"Trish Brown" <kawbrown [at] ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> >
> Loved the bit about the oestrogen! Thanks for the smile!
>
> I don't know the answer to this question, but I have wondered why we
> haven't heard any reports of people passing away abruptly (or even
> procrastinatorily) from treated timber garden improvements. Wouldn't you
> think that if the copper salts are all that significantly toxic to
> people, there'd be an actual death rate from their use? Does anyone know
> of any figures? I mean, if you look in the Australian Year Book, there's
> actually a death rate from being hit on the scone by a Bunya Pine Cone
> (or, at least, there was last time I looked which was, admittedly, a
> good while ago).
>
> I'm afraid I'm with you, Basil! The amount of growth hormone and
> antibiotic and other chemicals we actually *eat* each day in our
> processed foods ought to have killed us all by now. Like it or not, we
> seem to be evolving to cope with all the toxins we generate in and for
> our foodstuffs.
>
> My favourite bugbear is pesticides! My DH uses enough Baygon to sink the
> Missouri, let alone a tiny cockroach. I *have* to wonder what it's doing
> to my family! (NB. This is where your Riding Boots come in - they're far
> more effective on cockroaches than *any* insecticide!) ;-D
>
> --
> Trish {|:-}
> Newcastle, Australia

Just for the record and for a totally inane first post to the group - Lemon
Preen has the fastest knockdown on cockroaches of anything in any kind of
bottle you can buy - short of belting them *with* the bottle anyway. <grin>


--
Chris

Dad of DS R(06-06-03)
Dad to be again on the 15th!

"eurekaoz" writes:
>> haven't heard any reports of people passing away abruptly (or even
>> procrastinatorily) from treated timber garden improvements. Wouldn't you
>> think that if the copper salts are all that significantly toxic to
>> people, there'd be an actual death rate from their use? Does anyone know
>> of any figures?

Environmental carcinogens are cumulative, they generally take years to
decades before any cancer becomes apparent. It's not the copper, it's the
arsenic that is the carcinogen.

>Just for the record and for a totally inane first post to the group - Lemon
>Preen has the fastest knockdown on cockroaches of anything in any kind of
>bottle you can buy - short of belting them *with* the bottle anyway. <grin>

It might work for your local roaches, but will it work for those in
other localities? There are a lot of different species. I'll keep your
suggestion in mind. A couple of times each summer a large cockroach will
fly in through the kitchen window and with a clatter of wings spin around
the usually-empty sink bowl. I never quite know how to dispose of it:
hit it with a thong and there's a stinky mess to then clean up, or spray
it and everything nearby with a pressure-pak of toxin. I've now settled
on torching the thing: I grab the oven lighter (it's like a cigarette
lighter with a long barrel and a trigger) and I scorch the cockroach in
the sink with this nifty little flamethrower. (Relax, there are no
curtains on the windows to set fire to!)

Speaking of vermin: of late there has been a lot of talk on the radio about
destroying cane toads. It seems that a waterpistol filled with Detol is the
most effective method. A few squirts and the toad is dead within minutes.
The golfclub has a certain appeal to some, but can be dangerous to the
"golfer" or bystanders if the poison glands squirt up into their face.

Still, I can't believe there is no common substance that is attractive to
cockroaches and in the process will poison them.
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)

"John Savage" <rookswood [at] suburbian.com.au> wrote in message
news:050419000061624.19Apr05$rookswood [at] suburbian.com...
> "eurekaoz" writes:
>>> haven't heard any reports of people passing away abruptly (or even
>>> procrastinatorily) from treated timber garden improvements. Wouldn't you
>>> think that if the copper salts are all that significantly toxic to
>>> people, there'd be an actual death rate from their use? Does anyone know
>>> of any figures?
>
> Environmental carcinogens are cumulative, they generally take years to
> decades before any cancer becomes apparent. It's not the copper, it's the
> arsenic that is the carcinogen.
>
>>Just for the record and for a totally inane first post to the group -
>>Lemon
>>Preen has the fastest knockdown on cockroaches of anything in any kind of
>>bottle you can buy - short of belting them *with* the bottle anyway.
>><grin>
>
> It might work for your local roaches, but will it work for those in
> other localities? There are a lot of different species. I'll keep your
> suggestion in mind. A couple of times each summer a large cockroach will
> fly in through the kitchen window and with a clatter of wings spin around
> the usually-empty sink bowl. I never quite know how to dispose of it:
> hit it with a thong and there's a stinky mess to then clean up, or spray
> it and everything nearby with a pressure-pak of toxin. I've now settled
> on torching the thing: I grab the oven lighter (it's like a cigarette
> lighter with a long barrel and a trigger) and I scorch the cockroach in
> the sink with this nifty little flamethrower. (Relax, there are no
> curtains on the windows to set fire to!)
>
> Speaking of vermin: of late there has been a lot of talk on the radio
> about
> destroying cane toads. It seems that a waterpistol filled with Detol is
> the
> most effective method. A few squirts and the toad is dead within minutes.
> The golfclub has a certain appeal to some, but can be dangerous to the
> "golfer" or bystanders if the poison glands squirt up into their face.
>
> Still, I can't believe there is no common substance that is attractive to
> cockroaches and in the process will poison them.
> --
> John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)
>

Mortein surface spray smells of orange peal works for She who must be
obeyed.
Jim