Even your own intestinal flora?
I plan to set up a chain of roach motels.
The Bates Motel chain.
I hope to make a bundle at them, as well as reduce the roach population.
Anyone wanna join me? 
MaxForce bait inhibits the mitochondria in the roach’s cells. This prevents it from using any energy in the food it ate, leading to death within a couple days.
Now if the nervous system fails last, this could be an exceptionally cruel method, prolonging the suffuring for many hours. On the other hand, it’s possible that death by general lethargy is akin to euthanasia.
I’ll leave that to your further investigation, but I have found it to be more effective and less messy than other techniques mentioned above. (The syringe of this gunk, not the traps which are already half-dried out when you buy them).
This thread keeps making me think of a radio commercial that had been airing here in North Texas earlier this summer … The subject was talking about how he believed in the fundamental rights of all creatures, and how he wanted to live in peace in harmony with them … then, he stepped in a fire ant mound in his yard. Now, he believes in the fundamental rights of all creatures, except fire ants. Segue to the sales pitch for the exterminator …
The best anti-roach method I’ve had since I moved down here is my cats. The little buggers don’t last long if they poke their heads out of the cracks they hide in after dark. And I don’t have to worry about the humaneness of their deaths, even if that were something I would generally worry about, any more than I worry about the gazelles running from the lions on the African veldt. It’s just part of the great circle of life. I drop crumbs, roaches eat the crumbs, cats eat the roaches, I chastise the cats for leaving half-eaten roach carcasses around the house.
how bout thousands and thousands of itty bitty mousetraps?
I don’t know about you, but if they were encroaching on my house and really bugging me, I’d probably just *beetle/i] of them up!
If you insist!
originally posted by Qadgop the Mercotan
I make an exception for bugs too small to see - as long as they’re not doing any harm. 
hey, W, I wasn’t trying to attack your religion, but I do think it’s silly to give a hoot about roaches.
The only way to get rid of the bastards is to kill them swiftly, and in huge numbers. I don’t think capturing them individually and gently putting them to sleep via leathal injection is going to work. So much for humane!
I’ve considered criminal courts that give out death only as a last resort and mainly sentence them to deportation or sterilization, but the problem is that they reproduce so fast that the public defenders become too overworked to give adequate defense, then also you can’t really have roaches as judges since they’re biased, but I’m convinced that butterflies have their own agenda.
I really don’t believe for an instant that roaches are beautiful creatures or that they have souls (I’m not convinced that humans do), but I do think they have some sort of pain sensors. They are definitely photosensitive, as anybody who’s ever seen them scatter when the light was turned on knows, and they definitely practice self preservation, as anybody who has ever seen them run when a shoe is thrown knows. This would imply that some form of displeasure occurs that they seek to avoid, which would also imply pain or the beginnings of it.
Bacteria however are just SOL. If you have to get in my hamburger to get from place to place, get ready to meet Mr. Lysol, the Aerosol Kali. At least cockroaches had the gumption to evolve some legs; microbes are the welfare class on the non-mammal pecking order.
He has plants growing in his butt? Ohhhh you meant fauna.
no actually he ment flora… micro-flora
DOOOYYYYYYY
Oh, and if you clip off the abdomen of a hunnybee that is gathering nectar… it continues to keep its head in the flower gathering nectar. Gather from that what you will.
I once managed to seperate the abdomen of a wasp with quick swat of a newspaper once. The head and thorax lived for several hours walking around on my inn table. No audible screaming could be heard and no tears could be seen.
I stand corrected.
Actually your right too… micro-flora and fauna are proper… I believe
Is that something that was learned by scientists during the French Revolution?
A common sideshow exhibit that I used to see at fairs when I was growing up in the Alabama sticks was live headless chickens. Chickens are capable of living for several years if you cut off their heads at just the right point. They have to be fed with medicine droppers, but they will continue to live and even procreate with nothing but a brain stem. Personally I always thought it was sick, but with the right cream sauce it was more tolerable.
Of course every southern boy knows that the abdomen of a firefly will stay lit for several minutes if removed.
Not only do they not have nerves, but I doubt that they think Mr. Clean is better smelling than rotten eggs. But that is IMHO.
kniz: Well, it smelled sweet to me.
Allow me to post something that I paraphrased for my kid the other day:
Genesis 1, Verse 26: And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
I think that means if I wanna smuck a roach, I can with God’s blessings, and I certainly will. Especially if it is befouling my family’s space.
Though I personally don’t think that you honestly believe a single word of what you’re posting in this thread, I’ll put that aside for the moment. Exactly how does photosensitivity corespond with the ability to feel pain?
Well, if it’s a really bright light…