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morriswalters:
It's fairly old as a pesticide. I don't know about efficacy. Well the Wikipedia says...
--- Quote from: Wikipedia ---Boric acid was first registered in the US as an insecticide in 1948 for control of cockroaches, termites, fire ants, fleas, silverfish, and many other insects. The product is generally considered to be safe to use in household kitchens to control cockroaches and ants. It acts as a stomach poison affecting the insects' metabolism, and the dry powder is abrasive to the insects' exoskeletons.[40][41][42] Boric acid also has the reputation as "the gift that keeps on killing" in that cockroaches that cross over lightly dusted areas do not die immediately, but that the effect is like shards of glass cutting them apart. This often allows a roach to go back to the nest where it soon dies. Cockroaches, being cannibalistic, eat others killed by contact or consumption of boric acid, consuming the powder trapped in the dead roach and killing them, too.
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Regenbogen:
Sounds cruel. But I think all pesticides are brutal.
We use baking soda against ants. That's cruel too.
Gasoline? Doesn't that smell bad?
We have flyscreen on some windows and the terrace door, so that we can leave them open in summer. You need them, when there are lots of cows or pigs in the neighbourhood. Otherwise the whole house gets full of flies.
But yes, no cockroaches. Maybe advertise for tourists, but there is not much tourism here. There is not much to see here. Mostly industries.
Maybe the old monastery with nuns still living there. OK, there are several old monasteries to see. Some places where you still see traces of the Romans. Some cities with old city walls, that are mostly still intact, from the middle ages. There are lots of breweries, if you're interested in beer. Everything cockroach-free.
How am I doing with the advertising? LOL
Today we drove to the river by bike. The little one, who is not so little anymore, wanted that for her birthday. It was her first "tour" driving by herself. It was nice. We collected lots of river stones in different colours. Sometimes you can't get onto the stone banks, but today there was a way down to a big one. It was only a small jump down onto the bank. It was fun. But cold.
At home the water for the cat outside was still frozen at noon.
Dina:
Yes, it sounds awfully cruel but at this point I don't care too much.
And yes, you are very good at advertising, I really wish I could go visit your area :)
Ok, Fcrate, I'll try not to speak of cakes for a while.
Today I did quite a lot of work, I am tired but well, at least I don't feel so lazy. And I don't have to go out as we have enough groceries, so at least I could be in comfortable clothes all day.
morriswalters:
Roaches had the misfortune to evolve along with us. I have a non aggression pact with them, until they cross my property line.
If your children like rocks they might enjoy the river where I live, the Ohio. It has a large fossil bed exposed at low water, quite extensive. A look into the past. At high water the rapids pound the rocks. It sounds like giants, beating on drums. You feel it in your chest. Today there are extensive bike paths along the river and a large park over an area where heavy industry once existed.
Dina:
That sounds beautiful...and soothing for the current times.
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