Vegas Roach Trap

[Chiro75]

I have a problem with "waterbugs" (basically just American roaches) that hang out on the outside of my garage. I spread borax mixed with cocoa powder in the garage, and some get in there but die pretty easily, but it's DISGUSTNG to pull up to the house @ night and you see a trillion scurrying bodies on the brickwork and running across the driveway. I was going to call an exterminator, but with two dogs and a general attitude of not liking to poison the earth, I was hesitant. I found a link to something called a Vegas Roach Trap, which simply uses wet coffee grounds to lure and kill roaches, and it supposedly works great, so I thought I'd give it a shot.

Made two and put them in front of the house and I have caught dozens of these SOB's! Totally cool! You simply throw a cup or so of coffee grounds into a pickle jar or espresso can, add about 2 inches of water, and lean them up against the wall so the roaches can get in (but not out) and you're set. Very cool!

 

[Psychopomp]

hmmmm... I wonder if something like that would work for ants. I got some Raid ant traps and they work pretty well inside, but I heard a noise on the back porch a few nights ago and a dog was back there eating one of the traps . Found out the next morning that it had eaten all three traps I put outside.

So I'm looking for something dog proof that'll kill anything that eats it.

 

[zenheretic]

Here I thought a Vegas Roach Trap was some of those weekly or hourly rental motels over by the airport...

I'll have to try the coffe trick, plenty of grounds around here.

 

[b.c.molin]

So I'm looking for something dog proof that'll kill anything that eats it.

Glad that the pooch didn't poison itself; I was not so lucky several years back when my dog ate snail bait in a nearby neighbours yard.

He needed urgent vet treatment to survive the incident.

I had to force an unwilling cheapskate neighbour with legal action to cough up their share of the cost of a new back fence to stop my mutt ever getting out and wandering off again.

 

[Chiro75]

I saw one idea for an ant trap that supposedly works(sounds like it could be done with a 2-liter bottle for roaches and work really well, too), but I've never tested it: cut a pop bottle in 1/2 and invert it on itself, then add some sugar water. As ants crawl in, they'll dro poff the edge of the spout into the water.

 

[Old CW4]

Two tips for roaches:
1. Windex, the type with ammonia. Spray the rascals and they'll die fairly quickly. If you use an LED light at night to 'hunt' them, they're not scared off by the bluish light from LEDs as they are from a standard flashlight.
2. Roach traps. Line the inside top of empty glass or plastic jars with a band of vaseline about an inch wide. Put a half slice of bread, small handfull of sugared breakfast cereal, etc., in the jar and set them out. The jar will be one to two inches deep with roaches in a few days, put on the lid and set out in the sun so they cook.

 

[Any Cal.]

The jar will be one to two inches deep with roaches in a few days, put on the lid and set out in the sun so they cook.

And then are there any special condiments?, or do you just dip them in chocolate?













:barf:

 

[Relayer]

My guess is that if you see a whole lot of them "scurrying" then there are way way too many (including as many or more that you don't see) for you to trap them or spray them individually.

Call a reputable exterminator and tell them your concerns. They deal with pet issues every day. No need to poison the earth, just have them poison the vermin in your home. Just remember every day the critters are creating more and more critters.

 

[ednemo]

I would be interested in any solution for getting rid of ants. It is summer and now I have the nasty blighters just about everywhere. Always one of two just waiting for me to leave something out.

 

[JHerman]

I'm wondering if the same thing will work with insects other than roaches?

 

[YayILikePie]

For ants, I heard cinnamon and black pepper work wonders for stopping them in their tracks. As for cockroaches, having traveled around Hong Kong and China, the only thing that's ever used against them is "cockroach chalk." Draw a line around the bed and find a mess of them dead.

 

[Chiro75]

The Vegas Roach Trap works WONDERFULLY. Easy, totally non-toxic. A variation for ants uses a pop bottle, cut in half, stick the end that had the cap on it inside the lower part of the bottle, if that makes sense. Inside put some water and sugar and they'll crawl in, fall through the cap end and fall into the water and drown.

 

[Cougar Allen]

Hmm. When I googled "cockroach chalk" the first page of results was about half ads and half warnings from government agencies about illegal and dangerous pesticides.

 

[zenheretic]

After I kill a bunch of cockroaches and then outline their dead bodies on the pavement, what do I do?

 

[dougo83]

I would be interested in any solution for getting rid of ants. It is summer and now I have the nasty blighters just about everywhere. Always one of two just waiting for me to leave something out.

Sometimes mixing the mounds can work. Take a shovel full of one ant bed and toss it another and vice versa. They kill each other. Of course, this is not 100% effective, but it works...

 

[Tinbasher]

Catch them live then put them on you fishing hook.
Richard

 

[So-Lo]

Glad that the pooch didn't poison itself; I was not so lucky several years back when my dog ate snail bait in a nearby neighbours yard.

He needed urgent vet treatment to survive the incident.

I had to force an unwilling cheapskate neighbour with legal action to cough up their share of the cost of a new back fence to stop my mutt ever getting out and wandering off again.

So let me get this right....


YOUR dog was in THEIR yard and ate something it should not of. You then sued(or threatened to sue) him to put a fence up... To stop YOUR dog from getting into HIS yard????


WOW!!!!



Better be glad you are not my neighbor

 

[b.c.molin]

So let me get this right....

LOL

I knew I should not have tried to condense the story.

My house was built on a green-field block of land between two established houses with existing side fences.

At the rear of my block of land was another undeveloped lot with no fence dividing the two properties.

I requested the land owner, who was a real cheap bastard, to meet his legal requirements to pay half the cost of putting up a dividing fence, which he didn't do, saying there was no need.

I let it ride for more than 2 years with polite verbal requests for the fence to be built.

Then I got my dog, who was a house dog, and rarely wandered far from my side. Except for the day when he was about 9months old, and off he went, without me noticing, out of the yard due to the lack of a rear fence to roam along the nearby street. It was somewhere there he must have eaten the snail bait.

He returned home with green foam on his lips, his eyes dilated and having difficulty standing. I immediately phoned the vet who by my description diagnosed snail bait poisoning, a common thing in those days before manufacturers put a canine deterrent into their products.

A frantic 20 minute drive to the vet, dog had his stomach pumped, hospitalised and medicated but it was touch and go for 2 days as to whether he would survive.

It was a this time I confronted the owner of the rear block and made the demands for the fence to be built and threatened legal action.

I also said if anything happened to the dog in the future due to him getting out and if he died, so would they. I was not bluffing and I believe they realised that fact.

The fence was erected the same week the dog got home from the vet.

I hope that fills in the story but I will let you decide if

Better be glad you are not my neighbor

 

[So-Lo]

b.c. molan,

Now that makes a lot more sense :thumbup:


As for being a neighbor....




What kind of knives do you have that I can borrow?

 

[b.c.molin]

What kind of knives do you have that I can borrow?

I am glad that my expanded version made me seem much more reasonable.

At present I have been infected with Himalayan Imports Kkukuri Virus and am starting to have a good representative collection of their Khukuri's and other blades ranging from an overall length of 10 through to 25inches in a variety of styles.

I'm sure the heavy duty models among these blades could withstand neighbourly use.