With Spring just around the corner, these tips may come in handy

Ants in your pantry? Stalk them and seal off cracks where they are entering with putty or petroleum jelly.  Try sprinkling red pepper on floors and counter-tops.

Roach poison: Use 2 parts flour, 1 part Boric Acid Power, and ½ part sugar. Mix well or sift.  Sprinkle or dust it (using a narrow-spouted plastic squeeze bottle) into moldings and crevices.  This kills them slowly but surely (six days or longer). They will not develop a resistance to it. Boric Acid is not absorbed by your skin or inhaled, but it is poisonous if eaten.