You humanitarian you. I put Amdro Ant Bait down and there gone the next day. On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: > You can encourage ants to pack up and move by giving them Corn Meal. > Basically they take it back to the nest, and then it moulders instead of > feeding the fungus that is their real food. as they have no food left they > pack it up and go away. > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> 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~(-: >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> 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 >> > > > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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~(-: