I don’t leave food out. Garbage gets tossed, counters are cleaned. I replaced half the windows in my home and caulked up the rest. I bought a salt gun and have been picking them off but there’s always more.

How do I figure out where these little fuckers are getting in?

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    They’re incredible and by far the best bug killing method I’ve ever used. They don’t move when you’re pointing it at them from a meter away and the salt usually just rattles them to death so you aren’t picking up bug pieces. Sometimes it vaporizes them, though lol

    Don’t make the same mistake I did and shoot it near a house plant, though.

    Care to translate that German for us lesser people?

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      Yes, looks effective!

      When young, I had a blowpipe shooting sucker cup darts.
      Most effective mosquito hunting device I ever owned. But left a mess of the target and was slightly cross to re-use the darts ;-)

      I will give translating a try, but guess some of the silly punch will get lost in translation:

      “Will the salt squirt [on] the beetle?
      No, the beetle stays complete for an easy cleaning”

      (Where “bespritzen” may also be used as a colloquial term for ejaculating on someone or something and is in general only used for liquids)

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        That’s pretty funny. Even funnier that it’s saying almost exactly what I said!

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          Yes, after thinking about it for a few seconds it becomes clear what they are trying to say.
          The direct 1-to-1 translation to German is just really bad and funny sounding :-)

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        The original Bug-A-Salt. I did some research and the knockoffs are nowhere near as good. And I sure as hell didn’t want the one with CO cartridges.

        I don’t work for them but it was worth every penny. I know 2 other people with them and they say the same.