Ionian cockroaches

[toad]

Hi all
My daughter is working as lead crew on a flotilla in the Ionian and she has just discovered her lead boat is infested with cockroaches. Bearing in mind that she has six weeks left to go until the end of the season and the boat is full of all the spares and equipment they have to carry and also that she will be working seven days a week, what is the best poison or way of getting rid of them or keeping them under control until they strip the boat at the end of the season. Unfortunately my daughter is not good with bugs and can hear a spider walking on carpet at ten paces,I suspect her boyfriend is having his ear bent because its bound to be his fault.

Ta Toad

 

[lenseman]

Read here:

http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?t=328867&highlight=cockroach

 

[charles_reed]

Boric acid. Cleared out an infestation I had on my boat.
Slightly poisonous and needs about 3 months to work.
Meanwhile your daughter can develop a new sport-skill - that of how many roaches can be killed a day.

 

[macd]

Boric acid (mixed with assorted other ingredients, recipes via Google) is the old stand-by for roaches. The acid can be bought at most chemists. As Charles suggests, it needs a while to work. On the other hand squashing roaches has risks if the beast in question is egg-bearing.

I've used a proprietary paste called 'Combat', which was miraculously effective in the Antilles. Not sure it's widely available in Europe, though: it's marketed through the USA but Korean-made.

 

[AndrewB]

I had no luck with boric acid, nor with spray, but a regular proprietary roach gel (Maxforce) got them. However, it did take a month of treatment, replacing the gel each evening on their runs.

P.S. Eating them may not be a good idea: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19879379

 

[phantomlady]

We got rid of ours with a 'fogger'. It's a bit like an aerosol can that you place centrally, activate, then get the hell out!
Think you have to be out of the boat for a minimum of four hours but we left it overnight just to be on the safe side.
Never saw another roach

 

[duncan99210]

Go to the local store and look through the insecticide sprays. One or more of them will have picture of a cockroach on it. Use that - kills the problem quickly. We use TEZA spray - comes in a spray bottle not an aerosol can and kills both by hitting the things and by contact - lasts a couple of weeks, by which time the problem should be over. Back it up with the 'roach hotels' which are widely available there.

 

[binch]

Roach

We used a mixture of boric acid and sugar syrup - 50-50.
It works well. Turns their guts into marbles. Crunchy under foot.
Story about cockers in the Ionian:-
When Greece joined the EU, tavernas had to modernise and make their kitchens hygenic.
We called on Nick the Greek in Nidri to find the tavena in uproar as the kitchen was being pulled to pieces. Cockers were running around demented.
Said Nick: "I feel sorry for these cockroaches; some of them are my friends."

 

[Hugh Foulis]

Fenitrothion used to be the insectcide of choice for roaches. It has a knockdown and residual effect so it carries on working after it has been sprayed. Available as a powder and a wetable spray but it needs to be sprayed all over and into every nook and cranny.

HF

 

[lenseman]

Hungry anyone, today's news:


12:50pm, Tue 9 Oct 2012
Man dies after giant cockroach-eating contest
Last updated Tue 9 Oct 2012

A man who won a cockroach-eating contest in the United States has died. Edward Archbold from Florida started being sick and collapsed. Despite being treated by medics, he died at the scene. Read more from NBC News.


http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...s-after-winning-cockroach-eating-contest?lite

;eek:

 

[B&M]

I hope its not the lead boat that is moored next to me in Fiscardo. I will keep the hatches closed tonight or netted just in case one jumps over. A friend of mine picked up a furry hitchhicker after being moored next to a lead boat, maybe he was jumping ship for the same reason.

 

[toad]

Thanks for everyone's reply's, I will email her the suggestions tonight. I guess that only the larger villages will have a chemist/hardware shop but I know Nidri and Fiskardho are normally on there route

 

[Talbot]

I like the boric acid and gelatine mix which can be stuck around the boat and deals with the horrible things.

One lot of spray or fogging will certainly reduce the size of the problem, but does little for the eggs, so you need to catch the next generation before they lay the next lot of eggs.

 

[duncan99210]

Thanks for everyone's reply's, I will email her the suggestions tonight. I guess that only the larger villages will have a chemist/hardware shop but I know Nidri and Fiskardho are normally on there route

Not the chemists or the hardware store, just the local little supermarket shop. They will stock something along the lines of the spray I mentioned above.

 

[Bobobolinsky]

We got rid of ours with a 'fogger'. It's a bit like an aerosol can that you place centrally, activate, then get the hell out!
Think you have to be out of the boat for a minimum of four hours but we left it overnight just to be on the safe side.
Never saw another roach

Used these on an old guys boat, cleaned up literally bucket loads next day, dust pan and brush

 

[pathfinderstu]

horible disease spreading things.!
also try getting rid of any cardboard boxes etc. you have aboard they seem to like cardboard for nesting.

 

[toad]

Thanks all, have texted her your reply's. Apparently she took on supply's in cardboard boxes from another lead boat that was laying up for the winter and thinks that was where the roaches came from. Will be back at base Saturday for a few hours and will try to blitz the boat. She has been two years in the med so it had to happen sometime I suppose.

 

[nigelmercier]

Apparently she took on supply's in cardboard boxes...

Rule #1 in roach city: no cardboard boxes.

 

[Roaring Girl]

Yuck! Am not going to click on those disgusting eating links!

We've not had roaches but a moth infestation was well cleared by one of those bombs. Scary to leave your boat with smoke in it, but it worked. We always leave boracic acid mixed with condensed milk in small puddles on the boat when we leave for a while too.

Quite puts me off the Ionian!

 

[AndrewB]

Yuck! Am not going to click on those disgusting eating links!

Roaches are quite a delicacy in some countries. For recipes, see HERE.

If there is one thing above all else that will disgust most of the world's population - describe BLACK PUDDING.