i have been seeing a few of these guys in my apartment. im not sure if they are the "bad" type of roach. the ones i have seen are the light brown color and at least an inch long. they are almost impossible to kill. they are fast as hell.
its not like there are a bunch of them crawling around. i see maybe one per week or so. the complex grounds people spray weekly outside, though my front door isnt exactly air tight
my lady makes sure the place is really clean, so i dont think thats the issue.
what can i do to kill these guys without harming my cats? will traps work? the ones i see are pretty large. i dont even know if they will fit in them lol
its not an infestation or anything, but i just dont want to see them. any ideas? im sure a lot of floridians have have had to deal with this
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Has it been raining in your area? That stirs em up and send em indoors. Also if you are in an apartment or townhome it a neighbor sprays they will head elsewhere. Kill them by letting some geckos into the house. And the traps are effective too. -
lol. they are definitely big enough to fry up. christ! these things are bigger than the geckos lol
yeah, its been raining a lot over the past few daysopfinistic likes this. -
Geckos tend to be cat toys, and may not be big enough to take on inch long roaches. Id try some kind of trap personally, maybe an enclosed one so the cats get to the dangerous stuff inside.
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I know a guy who knows a guy who uses safe poisons when he sprays my house for roaches. Might want to call around and see what you can find.
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then the roaches end up under a couch or something and its overPaul 13 likes this. -
combat makes gel type of stuff that comes in a tube much like and is applied the same way as caulk.i run it along the back of my kitchen/bathroom counters in a little bead(i don't smooth it like caulk though)and i believe it is safe for cats but it should say on the box it comes in. our house in the sticks gets those tree roaches sometimes specially after a few good days of rain and this stuff really works(for me anyway).you can get this at any decent food chain/hardware store
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i couldnt find the gel stuff. i got raid max bug barrier spray. the thing has a little battery powered auto sprayer pretty neat!
i went all over the house with it. it also kills on contact. it says safe for pets once it dries.
got some traps too. not sure if they will work
got one of the guys last night
i found 2 tonight in our outside screened-in patio. one came up from the spaces in the wood decking from the unit below us. i think that how they are getting in....from the people downstairs. sucks -
living in southern louisiana when me and my boss build screened in porches we screen the bottom of the deck aswell to keep the mosquitos/insects from coming up under the ground.would imagine it would work for roaches in your situation but the owner of the complex would have to agree and it's a little more work than just spraying for the roaches.whlie it helps greatly with most insects and bugs my grandpaw used to say that theres 2 kinds of mosquito's in louisiana..those small enough to go through screen doors and those big enough to open them.
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well i opened up the patio today and found 5 of the buggers upturned and dead
all i did was spray the perimeter of my sliding door with the raid bug barrier stuff. works great. gonna put a couple of traps out there too.
my cats were some help though. they spotted and pointed out the one i killed out there last night lol.Boik14 likes this. -
To make your house roach-proof, spray your yard and spray around the entire frames of windows and doors. Don't puss out, either - go for malathion or diazinon or some of the more modern formulations. Stay away from anything "natural" or "green," that **** doesn't work.
Then spray inside with an odorless pesticide. After they're gone apply boric acid (powder) along the insides of all cabinet corners and anywhere else you can. That'll kill any that penetrate the defense perimeter.
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Keep an iguana or two as pets.
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FYI you can get roaches through the electric outlets if there is someone with an unhealthy living space in your complex near-bye.
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i was still seeing a couple of them even after i sprayed the home defense stuff. so i bought the combat gel.
i laid a bunch of strips all along the house where they may go and places they might be coming in. electrical outlet was a good idea. i put a strip near my washer/dryer hookup because its probably easy to get in that way. come to find out a few units are having similar problems. kind of odd because my complex is a pretty nice place, def. not a dump
next time i hit target ill probably pick up some borax. i read online that it has to do with dehydrating them, they presumably go back to their nest, die, get eat by other roaches and the cycle continues. hopefully the gel stuff is working like that too
nabo, did you mix the borax into a paste or leave it as a powder? i have read some people make a paste so it is more appealing. supposed to be very safe for pets too
anyway, its been about 5 days and i havent seen one. i guess its a pretty common thing. i just never had to deal with it before