spiders and roaches

[Vorador]

So here's the problem, I just moved into a basement and the homeowner hasn't or won't spray, my roommate and I have seen lots of roaches, and I found that the blackwidow that lives in my pepper plants have hatched tons of babies. are there wards that I can set up to prevent them from coming into the house? I like black widows and won't kill them if they stay outside, but roaches make me wanna throw up.

I really have no money to hire an exterminator and it's more the homeowner's responsibility to do that, so I was hoping that someone could help me out with a spell to ward them off.

[Corwen]

I think you may be being optimistic about the power of magic here... You might be better off explaining to whatever passes for a local authority where you are that your landlord is refusing to control the roaches. I don't know what its like where you are, but these things are regarded as public health issues here and the local authority has the power to send in its own pest control people and send the bill to the landlord.

[Dryadia2]

There is a (safe for pets & kids) control option:
Diatomaceous Earth:
http://www.ehow.com/how_5049476_use-ear ... ntrol.html
http://www.dirtworks.net/Diatomaceous-Earth.html
It kills crawling arthropods (insects & spiders), because it's basically ground up chalky silica...so when bugs step on it, it gets in their exoskeleton (joints), and causes fluid leakage, thereby they dehydrate and die. But it's relatively harmless to pets and children, if they touch it. (probably not good in their eyes tho)

*note - don't get the kind for 'swimming pools'...get the type for putting in your garden...check with landscape and/or home improvement stores.

Best Wishes,
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[Vorador]

it's true that it is a public health issue.

I believe that magic can do anything, tho I'm still new to everything and am self taught, I don't understand a lot of things. I gave a way a couple books (don't remember the names and I'll prolly never see them again), one said something about warding your house against robbers while you are away. it said that the house will seem to be not there.
Actually, sitting here thinking about it, I think I figured it out a technique. will post results.

[Corwen]

I believe that magic can do anything

Yeah, but Roaches have their own magic too!

[Vorador]

So my idea was to set up a barrier. I read in a book (don't remember the name, it was over a year ago that I read it) it said something about protecting the house from robbery by setting up a barrier so that it would seem invisible and the "robber" would walk right by (I don't know how that can be tested, but. . .). In that same book it said they would put a ward on their car to make it seem as a police car so they wouldn't get a parking ticket (I think it's safer to park where it's legal but whatever...) I don't put much stock in that particular book (I laughed thru most of it), but it did give me the idea.

Anyway, the barrier. I only set it up at one wall, the back door of the house (because that's where I see most of the roaches dead). after a week I've seen only 2 dead roaches in the house, and 1 spider, tho they could have been there before I set the barrier, well I know the spider was already inside, I had seen him in the bathroom a couple days before but he scurried away before I could do anything about him. Well, I like spiders and if I'm able too catch them and put them outside I do, but roaches die on sight cuz they give me the EBGB's.

if this turns out to just be some sort of fluke then I'll hope that I have money for insecticides, as it is. . . I don't.

[John T. Folden]

I don't know where you are but roaches can be handled cheaply with the proper insecticides that you can use yourself. Blanket spraying is usually pointless and once they are indoors the only way to permanently get rid of them is to put a halt to their lifecycle.

A local handyman shop will have a crack and crevice spray. It comes with a small straw that you use to spray the fluid into, obviously, cracks and crevices. If you go around your basement and hit all of these areas thoroughly then it will, for a start, help keep the roaches out of your area even if they venture into the rest of the house. The Plus is that you won't actually be spraying it out in the open where you, others, or your pets might come into direct contact with it.

If you can, actually look for C&C sprays that mention they contain ingredients that halt the life cycle. If you can get a C&C spray like this then you probably won't have to go any further with treatments that involve spraying.

At the same time, if you can afford it, by a small box of bait traps, also looking for those that contain the lifecycle inhibitor.

Stopping the lifecycle is paramount. Normal sprays will just kill the bugs you see and often not destroy eggs, etc...

I service computers for a living and my office is connected to my home. I had one customer bring in a PC infested with roaches. I didn't realize this immediately, as I had a back log of systems, and a few escaped into my house. Within just a couple of weeks I saw a teeny tiny roach on my kitchen counter, the next day a small one was in the bathroom, and by the end of the week I was seeing them on the complete opposite side of the house in my parlor, climbing around on a rocking chair.

I gave myself a crash course, learned how to hit them hard and by the time these babies had grown up and I was seeing the first evidence of eggs (which happens terribly quickly in warm weather), they were already on the decline and then vanished as quickly as they came.

[Nightfalls]

if you find a way let me know. I have gotten used to the cycle of bugs here though. This month it is roaches, and i am already seeing less of them. Now i am seeing fat black ants. Soon they will move on and the tiny sugar ants will come back. The cycle never ends

[Fiach]

Yeah, but Roaches have their own magic too!

True story. Invincibility spell +100

[Vorador]

I live in the basement and enter through the back door. I Found my book called Druid Magic by Maya Magee Sutton and Nicolas R. Mann. It describes shielding the house in order to thwart intruders, actually making seem as though it was not there to those that would harm you or the house. They describe making the barrier by starting at one side and imagining a white wall all alone it, then a black wall on the far side, a white wall behind the first, and a black wall behind the second. I did something similar. Using water element I weaved a barrier at the back of the house. I didn't really think to extend it all the way around the house. . . but just at the back door the roaches decreased greatly and most of them that entered were dead at the entrance. For true it is not hard for any insect to get into that house, there's a good 1/4" space at the beneath the threshold because the tile grout chipped out and wood rotted away. I had a different barrier around my bedroom, no one uninvited would enter. and truly only a few roaches got in and died shortly after.

[Lily]

So they died because you made your abode invisible?

[Vorador]

So they died because you made your abode invisible?

hehe, no, I altered the shield. I realize now that a shield of water would be pointless against roaches, since they are extremely resilient and can survive up to a day in water. but the shield was meant to keep them out. I suppose that it may have appeared invisible to the roaches, but I wouldn't know. Why they died could be a number of things, by passing through a shield meant to keep them out? I do think that a water shield would serve two purposes: the first purpose it was made for, to keep the bugs out, and second a ward against fire.

[cat]

So any body got any magic to stop me getting sun burnt then?

I do hope that this practice works for you. Personaly i agree with others that have voiced there opion on this topic of roaches its hard to alter the habitat to drive them away. So the only way is to stop there life cycle in your vacinty. You Landlord has a responsiblity to keep his house (which presumable you pay for ) fit for human habitation. Places over here where food is prepard or the public are present are closed by the envriomental health officals if they have a roach infestation as they can help transmit Bacteria. Its not there fault . But can affect your health.

If you intrested in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockroach Will give you some info on roaches

um have you moved the pepper plant?

Hope you have some natural light coming in.

would you walk into a lions den?