ot - boric acid and cockroaches

[Stephen Partington]

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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