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Beer stops slugs, why not roaches?

The Utne Reader has this sudsy advice on how to handle cockroaches: Put a saucer containing ½ cup of beer on the floor. When the roaches are drunk, sweeping them up will be a cinch.

I have put plates of beer in the garden to get rid of slugs.

But has anyone tried getting roaches drunk ?

Posted by Rob Kasper at 7:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

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I think if you have roaches, cleaning your house could stop that!

Posted by: Kim Moore | January 30, 2008 11:35 AM

I've been doing this for years. It works great. Discovered only dark beer works -- the roaches shun the light beer

Posted by: Don | April 16, 2009 10:24 PM

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About Rob Kasper

Rob Kasper, a features columnist, has been writing about beer for 20 years, and he remembers when Anchor Christmas and Noche Buena were about the only beers at a holiday tasting and Sisson’s was the only brewpub in Baltimore. A collection of his columns, "Raising Kids and Tomatoes, Amusing Tales and Appetizing Recipes," was published in 1998. He lives with his wife, Judith, a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, in a downtown Baltimore rowhouse. They have two grown sons, who come home from time to time and drink their father’s beer.
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