----- Original Message ----- From: "Deborah Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 7:11 PM Subject: Re: Spiders (was RE: advice for the lovelorn)
> --- Kevin Tarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip> > > Yet another reason that any move I make will be > > farther north. I can take > > snow and ice and polar bears, but spiders and snakes > > and other bugs the size of your hand forget it. > > > > Kevin T. > > Was in New Orleans at three in the morning and the > > sidewalk was covered > > with huge bugs, may have been roaches. I was not > > drunk. > > They were roaches, called by some locals 'water bugs.' > When we lived in Baton Rouge, I remember pulling the > sheet over my head to keep the ones crawling on the > ceiling from dropping onto me. They can fly, too; > their natural high-rise towers are the water oaks > (hence the moniker, I guess), but in the winter they > find houses more cosy. Mom used gallons of Raid > before discovering Roach-Pruf, which is boric acid > with an attractant (dessicates the creepies from the > inside out, as they ingest it while grooming). > <shudder> > > Cats Find Them Delightfully Crunchy Maru > They also breathe the boric acid dust through their spiricules or what-ever-you-call-them in their legs. This is the best method I know of to control roaches. xponent Master Of Roach Life And Death Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
