****roaches

[amberj]

I feel somewhat ashamed to admit we have two varieties of ****roach in our house- little light brown ones and the big shiny dark ones. Now, from what I've heard, the little light brown ones are bad news and we get rid of them whenever we see them. But DH tells me that the big shiny dark ones are native and are fine and we don't need to worry about them. (this is also true according to the show "Whats Good For You", if you want to believe it).

But, eeeeeew. I just hate it when I see them and I feel like I must be a terrible housekeeper. Anyone else with roachy visitors?

Are they really bad/ dirty? If so, how on earth do I get rid of them? I know they live on crumbs behind the stove etc and I have no idea how to clean EVERYWHERE.

[Olive]

yep we had the big ones too!! i hated them, they'd crawl around at night when i was BF DD.eewwww, we used these special bait things under the couches etc.. they went pretty quickly

[veebee2]

We bought bombs for our house and placed them in the roof and under the house. You can also place them in rooms as well. (We used them as we had an ant problem due to the drought)

There are instructions on the packet about making sure you turn off your power and things like that. I know you can get ****roach bombs from the Hardware. You leave your house for about two hours then come home and vent the house to get rid of the smell

Good luck

[squidipa]

surface spray it was orange sented and it worked when ever we go away on holidays we re spray house

[Astrid]

Well they do not like salt. So sprinkle some down where they like to go, so around the stove, under the fridge etc. Wipe down sinks etc with a salty solution.

[AliBaby]

Its funny you say that as i just noticed a big native one walk along the skirting and got DP to get rid of it! I hate seeing them around and they make me feel like I have a dirty house but they are everywjere around my area, on the streets, etc. We had a really warm day today and the warm weather brings them out. I am going to have to spray the house (you can get indoor mortein that you spray along all skirtings, window frames, doors, etc and also buy some new baits to go under the lounge, behind the tv cabinet, etc.

Apparently they are cleaner than our own hands but stilll ewwwww!