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Does apartment bombing for cockroaches could have negative effect on paper?

It probably wouldn't hurt the chemicals if they're in sealed containers. I would put the paper in a trash bag and tie it up.
 
APUGuser19 said:
Cockroaches can survive an explosion from a bomb, and just end up being scattered all over creation..
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Well, the force of an explosion would destroy cockroaches, but the radiation of a nuclear bomb they can survive!
 

Let's add kudzu and poison ivy, for starters.
 


Forget those nasty, toxic pesticides! Get rid of your roaches the all-natural way. Get a giant spider, and let him run free in the apartment for a few days, and your roaches will be GONE. Worked for me! My spider also ate mice, too! I tried a cat, first, but the lazy bastard just laid around and got fat.
 
If you are concerned about the paper, wrap it up and take it with you during the fumigation.
 

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At my last university the building I worked in had a problem with roaches on the main floor. Nothing serious, but occasionally you'd get a surprise when going into the kitchen, although after a while they seemed to have disappeared. One day the staff were cleaning the kitchen and when they moved the refrigerator they found a big* huntsman spider surrounded by bits and pieces of roaches - mostly legs and such. We left him there since he (or she) was doing a good job of keeping the roaches at bay. Of course, a bug bomb is a much easier thing to deal with than a big sneaky spider, so whatever works for you...

*Not as big as the one I found in another building. The body was the size of my palm and its legs could touch all edges of an A4 piece of paper. That freaked me out more than a little bit.
 
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I tried a cat, first, but the lazy bastard just laid around and got fat.
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You need a Scottish cat. There is one famous one who keeps an Aberdeenshire distillery free of mice. The owners estimate that his toll is over four thousand.

In the morning when staff turn up for work they play him a record of the massed pipes and drums of the Gordon Highlanders to celebrate his success.

pentaxuser
 
Cockroaches love gelatin! The Kodak plant would be overrun by them if we didn't have a suitable pesticide, but quite a few of them do affect photographic materials. We had to use one specially compounded.

I suggest removing all photo products for the duration of the spraying.

No, I don't know the name of the spray. It came in unmarked bottles to each area.

BTW, you can't fool me. Spiders have 8 eyes, and leave the entire carcass behind after feasting. They suck the shells dry!

PE
 
I've had much better results w/ boric acid. Buy yourself a big 'ol container of it (Ace Hardware, Lowes or Home Depot, eBay, etc) and sprinkle it in all the corners of your home, especially in the kitchen and bathroom and all along the baseboards. You can make up a liquid solution mixing it w/ water and spray it in hard to get places too. It will last a loooong time, and will kill all those roaches, ants, etc. It won't be overnight, but it will take care of your problem much better than insecticides that wear off quickly. Unless you snort or eat the stuff it is pretty harmless too, although I use a painter's dust mask and gloves when I work w/ it, just in case. Cheap too.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Boric-Acid-...412613?hash=item41a62675c5:g:ndoAAOSwYlJW4OSG
 
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Too late, but I have found that's Boric Acid is a miracle against roaches. The key is to spread it correct. I use canned air (same I used to blow dust off film) to spread a light film of Boric acid across large floor area. If you gunk it on instead, the roaches will just laugh at you and bypass it. If you do it right, you will not see a single roach for months.
 

And what, pray tell is wrong with "Sweet-Gum" (the southern USA variety not an Australian Gum variety). You can take them to California, name them "Liquid-Amber Trees" and sell them. Liquidamber is the genus that our sweet-gum belongs to. Besides surely you have chewed the resin at one time ibn your life............Regards!
 


Not all spiders have eight eyes. That's more common with web-building spiders. My spider, Hairy, is a Jumping Spider. They have two large forward-facing eyes that give them excellent binocular vision; a necessity for judging distances to jump at prey!
 
There's more than one way to dispose of unwanted guests... just serve them some papers.

 
momus said:
I've had much better results w/ boric acid. Buy yourself a big 'ol container of it (Ace Hardware, Lowes or Home Depot, eBay, etc) and sprinkle it in all the corners of your home
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Well, it might kill the roaches, but it might also leave you infertile or with strange babies.

Another organic solution are ants: I have seen them hunt roaches, and they did a pretty good job. Oh man, getting rid of the ants afterwards will not be easy.
 
What about geckos? They probably feed on cockroaches AND spiders, and ants, and any non-flying insect in your house. They go hunting by night and they don't disturb you during the day. They search behind and below and above every piece of furniture. They move fast and do a much better job than spiders. A spider can probably be satisfied with one cockroach every other week. A gecko is faster, hungrier, and certainly much less revolting (especially if you are arachnophobic, as I am ).

I have some geckos going around my house during summer nights. I have no cockroaches, no spiders and my house is as dirty as a bachelor's house can be. Try geckos, I recommend them heartily.

I don't know about jumping spiders, but there is a group of spiders, "ragni-lupo" we call them, "wolves-spiders", which can be pretty big, and hunt mainly at night by sight, they have two big eyes in front of them (possibly some more eyes more or less atrophyzed) and when you walk in the night with a front lamp and you see the retina of their eyes shining from a distance you understand what inspired men the idea of devil.

Actually they are probably called that way because of this reflection of their eyes in the night, same effect with dogs, cats etc. when you have a source of light near your eyes so that the retinas are aligned.
 
No reference I can find at this late hour here shows skinks as being slimy. Enlighten me with a reference.

PE
 
My cat did once kill a cockroach. I lived with my parents when I was in college. Simba, my cat, was a HUGE 23lb fatcat who laid in the same spot in the middle of the kitchen floor all the time. He liked to eat, and that gave him a good vantage point for bitching at anyone who got food out of the refrigerator.

One day, my parents went grocery shopping, and a HUGE cockroach had hitched a ride in one of the grocery bags! It ran across the floor, right past Simba. He was LAZY, but something about that roach flipped a switch in him. He INSTANTLY pounced on the bug and shoved it into his mouth with his front paws! My sister yelled "EEEW! He's going to eat it!" My mom yelled "SIMBA, NO!" Too late, he sat up and you could could hear him crunching it in his mouth. He smacked his lips for a few minutes after swallowing it.

My mother and sister were disgusted with him for eating that roach. I wonder if they'd have been happier if he'd let it scurry away!?

 
There's a product called advion. It comes in syringes, and you put little dots around the house. It irradicates them. I live in an old house in Texas and after you watch them die for a few days you don't see any again.
 
I haven't seen a cockroach since I moved out of the city to a rural area five years ago. There are almost no houseflies either. I can only assume this is due to far less concentration of food trash because no on lives on less than two acres. There's about the same number of ants. However, the grasshopper population is insanely high.
 
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