In the New York Daily News, a letter by Howard Scott Pearlman extols Borax:
"Borax has the ability to get on insects' skin and then suck the moisture out of their bodies. If you do laundry with borax soap powder, your clothes and sheets get a borax residue on them. Unsuspecting bedbugs pick up that residue and take it back to their nests, where all their nasty little friends meet Mr. Borax, dry out and die. Borax soap powder can also be sprinkled on carpeting and left for days, providing you do not have small children or pets that will eat it."
27 January, 2011.
It may or may not work, I would assume that they would get hungrier (or thirstier...) and go for more blood...on average adults eat once a week. They can fast for over a year.
Vaguely I recall borax being illegal to use in New York as a powdered bug deterrent, but I am not sure. But this is worth knowing about. My own flat has seen a decrease in the bugs, which I attribute to more use of ziploc bags and therefore loss of habitat.
Also, is this a free ad for a product - or is it reality? I wonder if it only makes the critters hungry, and rather than dry out and die, they just go for more blood. At least Mr. Pearlman is not selling us on DDT.
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Yeah, more chemicals. And not politician has done anything about the Vigilant. Most of them are in bed with the thieves, so the rich owners of the Vigilant will get to poison New York, spread disease, spread bed bugs and the politicians, including that hapless Christien Quinn who wants so much to ascend and be mayor, will get rich. They will get money from interest groups - that is why her office did NOTHING about the information on the Vigilant, which is just around the corner from her office. Too busy taking money from the West Side developers, and does not want to rock the boat with the chemical companies. NY is a cesspool of nasty chemicals, and allowing landlords to spray more and more and not clean and fix the buildings as they ought to is a crime - yes it is, as these public servants are not doing the jobs they are paid for, there is a technical name for this kind of crime - and people in NY have the right to make citizens arrests. Quinn is a criminal. She has failed to perform her duties in office. She is not special - like Lindsay Lohan, if she steals, or fails takes money for a job she does not do, she goes to jail.
ReplyDeleteAnd not to pick on just her, let's look at the NY Senator, Charles Schumer - who so attacked the American rights to freedom of speech once that he wanted to make it a crime to accuse the government of a conspiracy. Maybe he just wanted to cover the fact that as a Congressman, while out running for the higher office of Senator, he missed about 180 voges in Congress. Too busy tyring to get a promotion to do his job. So no wonder the Vigilant gets to infest all of NY and throws out servicemen for cleaning - both Quinn and Schumer hate servicemen and neither did any time in the military. They would have been court martialed for dereliction had they been in uniform.
But now they want more power? Get rid of them now! And get that Vigilant Hotel cleaned up properly with heat treatment.