I have been living in my apartment for 7 months now and have been noticing baby roaches more lately. Close to 1 a day. I’m buying roach traps but I’m wondering if this is a sign that I have a roach problem inside my apartment or if anyone has experienced this before knows they are just coming in through the multiple vents and it’s nothing to worry about.
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Keep any and all food-related trash (including any containers with food remnants) in the fridge or freezer until trash pickup day.
Are you sure they’re babies?
Look up “German cockroach” they’re small, and they are move-out-ASAP bad news 😬
I lived in an old ass creaky apartment that had roaches during the typhoon season quite frequently, or during any heavy rainfalls in the warmer months.
An unfortunate truth is you can’t have your doors and windows open for any extended amount of time. They will crawl over anything and everything.
For all your pipes, vents, and any points of entrance into your house, put traps and mushiyoke spray on and around them.
If you see a roach, don’t ignore it. Go into kill mode, it sucks, but it gives you peace of mind that you know it’s dead. This is rather grotesque, but I catch them with about three paper towels by hand and crush them in a ball, and throw it in the trash.
The golden rule is that for every roach you see there are 10 you don’t see, so make sure you have enough preventative measures and protections to get rid of them.
Thankfully this was a loooooong time (and several moves) ago but had a housemate once who was a fn filthy pig constantly accumulating dirty plates in their room and other disgusting habits… and we ended up with roaches 🤮
I went to a home centre and bought several of those roach gas bomb things. Went waaaay overboard on number of bombs vs. square footage of the flat, wasn’t taking any chances. Took all cupboard-stored foodstuffs, kitchen cookware etc in a couple of big boxes out of the house, covered the smoke alarms with the little covers included with the bombs, then gassed the absolute living shit out of the place.
Never saw another roach again the rest of the time I was there 👌
Why not make roach balls with borax
If there in your place is done for. Hopefully you belongings aren’t carrying any new friends when you move.
The higher you can live the better off you are from having them in your home
diatomaceous earth and a turkey baster/camera lens duster. Spray a thin coating into all the dark cracks of your house. The earth pulls the water out of their bodies and kills them. They also track the earth back to their eggs and it dehydrates the eggs as well.
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German cockroaches are smart and a pain.
Buy some sticky bug traps cut into smaller squares and put in different rooms where you think they are coming from. The point is to see what room has the most to narrow down where they are coming in from and put the earth in the hole or seal it up/both.
Soon they will understand that your apartment is a hazard and they will stick to your neighbors apartment
From your drain or where?