Roaches, again! HELP!!!!!?

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We live in military housing.  We moved last month from a house that was absolutely infested.  I don't keep a dirty home, and they weren't normally in places where there was food, anyhow.  We went through 2 bathroom scales, because they nested in them (in the morning, the LCD screen was so full of them, you'd have to kick it and make them run before you would even weigh yourself), and one counter top radio (when you opened the CD player, you'd have to wait for them to run).  When I moved my 55 gallon fish tank, they had nested where all of the wires and motors (for the bubblers) were.  When I moved my computer, they were all up in the printer, and again, had nested where the wires were all tied up and stuffed behind the CPU.  It was seriously like something from a horror movie.

When we moved into the new home, I made sure to bomb first, as it had sat empty for a year, and when we brought in boxes, I seriously brought in one box at a time, and emptied it in the middle of the living room floor so we could squish anything that ran out.  I made a point of washing everything in my kitchen by hand before putting anything into the cabinets.....and yet those damn things are back!  First we started seeing little ones, and now they're bigger.  I assume we brought in eggs, but now what?  And at night, they're WAY worse.  They'll walk right up to you in the middle of the living room!
Not to mention, we live in SC, literally a couple blocks from a marsh area off the Ashley River, so we have wonderful Palmetto Bugs that also come in at night (for those lucky enough to not know, they're like GIANT cockroachs, seriously, about 2 inches long)

So, with all that.... now what?  I also have 3 kiddos' at home, the youngest are 1 and 2, and a dog.....so I really can't use anything that's just out where they can get to it.


HELP..... any suggestions???

Lar · Accepted Answer

get the roach bait gel that comes in the large syringe..Combat is one.  You can place it on your aquariums stand..in your printer etc. if you need to, probably find a place to put a bit in your bathroom scales if needed. You can place it about anywhere you may find them living out of the way of the kids/ pets.  The roaches will search it out to feed on it, they in turn return to the hiding places where they will excrete in which the baby roaches feed on, thus getting them too. Avoid spraying a bug spray that may contaminate the bait stopping the feeding.  I have taken care of homes and businesses that were probably many times worse than what you have ever seen with just by using the bait alone. You will start seeing results in 3-7 days and hopefully none in a couple of weeks.  If more show up they have just come from some un-baited spot...a new box that was brought in..from a work place etc.  Most of the homes I service on maintenance programs will $700k plus homes with housekeeping ranging from once a week to every day and even they now and then will have this roach get established, usually meaning they were brought in maybe from a store, maybe from the maids home.  For the large outdoor roach treating the exterior and entry points with a residual insecticide will help keep them out. These products will be of know issue to your kids or pets.  You will probably get suggestions of sprinkling boric acid / borax all over the place but these products are slower acting, way more toxic, much more messy and can actually push a roach problem too new parts of the home


for what it's worth, the egg capsule only contains up to 30 baby roaches, not hundreds

lindylou · Answer

The live ones left eggs on everything before you moved.  Each egg has 150-200 babies.  I've used sticky traps.  Changing them every week, placing the trap in the dumpster outside.  I left soapy water in my sinks-trapping the ones that come out at night.  You can use boric acid and sprinkle in the corners of counters (non toxic)  It will dry out the outer shell.  Even the cleanest homes have roaches.
They are known to even live on just newspaper for months.
You can bomb your home once a month to see if that will help.  Keep outer doors closed at night.  Sceens on windows.

Anonym · Answer

you have a major problem and i once had same problem i used boric acid  didnt worki used every bug spray didnt workthen i got an exterminator  to come out he had a seringe tube  i ask what it was he said food bait well he didnt put enough out an cost to much so i went to food lion low an behold i saw same  stuff he used call this number 1 800 426 6228 its combat platnum roach killing gel and no worries it dries brown kids cant see it good but you need to put out when kids a sleep that way they dont see it to eat or touch roaches  carry 7 diseases if you cant find it ill send you a tuberoaches are a mess they poop all over place get in all fixtures light switches  toasters  phones hope i helped

jean ann j · Answer

This is non toxic and roaches do not get immuned to it like they do to sprays and gels.
Boric acid powder, made to kill roaches, from places like Ace Hardware and Home Depot under the sinks and behind and in between things in the kitchen and under the sinks will kill them.

Under you scales  would be a good place.

They get the powder on their legs and carry it to their nests. And into the walls, if they are there.
This dries them out and kills them.  

Boric acid tablets, by the bug sprays, cheap, can be found in grocery stores and places like Home Depot.
This are good to put on shelves and hard to reach places.
The tablets have something in them that makes the roaches nibble on them.

Roaches, again! HELP!!!!!?

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