Cool! I just read this one- If you ever have rats try this: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/20/whats-the-best-way-to-kill-cockroaches 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. (I read elsewhere you can use oat meal and at another site plaster of paris). On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Matt Graham wrote: > On 2015-06-04 07:21, Michael Havens wrote: >> >>> spread boric acid on the kitchen floor and the cockroaches would >>> run over it and die. He went on to explain that they breathe through >>> follicles on their abdomen and that the acid suffocates them. >>> >> > Sort of correct. Insects breathe through spiracles (not follicles). > http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/20/whats-the-best-way-to-kill-cockroaches > says that borax abrades the waxy coating on roach exoskeleton, so the > roaches dehydrate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boric_Acid#Insecticidal > says borax interferes with insect metabolism as well. > > On 2015-06-04 08:39, Keith Smith wrote: > >> Are these Linux Roaches? >> > > "ERROR: roachd and boraxd cannot be installed at the same time." > > -- > Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress > There is no Darkness in Eternity > But only Light too dim for us to see. > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: