Another thing I used to do to help with ants at our place in the lake is this. I would wipe all the counters, doorframes, etc.... with soapy water and not rinse them. Use a lemon scented dishwashing liquid or lemon scented bleach or lemon whatever. Evidently insects don't like the citrus scent.
I have also been told (from someone on this list?) that peppermint oil will deter mice. Just put it on cotton balls. I went to the store and they were out of it. In the meantime my mice were 'disposed' of by the cats. ewwww!
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"MacKenzie, Kerry N." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"MacKenzie, Kerry N." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ha ha--that gave me a chuckle.
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i'm sure that upstate new york has them--but not to the degree that
many other places have them.... (do yours wear little parkas and boots
in the winter?)
On 5/23/05, BONNIE J KALMBACH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> We had 'em in Madison, WI where it sometimes gets colder than twenty
> below in January.
>
> Bonnie
>
> www.elephants.com
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kathy Gittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Monday, May 23, 2005 12:45 pm
> Subject: OT cat-safe roach control
>
> > I'm from Rochester NY and in my opinion, it's just too danged cold
> > for
> > the roaches here. They seem to prefer and thrive in warmer climes.
> > I'm
> > told that they enjoy heat sooooooo much that if nuclear blasts
> > kill
> > most other forms of life on earth...the roaches will survive.
> >
> > eeeeeeeeeeeuuu
> > Kathy and Deirdre
> >
> > From: TenHouseCats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: OT cat-safe roach control
> >
> >
> > i'd never seen roaches--they seem to avoid buffalo, for some
> > reason!--but had a HORRID infestation in one of the houses we
> > lived in
> > here in mid-michigan..... we were afraid they were gonna carry off
one
> > of the cats, they were so big and there were so many of them....
> >
> > we got ALL new boxes when we moved, and lived in terror for a few
> > months in the new place afraid they're packed themselves in our
stuff,
> > but they hadn't.... i'm glad i'd heard about the glue problem re:
> > boxes in time, because we had lots and lots of great storage boxes
> > we'd kept--losing them was worth it to be roach-free!
> >
> > something else you can do to help keep the population down is to put
> > steel wool around all the pipes and other plumbing openings under
> > sinks--actually, this works REALLY well for mice, not so well for
> > roaches just because they can get through the smallest gaps. but if
> > you pack it in REALLY well....
> >
> > i think cockroaches just sit back and laugh at us, knowing that they
> > were here millions of years before us, and will outlast us by at
least
> > that long....
> >
> > (if you get a chance, tho, and the movie "joe's apartment" comes on,
> > it's worth watching--single guy who gets romantic and other advice
> > from all the roaches he shares his space with.... VERY funny)
> > --
> > MaryChristine
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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