I probably shouldn't let anyone in on the secret because there are SC
boaters reading this, but I'm a nice guy......

If you go out into the COUNTRY, where there are country stores with
lots of old stock laying around in their hardware departments, you can
STILL find bottles and granules of Dursban, the banned, but
great-working insecticide the pest control industry has gotten their
friends in Washington's EPA to wrestle away from the consumers who
quit paying pest controllers to spray into the cabinets.

If you get the granules, load up the dry parts of the bilges, behind
cabinets/refridgerators/stoves with granules. Dursban STILL does a
first-rate job, like it always did, killing off the creepy crawlers.

The other source I found out about is that the EPA, in cooperation
with powerful golfers who contribute to campaigns and don't like to be
bitten by ants on the 1st tee, have quietly gotten golf courses exempt
from the pest control bribing. It's called Dursban Pro, now, and if
you know someone in the golf course biz you can get your supply from
there.

My house and its parrot pets, who are very sensitive to anything that
will kill a roach, have been saturated with Dursban since its
introduction. None of us...human or birds....has chemical weapons
lesions leaking puss from its use, here. Just don't pour it on the
kids or spray it where the kids can play in it. Dursban only needs
perimeter spraying, anyways.

You need to see the South Carolina State Bird, the "Water Bug". It's
a roach-like, 4 inch long, dark brown beast of a beetle that's
actually quite harmless, once you get used to him, that can cause
heart seizures in the unenlightnened, when he crawls across your face
in the dark at 4AM after a drinking binge has fogged your memory.
Unlike the German roaches, they'd just as soon fly as crawl, being
very comfortable with either mode. Stomped, they emit a decided
"Pop!" and some green stuff. Some South Carolinians think they are
"not from 'round heah", an alien life form......



On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 06:26:51 -0500, "Keith"
wrote:

I've never had a roach problem on a boat before, but have got one now. Those
damm little German cockroaches have gotten a foothold, and nothing I'm using
is doing much good. I have used those Raid Max smoke type foggers twice,
sprayed everywhere with Raid Max, and then used the "wet" foggers. I can
knock them down for awhile, but not out.

Raid Max used to be the best, lasted for months. They've reformulated it to
a water-based formulation that smells completely differently from the old
style, and it doesn't seem to do anything unless you spray it right on them,
despite their claims that it "kills for up to 6 months".

Any ideas?




Larry W4CSC

3600 planes with transponders are burning 8-10 million
gallons of kerosene per hour over the USA. R-12 car air
conditioners are responsible for the ozone hole, right?