till the water turns dark same with dark teas the tanic acis is what your
looking for)
or just buy some pyrthrin based insecticide
----- Original Message -----
From: "Betty Ann" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: [P-F] cigarette insecticide question


> Charles, how long do you soak the cigarettes? This sounds like a much
> better form of spider control than I've ever heard of! Maybe this will
work
> on the box elder bugs that plague us every year!!
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Charles Edward Comer <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > insecticides are made by soaking 5 to 10 cigarettes in about 1 liter of
> > water, Kills spiders on contact and no patent (yet:-;)
>
> --
>  Betty Ann
> "In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats." English Proverb
>