you've never seen an infestation problem until youve seen a family of dead rats in your hallway when you get home
I remember the fridge being the last refuge, but always used tupperware just in case. I think they made a movie about you and some talking roaches, I saw some excerpts and it grossed me out.
does anyone know if those electronice repellent devices work? they plug into a wall socket. seems preety expensive at 40 bucks for one, but i dont mind if they work. ___________________ hey Malone, yous a beat rida, a posh style taker, i tell it to your face, u aint **** but a FAKER
My wife has a paranoid fear of the little critters and will scream bloody murder at the sight of one. Do you think Joe's Apartment would work well as aversion therapy? I've tried and tried to trick her into watching it, but she won't fall for it. My kids, however, love that movie!
Well I live in LA, and when I first moved into my apartment, it was infested with dozens of roaches (maybe infested is the wrong word compared with some other people's stories). And whenever I turned on the oven, you would crawl all over it. Now I absolutely hate roaches and would normally try to avoid having to kill them. But after a day or two, I realized it would either be me or the roaches. I would no longer live in fear that I would wake up to roaches in my bed. So whenever I turned on the oven, I just grabbed a napkin and squashed every roach that I saw, tossed them into the toilet and repeated with a new napkin until they stopped coming for the time being. It took about a week of dedicated roach killing, but I finally prevailed and eradicated the roach menace. I've been careful with food in my apartment and have only seen isolated roaches a couple of times since then. Luckily for me there were no huge roaches in the bunch. I used to live in Hawaii, and we'd occasionally get these big ass mofos that were almost the size of a cell phone. Are that about the size of the tree roaches you're talking about, cause those suckers are nasty.
dang the size of a cell phone. you have to be kidding. that would make me act very girly. slugs give me problems to.
Yup just about that big. And they fly and SQUISH when you smash them. Eh, tropical climate, what are you going to do.
How can there be organs inside a roach when only this white paste comes out when you squish them? I always thought that was odd when I was a kid.
I live west of San Antonio, but we still get these huge roaches, Houston-style. It's not like there are swarms of them, and most die pretty quickly (we usually have poison out), but it seems like in the summer we get a couple a day. They are big. I don't know where they come in from. It's not like we find them in the same places every time. I think there are just so many of the darn things outside that a few are going to find their way in.
We had a rat problem in our attic for one summer. Worst part was when you could hear them crawling and scratching at night when you lay in bed up on the ceiling. I would just pray that none of them would fall through the AC vents in the house and that all would go smoothly for the night. Worst part of the rats was they would get in the car. In fact one tore up the wiring in my car and another got stuck in my Explorer between the seats in the backs. The part where you can lay the backseats flat to make room if you need to put something big in the car. We never could get it out and I personally had to endure the smell for a whole summer before we figured we'd do our best to mask the smell by sending it to a car cleaner company. Sure enough as they went to clean it we told them about the problem swearing a dead rat had to be in the car somewhere stinking up the place, and the managed to find it after having to remove the seats in the back because the rat was that far lodged under the bottom of the chairs. The car ended up smelling like cinnamon from the cleaners through Christmas time and eventually the dead rat odor wore off. We got a cat, and get the occasional rat snake that lurks around the yard now and assume it handles it's business. We usually kill it the moment it discovers something though. Haven't had any rat problems since though.
I just woke up cuz a tree roach crawled on my face woke my bf up n tried to tell me it was a june bug i know what i saw now im scared to sleep so sleepy
OMG I had a similar experience. My close friend had moved into a new apartment so we decided to chill and drink there. I went in and I saw probably 100 cockroaches crawling all over the place. They were bunched up in groups in the vents and you couldn't sit down on the floor without being scared that a cockroach would crawl on you. I do not know how they could live like that. I would not be able to sleep at all.
In reality bigtexxx has a tree roach problem and therefore wanted an assault rifle to shoot these muthafuggaz.. Explains the multiple invader scenario and preparing battle tactics. You can come out of the closet now pal, many people have a roach problem, it's no sign of low life quality.
Yeap. NEVER leave crumbs. NEVER leave food lying around... throw away smelly stuff. Next to... ummm... your... "bf"? Not that there's anything wrong with that. [checks keyboard, notices B is close to G] Ummm... yeaaahhhh... I'm going to leave this thread now.
I realize that this thread is super old, but you don't have to share your house with roaches, spiders, ants, etc... Buy one of these: LINK And some of this: LINK Mix with water according to the instructions, personally I choose to up the amount of concentrate. Spray along all walls, corners, doorways, window seals, etc... Beneath furniture, in the back of cabinets (away from food). Use this: LINK to create a barrier outside your house. Doing all of this every 1-2 months and even less during winter will keep EVERYTHING out. You may see the occasional bug or roach in your home. But it'll be sprawled over dead. Just be sure to keep pets or small children away for an hour or two after application. Find a time when you're home alone to knock it out. You'll be done in less than 30 minutes.
Does that barrier stuff work on roaches. I don't have a problem but the wife freaks out about them. So I need to be proactive since we got a new house
