Bugs

Have cockroaches in an apartment connected to my shop. Sprayed and used bug bombs, but still have roaches around. What do you use to kill cockroaches?? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

About the only place I've had problems is in the garage where the trash is staged until pick up day.

When I start seeing them I spray the area with Ortho Home Defense, comes in a gallon jug with a sprayer.

Then put out Combat hotels.

Best defense in the house is to starve them out. Don't leave food out over night, keep the prep area clean.

If heavily infested it will probably need professional treatment, but they will come back if the food source is still there.

3.5 rocket launcher.

Eliminate their food sources and they will go away. Not trying to sound harsh, but they usually infest areas that are poorly kept up, food scraps, trash, etc. If it's not your apartment or you don't have access to it, then that might be where they are coming from.

Had problem with them a few years back. Used Raid Roach gel and there gone

I was plagued with roach problems back when I lived in apartment buildings. First in San Antonio then an even worse situation in Houston. Back then, the ONLY thing I found that would work were Raid Fumigator's -- NOT the foggers. Foggers are a damp mist, and therefore are limited in where they can get. Fumigators are a dry smoke, so it gets into every nook and cranny.

I'd set off a fumigator while at work, then come back and vacuum everything thoroughly. In Houston, the problem was so bad that I'd be up at nights with the vacuum hose and both extensions getting them as they came back from other apartments in that building, usually crawling on the vaulted ceiling!

At first there was a little bit of negative feedback from the other folks in that building, and they told me how building maintenance would spray regularly. So, I asked them a simple, straight-forward question......."[i:7d5793fdf4]Has that worked?[/i:7d5793fdf4]" I then explained about the fumigators and how I had declared all-out war on the little buggers. I could clear them from my apartment, but if they could seek shelter in other apartments then the problem would never go away. Word got around and eventually everyone else was using the fumigators. Within a month, that building was roach-free!

Yes, you have to remove their food source. Problem is, as that is their home, IF they can get food outside the building, they will still seek shelter in the same building. You have to attack them mercilessly! Roaches have been able to survive pretty much every nasty that mankind has been able to dream up, so when you find something that works, use it!

When we had to go to Mom & Dad's place in Arkansas, had a few roaches there. Found out that it has gotten somewhat difficult to find the Raid Fumigators. Might have to look online, but I know of nothing else that works as well. Just have to allow several hours for the fumigated area to remain closed-up and vacant. Turn off ALL pilot lights, and even turn off the electricity if that is an option....just in case. Over time I'd get impatient and began to use double the recommended amount, so I took all ignition sources out of the equation.

Once back inside, need to air out the affected area for several hours, wash all the counters and all exposed dishes. Would be easier to wrap [clean] dishes in garbage bags. Keep the trash cleared. NO open food containers, including soda cans....even if they're empty! They still have sugary remains inside.

If possible, very soon after the completed treatment time, also try to spray an outdoor-rated bug barrier around perimeter of building. There's also granules that can be broadcast into your lawn. Not sure how well all that stuff works as I never needed more than the fumigators, but then I was young, needed little sleep and could be on the attack vigilantly.

Good luck!

There are powder roach killers that are basically boric acid. You put them down anywhere the roaches are likely to go. The roaches will pick up the powder and take it back to roach headquarters, where it slowly kills them and their fellow roachs by the bug equivalent of black lung disease.

Boric acid is of course non-toxic to humans and pets, and it lasts pretty much forever.

(quoted from post at 02:31:09 10/03/19) There are powder roach killers that are basically boric acid. You put them down anywhere the roaches are likely to go. The roaches will pick up the powder and take it back to roach headquarters, where it slowly kills them and their fellow roachs by the bug equivalent of black lung disease.

Boric acid is of course non-toxic to humans and pets, and it lasts pretty much forever.

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Have heard about this but never tried it. If you use this method, please post your results.

Was curious about whether one could substitute Borax for Boric Acid. So...did a web search:
https://www.boricacid.net.au/six-reasons-why-boric-acid-is-better-than-borax/
Quite a lot of information on this page. I had no idea that Boric Acid was made from Borax. Always figured it was the other way around. :shock:

My old Dad brought home some canvas from work once when I was just a kid . He didnt realise that it was infested with roaches and they lived there for years multiplying all the while.
I got rid of them by burning about a quarter of a pound of sulphur in an iron pot sitting on bricks . Shutting all the doors and windows kept the vapours in and killed the lot . They crawled out from every conceivable crack gasping for air then died so they were easy to clean up . I needed to repeat it a month later . Never saw another after that .

Anybody here remember when Paul Harvey would always advertise "Roach-Prufe"? Heck, he wanted you to put it inside the walls when the house was being built.

Roach Prufe was just fancy boric acid. I think they are out of business as I couldn't find it available anywhere online when I ran out. I have been putting it it in the walls as I remodel and even the pest control people I use think its a good idea. Amazon has other brands of boric acid powder available for use in this manner.

Every once in a while an adult gets in and sometimes they are found already dead so something is working.

Wood roaches (the big brown ones) are much easier to control than the german ones.

For the hoarder house we bought to fix and turn into a rental, it took 3 treatments of some semi-professional chemicals to get the german roach infestation under control. There was a liquid bait station, a paste, and spray insecticide with an additional hormone blocker as part of a kit the pest control company sold. Not only do you have to kill the adults, but you also need to stop the nymphs from maturing and wait for all the other generations to hatch and get poisoned too.

3X powdered Boric acid. It is very easy to get. A customer had roaches, and the maintenance man was dusting warm dark places with the powder. They track it back into all of their hide-outs and it kills the whole colony very easily.

There was a senior citizen flea bag apartment building here that was infested with roaches. One of the tenants found out about a species of lizard that was really good at getting them. Soon everyone had bought a lizard, and were putting rolled up towels on the inside of their doors so their lizard didn't escape and go to another apartment.

And yes, that is a true story.

I tried that when I had a problem and it did nothing at all to them but the Raid Roach gel did the trick

(quoted from post at 01:10:34 10/03/19)Raid Fumigator's -- NOT the foggers. Foggers are a damp mist, and therefore are limited in where they can get. Fumigators are a dry smoke, so it gets into every nook and cranny.

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've been looking for the Fumigator but couldn't remember the exact name. Thanks for your post.

I've read a roach can live a year on the glue from a postage stamp. They also eat hair and some glues. It's not always because of a messy location with food laying around. We had a kid that would spend weekends with our sons. He lived in a home that was infested and shared the roaches with us. The only thing that got rid of the was the Raid Fumigator. We bagged our dishes, silverware, and boxed food stuff. You can't have any pets exposed.
It's several hours before you can re-enter the structure, but it does work.

Not necessarily true, my Mom was an OCD housekeeper in
Phoenix and roaches would come in through the sewer. Up
through sinks, showers and bathtubs. Even see them in the
toilet bowl, flush them down when we could.

While station in Pensacola, FL me and a buddy rented a small two bedroom place and we would have these things called Palmetto bugs? Anyone savvy to the creature, largest roach looking thing I?ve ever seen and they fly. Nothing like getting up in the middle of the night to the sound of those wings.

It says here that the Palmetto Bug is just another name for the American cockroach.
https://www.healthyandnaturalworld.com/palmetto-bug/
Also said that they grow up to 2 inches long. I can vouch for that! Saw plenty of them while stationed at Lackland AFB. All these years later, can't remember the building I was in but I sure can remember all them HUGE roaches!!

i agree with old, use the raid roach gel. comes in a big hypodermic looking applicator.apply an inch or so randomly in all the dark spots...under sink, cabinets ect. also use some boric acid roach powder and apply under the fridge and water heater. also any cracks and crevases. re apply everyfew months. lot of roaches come from grocery stores. cardboard soda cases, beer cases ect.

You can cut sections out of mouse glue traps and put a piece of bread or some other bait in the middle.

If you can get Bengal Roach Spray, try it. I have had very good results with it and it kills spiders too.

Mix boraic acid powder with peanut butter. Roaches like it warm, above refrigerator. So spread peanut butter mix inside cabinets at the top.

If you want to spend a pantload, you can buy peanut butter mix.

Get rid of tenants. Roaches are brought in by tenants and unclean house keeping pratices like putting trash outside. Sometimes poor tenants are given sofa, bed or clothes with roaches.

Sprays may kill roaches, but it doesn't kill their eggs.

I'm told the only thing harder to get rid of are bed bugs.

Glue traps work too. Wage war, throw everything you can at roaches.

I have raid fumigators ordered. Found boric acid in the store and have sticky traps and roach bait traps out. Time will tell. Thanks for all the responses.