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Cockroach becoming impossible to kill

Cockroach becoming impossible to kill

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vivify
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Keep in mind this article is from three years ago, which likely means they've gotten worse:

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3016859/superbugs-cockroaches-becoming-immune-insect-sprays

Superbugs: cockroaches becoming immune to insect sprays and nearly impossible to kill

Roaches are born resistant to toxins they have never encountered, , with the immunity developing as quickly as one generation of offspring


https://abcnews.go.com/Health/cockroaches-impossible-kill-researchers/story?id=64108551

"This is a previously unrealized challenge in cockroaches," the study's lead author, Michael Scharf, said in a statement on June 25. "Cockroaches developing resistance to multiple classes of insecticides at once will make controlling these pests almost impossible with chemicals alone."

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insecticide is not the only optio to kill nad probably in most instances not the best.
I know of mice and cats still eating roaches...

Oh and radnomly killing off species wasn't a brilliant idea in the first place

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Why Cockroaches are hard to kill:

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Stuff I used to get rid of them, sugar laced baking soda, there is no immune reaction to that I think. Sugar attracts them, baking soda kills them.

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