2006-08-28 19:00:29 · 12 answers · asked by rs b 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Tough call. If you cut the head off, they die about 8 days later from starvation/thirst.
2006-08-28 19:04:20 · answer #1 · answered by Scottie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Keep food items closed and unavailable. Keep pet foods in sealed containers. If you have a problem, clean your shoes before you return home each day. You can walk through your house and pick up roach eggs and walk right back in with them after the workday or wherever you must go during the day. Vacuum regularly to get crumbs up that could become roach food. And then spray roach killer in the vacuum tube (most new vacs have the tube feature). If not spray it up through the vacuum rollers. Buy traps and put them around the toilet basin, on the patio if you have one, under the bathroom sink, in the food pantry even IF everything is sealed just in case, by the entrance to the front door and all entrances until these creatures get the hint. At night, take spary and guard the parameter. Open the front door and spray a line right in front of the door. If they cross, they die. Spray the patio parameter if you have one. Put a trap behind or under the fridge and put two against the bottom of the stove. This may sound insane, but in our city EVERYONE has roaches and I am Mrs. Clean. But somehow we got them when the neighbors moved or it was because of the landscapers. Also, we got a new dryer and the deliveryman goes to how many places in a day? So, who knows? But I employed these precautions and have been roach free (thank God) for well over a year. I am not as heavy on the traps anymore or my vacuum but I do my little parameter spray just in case. Good luck. They are certainly versatile and adaptible. Beware of buying used items in a cockroach area. They will lay eggs in VCR's, stoves and if you go somewhere and there is a roach infestation, I'd recommend spraying the bottom of your shoes when you return home to prevent any egg "pickup" during the visit. Again, Good luck! Also, buy the non-toxic spray and if you are desperate buy bombs for each room and leave for the day. If it's that bad, bomb under the house too or give a call to pest control. I've done the under the house and every room thing and gone to a hotel for the weekend because a full blown pest control in out area was more than what we did!
2006-08-28 19:34:41 · answer #2 · answered by Aria 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are a very common pest where I live and one of the best ways I have found for preventing them from coming into your home, (as you have been given many ideas on how to kill them) sounds weird, but it works.
Simply pour a little petrol down all your plug-holes, in all the sinks, the bath, the shower. It smells horrible for a couple of hours but stops them from coming up from the sewers.
If you do this once a month you won't get an infestation, oh - and don't smoke whilst applying the petrol!!!
2006-08-28 20:48:59 · answer #3 · answered by sarah b 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boric Acid works well. Sprinkle under sinks, in cracks, behind the stoves etc. Buy boric acid, direct from a pharmacy. Then you won't be paying for marketing and packaging. IF you have animals or small children do not use this. Instead, use Bay (Laurel) leaf. Find it in the spice isle. It won't kill them, but it acts as a repellant.
And most important, keep everything as clean and dry as possible.
2006-08-28 19:17:03 · answer #4 · answered by Deb 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Call some Pest control companies for total pest management. They will fumigate the entire house with gel, chemical substances & the house will remain free from pests for 4-5 months minimum
2006-08-28 20:32:09 · answer #5 · answered by Joe G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we had just moved into a house in southern Georgia when I decided to make a jello pudding, I got out my hand mixer and when I turned it on little specs fell into the mix, I took the cover off the mixer and it was full of little roaches, we got to looking around
opened some cabinets and saw roaches! went to store and got some of those roach bombs, set them off and all of a sudden roaches came out of everywhere, every cabinet, every nook and cranny, crawling across the ceilings, it was like a Hitchcock movie. the house must have been infested when we moved in, i think we bombed 3 times before we got them all, what an ordeal!
2006-08-28 20:39:21 · answer #6 · answered by Loollea 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
product called "roach pruf", it's a powder you spread around the area. it's made of boric acid.
newspaper works well for big roaches.
don't waste time on roach traps.
cleanliness is the best prevention.
2006-08-28 19:04:17 · answer #7 · answered by ♪ ♫ ☮ NYbron ☮ ♪ ♫ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the best way to kill acockroaches is to step on it
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2006-08-28 19:23:21 · answer #8 · answered by my chemical romance gurl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Crunch.
2006-08-28 22:39:43 · answer #9 · answered by Sleep deprived 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stomp on them, lysol, then burn. Afterwards pick up the remains with a tissue
2006-08-28 19:04:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋