Sooo yesterday I got a new sofa-bed and set it up. It was nice so I thought of testing it myself today and when I unfolded it I saw a cockroach! I was literally so stunned I just stared at it for a good like, 30 seconds, thinking it was a joke or fake cockroach somehow.
Anyway I went to get the vacuum to hopefully suck it up and when I got back (only like 20secs later) it was gone. Spent the last 2 hours taking apart the sofa cushions, checking under all my other furniture, other rooms, etc and can’t find it!!
Anyway I’m worried it will stay hidden now so need some tips/advice how I can lure / kill it without me having to just wait around for it to appear again? I’ve never had a cockroach in any of my apartments before (and I only just moved into this one 2 months ago) and honestly have no clue what I’m doing.
Any help is appreciated. Ugh I fear for my sleep now, just thinking of it lurking around is giving me the creeps. TIA!
Edit: did some reading that common methods is poison bait or sticky traps. If you have any specific recommendations, I’m all ears!
Update: omg y’all, idk if it’s dumb luck or what but I just came home to discover the cockroach somehow drowned in a cup of water I had in the sink 😠I thought they didn’t drown easily bit whatever imma take this win. Now to figure out how to make myself touch that cup to throw him out eurgh
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Cockroaches don’t like light. Most likely it is either behind something or found its way into the crack where the floor meets the wall. Won’t catch it immediately, but I’d suggest getting some sticky traps and set them in dark areas against the walls.
Are these the little brown ones?
Black caps are best. they have lure and they can poison them and poison their family. Personally I wouldn’t use a vacuum. because then how are you going to remove it from there? My favorite weapon is a hard slipper (not those softy ones). You see one. take off your slipper and switch to combat mode and be ready to strike with vengeance. make sure to scrub the aftermath well. you don’t want to attract other roaches to the murder scene.
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I just made a post about a week ago about how to get rid of them. If it was a big one it was probably just a straggler but if it was smaller. Please read my last post and check what you need to do. They can leave eggs everywhere.
Use a spray
I like using felines. Our feline is a high prey drive former feral. She kills and eats bugs when she finds them. Nothing like the high pitched squeals of my daughter/wife as they find the cat busily chowing down on her prey leaving nothing but twitching legs and maybe a wing or 2…
Step one.
Glue traps to assess your cockroach situation
One or two adults in a trap during summer is not an infestation. Nothing you can do about it. Don’t worry.
Many including smaller browner ones means you have a little army of them. Switch to black caps and **remove glue traps** you want them to take the poison back to the nest.
If it was a single, large cockroach, then you’re in luck: it’s the kind that lives outdoors and came in by mistake. May be male or female who is not pregnant. All you need is to trap it.
I tried the cute cockroach house traps (literally any large shop that sells washing up liquid), set up ~5 in different dark corners and two days later the bugger was caught.
If you see small cockroaches, then panic! May even call professionals. Once they breed, they are no joke. Their critical resource seems to be water, not food.
If you kill one with a slipper or even see a dead cockroach, make sure to crush it well.
Cockroaches can feign death for weeks after taking serious damage or getting poisoned with neurotoxins. During that time, they will slowly heal (they can even regrow limbs) and once they are back to full HP, they will come back to life to haunt you.
Crush them or split them in half to make sure they can never recover.
Other than that, those black poison capsules are pretty much the only thing you can do against them.
I’m just here to say I’m sorry you had to endure that and I hope you never have to deal with a roach for the rest of your life. I had a rogue roach myself about a month ago and sheesh do they just give you the creeps.
The cup of water was based, though. Maybe you should always keep a cup of water in the sink from now on in addition what everyone else is saying.