ot - boric acid and cockroaches

[Michael Havens]

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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