[QUOTE=Alienblue]Boric acid? BORING! Cocka rooches are already immune to 98% of the poisons out there. Get a rat to kill them. Then a cat to kill the rat, then a dog-Oh, you saw that Porky Pig cartoon?[/QUOTE]
Back when I first moved to Houston, I began to realize just what roach problems in this city are like. The whole city sits on what was once a swamp, a bayou. I's a breeding ground for the critters.
Boric acid worked quite well, virtually eliminating my problem, but when I moved into another apartment a few years later, I decided to take a different approach. There are these very harmless reptiles here called geckos, and they are like roaches in the sense that they are everywhere in the city. And here at least, one of their primary food sources are insects, including roaches. The problem is that they don't like to come inside homes for some reason, because I believe the air conditioning screws with their body temperature too much. So I took the approach of catching a whole bunch of them, from every nearby place I could find, and then I let them out in my apartment all at once, and they scurried off into the walls, etc.
I only rarely ever saw them again, I mean RARELY. They were hiding in the walls, etc. I am sure some of them got outside again but not all of them. And I never had a roach problem again in that apartment. They were eating up every roach and roach nest they could find.
Now at the time that seemed like a good idea. However, in retrospect, I wonder just how much salmonella I put into my environment that wasn't there before, considering that reptiles have it all over them. Which one is dirtier? The roach or the gecko?
So now I just stick to boric acid powder again. It works like a charm, killing whole nests of the things, and it doesn't contaminate my environment with more bacteria.
