Move out here. We've been here almost 12 years and I have not seen one yet.
When we lived in Houston apartments prior to buying a house, there were food roaches everywhere. It only took one dirty apartment in the building for everyone to have them. (what we called "food" roaches are smaller and lighter brown than the cockroaches we had in St Louis). They weren't a big problem in our house though.
My dorm room in college was on the 17th floor of an 18 story building. The caf was on 18, we were absolutely infested with them. I caught so many in the motels that they would fill up to the point where they would just walk over the roaches stuck to the bottom.
I discovered the problem when I moved a pile of laundry in the closet that hadn't been moved for weeks. Looked like the carpet was alive.
Molly wrote:Get a cat and watch it pounce & bat the little bastards all over the place. Of course then you have the dead roach bodies laying on their back
Oh yeah, cats are the best insect prevention ever. AD, now that you have a dog you need to get a cat. Does anyone else in MO see those silverfish nasty bugs? I haven't seen them in other places I've lived.
Molly wrote:Get a cat and watch it pounce & bat the little bastards all over the place. Of course then you have the dead roach bodies laying on their back
Oh yeah, cats are the best insect prevention ever. AD, now that you have a dog you need to get a cat. Does anyone else in MO see those silverfish nasty bugs? I haven't seen them in other places I've lived.
What are those?
We get a ton of these things:
They don't hurt, but they do grab on with those pincher as my wife will tell you.
we get silverfish here, but thankfully no roaches...
and yes, cats are great bug killers...my mother was telling me a story about oru cat that in the middle of the night she saw him jumping around and he ended up killing a fly that she couldn't get
heres how to get rid of roaches:
[ Bug-Off Spokesman walks into dark kitchen and turns on the lights - a group of roaches quickly scatter away ]
Spokesman: Roaches. Eliminating them from your home should be safe, as well as effective. Most products on the market today use strong poisons to seize a roach's central nervous system, paralyze him, and eventually kill them. Can't we do better than that? Now you can, with new Bug-Off.
Roaches are attracted to Bug-Off by a chemical message that says, "Come on in, it's warm and safe in here." Once inside, the roach is held fast by a powerful adhesive, while three pairs of tiny tweezers grab the roach's legs and strech them in opposite directions until, eventually, they snap off. Meanwhile, a red-hot metal coil burns off the roach's reproductive organs, as the roach's own legs are used to beat him senseless. And, with the patented clear-view window, you can be sure it's working. Finally, wads of turpentine silk cotton are stuffed into the roach's orifices, while a tasty piece of food dangles just out of his reach.
True, none of this will actually kill the roach.. but it will give him plenty to think about. So stop coddling your roaches. They've had it too good for too long. Give them what they deserve, with Bug-Off.
