Re: ot - boric acid and cockroaches

more home made rat poison recepies :
Here <http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Rat-Poison>.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Paul Keim <pskeim@gmail.com> wrote:

> What the actual fuck?
>
> Just put rat poison out. Who the hell wants to inject concrete into an
> animal's guts to make them die? I mean, I lived in Florida, so I know how
> annoying rats are, but that's... ugh.
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> 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 <mhgraham@crow202.org> 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."
>>>
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