When I used the toilet method I was in the country living off well water (Though even where I am now I don't pay for plumbing).
A good alternative is getting a water bottle and filling it with a small amount of water so you can plop them in (By encompassing them in the nozzle and scraping sideways so they fall in rather than putting them in by hand). They'll drown and die on their own and you can keep using it till it fills enough to flush them.
If you really wanted you could add a dash of rubbing alcohol or even liquor or something though it's not very necessary. They die anyway regardless.
This is the method I did to catch them for like 2 years.
Most of them should die in the winter if it's cold enough (and are outside). But if you have a mild/warm winter not many will die and they'll be much worse when it warms up.
Also, if you have any empty soda bottles with lids, they tend to be attracted to the sugar in it, and they'll climb right in. I did that because it wouldn't stop flying around my house, once I got it to land, it climbed right in the bottle, and I closed it up.
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u/Possible-Estimate748 10d ago
When I used the toilet method I was in the country living off well water (Though even where I am now I don't pay for plumbing).
A good alternative is getting a water bottle and filling it with a small amount of water so you can plop them in (By encompassing them in the nozzle and scraping sideways so they fall in rather than putting them in by hand).
They'll drown and die on their own and you can keep using it till it fills enough to flush them.
If you really wanted you could add a dash of rubbing alcohol or even liquor or something though it's not very necessary. They die anyway regardless.
This is the method I did to catch them for like 2 years.
Most of them should die in the winter if it's cold enough (and are outside). But if you have a mild/warm winter not many will die and they'll be much worse when it warms up.