Show Know The Cockroach Huge winged cockroaches once crept through the dank vegetation of the ancient world Today their smaller descendants scurry through the flowers and vegetables in your garden And they can decimate the leaves and roots of your plants as indiscriminately as their giant ancestors WHILE ragged leaf edges quickly reveal the presence of chewing insects in your garden cockroaches usually remain free of blame because we think of them as indoor pests But cockroaches are highly adaptable insects Its It's this very ability to fare well in indoors indoors indoors in- in doors or out that has assured assured assured as as- their survival through the ages ONCE entrenched in your backyard the succulent foliage foliage foliage fol fol- fol- fol of your garden will keep them happy and well fed for fon fonas foras as long as you are w willing willingto to tolerate their tenancy Know thine enemy tt is no idle cliche where the cockroach cockroach cockroach cock cock- roach is concerned His habits habits habits hab hab- its are nocturnal so hes he's not easy to spot in action TIES liES AN invader er whose dietary preferences cannot be pinpointed and bait bait- ed Hes He's hardy agile and as insects go intelligent He has even been found prospering hundreds of feet below the earths earth's surface in inthe inthe inthe the gold mines of South Af Af- Af- Af rica AS YOU can see the cockroach cockroach cockroach cock cock- roach is a formidable foe Buthe Buthe But Buthe he has one weakness The insect insect in insect in- in sect system cannot tolerate the loss of fluid Cockroaches can lose large amounts of fat and protein and still live In fact should their food source run out cockroaches ca car survive for two full months on water alone But they cannot live without fluid A UNIQUE pressurized spray that takes advantage of this weakness in insect up make-up is Warpath a toxic non-toxic killer by bythe bythe bythe the Con d-Con Company Warpath contains two active ingredients ingredients and Silica Gel Its It's the latter that acts as asan asan asan an abrasive to remove the protective wax which forms an insects insect's skin The roach is thus exposed to a quick painless painless painless pain pain- less death by evaporation and dehydration FOR BEST results outdoors in dry weather you should spray the ground around flower or vegetable beds but not the plants themselves Simply by crawling over the sprayed area cockroaches and other insects will be affected REMEMBER cockroaches live only to eat and breed and they'll happily do so at the expense of your plants So if you discover your garden is becoming a shambles shambles shambles sham sham- bles of pinked leaves and dying dying dying dy dy- ing roots consider the possibility possibility possibility of infestation by cockroaches cockroaches cockroaches cock cock- roaches a gardens garden's enemy |