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Oculus Spirit [97675]
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Wife had a traumatic roach experience few nights ago
Oct 1, 2020, 10:46 AM
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One landed on her and she jumped up screaming. Bugger went under the closet door. We couldn't ever find him again. As I am now tasked with all pest control activities in the house (minus termites), I went to Lowes.
To date the solution is as follows:
1) - Sprayed the outside perimeter/brick/vents on the house
2) - Sprayed the perimeter and all around the crawl space (incl. all pipe holes, etc.)
3) - Added foam to seal all pipe entrances into the house, and all holes to outside from crawlspace
4) - Sprinkled granules around all pine straw surrounding the house
6) - Sprayed inside while kids were out
7) - Sprayed outside dumpster inside and out
Did I miss anything short of burning the place down?
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All-In [34486]
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Your defense is good, but you also
Oct 1, 2020, 10:50 AM
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need to root out any that are already living in your framing, attic, crawlspace, etc.
The best way to do this is with bait. Roaches will eat the bait and deliver it to their nests, thus killing the whole nest.
I've used bait in old, decrepit Charleston houses that were INFESTED. Sure enough, after about a month of consistently applying bait, the roaches slowly start turning up dead, only to pretty much completely go away as long as you treat the place.
Bait goes in cabinets, drawers, vanities and closets.
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Oculus Spirit [79400]
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By bait, I assume you mean raw hotdogs?***
Oct 1, 2020, 10:53 AM
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Oculus Spirit [78876]
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They come raw?***
Oct 1, 2020, 10:58 AM
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Oculus Spirit [79400]
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Uh, yeah? Where do you think the term "raw-dogging" came
Oct 1, 2020, 11:09 AM
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from? I remember all the dads from the church youth group getting together once a month to go "raw-dog it" all weekend. I bet they went through so many packs of hotdogs.
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Re: Uh, yeah? Where do you think the term "raw-dogging" came
Oct 1, 2020, 2:14 PM
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All-In [34486]
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Oculus Spirit [78876]
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master?***
Oct 1, 2020, 11:09 AM
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Oculus Spirit [79400]
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That is a serious response to one roach
Oct 1, 2020, 10:52 AM
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You should get inside dogs, then you just wouldn't GAF because they keep the place so trashed.
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Oculus Spirit [97675]
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It wasn' just one. It was the one that caused me to be
Oct 1, 2020, 11:08 AM
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woken by a hysterically screaming wife at 2am one night. Been seeing 4-5 a week alive lately. Plus one or so every few days dead. They were clearly getting worse, but JFC the trauma of being woken up in the middle of the night....was way worse than the roach. I thought someone had broken in, a child had died, house was on fire, something horrible. I mean in those first 10 seconds you have no clue what's going on.
Now as a guy who spent months in the jungles of Belize and Guatemala in a freaking hut with 2 hours of generator electricity a day, and checking shoes for scorpions every morning, and hearing bats buzz my head at night, and seeing them nesting on the ceiling of the hut above me with my flashlight every night, and getting bat #### all over me, I can't handle this 2am screaming spouse stuff. Kids, sure. I'm immune. Wife.....another story.
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All-TigerNet [11140]
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Slac house pest control. Order the 32% permethrin solution
Oct 1, 2020, 11:03 AM
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from Amazon. Mix in own sprayer, spray inside, spray outside....KILL everything! Farthest I've ever seen a roach make it inside the house is about 5 ft. Every now and again, I'll spray with bifenthrin, which is still a pyrethrin, but it's a different molecule and it keeps the crawly fuggers on their toes.
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or, alternatively....1. Spend $3 on a bottle of Boric Acid
Oct 1, 2020, 11:15 AM
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2. Sprinkle in dark nooks and corners in house, under fridge, other places roaches may hang out.
3. Never see roaches or bugs again. If dogs eat/wallow/snort, absolutely no harm done. Bonus: kills fleas too.
4. Profit from milk in refrigerator.
https://www.dollargeneral.com/zap-a-roach-boric-acid-roach-ant-killer-16-oz.html
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You struck on this one, big time, mane
Oct 1, 2020, 11:18 AM
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stick that bad boy in a water bottle and sell that #### to 19B®
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The first time Red and I boinked
Oct 1, 2020, 12:52 PM
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I stayed over (weak, I know). I woke up in the middle of the night to a massive scream, the comforter thrown off of me, and Red on top of me (not in the cool way). A Palmetto bug had been in bed with us also. I believe this counts as a threesome? I pulled the comforter off of the floor where it landed and there it was, in all of its glory, just trying to get out of there before I killed it. One of the few times I have killed a bug while being butt ### naked in front of a girl I had just disappointed.
Great memory to remember our first time.
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That was Jesus saying you should wait until marriage***
Oct 1, 2020, 12:59 PM
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CU Medallion [64837]
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They were married. That was their 1 month anniversary.***
Oct 1, 2020, 2:16 PM
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Oculus Spirit [97675]
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How do you apply that? Rectally?***
Oct 1, 2020, 2:31 PM
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Top down!
Oct 1, 2020, 3:32 PM
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They will drop from trees to roof. Did you hit the chimney(s) and soffit?
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Oculus Spirit [97675]
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Have no trees over the house.
Oct 1, 2020, 3:36 PM
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Didn't hit the soffits. Any roach that gets into the house will cross no less than 3 chemical barriers, 4 really.
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CU Medallion [59982]
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you went to lowes
Oct 1, 2020, 3:33 PM
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first mistake.
how about hire a pesticide guy and get the job done right.
oh thats right you are poor and cheap. I forgot.
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Oculus Spirit [97675]
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You got me nailed.
Oct 1, 2020, 3:42 PM
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You really should make this a career somehow.
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Re: Wife had a traumatic roach experience few nights ago
Oct 1, 2020, 7:10 PM
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Set off a few bug bomb. Stuff actually works.
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