Monique Reed wrote:

Well, osage orange fruits (hedge apples, monkey balls, etc.) *are*
reputed to repel cockroaches, but given that the fruits rot rather
readily and ooze a hard-to-scrub-off milky latex, it's a bit of a
toss-up as to whether it's easier to deal with them or the roaches...

The question is really whether you would want to deal with hedge apples
*and* roaches, or just the roaches by themselves. The
arthropod-repellant properties of Osage Orange seem to be mostly wishful
thinking, whereas its anthropoid-repellant properties are indisputable.

http://lancaster.unl.edu/enviro/pest...HedgeApple.htm

Micah Mabelitini


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