ot - boric acid and cockroaches

[Amy Nielsen]

another good product, especially if you have pets, is diatemateous earth.
it resembles flour, and pets or people, even babies can eat it without
harm. It is deadly for anything with an exoskeleton though, which is most
bugs. it acts like tiny razors to them and they die fast. I discovered it a
few years ago to combat fleas and I had three dogs so it had to be safe for
them. I not only did my inside of house, but the front yard too. almost
three years now and we have not had even one flea on any of our dogs, and
don't need to use drops or collars. Make sure to get the type that does NOT
go in pools and you'll be amazed. The kind used in pools isn't safe for
pets.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 <cryptworks at gmail.com>
> 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 <bmike1 at 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 at 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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