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Tell me about your cockroach horror story (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by 31415926535@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'll start. Apt next door is having a cockroach infected. 4 days ago, I was playing sims on my laptop, wearing my eyeglasses. Right lens got blurry, took off, huge cockroach was crawling across inside of lens. While I was wearing them. Freak out ensued.

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[–] mlk6450@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What is the reasoning behind the not rusty warning?

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The whole method of operation of the trap is to make sure the roaches can't crawl back out after they get in. So you need a totally smooth surface plus the cooking oil so they can't climb back out.

If by chance you were to use a rusty can, that would give them a textured surface to grip onto and likely manage to crawl back out, which would defeat the trap.

Edit: It probably won't hurt if the can happens to have only a couple or few small spots of rust, as long as it's not so rusted as to give them a brown brick road to crawl back up and out. Any which way, the goal is to make sure that once they get in, they can't get out.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Greatly appreciate the tip

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That its more slippery and not rough

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for passing through to read my advice. By all means please share the advice to anyone that happens to need it..

I also read your post, and I can fully agree from the Gulf Coast of the USA, that swamps can be rather nasty and have lots of weird bugs and slimeys, but usually not quite as bad as you described.

Maybe lay off the shrooms and smoke some green instead? 😂🤣

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

Haha shrooms just need space, and I didnt get the meaning of "setting" back then. Living in a tight space with parents downstairs and a very hot night is simply not a good idea