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The TL;DR is that a product was developed in the 80s that poisoned the roaches, but not immediately so they could return to the nest and spread the poison. And
by gumby 3y ago
The TL;DR is that a product was developed in the 80s that poisoned the roaches, but not immediately so they could return to the nest and spread the poison. And it worked for a long while until the only survivors are ones that aren’t attracted to the taste of the poison.
This approach was used to suppress rabbits in Australia, us in the disease myxomatosis. The infected rabbit didn’t die immediately but would return to the burrow to spread it. When I was a kid you could see myxie rabbits outside, dying, with pus coming out. Of course the survivors eventually were the ones immune to myxomatosis.
- marcosdumay 3y agoWell, you are always supposed to cycle through insecticides. And, of course, you won't ever be able to contain an species that occupies an otherwise unfilled niche. Make sure to preserve the predators and clean any artificial niche or populate it with some alternative species. I believe people already knew that in the turn to the 20th century, but somehow almost no big project anywhere does the full set of actions.
- troad 3y ago> Make sure to preserve the predators and clean any artificial niche or populate it with some alternative species. Rabbits are not native to Australia, and they have no natural predators on the continent. Introducing new species to Australia's wildly unique ecosystem is rightly frowned upon (see rabbits, introduction of). Neither of these solutions would be effective.
- TacticalCoder 3y ago> And it worked for a long while until the only survivors are ones that aren’t attracted to the taste of the poison. I used that product in a vacation house in Spain and it really worked wonders. And that was around 2017/2018. So not all cockroaches have evolved yet!