HELP!! just moved to Florida and I have found some roaches how do I get rid of them?

Question

They spray once a month but I would like to do more

Answer 1

try to use sprays or if it doesn't work get a pro to spray the whole house. Unless you want to move that is all you can do at this point.

Answer 2

Powdered Boric Acid, sold many places, often a white plastic bottle, with a red nozzle top for squeezing.

Keep animals and kids away, and wash anything, that may come in direct contact, everytime you use that thing.

I've lived in FL since 1972 and Roaches/Palmetto Bugs, are a part of life here, as well as Geckos, etc, Oh yeah Love Bugs too, seasonally.

I happen to have a cat "Hunter" whos favorite activity is hunting bugs, and now I no longer use pesticides.

The issue is far greater than "Getting Rid" of them. Control is possible, erradication is a dream. They were here eons before us, survive everything thrown at them through evolution, and will remain here long after we're no longer a species.

Keeping a clean place should be something you do by choice and habit but it won't keep all of the critters away. They enjoy, dark, often warm, nesting sites, resting/hiding places, and one sustaining factor is that they can ingest, or rather process cellulose from books, newspapers, your old saved love letters, etc.

They can "live" for a time, even without a head. They can drown, and even hot tap water will kill them if you find then in your sink browsing dishes left unwashed,,, although they cruise cabinets full of "clean" dishes as well. Their exoskeleton protects them from many hits, unless it's one directly delivered by smashing aggressively, and by the time you see one, they already have "babies" well on the way.

Good luck, and consider it a compromise for living in a state that sometimes offers mid 70's temps in winter.

Steven Wolf

Answer 3

this may be something you need to learn more about but if you do enough research on teh internet you will see what i mean..i too had roaches..there is a gel you can use that is very effective but only exterminators are allowed to use them for some reason..so you can buy this gel online i believe its called maxforce gel or something and one roach will eat the gel for food and it will kill forty other roaches because the roaches will eat this dead roach and so on and it killed the roaches in my place with in a few days..i didnt have a bad infestation though..so if you can purchase this gel i highly recommend it. Also cleanliness isnt going to help..i had german roaches and i had all my food in the fridge only and sealed up and i bleached the crap out of my house every single day and vacumed like crazy but nothing got rid of them they can live on practically nothing, so if you have roaches you need a powerful chemical that will kill them cleanliness did nothing for me.

Answer 4

I like "COMBAT" roach bait traps. Use them for about a month. The roaches take the bait & just die off.

Answer 5

Boric acid, it is very effective when used properly for killing cockroaches and most other insects. You can also get a house lizard, they are natural enemies and will eat them. More information at http://tinyurl.com/ofxkk

Answer 6

use a bug spray spray every room in your house get like three bug sparys

Answer 7

Move from florida! They are everywhere in the south!

Answer 8

wecome to florida,thats something you cant get rid of.you can thin them out but there here to stay.been here for thousands of years so your not going to see them disapear completely..

Answer 9

try Borax soap in the powdered form. sprinkle it around the walls, behind furniture, etc.