The ravens are looking a bit sluggish. Tell Malcolm they need new batteries.
Saturday, August 27
Benzalkonium Chloride Contraindicated For Gregor Samsa's Kitchen
So, there was a cockroach in my kitchen the other day, and I didn't know where I'd left the bug spray, but if I went looking for it the roach would be sure to make its escape while my back was turned.
So, there was a cockroach in my kitchen the other day, and I didn't know where I'd left the bug spray, but if I went looking for it the roach would be sure to make its escape while my back was turned.
So I grabbed what was at hand - namely a squirt bottle of Dettol Healthy Clean Kitchen surface spray - and spritzed the filthy insect with it.
Whereupon it promptly gave up the arthropod equivalent of the ghost.
Huh.
The spray is a 0.1% solution of benzalkonium chloride - the same antiseptic found in Dettol and Bactine - and supposedly more-or-less harmless, safe for use on food preparation surfaces. The oral LD50 in mammals is given as 240mg/kg, so it would be easier to kill yourself by drinking low-alcohol beer than this stuff.
Unless you're a cockroach.
Also, my floor is very clean now.
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