The present invention relates to methods and uses for controlling non-crop pests (especially of the orders Blattodea, Diptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Isoptera, Orthoptera) and/or populations of social insects and non-social solitary or gregarious insects, especially ants, wasps, termites and cockroaches, with the carboxamide compounds broflanilide (formula (I)) or desmethyl-broflanilide (formula (Ia)), their mixtures, and compositions comprising these carboxamides and further insecticides, especially dinotefuran, alpha-cypermethrin or chlorfenapyr.
