Roaches?????? - Page 2

Originally Posted by diesel

You guys are hilarious, after two months in Africa this spring I don't think there is a bug her I'm worried about anymore. Cockroaches, giant furry spiders, and disease infested mosquitoes in abundance

Rihno bettles!!! Things are HUGE. lol I use brake parts cleaner kills on contact ANYTHING with more then 4 legs. But I am scared to death of bringing them bassturds home. My wife would kill me.

Just the heading of this post makes me itchy!

If your going to be in the scrapping business, you need to have your house, building, garage, where ever you scrap treated by an exterminator. They know how to treat that kind of stuff, but they do cost about 50-100 bucks a treatment. Well worth it in my opinion. I'd rather have someone do the dirty work for me.

When I was younger I kept a few in my ashtray

Originally Posted by Gravitar

If your going to be in the scrapping business, you need to have your house, building, garage, where ever you scrap treated by an exterminator. They know how to treat that kind of stuff, but they do cost about 50-100 bucks a treatment. Well worth it in my opinion. I'd rather have someone do the dirty work for me.

I can't afford anything like that at this point, but that is a good idea. Just to be on the safe side, I've been lucky so far but you just never know. I'm going to get some of those sticky bait things and the powder tomorrow and put them/it around the garage and I'll do my kitchen as well since that's the first room they'd get to. Although anyone can have roaches, the majority of the places I do are nice areas. I do have 2 areas that I do as part of my other spots that are kind of on the iffy side, like today. There's that saying something about an ounce of prevention..... but I forget the rest.

Again Thanks to everyone who threw ideas out there!!

I always see dead stink bugs in electronics.

Thank god i live in idaho! NO roaches here!

But we do have brown recluses, wolf spiders, hobo spiders, black widdows, all them nasty little buggers. I currently have an issue at my shop with wolf spiders and brown recluses. I share my shop with a wood shop. Recluses and brown's LOVE living in wood. Not to mention all the gaylords i have, and the stacked, flattened gaylords. It's always sketchy when i leave some e-scrap alone too long. If the spiders were small, id have no problem really. But these buggers are quarter dollar size. And boy can they RUN.

I'm no wuss, but i aint a fan of spiders. No sir.

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

Why, are the roaches allergic to Idaho?? lol

LOL yes, they are!

Or maybe it's the lack of humidity. Either way lol.

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

Why, are the roaches allergic to Idaho?? lol

I think they do better in warmer temps. I lived in FL and saw many of those houses totally covered in tarps, and learned that was their extermination procedure there, cover it, bomb it, and leave it sealed up for a few days. Was told the giant roaches there lived up in the trees, and would come down into the homes. Roaches are all around in the woods, especially around dead fallen limbs/trees etc, and I have thick woods all around me, but no roaches at the house. (knock on wood haha!) Walmart has gallon sized sprays for different crawly critters for around ten bux, which is plenty enough to spray inside and out. In TN I'd use those bug bomb things to kill the sand fleas which came from nowhere about twice a year. A couple of years ago a friend(uhmmm, kinda) left some chickens here, and a couple weeks later, some ducks(i meant to say we once were friends lol), and they are all penned out back at night, but roam freely during the day. When the chickens first got here, there was a hek of a cricket population, even beginning to invade the house, but they all soon disappeared, along with, to a great extent, the hordes of grasshoppers. When I first placed an ad for outside scrap(i'd begun with only the things that had accumulated around on the farm over a hundred years) three things I picked up on that first run were contaminated with roaches, and I had a feeling at least one was before getting it back here, so decided then my scrapping would have to be distant from the house, and began by unloading out behind the old barn, and clearing a working area there. Sure enough, a microwave, a dishwasher, and the TV I had suspected, were all inhabited. I sprayed them with some old spray that was already here, and luckily haven't had anything else like that since, but still unload everything out there. If it's in there, and it chooses the house over the woods, and it gets by 16 ducks(yeah, they've multiplied), and 5 chickens, 2 country cats, and the dog, I'll introduce it to my fly swatter ; )

Unfortunately I did bring home roaches and it took a year to quell them , sadly i feel the next wave will be resistant to the insecticide using now , Very hard to get rid of them buggers

Originally Posted by Copper Head

Unfortunately I did bring home roaches and it took a year to quell them , sadly i feel the next wave will be resistant to the insecticide using now , Very hard to get rid of them buggers

That's so true CH, it's much better using natural deterrents(including I suppose, leaving it behind) as far as possible, for that very reason. Farmers around here go from one spray to another, trying to rid the planet of the same darned bugs. Yet, all they're succeeding in doing is ridding the planet of the natural ones. I saw the entire bee population here disappear two years ago due to that very thing, and then harvested seeds that were not pollenated, and would not grow a new crop. I'm learning to exist now with large red wasps, which I also used to spray, but now they're among the few things left that will pollenate the garden

Maybe Meridian is special, but Idaho definitely has roaches. I've done clean ups on dads rentals after people trashed them and a few had roach infestations.

I use the roach bate , Seems to work - wile you use the bate you will see them all over - some get weak and walk around sickly Then poof there gone BUT after a month i see a few new ones so i think the bate wont kill them the same way time will tell .
the negative is the dieing roaches must get eaten by other bugs hurting them (like spiders) and other good bugs .

Call me what you want...there could be a 5 gallon pail of #2 copper sitting in a junk pile...if it's crawling with them things I wouldn't touch it. Really not worth it to me. Sure, they can be killed, but up around my area roaches aren't considered a normal bug...if you have them you have them for a reason...

My parents lived in an apartment complex a few years ago that was nice when we moved in, but thanks to a change in managment quickly became a mini ghetto. One night, sitting on my computer with no lights on, I found 3 of them **** things crawling on my wall. Mind you, my bedroom was messy (what 17 year olds isn't) but not messy enough to bring roaches. Come to find out the apartment above us was infested and somehow they were making their way down to us. It's really a disgusting feeling knowing theirs an infestation of bugs in or near your home. REALLY disgusting.

Originally Posted by Scrapette

I accidentally brought some Florida roaches home in the car - those things were fertile! But the roach bait cartridges did finally get them out of the car - I had to use a lot of them over a period of several days to get them all.

I just put those in the garage and kitchen (runs along garage), not sure if I should put them in any other rooms. I'm trying to be prepared "just in case" I ever bring one home. I'm also going to put the powder outside and along a few of the garage walls. Has anyone ever used any of those sprays? Most of the cans I read say it kills on contact but that you can also spray in cabinets, cracks etc... and that it will kill for 30-40 weeks. Of course each can has different kill times, but I guess I just don't understand how spraying something is going to kill them in the future?!!!?!!

Lizards love roaches, the only problem is lizards sleep at night and that's when most roaches are out...I submerge my scrap that has roaches in a Rubbermaid filled with vinegar and water then watch them go running for dry ground...