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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tortoise Tom" data-source="post: 158101" data-attributes="member: 27883">Don't! It won't work anyway. Believe me, I'm no hippy, but spreading toxic pesticides all over your place simply doesn't work and does a lot of harm. The ants are underground, so the vast majority of them won't be reached, and the cockroaches will come right back as soon as the toxicity level lowers and the first ones back will be most resistant to those pesticides. Meanwhile you and your loved ones are living in a toxic wasteland and all of the beneficial insects, along with the animals that eat insects are all poisoned and killed off too.There are better strategies that work better and don't have the toxic, environment destroying side effects. I've had to learn these techniques because I keep so many insects, reptiles, birds, and other little animals that would either be killed by the toxins outright or poisoned by eating an insect that got into the toxins.First, tell me what type of ants and roaches we are dealing with, and I'll give you SAFE strategies to rid yourself of them in a much more effective way. I've had to learn these techniques the hard way with much rial and error over many years. You can have the benefit of all that work for free! There are about two dozen insect species called "waterbugs" and several of those are roaches. Usually blatta lateralis or Blatta orientalis, espcecially here in CA. What part of CA are you in? This will also determine what will work. Buy or make a bunch of roach motels for the roaches. You'll get rid of them and all their babies by the dozens. Place the traps in dry areas with lots of cover.Ants depend more on what type and whether they are indoors or out. I've got good strategies for both and for the big red ants, and for the little Argentine ants.</blockquote>

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