• Che Banana@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    PSA for people with cockroach problems: Diatomaceous earth is a lifesaver! Non toxic, (also a good fertilizer for the garden) and keeps working until it gets wet.

    What is it? fossils of diatoms in a chalky-powder what do you do with it? Sprinkle (dusting) into hard to reach areas (think behind & under kitchen equipment, drawers, along baseboards)

    what it does is sticks to anything with an exoskeleton & dehydrates them…they die.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth

    we live in a humid, costal town where they are endemic and we have ZERO of these motherfuckers in our shop & home