Re: UUGGGHHH Cockroaches!

[Guest guest]

Those bait traps work really well, but change them religiously. Keep your sink

drains covered when not in use. Check around where all of the pipe conections

come into the wall. Are there gaps? If there are, buy some spray foam and

spray it around the pipes to seal them up. We have those really huge water

roaches due to the swimming pool. They don't get in your cabinets or anything,

but they're no fun to find in the dark. :-)

Dawn mom of 4, 7 and under, the youngest wcf

[Guest guest]

Roach Pruf (I think this is the correct spelling) is the only

product that works well enough to mention. It's a blue powder and

contains boric acid (the same stuff that's in borax laundry booster,

but in a finer powder.) The little buggers walk through it, it gets

on their hairy little legs, and they track it back to the nest,

where it kills them all.

You sprinkle it behind appliances, in cabinets, corners, under beds,

wherever they may crawl.

I use to live in Coastal Georgia (USA) and rented. I love the warm,

humid weather there, but so do the bugs!

Apartments are especially difficult to deal with, because if you

have neighbors who leave food lying about, roaches will be there and

travel right through the walls to visit you.

Make sure that when the exterminator comes to spray, he is hitting

the neighbors' apartments as well as yours, or it is just a waste of

good, toxic chemicals.

I have a cockroach anecdote. (Like who doesn't, right???)

We went on vacation down south last summer (my hubby, children ages

10, 8, and 5, and myself.) I am the only one who had spent any time

in the south, having lived in Southern GA from the age of 9 to 15,

and again for a few years as an adult. The others are Ohio born and

raised. I had given everyone a heads-up about certain southern

anomalies to be aware of - fireants, jellyfish, venomous snakes,

armadillos, fence lizards, and cockroaches.

Of course, the kids were on the lookout for these vacation

highlights from the start.

We were walking onto the fishing pier at Jeckyll Island, GA, when my

daugher spotted the highlight of our vacation. " Is that a

COCKROACH??? " she squealed. Poor thing was scurrying up the

concrete walkway to the pier (the bug, not my daughter, well... my

daughter was scurrying, too), now running for its life. She, and

the boys, ran over to it, circled around it, and started ooooing and

ahhhing over it, leaning over so their three heads were almost

touching. All the time saying, " it's a cockroach, look at it! come

look! "

All they needed at that point was to put on socks and sandles and

grow giant cartoon bubbles floating above their heads labeling them

as " tirrusts " (that's *tourists* for those who don't speak

southern.)

My husband wanted to stomp the tourist attraction, but the kids

begged him not to do it, so the roach's life was spared.

If I'd had some Roach Pruf with me, I'd have sprinkled it on and

told the kids it was special pixie dust just for roaches.

Good luck and happy new year!

(bet those little monsters are having a party in your walls right

now!!! ick!)

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