fumigation get rid of the migrants from Calais under the van...??

Spiders, don’t want spiders in my van.... if I see one I won’t go anywhere until I get rid of it...?

 

[denisejoe]

When we have been to India in the past they sprayed before landing but last year they never

 

[Allanm]

What would you use? We always get spiders in the door mirrors, couldn’t bring myself to kill them though

 

[DBK]

I think the biggest risk is bringing plants back in pots as things, including diseases, could be in the soil. Live insects hiding in the MH probably much less risk as the return journey is likely to be spread over several days, giving the critters opportunities to escape. An aircraft is different because the return is generally quick and might be accomplished while the mini-beasts are having a snooze.

But biosecurity is taken seriously by some countries. For example if you ship a vehicle to Canada it has to be scrubbed completely clean, even the underneath and tyres have to be spotless.

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[DavidG58]

I am really intrigued by the spray before landing

How exactly is this achieved ? ?

 

[wiljoy]

Do we not have enough namby pamby in the UK without creating more.
What next?

 

[mike mcglynn]

I don’t think it’s possible to fumigate a plane whilst people are still aboard , when they do ships ,everybody is ordered off and the ship is quarantined for days after. I think the spray on the plane is an air freshener/disinfectant like they used in the pictures years ago .

 

[Onemanandhisdog]

I am really intrigued by the spray before landing

How exactly is this achieved ? ?

The trolley dollies walk down the cabin spraying some sort of aerosol.

 

[gus-lopez]

Reading a recent article about somebody flying home from Turkey and finding a bee in their suitcase, which poses a threat to our native bees, got me thinking....

Does anyone fumigate their motorhome when coming home from abroad? Are we risking bringing back creepy crawlies which might cause problems?

I’ve been on plenty of flights where they spray the plane before landing, should this be something we should start?

We’ve recently returned from Greece and and could be harbouring something

think the biggest risk is bringing plants back in pots as things, including diseases, could be in the soil.

&that is how termite's entered the UK in north Devon many years ago. Plant from Spain/Canaries.

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[Ivory55]

I think the biggest risk is bringing plants back in pots as things, including diseases, could be in the soil. Live insects hiding in the MH probably much less risk as the return journey is likely to be spread over several days, giving the critters opportunities to escape. An aircraft is different because the return is generally quick and might be accomplished while the mini-beasts are having a snooze.

But biosecurity is taken seriously by some countries. For example if you ship a vehicle to Canada it has to be scrubbed completely clean, even the underneath and tyres have to be spotless.

Australia is another country that takes it seriously. Even woodwind instruments etc are checked out .

 

[DavidG58]

The trolley dollies walk down the cabin spraying some sort of aerosol.

I was thinking they meant outside ?

 

[BobtheBass]

I dread the day they find Triffids growing in the local park.

 

[SpeedyDux]

Will fumigation get rid of the migrants from Calais under the van...??

Spiders, don’t want spiders in my van.... if I see one I won’t go anywhere until I get rid of it...?

At the last count there are about a dozen stowaway spiders that have made their home on the outside, probably including some migrant spiders. All very small, unlike the enormous spiders in my shed. Look 'ere, I said to them, if you want to live here rent free, get busy with the lawnmower.

 

[Hymer 1961]

Taking into consideration the many thousands of HGV’s that go back and forth across the channel everyday, wouldn’t the same precaution apply, if the Government thought any foreign critters, inadvertently smuggled into the UK, were a risk to our native species.

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[DBK]

Taking into consideration the many thousands of HGV’s that go back and forth across the channel everyday, wouldn’t the same precaution apply, if the Government thought any foreign critters, inadvertently smuggled into the UK, were a risk to our native species.

Some of them are risks, for example the Asian hornet, but practical measures to stop them arriving are time consuming and expensive. And for some shipments like fruit, spraying isn't really an option so tarantulas and the like might still be found on a supermarket shelf in this country.

 

[PeteH]

when they do ships ,everybody is ordered off and the ship is quarantined for days after.

That`s because they (used to) use cyanide smoke bombs. Regular happening when carrying S African Grain to the American ports back in the 60`s. 3 days in a Cape Town Hotel!. No work, and the hotel bar was open to residents all night!. Jolly jack was a happy little bunny!!. The thing was, when we got back on board to start loading, the COCKROACHES where STILL alive!. There is a story that they found live `roaches inside the core of a Nuclear Power plant!.

 

[DuxDeluxe]

Does anyone fumigate their motorhome when coming home from abroad?

We just leave that job to the dog............

 

[Guigsy]

There's a spider living in my right wing mirror that I picked up in Italy. Big hairy b$%$$d. I tried to jetwash it out, but I'm pretty sure it just growled at me and flipped me the bird. Mirror was covered in webs again by the next morning.

 

[Bluemanc100]

I spent 9 months in Belize in the 80's with the Royal Air Force. It was only when we got on the plane to go home that they handed out cards about infectious diseases and fumigated the plane... I'd been sleeping in a nissen hut for the entire time there with resident mice, rats, cockroaches and the what felt like the world's population of mozzies... We called ours (Hut #57) the "Belize Hilton"

At least they didn't make us pay food and accommodation...

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[jumartoo]

Years ago we were in the Czech Republic in a BnB and the owner was complaining bitterly about the Spanish slugs. How and who took them there?

 

[scotzsue]

I don’t think it’s possible to fumigate a plane whilst people are still aboard , when they do ships ,everybody is ordered off and the ship is quarantined for days after. I think the spray on the plane is an air freshener/disinfectant like they used in the pictures years ago .

don't know what it was but it played havoc with my asthma

 

[Bluemanc100]

I don’t think it’s possible to fumigate a plane whilst people are still aboard , when they do ships ,everybody is ordered off and the ship is quarantined for days after. I think the spray on the plane is an air freshener/disinfectant like they used in the pictures years ago .

They did exactly that for military flights leaving Belize in the '80's with no warning, the flight crew walked through the plane with aerosols spewing out some noxious vapour

 

[The Dudess]

We’ve recently returned from Greece and and could be harbouring something

Yeah, I bet you are ............................... 10 litres of Raki and 50 gallons of olive oil.

 

[Portland]

I only fumigate when I burn the bacon

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[Hollyberry]

I am really intrigued by the spray before landing

How exactly is this achieved ? ?

I can remember the cabin crew walking through the cabin spraying something like fly killer before takeoff from The Gambia. As I’m (very) slightly asthmatic I, and another lady, were advised to go in the rear galley and hold paper napkins over our noses and mouths. No idea if they still do this.

 

[EX51SSS]

Reading a recent article about somebody flying home from Turkey and finding a bee in their suitcase, which poses a threat to our native bees, got me thinking....

Does anyone fumigate their motorhome when coming home from abroad? Are we risking bringing back creepy crawlies which might cause problems?

I’ve been on plenty of flights where they spray the plane before landing, should this be something we should start?

We’ve recently returned from Greece and and could be harbouring something

Well spraying in the plane is one thing but that would not have done anything for insects etc inside baggage in the hold or even the overhead lockers

 

[Rob Hammond]

Years ago we were in the Czech Republic in a BnB and the owner was complaining bitterly about the Spanish slugs. How and who took them there?

Lettuce.