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Thanks for this link and your replies in this thread. As someone who had to feverishly dust boric acid around my kitchen last summer (because in Washington stat

• naremu 3y ago
  Incidentally I've actually found "natural" solutions like boric acid and diatomaceous earth to be wildly effective (in killing/reducing established populations, not preventing new ones), if a bit unsightly and inconvenient to have lying around in piles to actually force the critters into crawling into them. I probably ought still spend a day off sealing everything I can, though. Probably more pragmatic and less technically barbaric.
  • _huayra_ 3y ago
    I would recommend getting an actual duster (aka "hand bellows"), especially one that has an actual spring to return the bellows instead of just a "plastic spring". I learned it from this video [0]. It really helped to basically make the dust small enough for the roaches to scurry through (instead of avoid like a pile). They don't really want to eat it (like bait), so they need to accidentally walk through it and then clean themselves (and incidentally ingest it). [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubfUacj7zQQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubfUacj7zQQ