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Cockroaches: Am I Fucked?
McAllen
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I saw one cockroach in my kitchen, and now I'm told that my mom has seen another down there the next day.
We usually have open food and clothing out, and I was just wondering if anyone knew the best effective spray or glue or what have you that can tell these roaches to live somewhere else?
I am purging my home in the mean time.
We usually have open food and clothing out, and I was just wondering if anyone knew the best effective spray or glue or what have you that can tell these roaches to live somewhere else?
I am purging my home in the mean time.
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A lot of useful information in them threads.
I feel like this is something dirty people tell themselves to feel better.
Anyway, this has come up so many times, I'm surprised it's not just stickied by now.
The best advice in all the threads is to use boric acid.
The 'gel' I posted in those threads worked amazingly well, after having 2+ years of a roach problem, which I had just learned to accept. Boric acid, house spraying, conventional baits, everything would rid me of them for a week at most.
Ever since I used that gel product from Bayer, I've been roach free for 5+ months now. Even though my roomate leaves food all around.
I completely got rid of german roaches (or at least to the point where I never saw one again) using boric acid. I went crazy with that shit though. I dusted along all my walls, inside cabinets, behind/under appliances, in any cracks crevices, inside closets, and basically anywhere else.
If it gets bad, call an exterminator. They have the best tools for this shit.
Yeah that was my problem, I used it but not as thoroughly. The gel on the other hand, you use it very scantily in very specific places. And the way it works makes it so that roaches that eat it will not die instantly, but take it to the nest, die, and other roaches will eat that dead roach, and you've got a chain reaction that takes out the whole colony.
I would get rid of the roaches in my place, but they'd slowly come back, they were probably coming in from someone else's apartment, and the gel did the job of killing them there too.