cock roaches?

Question

Someone gave my sister some brandnew baby clothes, but the thing is they might have cockroach eggs on them. right now we have them outside tied up in a bag. What do we do to them to make the roach eggs die if there is any? They survive nuclear blasts so I wasnt sure if there was much I could do.

Answer 1

Bleach should do the trick but do you really want to take the chance?

Also... Only hatched roaches have the hard outer shell that will prevent radiation from getting to them in a nuclear winter.

They are the meek that shall inherit the earth...

Answer 2

Find the nest, here is my story:

(Do not bring those clothes into your house !)

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

Wash them if you are worried. They won't survive a washing machine. Why would they have cockroach eggs on them anyway - particularly if they are brand new? Does your sister's friend normally put cockroach eggs on presents?

Brand new clothes are not places you are likely to find adult cockroaches as there is nothing of interest for them. If the adults won't go there, they won't lay eggs.

Answer 4

hard situation. research at bing and yahoo. it could help!

Answer 5

bleach try bleach if that dont work or they are not white then try soaking them in amonia and water then wash all bacteria and bugs should be gone

Answer 6

You can clean the clothes.