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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The bugs I might be called Master of are all the computer variety.
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I'm not into cruelty, and won't deliberately cause things unneeded pain and suffering. For things like insects and mice, I will kill them as quickly and expeditiously as possible. Folks squeamish about that are invited to get infested by them and see how long they continue to feel that way.
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Having lived in NYC (mostly Brooklyn) for 5 years, I can attest to the joy of the NYC cockroach. Ultimately, I developed a foolproof and reliable method to clear my apartment of them. (I even wrote it up as a paper for a technical writing class.) That methodology worked in Brooklyn Heights, in Park Slope,in the lower East Side, and in Tribeca, at both my own apartments, and at friend's. BUT, it required a three phase approach using highly toxic chemicals (some of which have probably been banned by now) and a VERY thorough cleanup after to avoid exposure to those chemicals. And it only worked for as long as it took for the nests in other apartments in the building to migrate into yours again - usually about 12 months. Though in the free-standing house in Brooklyn Heights, where I had access to all three apartments, we were roach free for the remaining two years I was there.
I would add that there's nothing quite like walking back into an apartment after phase 2 and finding thousands of dead cockroaches all over everything.