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To my knowledge it does. Ants for sure. I've never used it without treating the inside of the house also. So I can't say for sure. I do know that it's perfect for patios, storage houses/rooms, and porches. Etc
Do you know how many roaches we have? Zero. Wanna know why? Because we aren't nasty and have pest control come by every 2 months for maintenance.
Lmfao... So i get home for lunch and my girl says she googled how to get rid of tree roaches and says ClutchFans comes up... I'm like wow that's crazy... So he has my old phone, and says she typed something and it showed up... I immediately came looking for it and realized two things. 1) this is a 9yo thread. 2) she said bf, and now swoly-d and all of cf things foul things about my personal relations. Funny stuff. Its a small internet after all.
My apartment was infested a while back. Spray doesn't help and exterminators didn't do anything except feed the roaches. What I did was use a gel like below. Check the reviews. http://www.amazon.com/Dupont-Advion...VM/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1366910466 I think I used something like http://www.amazon.com/Combat-Source-Roach-Killing-Grams/dp/B000QRAXSG/ref=pd_sim_hg_33 The roaches eat it, bring it to their nest, feed the others, and it will wipe out the entire nest. You will see the roaches start to go to an open space, start spazzing out in a day to 2 and then die. Don't put directly on your counter or wall. put it on a thick paper, plastic or masking tape, so that it doesn't stain your wall/counters.
My sister was deathly afraid of roaches. I swear I used to wear out my flip-flops killing roaches at her behest. She'd start screaming? I'd grab a flip-flop and head toward her room. When I lived in Harlingen, you could see the big-ass yellow-and-brown roaches swarming in the palm trees. One got into my car at night and wound up roach paté the next morning when I found him hiding on the floorboard beneath a newspaper section. In fact, I thought, literally, what if a roach got into the apartment? I have so many covers on my bed that I'd never know one was there until it crawled over me. SURE AS ****, that very night, I'm dead asleep and feel one squirming along my ribcage. Tore the bed up to find him (he'd fallen to the floor in my initial "uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh!" and was trying to squeeze between the bedframe and the floor. In Stafford several years ago they were all over. I moved in, they'd be underneath me when I'm watching TV, coming up the drain, whatever. Ring ring. "Yes, this is apartment 201, when I called and said I need the exterminator, I mean NOOOOOOOOOOOOW, Mister!" YUCK.
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Tree roaches come in houses for water. Being Nasty has nothing to do with it. This is the time of year when you see more of them.
this is true. while roaches will don't have a problem snacking on crumbs left on the counters and dirty dishes, their presence is often catalyzed by sitting water...say soaking dishes you left in the sink for the night. as many have said, this is Houston, and roaches are almost a certainty. alot of us, like myself, live close to a bayou, which just makes it even worst. I've found that the best solution is to use that Ortho-Max Home Perimeter spray every couple months. just go to town, spraying the entire floor perimeter inside your house, all corners where the walls meet the ceilings, and any open cracks or nooks (under cabinets, behind the fridge, etc etc.) seems to work pretty well. before I did that, I'd see a coupe roaches a week, and now I see a 1 roach maybe once a month, & it's either dead, or on the brink of being dead (to which I can just smash it with a boot without fear of it getting away or coming at me)
(I forgot) ALSO, to spray the outside of your house of course. if you have any foundation problems (which is not far fetched or too frowned upon here in Houston as we do live on a bed of clay), make sure to spray in any open cracks or wholes of which may have developed. more is more when it comes to the perimeter spray. I have a 3 bedroom/ 2 1/2 bathroom house & I use about half of the entire jug of perimeter spray every time I apply it, so don't spare. just make sure to take the pets with you for the day if you spray it inside the house. even though it says it dries in like 5 minutes, I still don't think it's kosher to be around immediately. hopes this helps.
THE correct post! I have seen the worst of the worst. Yes giant tree roaches come in sometimes but the baby and teenager size roaches are from filth. Down fall to apartments is you are clean in room 100 and creep in 101 raises them like pets. Guess where there going. 2 of my friends work in extermination and I have crossed several restruants off FOREVER. Last year I saw a roach taking a stroll over the sushi on display. I just walked out .
I'm convinced that Houston has both some of the largest roaches on the planet, and one of the largest populations of same. All the years I've lived in Austin, over 30 now, and I've seen maybe half a dozen of the monster Houston Roaches I grew up with, thank goodness. Maybe they don't like the altitude, or maybe we've just been lucky.
Austin has some big ass crickets. Holy ****. Those crickets remind me of Houston roaches and scare me just as much.
Yes, it is messed up. The damned things are evolving, waiting to take over the planet after we screw something up enough to give them a shot at it. Nuclear War? They'll survive it and take over. Unstoppable plague that wipes out humanity, caused by genetically modified food? They'll survive it and take over. Asteroid or comet wipes out half the planet and pushes humanity to the brink of extinction? They'll survive it and take over. Damn bugs.
