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Vince:

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--- Quote from: Vince on July 19, 2022, 12:04:33 am ---
--- Quote from: mnementh on July 18, 2022, 11:53:19 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vince on July 18, 2022, 11:29:26 pm ---And a cockroach just landed on my desk !!  :palm:
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Teach him how to solder and hold probes in tight places for you!!!  :-DD

mnem
or you could do that...   *hands you a paper towel* :o

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Yes I opt for the second solution. No paper towel, but I have used old sticky notes that I recycle as cockroaches annihilators. I flattened the one I mentioned in my previous message. 2 minutes later another one landed on my forearm, I managed to get that one as well. 2 minutes later a third one again on my desk... but I failed to catch this one sadly * These buggers run SO FAST, can change direction so fast, and hide anywhere, under the computer case, under the printer, under the monitor stand, inside my wallet, under the keyboard, between paper documents, underneath my calculator, speakers....  it's difficult to get them !  :rant:

It's the first time in my life that I see these bloody insects.... I guess that's what you get for living in the country side. I see them only during very hot summer nights, when I stay up late at night with the light on and all windows opened. Then I will se 2 or 3 per night. Drives me nuts.

I can cope with flies and mosquitos, but somehow these cock roaches, I find them disgusting, I can't stand seeing them...  :--

EDIT : finally managed to got that third bastard in the end, a second ago ! It was hiding under the K/B.... now it's flat and immobile, just like his 2 brothers.  I wonder if there is some chemical or other way to trap these bastards, so that I can attract them all in one place, so they don't run all around the house...
There are electrified UV lights to get the flies.. maybe there is something to get rid of cock roaches... I hate these things so much that I am willing to spend some time researching the subject on the web, and maybe even fork out a few dollars to buy whatever product or apparatus that might help me get rid of them...

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If you see one cockroach, there are many more hiding in the walls....
You saw 3, time to go thermonuclear. You got a nest of them somewhere.........

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Oh boy  :(

It's a brand new house there are now holes in the walls that they could come out of but... I think I know where they come from. From outside, south wall, right by the wall at every start of spring I see lots of insects (nice ones, not cock roaches...) coming out of the ground, climbing up the south wall. It lasts for 3 days then the walls are clear again. There must be nests in the ground right by that wall. Sometimes even when the window is closed, I can see a cockroach on the in-side of the roller shutter, behind the window... so I think they come from outside from that window. Which would explain why always see them on my desk, because it is situated by that very window. I don't see them elsewhere in the house, even though it's a small house. When the windows are closed, I never see them inside. It's only when all windows are open, late at night and it's very hot, that I see a few of them.

mnementh:
Diatomaceous earth and boric acid. You trim the grass short around the house, make a trail of the stuff in the dirt around the foundation and across thresholds; keep it close to the wall so it isn't just instantly washed away when it rains. If you have places like a porch, patio or driveway where there's a crack between the house and a big pad of concrete or asphalt, squirt it down in there. Avoid using this inside the house where it can get into your stuff; it's not lethal, but not good for people. You can squirt it into holes around pipes, under sinks, etc. Also a trail of the stuff around the inner walls of the garage.

Inside the living space, if you see any in the kitchen or closets, Advion gel just plain works. You put a dab in corners of cupboards and closets, and on the back (fixed end) of drawer slides; just keep it in areas you're not likely to touch but they're likely to travel. Roaches like to travel along the walls and along thing like drawer tracks; look on yoobToob for videos.

The diatomaceous earth is like tiny crystal knives in their joints; this causes them to bleed out. They'll track it back to the nest on their bodies along with the Boric acid. They'll try to get rid of the DE powder as it is irritating, and they'll eat the boric acid which attacks their digestive system, and when they die, the other roaches will eat the fallen and die as well.

These two powders are also pretty effective on ants.

In Tejas, the battle is neverending. Their lease on the land predates ours by millions of years and they know it. We're just an obstacle and a food source to them...

mnem
"...and they'll still be around when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits." Schmendrick the Mage - sortof. ;)
Cerebus:
No, no, no, no. The recipe is diatomaceous earth and nitroglycerine.

Oh, hold on. No, that's for something else...
mnementh:
From my other favorite timesink...



mnem
*toddles off to the train station*
Zoli:

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--- Quote from: Zoli on July 18, 2022, 03:55:35 pm ---Last summer the hottest place on the planet was here, in BC(over 50°C, IIRC).
And this is the current situation:

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Ummmm, does that not put you uncomfortably close to a forest fire?
I guess it is not so bad so long as you are upwind of it...

When things get that hot, things get dried out ...  :scared:

It was already dry when I traveled through that area back in 2000

EDIT:  Oops, sorry, should of paid attention; you are not in or around Lytton.  The moderating effect of the ocean must be nice!

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Last year we had the heat dome, that's caused the Lytton heat record; and before the heat dome, in May/June, wildfires like in the previous years. Practically, in June we didn't see blue sky(only smoke) for the past four years, but looks like this year we've get a break(sent down the heat dome to the states :-DD :-DD :-DD ); so far only two days over 30°C. There's almost no moderating effect from the ocean, thanks to Vancouver island.
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