The absolute one and only best roach killer is Boric Acid powder. I owned a restaurant for years and we had roaches before we even opened they came in food deliveries. One treatment with this stuff and it's over pretty much for good unless the powder gets wet. I can't remember the brand I used but you could get it at Ace hardware and it came in a cardboard can just like the old-time oil cans. The name was something-X and the can was yellow and black. The powder is micro-abrasive and whenyou sprinkle the stuff under appliances and blow it into wall sockets etc. they walk through it and it causes there exo-skelton to literally fall apart. Best part is the FDA considers it no more toxic than table salt. It can be used around food and on dairy farms. As I said before it doesn't go bad or wear out unless you get it wet. Best stuff period.
So I will need mice to eat the roaches, cats to eat the mice, maybe a big dog or two to eat the cats, prehaps a crocodile to keep the dogs in check? I guess I will just have to be content to stare at my car through the window.
Diaznon in high concentration will take care of bugs, mice, birds, cats and even small dogs. Just don't lick your shoes after sprinkling it around the yard.
I have to agree with the Boric acid. When I was a kid we lived in a duplex. We got some unsavory neighbors and they brought ****roaches with them. Mom went to the store and bought some boric acid and a squeeze bulb that is used to clean out childrens noses. She would **** up some boric acid into the bulb and blow it around all base boards,doors,windows,and in the receptacles and switches. She also went next door and done they're side. Roaches were gone within 3 days. You will only get rid of them if the kid in your neighborhood does too. For the mice I agree with the Diazinon, you can get it at the hardware or even wallmart and put it in a garden sprayer and spray perimeter of your house and barn.
we have used moth balls and cotton soaked with spearmint oil on 50+ cars stored in cold (20 degrees inside---minus zero outside) garages in south dakota used to have problems with mice dont seem to anymore it didnt help there was outdoor corn and soybean storage piles 100 yards from the garages when you live in the sticks you gotta deal with your surroundings my wife hates the mothball smell but hates mice worse
quote=55 dude;2729856]i work in bakeries and the pest control guy gave me some stuff that you would swear was edible,peanut ****er like substance packed with poison and it works killer. also works great with just a tiny bit in a trap. parents used to sell feed and we had these metal boxes that had wind up devices that turned sharp blades and ground those little ****ers up good and we used peanut ****er, seems they just can't resist it. snakes work great also![/quote] Hardest odor I ever had to remove from a car was a dead snake. I guess he was looking for a mouse to eat and somehow could not get out of the car. I use electronic repellers, poison, and put Irish Spring soap in a dish in each car. Mice don't seem to like the smell of the soap. Have had no more problems for several years.
If you want your car to smell like a big mothball, then use mothballs. I rather smell ****. I use ultrasonic pest repellers for the past 3 years and had ZERO mouse problems. Prior to using ultrasonic pest repellers I could not keep the mice out of my garages. *** If you buy ultrasonic pest repellers, plug one of these devices on EACH WALL. One will not be good enough. The Fatman has spoken.
Slightly O/T but we are talking about mothballs anyway... My son was watching 'Mythbusters' and they were trying to 'kill' an SBC they'd pulled out of a car by using up all the urban myths about what kills or blows up your car engine. Myth No. 3 was 'mothballs in the gas tank increase engine power' so they dissolved a m*** of mothballs in petrol and added it to the tank. It certainly seemed to work, the tired old SBC certainly sounded much healthier and revved much harder running on fuel/napthalene mixture than it did on straight gas. So maybe mothballs are bad for people, good for engines? Incidentally, they 'killed' it in the end by pouring bleach into the sump. Fried it completely. Cheers, Glen.
W Spray a strip of serious roach spray. all around the house and garage NOW. I didn't a few years ago when I saw the neighbor out spraying around his house and had a hell of a time with them. Also they like it under refrigerators and inside the housings for light switches. I've got two cats who work overtime on the mice but still get too many of them in the house and in the cars. Those traps with the yellow triggers work pretty good and if you put them in the runways along the walls behind stuff put two of them in tandem so when they jump the first one they hit the second one.
I once fixed a mouse problem with dishwasher powder. Found where it was getting in, sprinkled some dishwasher powder down the hole, mouse never came back.
Roaches like the ozone given off by electric motors and will take up residence in refrigerator motors, outlet boxes and even wall clocks. I had a buddy with a kitchen clock that would stop working once in a while. I was over one time and he took the clock off the wall and it was full of roaches. I left soon after I saw that one. Bob
I had an exterminator in some years ago, I had problems with carpenter bees getting into my 2nd story soffets. They would bore this incredibly round hole just big enough for the queen to get in and out of. The bug guy shot some boric acid into the holes and plugged them up with pieces of dowel and even sanded them flush. The boric acid takes all the moisture out of bees, roaches, etc. Bob
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