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My girlfriend suddenly sprung up in the middle of the night and gasped. She said she felt something on her, and I mocked her, because it was probably one of those black pill bugs (one of which found its way into my ear). They had lessened since spraying Raid all over the place, and I told her to get over it and lay back down.

Not but a minute had passed that I felt something on my arm. This time, I jolted into the air, and a nice, huge black cockroach landed on my bed. He seemed like he was dying, as he slowly tried to crawl away.

Now, GAF, we've had a big of a problem recently with these assholes this past month. I live right by a goddamn dumpster, and my neighbors are less than clean. And I had been meaning to board up this hole in our wall beside our bed for the longest, but I'm a lazy fellow.

Well, today, I'm lazy no longer. I killed that mother fucker, and I'm about to seal up this crack. I can't even think about going back to bed.

I want to bugbomb the shit outta my place, but my pup lives here, so we've just used Raid and kept him outside and away from sprayed areas. Generally we find some of them crawling around on death's door, often enough that it's disgusting but not often enough that it's every day.

Anyway, this is disjointed, restless rant. Fuck cockroaches. Tips for people with pets are appreciated, even the age ol' "burn it down" could work here too.
 
If there's one in your bed that means there are 10,000 in your home.
 
use boric acid bait
mix the boric acid powder with something sweet like honey and place it appropriately
do not mix too much borax in the mixture.
 
If you can't bug bomb: Buy a pack of those super heavy duty glue pads that they use for scorpions and mice. Put them all around the floor near the wall.

Took care of a nasty centipede infestation I had. When I moved in, I would say 2-3 of those things every night. Now, I never see them anymore. My cat got herself stuck to them once and lost some fur, but she learned her lesson and avoided them afterwards.
 
I have a dog, so anything that requires leaving it out is kind of out of the question.

I say "kind of", as there are some spots he absolutely won't go, but they aren't the source I think.
 
SMattera said:
If you can't bug bomb: Buy a pack of those super heavy duty glue pads that they use for scorpions and mice. Put them all around the floor near the wall.
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I can vouch for this approach

When my family lived in Hawaii our home was fortified with those fucking things
 
Had a roach problem last year. Indoxacarb was the only poison that seemed to work. Get the gel and run it along cabinet doors, your door and window, in that hole in your wall. Take your light switch plates off and run it inside. They are probably in the walls, so you can put it where they are without your dog getting to it.

Once I put that stuff everywhere I hardly see any roaches.
 
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Welcome to hell OP.

I can honestly say that my short time at a flat with roaches was one of the most disgusting things I've ever experienced. If you live in an apartment, chances are you will never see the end of them. Even if you do all the precautions and eradicate them from your flat, they will just relocate to other flats and come back later...

Gel, traps, vacuum pack all of your food and keep them in your fridge/freezer, pray to all gods you can name and possibly you can get rid of them if you happen to live in a house and not an apartment. The odds are against you.
 
I'm surprised nobody has raised the possibility that TheSpoiler was overwhelmed by the roaches and they are now masquerading as him on the internet
 
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I wish we had big nasty insects here. All I ever get is ants.
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No you don't. Woke up one night with a huge (whatever, probably only like 5", but that is huge in my book) centipede crawling on my. Not a venomous one, but still having the fuckers spiky legs waking you up is horrific.

And cockroaches are horrible too. Get everywhere and you can't ever seem to find them to kill them, they just keep coming in. Remember when I was a kid taking my friends NES apart because it wasn't working and probably 50 cockroaches scattered out of there when we opened it. Fuck them.
 
takriel said:
You've got a hole in your wall? That leads outside or what?
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Nah, just open dry wall.

And to be clear, these aren't the little small brown ones. These are the big ones that come from outside. I can't send my dog to chill out at someone else's house because my friend's apartments don't allow dogs (and it's very difficult to sneak a 120 pound dog by).

I'll try that Raid thing with the dots. If I can leave it in an area he can't get to, it should be alright.
 
I lived with roaches for two years. Got used to them after a while.

If your bed is elevated put something like Vaseline around each foot so they won't advance. Roaches leave trails for others to follow wherever they go so if you got one in your bed others could follow.

Mix equal parts of boric acid, flour, and honey into a little paste and put it under your kitchen and bathroom sinks, on top of door and closet frames, in little cracks, basically anywhere they could get in. Just make sure it's out of reach of your dog.

It took about three weeks but after I made that mixture I barely ever saw them again. I just wish I'd known about it sooner.
 
You need to move to a better place.

But if that's not possible, be sure to vacuum regularly and keep your place pristine. Roaches are likely already everywhere but you don't want to be inhaling their feces
 
Have it on my place every 4-5 years. They slowly come back from the street during summers. Can't really avoid it, just delay it as much as possible by keeping the place clean and not leaving food out. When it gets to the point where I see 2 or more in one week, I just bugbomb every corner of my house with something similar to Raid and they all turn up dead the next morning. One room a day.
 
I'll ask this here since I don't think it merits a thread of its own: I've never had a cockroach problem at my apartment, but I do pass by several in my neighborhood if I take a walk anywhere at night (probably about 12 per mile on average). Is there anything that could be done on a community level, or even just on my own, to dwindle the population? I get paranoid that a colony will set up shop in my apartment eventually (I'm on the first floor all of 20 feet from the sidewalk) and it just generally makes walking around unpleasant.


They're American Cockroaches too so they're big and fast and objectively the grossest kind.
 
The big ones are easy to see, easy to kill. It,s the baby ones that infect my kitchen that are the worst. The hide in the tiniest of cracks and no matter how many the trap catches there's always more. The literally come out of the god damn walls man!

(Wanna see a pic of the somewhat full trap I have GAF?)
 
You woke up with a bug in your ear!!!!!

Burn the mattress
Burn the bed
Burn the room
Burn the house
Burn everything and move on. If you cant burn yourself
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In your ear, I will have nightmares about this now
 
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