Cockroaches- I Found Ur Base (w/Pics and MSPaint)

[Greg P]

Cliffs Notes: They've got me surrounded. Save yourself.

I will preface by saying I rent a condo from a good friend who made me a deal. But I'm moving out soon. In part because of the cockroaches.

So 5 minutes ago...

I finish taking a shower. Just as I turn off the water and pull open the curtain, a cockroach scurries behind the toilet. Only he comes toward me instead of running away (He knows no fear!).

He decides to hide behind the toilet brush and plunger. I keep my eye on him as I continue to dry off and envision myriad methods to end his misery. He inches closer. The time is now.

I push past the plunger to get a sight-line, then seize the toilet brush (limited weaponry options + I refuse to take my eyes of these bastards even for a second).

Just as I've armed myself, my foe escapes between the floorboard and shower tiles.



So I think these little bumps on my shower tiles may be the result of a giant colony of cockroaches which may or may not have nefarious plans.



Plz to be sharing your suggestions/experiences. And send help.

[DeuceKicker]

I hate to break it to you, but you haven't found their base. You haven't even found a forward listening post.

Face it, they're smarter than we are, and they'll be around long after we're gone. If you'd killed that one, you would have only helped their cause by weeding out their version of a Downie. I mean... what self-respecting roach is dumb enough to be spotted and killed by a human?

[TiK]

Meanwhile, back at the roach headquarters:

[NozeCandy]

All you can do is spray raid along the sides of your walls and in any openings you can find. A lot of it. Open some windows to air out the smell and it should help a lot. The day after we did this, 3-4 of them came out of hiding, presumably to get away from the Raid, but we haven't seen any since. That said, I'm pretty sure I'm going to go nuts one day and just take a sledgehammer to any potential location for these bastards. I hate them so much.

[KotOD]

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Cliffs Notes: They've got me surrounded. Save yourself.

I will preface by saying I rent a condo from a good friend who made me a deal. But I'm moving out soon. In part because of the cockroaches.



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So rather than fumigate you're leaving a condo in which you're living under a great deal?

[JackInDaCrak]

you could always nuke 'em....

oh wait. nevermind

[tuq]

Greg P,

Are you still living in the same place up by PV Mall where we met last year? If so, the cockroaches will move on soon enough...IIRC your cupboards were empty and the only thing in your refrigerator to eat were condiments. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Greg P]

Re: Fumigation, RAID, etc.

I've lived here for about a year and a half. My friend/landlord hired a pest control service at my request a couple of months after I moved in. They spray every month or so, but it basically just means that I find carcasses instead of assailants.

[Greg P]

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So rather than fumigate you're leaving a condo in which you're living under a great deal?

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KotOD,

See above. I have other reasons for moving as well.


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...your cupboards were empty and the only thing in your refrigerator to eat were condiments.

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Tuq,

Same place. And cupboards and refrigerator are still near empty. Their motivations are unclear.

[MissT74]

When I first moved to Kingman, AZ; we moved into a house that has a seperate garage. In the garage were a pile of old flattened cardboard boxes. We went to move them and out scurried about 100 sewer roaches, you know the "big" ones. OMG, I was so grossed out.

So we got the Terminex guy out and he sprayed every month for 5 years and I must say they actually left and moved on somewhere else.....when we moved at the 5 year mark, there wasn't one to be seen. Weird cuz I heard once you have them they never leave.

T