Hi all,
I'm needing to find some refillable cockraoch bait stations and it super weird that the isn't really many options.
I use Syngenta Advion Cockroach Gel but I've searched everywhere online and can only find really two options.
Does anyone use a particular brand or type? It's way cheaper to refill yourself. It makes me wonder why there aren't more people doing it and more product options.
Cheers
No, you're a protractor. Thanks for your advise đ
Hundreds of thousands of ppl make and use (successfully) *DIY insect baits. Cockroach baits are right up there. But it requires (wait for it) minimum effort.
So I think I 'cee' why you have this problem. Have you thought about going into the insect farming game? It's a thing.When the universe dishes up lemons…….etc.
EDIT *and it's as cheap AF
U sound like cpuuserbenchmark
Don't know why you're getting downvoted. A lot of the baits are the same recipe that many cockroaches don't find appetising.
The only thing that worked for me was a mixture of borax, sugar and egg yolks spread around the house on milk lids. Cleared out the house in 2 weeks when the baits did jack sh1t. Also has the added bonus of working on ants as well.
Targets both protein and sugar starved insects.
*Advice
I find those disposable black ones work well, when you put down enough of them and replace them every three months.
I hate to say it, but Protractor is right this time.
Make your own
Boric acid or borax. Look up recipes.
Get rid of anything else that's attracting and feeding the roaches.
I mean really, this DIY option is probably as bargainy as you can get. And it's safe.
i tried diy balls made of borax / flour / biscuit crackers / sugar / water … but nothing bites , not even ants or lizards.
Why would you want lizards to bite it,anyway? I'd say your 'failure' experience is 'unique'. Maybe you need to review your process.
Probably geckoes.
Why would you want lizards to bite it?
Yeah probably nothing good if lizards gotten to it and died somewhere hidden till it stinks bad.
I have lizards everywhere running on dining table , hiding inside the spout of water jug , shit on dining chair that i sat on, shit on bath towel that i used to dry my hair after shower.
@dcep: Unless you're living in a grass hut in a rain forest, your lifestyle and habits sounds like the root cause.BTW lizards eat roaches. Let them do their work. Then they'll wipe out the roaches and move on. The reason they go deep diving in your kettle is scuba diving for drowned roaches.
If you remove the food source for the roaches first, your house will be a lot less like Gerald Durrell's island menagerie in a short space of time.
@Protractor: "Scuba diving for drowned cockroaches".
Cracked me up. Thinking about a bunch of bugs with snorkels and scuba tanks now.
My grandma used to swear by old butter containers for the cockroach problem.
Leave a bit of butter in the containers, the bugs crawl in and get caught because it's too slippery to crawl out.
Your recipe sounds more complex than necessary. For ants I just use 7% borax in some kind of sugary liquid (so 1 gram of borax for every 13 grams of sugary liquid). In my experience cordial (with no artificial sweeteners) works better than plain sugar dissolved in water. For ants you don't want the borax dose to be too high because the ants could die before they get back to their colony where they can share it with their colleagues. They will die over a few days and you will notice their numbers drop off every day until you don't see them anymore inside your home. Keep in mind different kinds of ants like different kinds of foods.
Surely you should be collecting them for when the government bans meat!
You could be the bug mogul!
@mskeggs: There won't be any bans, because they know people will oppose it. It will simply become unaffordable except as an occasional treat.
Not eating meat won't be mandatory, but it will be
"as mandatory as possible"
Propaganda in schools followed up by various taxes and levies imposed on producers and consumers, and incentives provided to producers to produce less i.e. carbon credits, etc will achieve the end.
@tenpercent: I tend to agree. A bit like wearing fur or eating foie gras - not illegal but made unfashionable.
@tenpercent: I'd prefer unfashionable so I can still enjoy some lamb shanks or pork ribs affordably!
@mskeggs: "In the old days"
This is back in the 80's when a side of lamb was 99c kg and rib fillet was $8.99 kg:
Dad had butcher shops.
We couldn't GIVE lamb shanks away, not even for pet food. We used to have to trim the meat off them and PAY the bone collection guys to come and take them away.
People would buy beef bones and chicken necks etc but not lamb shanks.
They would even buy pigs trotters - but not lamb shanks.
This was when pet's mince was $1 kg and full of all sorts of crap including mummy water.
In those days people ate tripe and other offal by the bucket load, but they wouldn't eat lamb shanks,
Now a lamb shank is like $6 a piece and we can't keep up with demand.
@Muppet Detector: When I was growing up in the 80s lamb shanks were one of the meals we had maybe once a year, like oxtail stew and corned beef with white sauce.
I guess they were meals my Dad had growing up in country Queensland that probably werenât Mumâs favourites.
We had a lamb roast nearly every Sunday, and lamb cutlets were on the table once a week, or at least once a fortnight.
Lots of beef sausages too, and beef mince in spaghetti bol, savoury mince or a rissole.
Then later more chicken and fish as fashion went against red meat.
Mum would have turned her nose up at brisket or any of the other âlow and slowâ meat cuts.
I remember being served tripe once, and being unimpressed - I think even Dad couldnât see it with rose tinted glasses from his childhood.
I do miss cheap lamb. When my kids were small we would often buy half a lamb, carefully freezing a couple of cutlets and shanks to match up with the next time. Was paying $5kg 15 years ago.
Just buy the disposable ones from Woolies or Coles when they go on sale. Then if after three months you still have a problem just put some of that Syngenta Advion Cockroach Gel into the same bait trays and keep repeating every three months until they're all dead. If it's really bad you can just put the gel directly on things like pipes, etc and wipe off later. I find it works fastest if you saturate all the areas with lots of baits.
Bahaha only Ozbargainer can be this level of hostile trolls possible. Making assumptions about my level of effort and my situation (type of roaches, house age etc).
Cesspool of negative posters lurking around at 10pm on a Saturday night…bahaha
Nothing better to say, nothing better to do. Sounds about right.
OZB has gone down hill.
this level of hostile trolls
What are you even talking about?
I actually don't see any trolling in the comments this time.
JV hasn't even made an appearance to offer his dry jokes.
You've just had two people suggest DIY baits, a couple of suggestions for the black disposable ones you replace every 3 months, another suggestion for advion gel, and another for something that's banned in a lot of countries but allegedly works well.
Doesn't like the 'advise', or effort,or saving $$$, or the fact that being informed that the level of bait they use means,they have an ongoing wave of roaches, which means the environment they live in in more than compatible.
Hostile? LOL. A regular war zone.
I mean, you did also post this on Saturday night so takes one to know one I guess
Maybe ask better questions? If your question is âI want you to find me a cheaper option for this specific gel because I have failed to find one so am outsourcing further workâ then ask that specific question
Geez 8 years and this is the hill you choose to die on?
Strange.
Not sure where this trolling is tbh.
I paid $7.50 USD for 50 sachets only used 4. Had a problem with those small German cockroaches in a apartment I rented when I was overseas. I wish I bought them sooner.
They're banned in a lot of countries but it works amazing.
https://www.brosa.com.au/br/buy/witdreamer-50packs-cockroachâŚ
They're banned in a lot of countries but it works amazing
I wonder what happens if the cockcroaches crap in your food before they die.
You gain cockroach powers.
Why banned? Carcinogen? Hallucinogenic?
Is it fiprinol based?
Greenleaf bait Roach Killer Powder contains the active ingredient Fipronil at a concentration of 0.005%. Fipronil is a broad-spectrum insecticide that disrupts the central nervous system of insects. When cockroaches come into contact with or ingest the powder, the fipronil causes hyperexcitation of their muscles and nerves, leading to paralysis and ultimately death.
A key feature of Greenleaf bait is that it doesnât kill roaches immediately. This delayed action allows the affected cockroaches to return to their hiding places and potentially transfer the insecticide to others in the colony through contact, feces, or even by being eaten after death. This âsecondary killâ effect can help to eliminate a larger portion of the cockroach population, including those that didnât directly come into contact with the powder initially, and can even affect eggs indirectly.
Pretty sure fiprinol is in lots of other insect treatments. I'm wondering if the ban is related to residual affects in some countries.
@Protractor: From memory apvma are reviewing it, I havenât heard anything in a while but chatter was that it will be re-scheduled if not banned.
@Protractor: It's because it kills bees too, that's the only reason I could find.
Strangely enough, the web page I read said, it was banned in China and in Thailand amongst other countries.
I use Advion gel but I just cut small squares of plastic from take away containers etc, place the gel on that and place those in the required areas. Check them after a week and refill if you need to. For a normal level of roaches that'll be all that's required for several months. If it's a bad infestation keep reapplying the bait. The stuff is awesome.
Is it German cockroaches? If so you'll need a professional. Don't even bother trying to diy it
I have two resident huntsman spiders and they control the cockroach population.
I bought some random cockroach powder sachets from aliexpress. Cheap, and they seem to work.
No, I am not goggle.
Make your own. (No, I'm not google)