Ants and Roaches!?

Question

I heard peppermint oil works well on getting ants out. True?
Also, roaches in drawers, countertops. Anything that can be used beside pesticides, maybe natural? I know they'll scatter til the coast is clear and then come back.

Answer 1

A professional exterminator can select an appropriate course of treatment for your sitaution. (For things like if you have pets.)

I do a whole lot of stuff myself, but once in a while bugs can be hard to get rid of. My local guys takes care of it and it lasts for years. (None of that monthly visit business. You might need several monthly visits for roaches though, at the start.)

Answer 2

Find the nest, here is my story:

I kept a clean apartment but what started attracting roaches was when I moved my iguana out of a class cage into a wire cage about 6 feet tall. I began noticing roaches. The exterminator came out but I would not allow him to spray my pets room (seen no roaches there). The exterminator told me that he seen no roach nest but sprayed the apartment anyway. Later, I continued to see roaches and checked my pets room since that was the only room not sprayed. I found the roach nest in a small box next to my iguana's cage. They would leave the box and eat my iguana's droppings and return to the dark box. The nest was "ugly" with about 24 adult roaches, eggs and baby roaches.

3 months Later, I had roach problem again, checked my iguana's room and could not find roaches in there so I just sat and watched/waited. Seen a roach crawl from under my pets light stand. Took the stand into the bath tub and begin spraying it. Out came another 2 dozen of large roaches, babies and inside were eggs, again, leaving the light stand to enter the cage and eat the droppings and return to the base of the light stand.

I sprayed the room and now will invest in roach motels. Good luck.

P.S. If you have them, look for the nest !

Answer 3

RAID!!!! works real well.. but the only thing to get rid of roaches is to keep your kitchen clean,be carefull of boxes you may brng into your house ( the only time i ever had roaches in my house, my ex had found some milk crates he brought home..once we killed those roaches, never had a problem again) just clean your kitchen, behind the stove and fridge, lift up the part of your stove on top and clean!!! serious... if that doesnt work, thenyour neighbors are nasty you need tomove

Answer 4

Best to call Clarke Exterminators.

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.

Answer 6

Sorry, I know of nothing other than pesticides and squishing them.