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Specmaster:

--- Quote from: grizewald on July 18, 2022, 11:43:13 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vince on July 18, 2022, 11:29:26 pm ---Getting worse here.... now 01H30, and it's still 30°C outside, 29 inside.... can't sleep with that kind of temperature...

Forcast says should decrease to 23°C in the morning when the sun rises... though it says it will feel like 28°C, probably because of humidity.. .so not sure that will improve things at all....

Summer sucks !

And a cockroach just landed on my desk !!  :palm:

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I feel for you Vince. We were in the same situation a couple of weeks ago. The temperature was up in the mid 30s during the day and my well insulated, solid brick apartment just soaks up the heat during the day to release it once the sun goes down (or rather, dips slightly below the horizon for an hour or two, as it does up here). The AC is far too noisy to use in the bedroom when you are trying to sleep, so you end up just lying on top of the bed, sweating.

Thankfully, I don't think we have cockroaches here in Sweden. I've never seen one here at least.


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That was me last night, even with a box fan on high all night. However, I did eventually drop off to sleep and when I woke this morning, the area of me that the fan could not reach just sweated all night and this morning I was lying on a very moist bed indeed.
Specmaster:

--- 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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I don't have any cockroaches, at least, I'm not aware of any, but we get plenty of spiders, flys and wasps and I have a couple of these electronic bats around the house which make very short work of dispatching these pests, the only downside is that some of those critters can really stink as they get fried on the 3,000 volt grid plates. :-+

https://www.amazon.co.uk/BARGAINS-GALORE-ELECTRIC-ZAPPER-MOSQUITO-SWATTER/dp/B07PQT7HTN/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=electric+fly+bat&qid=1658218541&sr=8-3
tggzzz:

--- Quote from: TERRA Operative on July 19, 2022, 12:32:11 am ---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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I was under the impression that radiation was relatively useless with cockroaches
Saskia:
also they tend to lay eggs the moment you kill them ...
Actually the poison method seems to be the most effective one to me. Even though I find poison sneaky.
bd139:
Well that was a turn up for the books. My missing IC turned up!

RM 19 days for 2nd class signed for.

Seller has refunded already  :-//
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