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Anonymous asked in Home & GardenGarden & Landscape · 4 weeks ago

How to get rid of roaches?

I've been trying alot of solutions trying to get rid of roaches. I've used roach glue trap, boric acid, general source point, roach spray, lavender oil essentials, called pest control, roach gel even home made diy can trap with bait. I still seeing them multiply by the minute. I don't know what to do at this point. I feel like I need to get rid of my furniture's and electronics to get rid of them.

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  • 2 weeks ago

    People used Boric Acid powder to kill them.

    Diatomaceous Earth powder can help kill them too.Roaches LOVE warm, dark, and wet places. Like under and in the rear back of your refrigerator.One roach can live 2 weeks on one grain of sugar.Combat Gel works pretty darned well, IF you know how to place it.Dime sized drops in every dark corner under the kitchen sink and under/in the rear back of the refrigerator. Bottom outside in the back of your cook stove too. They LOVE cardboard boxes!Any dark place, corner, crack will be a home for them.Relatively speaking, roaches are EASY to get rid of compared to bed bugs.Roaches can cause damage to electronics. If possible, you may want to have them professionally disassembled and checked/cleaned.Furniture is not a big problem. Eventually all of them will die if you use the Combat Gel.Did the roaches mysteriously appear in large numbers?If so, do you live in an apartment where your neighbor bug bombed?Did you bring in anything used?Like furniture? Boxes? Something they can hide in?A buddy had roaches so bad, we had a roach swatting party every night for weeks.

    Turn off the lights, wait about 15 min, turn lights back on and everyone took fly swatters and swatted them.

    It helped but the gel is what really got rid of them.

  • 4 weeks ago

    Roaches are pests for one reason:  because they are so  hard to get rid of. 

    Find the nests. Lock up your food in roach-proof containers. Leave NOTHING out at night. Clean your kitchen or other areas thoroughly. Look in places you wouldn't normally think of--behind pictures on the wall, under your sink (you will probably have to lift up the boards there) and inside anything they can crawl into--you have to be 100% thorough. You said you called pest control--but I'm betting you haven't really done that--because pest control companies know where to look and what to do. It takes a lot of effort to get rid of them. 

  • 4 weeks ago

    You have to clean everything plus use insecticides. I do recommend getting rid of anything older that you can’t clean thoroughly. Older dirty items might not be worth keeping anyway. Obviously, the additional comments about nearby neighbors is applicable. 

    Don’t expect to be able to clean everything spotless in one day, unless you have a professional crew or something. I have this great app called Tody that has a pre-programmed list of cleaning tasks for each room and frequencies, plus you can add your own without limits. It organizes tasks by the most urgent ones, so you can do whatever you can whenever you can, and it’s always the most efficient thing. 

    Roaches are so good at hiding their nests, and they will keep moving them (or rebuilding) as long as the scent trails and location are still hospitable. This is why thorough cleaning and sanitizing is so important. But, it takes some investigative skills sometimes, too. I once had a roach infestation out of nowhere in my kitchen and cleaned all of the cabinets, finding nothing. Then, I noticed there were droppings near my blender (gross!). I flipped the blender over and noticed the design of it allowed the pests to go inside the base with lots of room inside. I had to use a screwdriver to take it apart and found dozens inside. Even after cleaning it, still more kept appearing from every crack and crevice of the electronics. But, I did expel them permanently, reassembled the blender, and it still works. But it can be a constant battle. 

    We once had a bird cage that we kept in the screened in porch (in Florida) that became infested. We found that they had nested in a wheel of the cage, which had a cover with a large interior. There was no way to reach them or clean inside the wheel, so we detached it from the cage and submerged it in bleach water. Even after being underwater for several minutes, they continued to float out. It was unbelievable. So, I can totally understand how insidious they can be. FYI, we did end up getting a new bird cage, because that one was just too old to clean well, and the design was terrible. 

    It should go without saying that you should be able to identify their droppings, trails, egg pods, and larva (which are often attached to walls). These can be indicators of where they’re hiding. The trails and droppings, as well as the pods, bugs, and larva themselves are all what need to be cleaned. But, the trails are very important, because it’s how they move about and become so successful at multiplying. 

    Overall, I would focus less on poison and more on cleaning and locating nests. But, bombing can help thin them out to get started. 

  • Jesus
    Lv 5
    4 weeks ago

    There's a bait that you can purchase that contains abermectrin. Roaches are copapagic that means they eat each other's dead bodies this stuff is unbelievably effective.

    It takes about a month of using this bait but once you have put this bait all over your roach population will die out

  • 4 weeks ago

    If you live in an apartment on a multi family house, then the WHOLE building needs to he fumigated at the expense of your landlord. Because there is no way to just treat one unit to evacuate the roaches from the entire building.

    If you live in a single family home, then you need to :

    1.) Make sure All of your food, even unopened boxes are placed in air tight containers. Place all food boxes outside in the trash, as well as ALL paper bags. The dollar store has lidded containers.

    2.) ALWAYS: Clean up each time you use your kitchen and don't leave any food anywhere...not in the sink, no food crumbles on the floor, the counter, the table or the chairs.

    3.) Call an exterminator who has a guarantee.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 weeks ago

    if u can;t get rid of them u need to get an exterminator in. For every cockroach u see there are 20 more.

  • 4 weeks ago

    Mice.  They will eat the roaches.  They are also easier to catch and eliminate once the roaches are gone.

    If you live in  an apartment or town house the only way to get rid of them is to move.  even then, you have to put your stuff in a storage place and roach bomb it several times over a month to get rid of them.

    One year I stored stuff in an unheated garage from December thru March to get rid of them.

  • Pearl
    Lv 7
    4 weeks ago

    just get a pest control guy to come over and get rid of them

  • Anonymous
    4 weeks ago

    You have to have a clean house about 300 feet away from any other source with an army of ants in between.  You cannot eliminate roaches as long as there are other sources within traveling distance.  You can create a brief interval of time before they will reappear.  Of which insecticide sprays are the most effective way of doing that.  The volume of spray required is more than what most homeowners would apply, so that is why there are pest control applicators.

  • Nigel
    Lv 5
    4 weeks ago

    buy about 10 bull frogs let them loose in the house for a bit sure they will keep the roaches out for sure!

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