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Cheap simple roach trap idea for you guys

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By accident we found a very simple very very cheap cockroach trap. Just take an empty peanut butter jar and do not wash it out. Leave the lid off of it and set it to the side. For some reason the roaches can get in but they can not in turn climb back out. Then you just when you have a number of them in it you put the lid on and throw it out or even better do as I do and the chickens come running. I take the jar out and dump it and the chickens turn them roaches into eggs LOL. Oh and by the way I have found this worked far better then any thing you can buy
 
Non-toxic, and environmentally friendly, too!

We don't have a lot of roaches around here, but if any turn up I'll know what to do now.

Thanks!
 
Another thing is for some reason the peanut butter does not seem to turn bad and start to smell even if you leave it sit a week or a month or how ever long. It always smells like peanut butter
 
What if you have roaches from the city that are King size? And they chew threw the jar? What should you do?
 
OLd.My Mama always told me that roaches are the result of filthy living habits. Why feed em. Just get out your old trusty 44 and shoot em dead. lou
 
Even the cleanest houses can/do have them it is a fact of life and if you live out in the country your more likely to have them then in the city since they have to have some place to eat
 
Simple m,ake sure you use the old brands that have the glass jars. If they chew threw a glass jar you better run for your life because they are going to come after you next and eat you alive LOL
 
Im sure alot of people will agree with your mama, Lou! I live out in the country, my home is clean, and I have ever yet to see a roach in my house. I would tend to think, that an empty jar of pnut butter would just attract more roaches, I dont know, Im far from the expert on the matter. Ill leave it at that, for fear my life will be threatened again!
 
Old, If the country folks have em, You can bet some relative brought em in or else they were brought in by the owners. There is such a company that Practices exterminations. Kills em off, or else there is roach bombs that does the trick ,or so I am told from family's I know in Anderson,Indiana. Still filth not only attracts, but HOLDS Em in the property. walls closets basements kitchen cabinets, ranges, refrigerators
clothing etc. Still filthy vermin, and nasty critters that can survive a nuclear bomb-intense radiation. You can keep em with my blessing, And it makes me wonder ,if you have yours all named?
Lou.
 
It all depends on if you get the peanut butter before, or after the cockroaches do.LOL.You could spread it on toast and watch em have breakfast at your generous offer.I just lost my appetite.
LOU
 
My Dad was poultry farmer, we graded and packed eggs in a separate room in the basement and solod eggs at the house. Roaches were an ongoing battle. They came in in egg cases from grocery stores. Can't remember what we did to get rid of them.
 
I have had 3 houses in pretty much the same area and 2 had almost non and one has had a good many. All used mobile homes and who know who or where they came from. But I have found even in what is clean they are here no matter where the person lives be it in the city or country and I did the pest control thing for a couple years and that was a joke at over $40 per month I might as well have burned the $$ for all the good it did
 
Ah but it is the one you do not see that are in fact there. My moms place is spotless and once in a while she finds one but not often. As for the open jar ya if you do not and never have had a problem that might be true but in this area it is common to see them in fire wood that gets brought in or from the store etc.
 
Maybe the roaches feces absorbs the bad oders just leaving the good smell of Jimmy Carters product.RALpHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! (head in the toilet time)Where are you at Dave 2 ? Your comments are truly NEEDED on this subject of Olds pets lol LOU. P.S. Dave, Be kind, because his pets could be the sole entertainment for the family, friends, and guests that visits. LOU
 
I have owned or maintained rent houses for others for years. I sometimes have an exterminator working on a roach problem for 2 years. The family moves out,exterminator zaps the roaches and next family never has a problem. Of course the reverse seniro also happens when there is a turn over. Call it what you may,I am pretty certain why.
 
Filth, Pure and simple. Regardless of how the roaches came in, there is always a solution to the problem. Ignoring em only proves that people living in those conditions are conducive to living in filth. Neighbors living next door, up above or down below apartment dwellers can still contribute to the roach problem. It's still filthy living. LOU
 
Ya and you going to buy me a new place to live in??? Ya if I could I might but that is not an option and no matter how clean or how much we have spend we still have a few.
 
I've heard a mix of boric acid and peanut butter is the best roach bait. Mix it up into balls and hide where pets can't reach, roaches apparently love the taste but it's very toxic to them.
 
Ya never had any when I lived up in MN or CT but here in Missouri they are very common and you see them all over the place be it in doors or out doors. Also very common to see them in fire wood in this area
 
Old , I don't feel like perpetuation the circle of life ,burn a house,build you a new one, burn it again, that circle continues till the end of time,which brings it to a screeching halt. (free from roaches),LOU
 
Now see I had thought about not posting this because I figured some one would not see it for what it is and yep your the one. I posted it as a way to help people but seems some people always have to look at things in the wrong light and try to cause problems like your doing sorry to see you do not understand helping others
 
Old I'M not being mean spitited, just posting my replys to what I thought was funny nonsence. Why the subjects of roaches? don't you know it's not tractor related?????(unless you could hitch up a team of cockroaches to pull start your tractor LOL. LOU
 
As a professional Pest Control Operator I can attest that the peanut butter is the best bate you can get for roaches of all types. The gentleman who mentioned the boric acid is right on. We used to be able to formulate a lot of our own pesticides but due to EPA regulation we as commercial applicators can no longer use anything that isn"t specifically labeled for the target pest and approved by the EPA.
I cant as a pest control operator even tell my clients about it, but I do anyway. Shhhhhh.
 
Ya in some ways sad that the EPA has made it hard to kill bugs but then some o the stuff that was used years ago was as bad or worse then the bugs they killed
 
Lou, don't show your ignorance by being so hard on Old. If you ever bought a bag of potatoes from the grocery you stand a good chance of getting roaches. If you ever cut wood you would know that it is common to find roaches under the bark of a dead tree. Thats just two ways of introducing them to your home.

Its no disgrace to get roaches, it is a disgrace to keep them. Thats what Old is trying to do, help others to get rid of them. Thanks Old.

Joe
 
Has to with plan and simple farm life and farm life has to do with tractors. If all we did was talk tractors this site would be boring. One thing where you live you do not have to problem with bugs like people do down south and in areas like where I live because of it being warmer weather and lot of water around the bug problem is big where as up in that area which I have live in also the bug problem is not near what it is in the south
 
Why wouldn't peanut butter be approved by the EPA? Good enough for humans but not roaches??
Doesn't make sense!! Of course it's a government entity, so should be no surprise.
 
Joe. Wonder who's ignorance is being displayed? In order to eradicate ALL the roaches with a jar of peanut butter, the roaches breed faster then the jar could possibly get rid of. If any thing ,it would take a jar of peanut butter(opened) in each and every room for YEARS plus several at the the wood pile ,Just to rid the ones that don't ever breed again. Fools folly.Sure would be a STINKY HOUSE. As far as a bag of spuds from the market. leave em out doors on the lawn well away from the house(open the bag first) problem solved. Spiders, fire ants, etc would make short mess of em plus the lawn spray. Exterminators solve the problem of many open jars of peanut butter stinking up the house and STILL HAVE THE CRITTERS living in warm comfort. Horse hockey. What a crock. BY olds own admission. he has em. So my advice to all of you that expects peanut butter being the cheaper mode of getting rid of the cockroaches , JUST CALL ORKIN!! problem solved. LOU
 
Probably has something to do with mixing peanut butter and poison and some how kids do not know that it is not good to eat some things.
 
(quoted from post at 16:21:56 12/07/11) Where are you at Dave 2 ? Your comments are truly NEEDED on this subject of Olds pets lol LOU. P.S. Dave, Be kind, because his pets could be the sole entertainment for the family, friends, and guests that visits. LOU
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You probably won't like my comments Lou........

I'm a pretty thick skinned guy when it comes to me, but start using my family in the jokes and you'll likely take an a$swhuppin...... Sure Old and some others feel the same way....... I don't care much for rich's biting the hand that feeds him, but I'll not drag how I THINK he lives out and keep harping on it in public.........
 
I don't care much for rich's biting the hand that feeds him, but I'll not drag how I THINK he lives out and keep harping on it in public.........
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I have a feeling we THINK alot alike! (Although Im convinced of it!)
 

Having read through this thread, and having experience working with hospital and nursing home staff on their problems, I will make observations:

1 They can get into any home on things like produce cartons, brought in from places that should not have them, so anyone can get them.

2 They are routinely eliminated by exterminators provided the building is clean, and food sources are eliminated.

3 Feeding peanut butter to a few will not remove them as fast as they breed.

4 Boric acid will not only kill them but it can be inserted into warm dark places where pets can't get at it, and will be tracked back to their other hiding places where it will kill them at a rate faster than they breed. Boric acid works without peanut butter.
 
Show crop. Your right as rain. I lived next door to a family that had an over abundance of em I mean thousands. Watched em cross the drive way comming to our house. Looked like a tidal wave. No JOKE HERE. We couldnt use Orkin. bug bombs due to My sons asthma with seizures. Was helpless to irradicate em all together. Sure it is more then likly possibe to bring em in with produce etc. Being un clean food habits is a marvelous way of atracting em . Once they get a foot hold(Excuse the pun)it is almost a continous problem that is hard to fix. Thank goodness we have none here to study the effects of peanut butter jar therory. Gives me lots of humorous pictures of em swimming in gravy(back stroking for the roach olympics)hurdeling over the biscuits, showing their love for one another right in front of the family and neighbors while dining on peanut butter jars. lol. Oh MY. Gotta go . Just wet my briches lol Regards LOU.
 
The largest hotel in Chehalis (6 stories, about 60 rooms) was converted years ago into apartments. The place was owned by a slum-lord type.

It got roaches, so he brought in a bunch of lizards (I'm not kidding) to keep them under control. And they did a decent job. The folks living there would try to get a lizard and keep it confined to their room for maximum control. Much lizard stealing and hard feelings. Eventually, I think they all died.

You can't make this stuff up.
 
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