Re: Cockroaches: Info on why they're here & how to get rid of them please
Thanks all.<br /><br />There's only a few so I'll try the boric acid powder if the insurer won't cover a pest exterminator's treatment.<br /><br />
Originally posted by eeboater:<br />
Originally posted by Tinkerer:<br />(I'm naturally assuming that they're a protected species like anything else that's a problem, except politicians.)<br />
This may sound weird. But I am very comforted that Austrailia has oddities like that like us.<br /><br />Sean
I'm in favour of sensible conservation of everything: animals, fish, trees, historic buildings, whatever.<br /><br />The trouble here is that the lunatics have got their hands on the controls.<br /><br />Until a boundary realignment I used to live under a council run by idiot greenies. Their crowning glory was to declare everything that wasn't an indigenous plant in the shire a weed and try to pass laws making the landowners remove them. Pine trees, native trees from the mountains 50 miles away, etc, were all weeds. Fortunately the law went nowhere.<br /><br />The same idiots stopped a development, and I'm no friend of developers, because a supposedly unique butterfly was found on the land. The land became a park dedicated to the poor little butterfly because it was the only place on the planet that you could find that butterfly. That was 20 years ago. Still signs up there about the unique little butterfly. They haven't put up any signs about its discovery in a number of other places scattered across the state in the intervening 20 years.<br /><br />In a lot of places you can't cut down even a dead tree without a permit. Permits are hard to get in a lot of cases. A whole row of trees down the side of my suburban block, which I'd planted 5 years earlier, suddenly disappeared one day. The nursery had labelled them wrongly and they were going to be way, way, way too big for a suburban block. Nobody ever found out who removed them or where they went. Naturally I know nothing about it. No permit, because one wouldn't have been granted because the authorities, sitting in their timber panelled offices behind their timber desks, think every tree someone else owns is so precious that the planet can't afford to lose it, no matter how dead or useless or dangerous it may be. <br /><br />Snakes are protected. Mate, if I see a snake around the house I ain't going to let it take up residence so it can kill me or my kids.<br /><br />And so on.