For some time now, I've been buying generic Nitenpyram capsules on Amazon. Last time, I got a bottle of 57 mg capsules, whereof one will conveniently poison the fleas of one medium-to-large dog or three large and one small cats.
But, when I look for the next bottle: nope. Only Nitenpyram on Amazon is expensive name-brand stuff, and sounds like it's in tablet form, which is ungood for my purposes (gotta have one per cat, and get the cats to swallow tablets: riiiiight).
I find the 57 mg capsules cheap on eBay, and may end up resorting to that (but not this evening, as it calls for updating my PayPal info, among other things).
So, wha' hoppen? Well, it seems that there's a crusade against neonicotinoid insecticides, on suspicion that they have something to do with Charge-Coupled Devices Colony Collapse Disorder. Like, bees feed from a cat that's been dosed with the stuff, and come down with lung cancer or something. But not if it was administered in name-brand tablet form. Maybe this has something to do with it? Or is it still under patent, and the patent holder is going after unlicensed vendors?
Whatever. I may end up giving the critters a diatomaceous-earth dust bath. And the house needs flea-bombing, before the fall weather arrives.
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