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Location: Texas | How do we get rid of these things?? Aren't these the bugs that if there's one there's forsure more? I'm gonna tell the RA's in the morning but man, I'm a little freaked out now |
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Location: SE Louisiana | I assume you are not talking about men...
Ascorbic acid... Vitamin C Base... is good to scatter around the walls and corners.... It dries them out... The Roach Motels takes a while... But those finally wiped them out in our home... It's an ugly story about what they do.... The last living batch looked like walking AWACS planes... |
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Location: SE Louisiana | SG. - 2014-08-22 10:17 PM
spray
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You forgot Rottweilers. Mine use to go after any little bug she saw moving.. |
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Location: Texas | Lol the hotel sounds pretty good right now. I'm spoiled, I've never seen a cockroach before in my life that I can atleast remember so this is a little disturbing. I guess I'll have to get some stuff in the morning. |
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Location: Texas | komet. - 2014-08-22 10:21 PM SG. - 2014-08-22 10:17 PM spray
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Hotel You forgot Rottweilers. Mine use to go after any little bug she saw moving..
If I could have pets here I would be right on that one! |
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I assume you are not talking about men...
Ascorbic acid... Vitamin C Base... is good to scatter around the walls and corners.... It dries them out... The Roach Motels takes a while... But those finally wiped them out in our home... It's an ugly story about what they do.... The last living batch looked like walking AWACS planes...
Interesting. How does it kill them? Oh and she should not leave any food around. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | outrundaizy - 2014-08-22 10:24 PM
komet. - 2014-08-22 10:21 PM SG. - 2014-08-22 10:17 PM spray
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Hotel You forgot Rottweilers. Mine use to go after any little bug she saw moving..
Pet SHMET!!! It's a security device!!!! Just slap an 'ACME SECURITY' logo on his head... They'll never know..  |
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Location: North Dakota | You don't get rid of cockroaches. They get rid of you. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | jbhoot - 2014-08-22 10:30 PM
komet. - 2014-08-22 10:14 PM
I assume you are not talking about men...
Ascorbic acid... Vitamin C Base... is good to scatter around the walls and corners.... It dries them out... The Roach Motels takes a while... But those finally wiped them out in our home... It's an ugly story about what they do.... The last living batch looked like walking AWACS planes...
Interesting. How does it kill them? Oh and she should not leave any food around.
It renders their offspring sterile. With some very ugly deformations.... About as bad to look at as the Thalidomide babies.. I actually felt bad for them just before they disappeared.. Like I said... Imagine a roach with an AWACS dome on it's back... |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Food?? Roaches eat bar soap... and Cigarette papers... and glue.. |
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Location: North Dakota | I lived in Arizona for 3 months while on a rotation for school. and the cockroach problem NEVER went away. I lived in the bottom apartment of a large complex that was 3 stories high. I did everything I could in my apartment to control them (plug drains, spray bug spray, no crumbs, etc) and they were still there daily. The problem is that all the apartments are connected and even though I controlled them in mine, they would crawl through the ventilation system from another apartment.
I complain to the management over and over and they "sprayed" but it really didn't help.
Good luck. If you are living in the dorm, they could be coming from everywhere.
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Location: Tulsa, Ok | I would go immediately to the RA and right on up the chain of command until the school took immediate and appropriate action. Next stop would be the health department. |
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Location: Southwest Minnesota | Be careful when you take stuff home with you...you could have stow aways and then have cockroaches at home too... |
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Location: NW Arkansas | chuckie31 - 2014-08-24 6:27 PM Be careful when you take stuff home with you...you could have stow aways and then have cockroaches at home too...
Definately put your stuff in plastic tubs with lids or they will infest your belongings! You can get spray and spray your room or put out roach hotels--or do both! I had them infest my classroom one year (it was over the cafeteria) and I sprayed my room a couple of times a week until the school district started spraying for them. I had to store everything in plastic tubs with lids because they would get into EVERYTHING! |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Arkiecanchaser - 2014-08-24 8:06 PM
chuckie31 - 2014-08-24 6:27 PM Be careful when you take stuff home with you...you could have stow aways and then have cockroaches at home too...
Definately put your stuff in plastic tubs with lids or they will infest your belongings! You can get spray and spray your room or put out roach hotels--or do both! I had them infest my classroom one year (it was over the cafeteria) and I sprayed my room a couple of times a week until the school district started spraying for them. I had to store everything in plastic tubs with lids because they would get into EVERYTHING!
Oh yes... They lay eggs on cardboard... That's why restaurants take everything out of the boxes and put it on shelves and throw the boxes away immediately. Except for the ones going into a freezer. Roaches in the warehouses lay eggs on them, then they get shipped around to the stores. |
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So I've found 2 cockroaches in my dorm so far...