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| An examination of boric acid and roach behavior by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 07/14/2018, 11:29am PDT | ||||
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| In some cases that I've set a plate of food on my desk or my bed it will attract roaches. I can set a hot plate down on my bed and turn to use my computer or watch TV and within minutes - less than 5 - I can catch 3 roaches on the plate, which if I tap it they will run in terror.
My desk where my computer is will have them running around. One point I got disgusted because I found a "coffee klatch" where a bunch of them combine together with like 5 or six of them run off in all directions. Don't know if they're meeting to discuaa things or they're fucking, I got sick of it. I went and got the bottle of boric acid and a pair of scissors. I checked with a poison control center a few months ago: While boric acid is poisonous to people it is not anywhere near as dangerous as, say, regular bug spray; you only have to treat boric acid with the respect you'd give, say, soap powder or dry bleach. Don't eat it; wash your hands after handling; discard anything edible it touches; wash any surfaces it has been on where food will later touch. I poured a small amount of the boric acid powder into the cap, then used the scissors to scrape and coat down very light dusting on the desk in the spots they would run through. Boric acid must be applied thin, like dust. If it piles up the roaches will do what people dp when confronted by a snowbank: go around. Well in this case I have it in scraped-on quantities so it's perfect. So having got it on there in very fine dusting, I'll see how long before I see them come back. They must be able to smell it because: they stop coming. It's like we don't have ants or roaches, they completely leave the area and stop showing up. Occasionally I'll see one roach on an area not powdered or even more rarely, touching that area. Which is what I want. With ants and roaches they have exoskeletons, the soft parts are inside. The boric acid acts on them like ground glass. Sticky ground glass that gets caught by their hairs, and gets everywhere inside, shredding their lungs and tearing them apart. Large exposure of boric acid is as fast as spray insecticides. I saw a roach land on a mound of boric acid powder and it took about 3-5 seconds to die. Boric acid is "the gift that keeps on giving," because roaches are cannibalistic; if a roach crosses an area coated with boric acid, it's "dead roach walking," it's on Death Row waiting to die; the stuff will wound it to death. But, if it lives long enough to either be found by other roaches after dying, or returns to the nest before dying, other roaches will eat it and the boric acid in their tissues, killing them next. And thus the cycle of killing goes on. If it gets into food given to the queen, it's game over. The queen will die and thus ends the colony. So far it's over an hour since I put down the boric acid on my desk and it's about a 95% reduction in the number of insects walking on it. |
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