Posted on 12/01/2018 1:27:41 PM PST by Chickensoup
I am using the spinney one.
I think that the walk the plank one would do well for larger vermin like rats and red squirrels.
Although I have not hear from any red squirrel killers yet.
I’ve suffered an occasional eruption of cockroaches after goofing off too long on keeping the garbage cleared out in the summer. The first step obviously is to toss out all the garbage and clean up stray bits of food and patches of grease wherever you can find them. You might have to dig around a bit for hidden corners such as inside your stovetop or at the back of your pantry shelves.
Next, get yourself a one-pound squeeze bottle of Enoz “Roach Away” Boric Acid for $2.97 at Walmart. Adjust the nozzle to allow a fine dusting of the stuff in areas you’ve seen the roaches frequent. A little goes a long way — don’t overdo it, or the roaches will avoid the overly heavy dusting. Sit back and wait for the boric acid to gradually kill every roach that picks up the dust and then ingests it while grooming. Live roaches will eat the dead ones in their hiding spaces and die as well. Depending on the severity of your roach problem, the size of your house or apartment, and the nature of your region’s typical infestations, that one-pound bottle of boric acid should last many years.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Enoz-Roach-Away-Boric-Acid-1-lb/19276149
If you’re in a hurry to destroy a horror-movie outbreak of roaches, clean out a large glass pickle jar, and spread a very thin layer of neutral petroleum jelly inside the jar around the rim. A protective barrier of two or three inches of petroleum jelly all around the inside rim will do the trick. Paste a couple of strips of duct tape from the outside bottom of the jar all the way to the rim to make it easy for roaches to climb up and fall into the open glass jar. The thin layer of petroleum jelly around the inner rim at the top will prevent roaches from climbing out. It’s amusing in a gross way to see them scuttling frantically to the top and then vainly falling back down into the bottom of the jar. If you hoist up the jar for a closer look, you might have to control an involuntary urge to violently toss away the jar when an especially large roach seems about to escape and crawl on your arm on its way to your brain.
Dabs of peanut butter or small slices of ripe banana, peel and all, serve fine as bait. You can slice up an entire ripe banana and freeze the unused bits in a plastic storage bag. Banana slices especially seem to attract classic German cockroaches like crazy. Put the jar out near where you’ve seen the most roaches and let it go for a day or so. Be warned that you may shriek like a little girl the first time you check the roach harvest — if your outbreak was bad, you’ll likely see dozens of them or even over a hundred. Pour a couple of inches of hot water into the bottom to instantly kill the roaches, and then pour the nasty-ass mess into the toilet and flush it about fifty or sixty times to regain your peace of mind. Just kidding! One flush is enough.
Put the emptied jar upside down somewhere for an hour to drain and dry out before you resettle it with more bait. You probably won’t have to refresh the thin layer of petroleum jelly more than once every three or four cycles of flushing and rebaiting, but if you’re the nervous type, lightly refreshing it each time won’t hurt. Don’t try to kill the trapped roaches with any method other than hot water, or you may end up inadvertently contaminating the jar with a noxious scent that drives away roaches instead of trapping them.
Happy hunting!
In the old days women used to make up water boric acid solutions for vermin and somehow feed it in bottles to babies.
sort of a post birth abortion I guess. It was a thing back at the turn of the nineteenth century.
odd.
In the old days here at FR
the admin mod used to sent all interesting fun conversations to chat where they died.
it was called the Cheese hole.
We are now in chat.
We will now die.
I cannot carry a filled five gallon bucket which is why this works for me.
as long as they are also spraying the neighbors!
Lol, bump for later!
Have had two cats here up to recently, my youngest took them to her new apartment.
frankly,these traps are more effective than both the mousers. who play with the mousies and sometimes lose them.
ah, bump for later.
Saw this on a you tube video. Trouble is that you might have 2500 rodents per acre.
As a kid we would catch chipmunks up at our cabin.
A string tied to a milk carton, with the string laying over a clothesline or branch. Peanuts inside the milk carton. The chipmunk would walk in and we would pull on the string so the mouth of the carton was upright and the little guy couldn’t get out.
We had made a big cage out of wire mesh and wood and at the end of the day would have a few chipmunks in there. In the morning though they would have all escaped. We couldn’t figure out how - but added more wire mesh, etc. each time.
I think we did that cycle for several days, but they always seemed to escape somehow.
We would still do catch them once in awhile and just release them right away. But it sort of lost the fun when we realized that they would never be pets, as they always figured out some way to escape.
It wasn’t until I was an adult that it dawned on me. My old man must have been releasing them every night!
Ok folks We made 100 posts about Mousetraps.
and now we are in the cheesehole. where we will die a cruel and lonely death,
However,
does anyone remember see through blouses in the seventies?
I was sent one by my grandmother back in 72. I ued to wear it around the house. One time I forgot I was wearing it and took my coat off at a small restaurant in Skowhegen Maine. I couldn’t figure out what was going on, and my then-husband was amused.
Nothing new. I saw that trap in WESTERN HORSEMAN “scrapbook” section fifty years ago.
o attract classic German cockroaches
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You know they are German?
Are they wearing little Nazi helmets?
Or are they speaking German.
We have them, they contained grain or minerals for our goats. A tractor supply would have them. Or if you use those big laundry detergent or kitty litter square plastic buckets they are pretty big. Yeah the one time I went dry and out one down at the barn they did start eating each other, that’s why I said gross. Have no mice problem down there because no more goats. Clean, no grain or hay.
2500 rodents per acre?
You have firmed my resolve.
I will only let chipmunks pass.
Although I did have a chippie take up residence in my living room a few years ago.
drank from the kitchen sink, foraged in the trash.
My house was its benign habitat.
First thing I thought, Mom and Dad were releasing them.
We used to catch pigeos with a stick, a string, a box and a piece of bread.
Kept us busy for most afternoons in August.
Once we actually caught one and really didnt know what to do.
It was in the box until the Dads came home. then the Dads told us to let it go.
Those WWII dads did not mess around.
New to me! And fifty years ago I was a nubile pubescent adolescent female who didn’t give a damned about mice.
A national infestation....yeah - right.
In the future, please post your hysteria in chat where no one hears it.
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