Ewww. I just found a cockroach on the inside of my apartment's window screen, and after setting out a jar of cockroach bait (with sugar and baking soda in it) promptly shut the window, trapping it. Now I'm freaked out, though! How long will it live after eating the bait? I keep a VERY clean apartment, so I have no idea where it came from?! I'm going to call my landlord to have the apartment sprayed, but it could take a few days to get a bug sprayer scheduled. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
2007-09-08 19:31:18 · 7 answers · asked by erinaquarius 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY)
Oh, I would get a vacuum and vacuum that sucker right up. I have three vacuums and surely one of them would be the right tool for the job.
Don't give it time to lay eggs or something nasty like that.
2007-09-08 21:48:32 · answer #1 · answered by orderly logic 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Even without a head; two weeks alive isn't uncommon.
Open the window a bit and spray, even some cleaning agent on it. Clorox clean up works fine for me.
They were here long before us, and will likely outlast us,,,sigh.
I mean no offense; but see so many Q's about baiting and killing pests. The more appropriate approach is NO FOOD product at all. "Boric Acid" works well enough on it's own, but is also toxic to Humans and animals.
Anything that BAITS a pest, leaves residue, even microscopic; that other insects will hone in on. Many insects, are Obvious carnivores/cannibals, as well as opportunists. Test this by leaving a dead anything out somewhere. If nothing else feeds on it; ANTS certainly will.
Steven Wolf
2007-09-09 07:22:34 · answer #2 · answered by DIY Doc 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Cockroaches will live for a very long time. I would capture it in a jar and either let it go outside of just leave it in the jar until it no longer twitches when you shake the jar. Good thought on getting the place sprayed, where there is one, there is likely to be more, inside the walls most likely.
2007-09-09 02:40:05 · answer #3 · answered by S0rcy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm not sure the baking soda will kill it and i know for sure the sugar won't have u considered buying some roach spray? I know for a fact that boric acid (purchase at family dollar store) will kill them some people mix it with sugar to draw the bugs to it and the boric acid sticks to their feet and body and when they crawl back into the walls where they breed, it will kill all of them, and usually in apartments even if you are clean roachs can travel from one apartment to another, so you might can talk neighbors into using some too,, i hate roachs and i know for a fact the boric acid works, you can put it around your baseboards and in the corners of your cabinets and will kill them good luck
2007-09-09 02:48:51 · answer #4 · answered by COUNTRY GIRL 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They don't die that easy, they've been around evolving for fifty million years. One of the oldest living insects.
It probably has already escaped under the sill, they can get through a place you can't get a piece of paper through.
By the way, they can go months without eating. It will out wait you.
Boric acid doesn't "kill" roaches, it burns their feet where their hearing organs are and, they avoid it. Get something from the store that's proven to "kill" them.
2007-09-09 06:22:02 · answer #5 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That cockroach can live for weeks on the dust and lint in the window cracks.
2007-09-09 02:39:17 · answer #6 · answered by alwaysmoose 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Immediately after you squish it! Ewww lol
2007-09-09 02:40:49 · answer #7 · answered by Justa Angel 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋