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Anonymous
I just looked down and saw a fucking roach on my lap. After jumping 3 feet in the air, screaming like a little girl, and flailing every limb in a frenzied panic, I've come to you. Where theres a roach, please tell there aren't moar.
>> Frankengun !HgIdo42VU2
There's always more.
>> Anonymous
LOOK BEHIND YOU
>> Anonymous
It just crawled under my bed...looks like a sleepless night.
>> Anonymous
>>270925
for every one cockroach you see, there are one thousand you don't


enjoy your infestation
>> Anonymous
>>270926
For every roach you see there's 500,00 you don't see.
>> Anonymous
any food you have has been danced upon by roaches.
>> Anonymous
"Though cockroaches are generally considered pests, only about 30 species (less than 1%) infest urban habitats"
Truth behind that, or total bullshit?
It will determine me being able to sleep tonight.
>> Anonymous
>>270936
Thing is, if even ONE of those pesky 30 species can breed thousands upon thousands of offspring in a short time AND they all infest human settlements, it does not matter if they only consist of 1% of the whole genus. They're still an annoying problem. ?_?
>> Anonymous
>>270936
It matters on the definition of "infestation". Roaches do breed fast and if you find one, there is a high possibility that there may be some more in hiding.

Kill that one and hope that you do not find another. If you do, it may be time to buy some roach pesticides. Get that get which you can apply to walls and a small can of bug spray for emergency extermination.
>> Anonymous
If you see more than a couple you probably have an infestation. They usually have a nest or more, depending on how bad the infestation is, so look for those and destroy them. Look in places were stuff is pilled up and hasn't been moved in a while, humid or dark places; they love to lurk in them.
Good luck!
>> Anonymous
500,00?
>> Anonymous
If it was a big, full grown one, it's probably not a problem. They come inside to find sustenance. It's when you start seeing little ones that you gotta be worried because that means they're reproducing close by.

(At least, that's what I was taught.)
>> Anonymous
     File :-(, x)
Why, hello thar.
>> Anonymous
every hidden nook and cranny stick roach hotels and sticky traps

i did that, seriously reduced the population
>> Anonymous
what a coincidence, i just found one in my house too..bastard put up a fight, said something about a funky towel before i dispatched him
>> 0405
I'm not sure how true this is, but I've heard that squashing a roach releases some sort of scent that attracts other roaches. It seems like it should do the opposite, but I guess they've got guys to spare.
>> Anonymous
I get big ones trying to crawl in under my bedroom window every night. I usually manage to kill or chase them back out, but every once in a while one eludes me.

This disturbs me.
>> Anonymous
>>271123

WHERE DO YOU LIVE
>> Anonymous
>>271128
South Texas.
>> Anonymous
OP here

So as I went to take a piss, I saw another roach on my bathroom floor. Another full grown one. I'm hoping it was the same one I saw last night. I'm going to get some boric acid and bug bomb the shit out of my room today.
>> Anonymous
This is relevant to my interests. I've got roaches here and there, but nothing SEEMINGLY too bad.
>> Anonymous
goddamit wes why does your house have so many fucking roaches. those bastards are huge too
>> Anonymous
clean your fucking house
>> Anonymous
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Good afternoon, you scuttling bastards.

I tried to be reasonable with you. At first, we had a stable relationship. I knew you were there, and every now and then I'd see one of you, but in general you kept quiet and had the good sense to scurry for hiding when I turned the lights on. One of you periodically stepped out of line, and had to be squashed, and then everything went back to normal. If you had just continued in that manner, we could have lived this entire year in peaceful coexistence.

But no, you had to get greedy. I began to see you more frequently, and in larger numbers. Your lights-on scurry grew slower and slower and became more of a relaxed trot, then a walk. Eventually, you had the audacity to sit right where you were and shake your head feelers at me. You had gone too far. It was time for war.

I began periodic sweeps of the apartment, armed with paper towels, and squashed anything that moved. I removed every possible food source from anywhere you might be able to reach it, even adding extra layers of wrapping to items in the fridge, just in case one of you somehow managed to make it inside. A couple of times, I even turned the lights off and stood motionless for five minutes, then flicked them back on and rained horrible death upon whichever of you had been lured out. I really thought this would have been enough to make my point.

However, you continued to defy all logic and reasoning, and to multiply and grow bolder. Three of you ran across my foot once; I killed two, but left one alive (but severely maimed) to tell the tale... clearly, you were beginning to affect my sanity, and I needed to up the ante in order to regain the upper hand in the battle for control of my apartment. So, I added the roach spray to my arsenal. This had little effect and made my apartment smell extremely questionable; I guess you vermin won that round.
>> Anonymous
>>271205
I notified the management company, who has always been very responsive to any problem I have had with the place. There was some vague talk of fumigating or spraying or some other unspecified pest removal solution; somehow it kept falling through the cracks, and nothing ever happened. Well, I'm not sure who you bribed or threatened for that little stunt, but it was time to show you little 6-legged thugs that I wasn't afraid of you, no matter what kind of "connections" you had.

I had no alternative, I had to buy the roach poison traps. The way these are supposed to work is this - the cockroach smells the tasty poison/food, wanders into the trap, eats, returns to his/her hiding place, and then dies. The practical result is that they should appear to vanish from your home like magic. However, you at my apartment had grown not only bold, but complacent. After eating, you all just kinda decided to hang out for a while, and as a result died in an odd sort of corpse constellation across my kitchen floor.
>> Anonymous
>>271206
The destruction was horrific. Some of your dead were being carried off by those who survived, almost like soldiers dragging the wounded into foxholes. Many of you were still twitching, apparently writhing in agony from the effects of the poison. The ravages of war are never pretty, and being a gentle person, part of me felt a little bit of remorse.

But now you know that it is, as they say, "on", and I'll push you fuckers all the way back to apartment 601 if I have to...


Sincerely,
Fellow Apartment Dweller/Agent of your Doom
>> Anonymous
well i was gonna say turn off all the applainces in your house till you said southern texas since roaches love heat it increases their sex drive and the success of births best i can say is clean your house and they will probably stick leave you alone but it's really difficult to fullyget rid of them since they will probably hide in any dark places including a ventilation system until the coast is clear. dont really worry their part of the cricket and grasshopper family just think of that and it could help calm you down.
>> Anonymous
>>271214
north tx, the southern guy was not OP
>> Anonymous
Would it be okay to think of this similarly to wasps? Every once in a while a wasp gets in, but you know there isn't a hive. So every once in a while a roach gets in, but there's hopefully no nest?
>> Anonymous
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Use a roach gel that contains Fipronil. It will kill roaches you didn't even know were there. I used it once last year and have not seen a SINGLE roach since. I bought mine for about 10 bucks on ebay.

Here's the video that convinced me to buy it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a0LwxJEeCs