So. the Situation is over the last few months I've noticed that there are more and more cockroaches where I live. And its been progressively getting worse. By Worse I mean its reached the stage that tiny cockroachs will appear on the kitchen floor every hour and its really REALLY starting to bug me.

 

Anyone here have a cockroach infestation problem in the past and found a solution to them? I wanted to go with insect bombs but I read the reviews saying that 'they don't permeate into cracks where the nests' might be.

 

However poison cockroach baits are sounding to be much more attractive to me since they advertise it as 'Cockroach eats poison bait and returns to their nest...they die in their nest and then the other cockroaches eat its body...and then the other roaches die due to passing the poison on'.

 

I guess my biggest concern are the cockroaches developing a resistance to the poison or mutating into a freaky monster bug.

 

I'm just so over this! I hate bugs. I hate bugs. I firetrucking hate bugs.

Where did they even come from?

 

Please share what worked for you

Please share with me the product brand you used or the procedure/routine you tried

I'm ready to purge them all

 

I think I've reached a point where I wish I could just 'Magnega' the cockroaches and then crush them all at once

 

(imagine thousands of little roaches and bugs being drawn into that magnet ball....and then I finish them off with...)

 

MEGAFLARE

Edited November 6, 20168 yr by catmaster0116

#JustAustralianSummerThings

 

I'd hire a pest exterminator if I were you.

I know this feeling. -_-

I'd go with what Myth said.

But, if you can't afford an exterminator you need to go buy some really good bug spray stuff at the store. Something that's usable outdoors and indoors. You need to spray around the perimeter of your entire home. Outside and in. Do this monthly. If you're still seeing a big number of them after spraying, spray once more immediately. 

We've been doing this where I live for a while now and it seems to be working like a charm and keeping most bugs out.

The bug spray we use is: 

Spectracide Bug Stop Home Barrier

You could use a secondary product along with your bug spray if you really wanted to like the cockroach baits you were talking about.

Edited November 6, 20168 yr by Geralt

I still have that problem too... We just spray when we see one....

 

Once upon a time, we never had this problem at this house we're at. It was a ant problem. Then one time our dad got an exterminator to spray around the house.

 

That's what happens when you have tenants living in your house and they don't take care of it....

I have a perfect solution. Call an exterminator.

Yeah just call an exterminator. Or buy some roach spray (I think it's called RAID)

Are they the tiny German ones?

If so, the only real way to kill them off is professional tenting 

I know this feeling. -_-

I'd go with what Myth said.

But, if you can't afford an exterminator you need to go buy some really good bug spray stuff at the store. Something that's usable outdoors and indoors. You need to spray around the perimeter of your entire home. Outside and in. Do this monthly. If you're still seeing a big number of them after spraying, spray once more immediately. 

We've been doing this where I live for a while now and it seems to be working like a charm and keeping most bugs out.

The bug spray we use is: 

Spectracide Bug Stop Home Barrier

You could use a secondary product along with your bug spray if you really wanted to like the cockroach baits you were talking about.

 

 

I wonder if we even have that brand here

 

Are they the tiny German ones?

If so, the only real way to kill them off is professional tenting

 

Most likely. We do tend to get quite a few if these guys here in Australia

I used to have this very same issue in one place that I was living. We'd find up to three baby cockroaches in the kitchen in the morning, and huge ones in the middle of the dining area! It was getting ridiculous. Eventually it cleared up on its own, namely when it started to get cold out. We never found its nest, but we're pretty sure that it had been in the garage, because we found so many roaches in there, too. Needless to say that the whole ordeal was disgusting and difficult to deal with.

 

One of the biggest things we'd found was their attraction to food, and even traces of food. Mopping the floor and keeping all tiny traces of food sealed away helped tremendously, and making sure there were no dirty dishes in the sink when we went to bed (because sometimes we got up and found cockroaches in the sink with the dirty dishes!). You may already even do these things, but that is what I found to help the most, in my experience.

 

Contrary to popular opinion I really wouldn't do bug spray. That stuff is so harmful to people that I just loath using it. I have used roach hotels, but honestly didn't really find them effective. You could get a professional's opinion and see what they say, but I really think it will clear up on its own in time. I was very disturbed by the issue we'd had in the past, but keeping food up really did the trick and eventually it went away, in time.

Well human, Transcendent has dealt with roaches before, and the key thing here is to make sure that you don't leave anything scrumptious for them to nibble on, like Mystics just said! If there's no chow, the roaches won't come out to play! Cold weather seems to affect them too, as right now, there aren't any roaches in Transcendent's home.  Come to think of it, that human hasn't had a problem with roaches in a long while!  So yes, a clean house is a happy house!

 

But your Magnega/Flare combo seems to be a tasty second option! I'd go with the destructive option, it sounds the most chaotic! B)

I have a perfect solution. Call an exterminator.

Yeah just call an exterminator. Or buy some roach spray (I think it's called RAID)

Are they the tiny German ones?

If so, the only real way to kill them off is professional tenting 

#JustAustralianSummerThings

 

I'd hire a pest exterminator if I were you.

 

OMG #JustAustraliaSummerThings indeed

 

Unfortunately I would rather DIY first before going to ask professionals for help since professional pest removal services can get pricey X_X

OMG #JustAustraliaSummerThings indeed

 

Unfortunately I would rather DIY first before going to ask professionals for help since professional pest removal services can get pricey X_X

Not to be a bubble popper, but I got them in my house, and we had them for two years before tenting the whole place. 

unless you find a good spray, it could become an infestation, and then you're #$@#%$ed. 

Try Bengal (Has a lion on it) or some localized spray with acidics in it. Keep it away from food and dishes, though. 

The acidics make them literally melt, and burns holes in them. 

Try to get powdered, to line drawers and cabnets with. Keep all your food sealed up, and mop the floor with water mixed with bug spray.

Works, trusts me: we still have a few of the little a$$es running around, but we've got them under control. 

Edited November 7, 20168 yr by Philip Ellwell

Not to be a bubble popper, but I got them in my house, and we had them for two years before tenting the whole place. 

unless you find a good spray, it could become an infestation, and then you're #$@#%$ed. 

Try Bengal (Has a lion on it) or some localized spray with acidics in it. Keep it away from food and dishes, though. 

The acidics make them literally melt, and burns holes in them. 

Try to get powdered, to line drawers and cabnets with. Keep all your food sealed up, and mop the floor with water mixed with bug spray.

Works, trusts me: we still have a few of the little a$$es running around, but we've got them under control. 

 

I like what I'm reading. Melt them with acidic substance!!

 

Not sure if they sell it here in australia.

 

A relative of mine recommended mixing Boric acid with peanut butter and then using it as bait....they eat the peanut butter along with the the Boric acid which basically kills them.

I like what I'm reading. Melt them with acidic substance!!

 

Not sure if they sell it here in australia.

 

A relative of mine recommended mixing Boric acid with peanut butter and then using it as bait....they eat the peanut butter along with the the Boric acid which basically kills them.

That could work. Boric acid powder was what I meant: I couldn't remember the name