organically dead roaches?
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Flibbertigibbet
I use 20 mule team borax. I just sprinkle it around the baseboards under my cabinets and in my drawers, inside my closet, etc. Anywhere that is not exposed. Make sure it is only thin layer. No mounding because the roaches will walk around it instead of thru it.
They take it back to the nest with them, lick their feet and it kills them I guess. I clean up and replace the powder every year or so. I have only had roaches one time in all these years and they were brought home by one of the boys from a place he lived for a while.
But I just cleaned all the old borax up, put new out and within 3 months I quit seeing any roaches or signs of roaches.
They take it back to the nest with them, lick their feet and it kills them I guess. I clean up and replace the powder every year or so. I have only had roaches one time in all these years and they were brought home by one of the boys from a place he lived for a while.
But I just cleaned all the old borax up, put new out and within 3 months I quit seeing any roaches or signs of roaches.
patandchickens
Crazy Cat Lady
Very finely powdered borax, or food grade DE.
Actually back in grad school what i swore by was Roach-Pruf (I believe it is still made), it is just a fine borax powder with some sort of attractant in it to ensure they stomp around in it and get good'n' dead. But it WORKS. Put enough of it around, and you can actually completely rid a dwelling of roaches, although if you're in an apartment or townhouse and the rest of the structure is not treated you will have a continued low-level roach problem as they wander in from their untreated sanctuaries.
I also used to have a cat that would kill the big palmetto-bug ones and bring them to me and expect praise. I don't really recommend that strategy, nor the "have them fall off the ceiling into your cereal bowl in the morning and leave them there to drown" strategy
GOod luck,
Pat
Actually back in grad school what i swore by was Roach-Pruf (I believe it is still made), it is just a fine borax powder with some sort of attractant in it to ensure they stomp around in it and get good'n' dead. But it WORKS. Put enough of it around, and you can actually completely rid a dwelling of roaches, although if you're in an apartment or townhouse and the rest of the structure is not treated you will have a continued low-level roach problem as they wander in from their untreated sanctuaries.
I also used to have a cat that would kill the big palmetto-bug ones and bring them to me and expect praise. I don't really recommend that strategy, nor the "have them fall off the ceiling into your cereal bowl in the morning and leave them there to drown" strategy
GOod luck,
Pat
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Wildsky
Femivore
Mix it with some sugar or something that they'll love to munch on!abifae said:
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Farmfresh
City Biddy
Glue traps work if you just have a few.
