my wife and I have discovered roaches in our house. we have seen only a few but that few is enough to where we probably have more. in the 3 years we have lived in this house we havent seen a sign of a roach and then the last month we've seen about 6. im pretty sure they came from some guests we had spend a couple of weeks here not sure but that's my guess anyway what is the best way to controlb these nasty critters before theyt spreade everywehere
use raid... basically just kill any you see. Don't use foggers, they don't work very well, and its a hassle having to cover everything in your house. Buy some roach baits, thats pretty much all you can do. I don't think you have it that bad to use foggers, maybe pay a pest control company to come look. Roaches will become a pain in the ass QUICK, so don't wait.
I absolutely, completely refuse to stay in a place with a roach problem. I can't stand that sh*t. It never seems to me that the regular stuff you buy (spray, bait) really does much to 'elminate' the problem.
If you live in Houston, you are going to have roaches from time to time. I'd have a professional sprayer come out and do a house treatment. Don't sign up for a quarterly plan, just have one visit. Also put the roach bait thingies under sinks and other high profile roach areas. Also, what kind of roaches are you seeing? The smaller reddish ones, or the big black ones. If its the big black ones, you are OK...they live in trees and shrubs and come in from time to time. If its the smaller reddish ones, those are the ones you have to watch out for.
Yeah, the big ones come from outside. The small ones are german roaches and live in your wall. If you see one there are 10 more in the walls. Yuck. I hate roaches. Only phobia I have is cockroaches. Well, slight claustrophobia. Especially tight spaces with roaches. Anyway, just make sure you keep everything clean and leave out some traps. All you can do if you don't want to call an exterminator.
I saw one roach in the 26 years when I lived in Chicago and Wisconsin. The first that day I moved to Houston I saw 7 in one day. If you live in Houston you are going to have roaches, especially if you live in a wooded area. It does not matter how clean you are. I do not like to use pesticides or sprays for obvious reasons. I found that Borax works great. Here is what I use: Take a spoon full of 20 Mule Team Borax, mix it with 1 cup of water, and two spoons of sugar. Place the mixture into something that is low to the ground, like a margarine container cover. In other word, you don’t want the roach to climbing to get at it. They should be able to run across the floor and get at it with ease. What happens is that the sugar water draws them to the mixture and the borax will kill them. I do this every six months when I go on vacation. It works great.
thanks for the suggestions guy i knew boric compoundss killed insects but how long do hey take to do the jobn? i actualy heard when roches eat poinson that other rocahes will eat the deadones and die themself? is that true well i have a friend coming over tonight to help me spray and lay out sonme boracx
Traps are your best bet. Spraying just agitates them. http://insects.tamu.edu/extension/bulletins/b-1458.html If you're getting the big ass monster tree roaches, look for any cracks or holes you can seal. Also, catnip is a natural roach repellant.
Reminds me of an old Richard Pryor comedy routine. The quote is from RICHARD Pryor Live in Concert... Pryor was telling a story about a Thanksgiving dinner at his grandmother's house where a neighbor brought over some dressing with almonds in it. Everyone was having a wonderful time until somebody said, "Hey, there's some legs on one of my almonds." Grandmother took Richard aside and told him that the neighbor was old and nearly blind and that she probably forgot and left the oven door open, and the roaches crawled in. "And they was good too, wasn't they, honey?"
I live in a heavily wooded area, complete with a dirt road so roaches are all over the area. We saw 3 roaches in the house and I went to Home Depot and bought some Ortho Home Defense Indoor & Outdoor Insect Killer. Sprayed it around the outside of the house, near all the doorways, windows, walls and under sinks and behind the appliances. After a couple of days we had 3 or 4 dead roaches and I haven't seen another one since. This was 3 months ago.
I live by a manhole cover. Before i would go by and there would be 10-15 roaches by it. I hated it. I hired an exterminator to spray my house and as he was leaving I asked him to spray the manhole cover. He pumped it full of pesticides. Roaches started to come out and he left. Oh man ten minutes later 3-4 HUNDRED roaches ran out of that cover. I looked like an idiot stomping on the ones going towards my house. If you are scared of roaches this would have freaked you out. Also there are weird albino looking roaches. they are the same size but almost translucent. Man they come in every shade of brown on earth. Hire a professional. The sprays they use are dry and odorless and you see results in minutes. Maybe for a week you find dead roaches in random places then you see nothing. My guy is coming tomorrow. I signed up for the quarterly thing. it is about 75 bucks the first time and every three months it is 50 bucks. Doesn't seem like a lot to me to be free of bugs.
anyone rememeber that commercial a ways back. it was for some roach killer stuff...a roach happened to crawl across the screen and every time i saw this i thought it was real and jumped up to kill. it was always fake and a guy would come on screen and spray it with the brands killing spray....
I live in Galveston, so I see a lot of the big cockroaches. Don't get me wrong- they still creep me out, but it's part of living on an island where water is everywhere. Roaches like moisture, which is why you see them the most in your kitchen and bathroom. A friend of mine is an exterminator and he reccomends against bug traps. He says that once the poison is gone, the traps make nice little houses for cockroaches. So if you are going to use them, don't forget about them. Boric Acid takes a few days, but it really does the trick. Apparently it clings to their legs and causes fatal chemical burns. Just put it along the baseboards in your house and in your cabinets. It can be poisonous, but only in large amounts, so don't worry about your pets or kids unless they go behind you and lick every bit up. If I start seeing them in the house, I will nuke the house with a bug spray. Despite what other posters say it does work. And that combined with the boric acid should keep your house relatively bug free. Of course, hygenic conditions are important. Don't leave open garbage cans with food and make sure you do the dishes and whipe up the cabinets and dinner table before you go to bed. Bigsherv- your story creeped me out. Thanks for the visual.
