Cockroaches

[nino_savatte]

they were definitely german ones, some of the ones i killed were carrying a big egg pouch around with them, yuck.

How come you normally can't squash them? mine were easy to squash, if a bit yucky. Could all the poison i'd sprayed around made them slower than normal?

The German variety reproduce asexually iirc. The poison may have slowed them down but, generally speaking, domestic insecticides are practically useless on them.

 

[myname]

My bathroom is infested with cockroaches. Everytime I turn on the light theres one on my bathroom sink.

All windows have been properly shut and the floor cleaned yet they continue to intrude upon the sanctity of my toilet.The only place I havn't checked is under my bathroom sink but I'd really prefer not to venture in there. Really.

I wouldn't mind so much but, they're quite large (as long as from the tip of my finger to my knuckle and as wide as from my thum to my knuckle). Also I'm afraid they're doing "the do" on my toothbrush and eating my anti-biotic tablets.

Any advice on how to be rid of them?

Hi,

What happenned with your cockroach problem, did you manage to get rid of them????

 

[selamlar]

You get infestations of these fuckers over here

You can get fancy arse cockroach spray that kind of coats them and then wipes off on their mates, only to kill them later. This, in conjunction with blocking up holes and using those sticky trap jobs will do the trick eventually but if you have an actual infestation ('roaches in the bathroom everyday etc) call the exterminator. It will be cheaper in the long run.

I fucking hate cockroaches. They list alongside ticks, wasps, pigeons and earwigs that just have no right to exist on this planet. Or at least anywhere near me.

 

[guinnessdrinker]

it's a bit difficult to get a proper answer on this british based site because australian cockroaches willb emuch larger than the tiny ones we get here. a friend of mine from australia suggested that a trap of a bowl of food some way from the house would attract them and you quickly cover the lot and boil them or something, but I suspect he was doing that out in the bush, I don't know about melbourne.

it is actually possible to get rid of them using the usual commercial products here in the UK as long as you keep applying them regularly and make sure that all fresh food is kept in the fridge, dry food kept in airtight containers and flat is kept clean of uneaten food or similar stuff.

 

[tim]

You get infestations of these fuckers over here

You can get fancy arse cockroach spray that kind of coats them and then wipes off on their mates, only to kill them later. This, in conjunction with blocking up holes and using those sticky trap jobs will do the trick eventually but if you have an actual infestation ('roaches in the bathroom everyday etc) call the exterminator. It will be cheaper in the long run.

I fucking hate cockroaches. They list alongside ticks, wasps, pigeons and earwigs that just have no right to exist on this planet. Or at least anywhere near me.

Pigeons taste quite nice, and one of the joys of summer is sitting in a pub garden watching thoseof you who freak out and start flapping whenever a wasp comes near. Since I don't freak out I don't get stung.

 

[tim]

Simple solution would be to close your eyes for five seconds when you switch the bathroom light on. When you open your eyes after five seconds.. hey presto no cockroaches..

I used to share a house with someone who insisted that we left a light on in the kitchen - just in case we had a cockroach infestation - quite effective in so much as I never saw a cockroach in the kitchen, or indeed anywhere else in the house.

 

[purves grundy]

They are vile, vile things. Make my skin crawl. I can't believe I've managed to live in the tropics for 8 years or so with the aversion I have to these creatures; never got used to them.

I remember renting an apartment when I first moved to Burma - it looked fine when I went there during the day while a family was still living there. When I moved in, evening time, empty flat, the kitchen was crawling with them. I pointed to them crawling about on the floor and the landlord, helping me move in, goes "Oh yes, this is a beetle." Then he stepped over them en route to the water heater. "Now, let me show you how to turn this on..." Sodding Buddhists

Got rid of them in a week or two with a bit of hole-filling, roach traps, and spray.

 

[selamlar]

Pigeons taste quite nice, and one of the joys of summer is sitting in a pub garden watching thoseof you who freak out and start flapping whenever a wasp comes near. Since I don't freak out I don't get stung.

You see, that is the basic misconception of the difference between 'hate' and 'fear'. I am not afraid of wasps,ticks, pigeons, cockroaches and earwigs, I HATE them. Doesn't interfere with my killing them in any way.
I should clarify that pigeons means nasty scraggy diseased rock dove/town pigeon hybrids, not wood pigeons, collared doves etc. They are ok, and also taste a lot better than town pigeon

 

[Reno]

I had German roaches when I moved into my flat. The council exterminator came round and put up some large roach traps and they were soon gone. Haven't seen any since then.

 

[Kripcat]

I think I've stopped the little fuckers, in my bathroom at least havn't seen one in weeks.

Different story in my kitchen. I was making lunch last week and pulled a knife out of the knife block only to find a huge bastard impaled on the tip still wriggling. Scared the shit out of me.