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when we fixed the sink in the basement so it no longer leaked on the floor down there, it got rid of their water source and our roach problem went away.
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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Thanks Shaw, that was bugging me.
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Or if you really want to avoid the poison route, some friends of mine bought two geckos from an exotic pet store and released them under the sink in their kitchen. Never saw another roach. On the other hand, the house was extremely old with spaces between the boards everywhere, and they knew the geckos would be living in the walls, not stuck under the kitchen sink.
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I can hear my ears
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dar512 is now Pete Zicato
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I never see more than one or two of them in a year, so I've never bothered looking into it. Do you have lots?
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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Mrs. Dallas used to take great pleasure in listening to the little beasties run around in the Roach Motels.
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I can hear my ears
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only during summer months and after a heavy rain. we have a hella old house, and the basement is ...interesting.
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Boeing (PA) only has 1.5 to 2 inch roaches, though they do have brown squirrels. ![]()
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Does this make me a sociopath? This isn't a living thing that is of the class I feel empathy towards. I killed this thing the same way a flu virus kills a little African kid--viciously, horrifically, and with no remorse. In this case I was taking revenge for the psychological terror that these things inflict upon me, with their incompatible nervous system sending out it's creep-vibes, making me shudder. I know they do it. They're alien. They're not life as we know it. I feel perfectly justified in regarding them as an enemy that needs to be terrified, tortured, and disposed of in the worst way possible. And I sincerely hope that they send out some kind of distress signal, notifying any others nearby that a hell of unimaginable magnitudes is what they will find in my house.
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Boric acid, in a weak solution (~1.5%) is a common eye wash. It's pretty benign.
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The future is unwritten
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Remember, if you step on a cockroach you'll be tracking eggs everywhere you walk, so clean the bottom of your shoe.
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I can hear my ears
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The future is unwritten
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Beheading doesn't kill them, they'll keep laying eggs like the energizer bunny until they starve to death.
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