What works on roaches

FarmboyBill · #1 03/21/08, 09:30 PM

My boy and I looked at a 30 that had a doublewide that had been NICE in its day. It had a good size barn that could have a loft put in it, a big 2 car carport, good tasteing water. a small pond, around 10 acres open and lots of small woods. The house had leaked bad on the roof, and they had reroofed it, but not before you could see splotches in the false cealing. They said the floor was bad in some of it. but, by just looking at it, it had been really nice at one time. BUT, it was crawling with roaches. That ended it with my boy as he said his wife would never live in a place that had them. Like that. I said, make a pen around the trailer edge and put in a doz chickens. then spray/dust the heck outa it, and in time thay would be gone. Whats your thoughts on getting rid of them? When We moved out here from Tulsa, we had a few in in our clothes, and we had free rainge chickens, and the chicken house is around 50ft from the house. They sunned themselves under the house, and in a short time we never saw another one. The place was supposed to have free gas, but the gas came from a 10 that he had already sold, and I said the new owner might have cut off the guy selling the 30, and wouldnt count on that.

deaconjim · #2 03/21/08, 09:42 PM

I owned a pest control business for about 7 years. The best thing that I ever used was a pesticide called Demon WP. It was oderless, and contained a flushing agent that caused the roaches to run out of their hiding places, where they would get into the poison.

I've been out of the business for several years now, so I'm not sure exactly what is on the market now. Look for a place that sells professional chemicals to the public, and find out what they recommend. Generally, the wettable powders (indicated by the letters WP in the name) work best because they will stay on the surface of pourous materials, and they have enough residual to kill for quite some time.

There are some good baits on the market as well, and again you will want to go to a place that sells professional type chemicals.

The important things to remember is that roaches can eat almost anything, so it is impossible to deprive them of food. They must have water however, so if you can make them cross the chemicals to get to water, you will have much more success. It is important to note that even a small drop of water is enough for a roach to survive on, so keep counter tops and sinks dry, with the plug in the drains at night.

The eggs laid by roaches are harder to kill than the adult roaches. Normal pesticides don't have any effect on them. An Insect Growth Regulator (IGR) will stop them from developing, but you have to be able to get it on the egg casing to be effective. The best thing to do is to use something with a long residual and keep treating for about 2-3 months after you stop seeing roaches.

Ozarkquilter46 · #3 03/21/08, 11:19 PM

they hate alspice. I don't know why but a friends grandma told me to take ground alspice put some in those little tabacco bags and put one in every drawer and cubard in my home. I had them everywhere and by golly it worked. I was living in military base houseing at the time and the middle unit was so bad they sent the bug man out and sure enough the two apt on each side of it ( one being mine ) were covered in roaches the next day. I did the alspice trick because I had two small children and it worked. It about 3 or 4 days I could not find one any where. I would even get up in the middle of the night just to turn the light on in the kitchen and nope not a one!!

Bettsann · #4 03/22/08, 04:01 AM

COMBAT ROACH GEL It comes in a what looks like a lg plastic syringe and I have purchased it at Wal-Mart. The cost is about 7.00 but totally worth it at twice the price. You just run some beads of the gel in places where the roaches hide ie: under kitchen sink, behind refriderator, any dark, moist and warm places. Kind of gross but roaches eat the paste go back to the nest die and the other roaches eat the dead ones and die as well. In a couple weeks at most they should disappear. Reapply every couple months and your problem should be over. I have a friend who moved into a house and got the shock of his life in the middle of the night when he turned on the light in his kitchen. He used it and within a week or so they disappeared. I lived in low income apartments for awhile and they would come every other month and apply a small amount and I never had cockroach one.

Toads tool · #5 03/22/08, 05:44 AM

I find this funny, "That ended it with my boy as he said his wife would never live in a place that had them."
There's no such thing as a house that hasn't had roaches. If you've ever brought a bag of potatoes in your house or most any corrigated cardboard box for that matter into your home, then you've brought in roach eggs.

Roach Proof- old fashioned Borax powder based, comes in a yellow can.

I laid a good dusting of the above powder under all of my cabinets when i installed them. I also dust all the plants that I bring indoors to store for the winter, a good dusting on the ground around the pots catches any that leap off.

OH WAIT! good tip. Use one of those ear/snot sucker bulbs (blue plastic and shaped like a tear drop) to spread the powder. Easy to suck up powder, then you can poor it out of the tip, horizontal or you can load the tip with dust and puff out little clouds of powder, vertical.

FarmboyBill · #6 03/22/08, 09:08 AM

TT I notice you didnt include the next 2 words following the sentence you copied. They were (LIKE THAT)

bumpus · #7 03/22/08, 09:13 AM

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Demon WP

http://www.demonwp.com/

http://www.domyownpestcontrol.com/de...cide-p-74.html

http://www.pestproducts.com/demonwp.htm

http://www.e-bug.net/info/products/demon_wp.htm

bumpus
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amwitched · #8 03/22/08, 09:33 AM

I had a pretty bad problem in my MH after some renters moved out. I mixed Demon and Torus together and sprayed the inside and outside of the MH. The Demon kills the roaches and the Torus is the birth control. The Torus shrivels their wings so they can't reproduce. It worked like a charm and it is odorless.

I bought both of the products from one of my local pest control companies. They were able to sell those products to the general public.

I did see that the plant nursery up the street was selling Demon, though.

snoozy · #9 03/22/08, 10:35 AM

This is a method which I have used very successfully in a very old building which was rife with roaches. I got it from a "Home Encyclopedia" from India, where they have roaches which put our tiddly-puny roaches to shame.

Take some wheat flour, or (chickpea flour) and mix into it a little sugar and boric acid powder. I did something like a cup of wheat flour, a tablespoon of sugar and a tsp or 2 of boric acid powder (you can get that at the drugstore.) Proportions aren't all that important. Sprinkle this under the fridge and stove, or inside along the edge of cabinets or wherever they're generally hiding. They will eat the stuff, and the boric acid will desiccate them from the inside. They will come out from wherever they are hiding to find water and in the morning, you just sweep up their little keeled over selves. Don't put it where the dogs or cats might eat it. And you should probably keep the chickens away so they don't go after any.

It works, and leaves no nasty pesticide residue to poison YOU.

Maura · #10 03/22/08, 10:53 AM

You can have a company come out and wrap the house in plastic. The house will warm up sufficiently to kill all the roaches. I know it sounds crazy, but it works.

texastami · #11 03/22/08, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Bettsann

COMBAT ROACH GEL

I totally agree!! this is the greatest stuff... when we moved into our apartment, I didn't have a problem.... about 3 weeks afterwards we started seeing some activity (the landlord sprayed before we moved in).... I tried several CHEAPER alternatives but to no avail..... bit the bullet and bought the expensive GEL and after two applications, no more bugs!! Haven't seen anything in 5 months... (I reapply after 3 months) I HATE HATE HATE the nasty things and am thrilled to have solved my problem! (Especially since I live in an apartment!)

june02bug · #12 03/22/08, 09:10 PM

Combat Roach Gel - great stuff.

hmsteader71 · #13 03/24/08, 07:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Bettsann

COMBAT ROACH GEL It comes in a what looks like a lg plastic syringe and I have purchased it at Wal-Mart. The cost is about 7.00 but totally worth it at twice the price. You just run some beads of the gel in places where the roaches hide ie: under kitchen sink, behind refriderator, any dark, moist and warm places. Kind of gross but roaches eat the paste go back to the nest die and the other roaches eat the dead ones and die as well. In a couple weeks at most they should disappear. Reapply every couple months and your problem should be over. I have a friend who moved into a house and got the shock of his life in the middle of the night when he turned on the light in his kitchen. He used it and within a week or so they disappeared. I lived in low income apartments for awhile and they would come every other month and apply a small amount and I never had cockroach one.

I agree 100%. We had neighbors who had roaches really bad and they came over from there, you could see them. Anyway, we used the combat gel from Wal-Mart and it worked perfectly.

sewsilly · #14 03/24/08, 11:22 AM

We have a home at the beach, and after installing a few palm trees in the yard, we developed, apparently, a habitat for 'palmetto' bugs, which are nasty, gigantic flying roaches. The locals said get 'roach tablets'. I checked and the active ingredient was borax. I got borax and ridded us of palmetto bugs promptly by spreading it far and wide in 'hidden' places. No problems in 15 years, with an every other year application.