<div dir="ltr">Cool! I just read this one- If you ever have rats try this: <div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/20/whats-the-best-way-to-kill-cockroaches" target="_blank">http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/20/whats-the-best-way-to-kill-cockroaches</a><br></div><div><p style="font-size:14px;line-height:18px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,serif">Incidentally, should you also be happen to be troubled by rats, I have here an ingenious formula for inducing rat death: Mix equal parts cement and flour Place a pan of this powder out next to a pan of water. The rats eat the cement, then they drink the water, and by the next morning their bowels have turned to concrete. Sadistic, eh? I knew you'd love it.</p><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px"> (I read elsewhere you can use oat meal and at another site plaster of paris).</span><div class="" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Matt Graham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mhgraham@crow202.org" target="_blank">mhgraham@crow202.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">
On 2015-06-04 07:21, Michael Havens wrote:<br>
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spread boric acid on the kitchen floor and the cockroaches would<br>
run over it and die. He went on to explain that they breathe through<br>
follicles on their abdomen and that the acid suffocates them.<br>
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Sort of correct. Insects breathe through spiracles (not follicles). <a href="http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/20/whats-the-best-way-to-kill-cockroaches" target="_blank">http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/20/whats-the-best-way-to-kill-cockroaches</a> says that borax abrades the waxy coating on roach exoskeleton, so the roaches dehydrate. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boric_Acid#Insecticidal" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boric_Acid#Insecticidal</a> says borax interferes with insect metabolism as well.<span class=""><br>
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On 2015-06-04 08:39, Keith Smith wrote:<br>
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Are these Linux Roaches?<br>
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"ERROR: roachd and boraxd cannot be installed at the same time."<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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