SC - OOP & OT: Now 'Non-paying Boarders' Was Tempera question

[Michael Newton]

Granted that Iowa is not as Cold as New England but it didn't stop the
unwanted fiends from hitching a ride when we moved.

thorbjorn

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From: "Lorix" <lorix at trump.net.au>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 2:01 AM
Subject: SC - OOP & OT: Now 'Non-paying Boarders' Was Tempera question


>
>
> Maggie MacDonald wrote:
> >
> > There being several different varieties of the little buggers, I'm
> > reasonably certain they must have been an issue in at least a few
places.
> >
> > For instance, the Oriental Waterbugs (those GIANT things) are dang easy
to
> > kill off and get rid of, but the German ones???? FORGET IT!! (Those are
the
> > little light brown tiny ones) I am starting to think they begin
breathing
> > with a racial memory. They are VERY difficult to get under control. If I
> > could find a reliable tac-nuke to use inside the house, I would.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Maggie MacD.
> > (with a 50 year old house, and far more knowledge of the little buggers
> > than she had ever wanted).
>
> Whist I am relatively safe in Tassie from them (too cold), we learned
> _all_ about them in Sydney.  For the larger ones we left out mice
> traps (I'm really _not_ kidding here).  For the smaller ones well,
> lets say I was sooooooo glad to move back to a colder clime.
>
> However, a friend of mine _did_ find a solution to the German bugs.
> Now bear in mind her place used to crawl with them.  To cook her
> dinner without having additional protein end up in it, she used to set
> up a trestle table (the legs of which had been well & truly bug
> sprayed) in the middle of her kitchen for food preparation.  Believe
> me, making a cup of coffee without having a bug end up swimming in it
> was a major challenge.  She had an army of cats (even they got bored
> ;-)  Plus, when squashed, the last dying act of a cockroa errr
> 'non-paying boarder' is one of procreation (they squirt eggs or sperm
> which remain fertile for 4 hours)
>
> My friend literally tried all the bug sprays/bombs etc, while they
> would kill any of the bugs in the house, it didn't kill the eggs of
> those in the walls, which just wondered in afterwards.  After a while,
> the eggs tend to mutate into bugs that don't get affected at all by
> the sprays . . . Mind you, some of _her_ bugs were really scary.  I
> remember heating up a cup of milk (on high) in the microwave for 2
> mins.  When the microwave had finished I opened the door and took my
> mug out.  Unbeknownst to me, one of the bugs had crawled in to the
> microwave while I was messing about with my cup on the bench - so it
> had got nuked as well.  The scary thing?  It walked out afterwards . .
> .
>
> So, my friend bought this electric device.  Basically, it looks like a
> plastic inverted saucer. It has a bait inside it which entices the bug
> in & then the bug is electrified (preventing spawning attempt).  The
> small ones also tend to turn to powder.  For the first 6 weeks my
> friend had this new 'toy', there was an almost constant electric whirr
> & the smell of burning roaches . . .
>
> After 2 months the kitchen had become noticeably less invested (no
> longer did it move when you walked in at night & turned the light on
> ;-), so my friend bought a second of the devices for the bedroom.
> After 6 months, the 2 devices reduced the infestation to the
> occasional wondering 'visitor'.  It has been 6 years and they have
> never been able to get to more than one or two wandering about at a
> time.
>
> I borrowed these things & can also guarantee their effectiveness.
> They take about 2 months to work properly, but after that the
> infestation is never as bad.  Of course, you can always move to a
> colder clime . . . <g>
>
> Lorix
>
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