"OmManiPadmeOmelet" wrote in message
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Steve Wertz wrote:

I've been seeing a lot of these large brown cockroaches, about
1.5" long and 1" wide. Some fly, but mustly they just seem to
crawl. They're not in the kitchen, they're just in random places
in the house, and where you'd least expect them.

How do they get in and what are they looking for, other than
cheap thrills? And more importantly, how do you get rid of them
when they're not concentrated in any one part of the house? I
see maybe 3 a week. All adults.

Palmetto bugs... They are mostly coming in after water.
Keep all food sources cleaned up so they cannot get into them, and pick
up a box of Echols roach tablets.

And get a cat. ;-)

This happens during the driest part of the summer. I don't see a lot of
live ones anymore, maybe 1 every 2 or 3 months. I generally find their
remains when the cats are done with them. G

Echols tablets are inexpensive and effective. Place them under sinks,
behind the stove and other places roaches might travel. Like mice, they
hug the walls.

This is what has worked for me.


I found what looked to be a empty egg casing this morning, and
where it hatched, it melted a dime-sized hole in the carpet.
Pretty scarry.

-sw

Leave the cobwebs in the closets alone. Your house spiders are very
effective in keeping the younger roaches cleaned up. I used to do that
in my apt. in Temple. It worked. I always found baby palmettos tangled
in the webs when I dusted periodically. I no longer have to do that
tho', that was back when I was in college.

Hope this helps?

You can also lay some 10% sevin along the outside of your foundation.
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Peace!
Om

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch"
-- Jack Nicholson

In addition to the cat - you might want to be sure that there are no leaves
or other debris (e.g. plywood sheets) near your foundation.

When we bought our house it had been owned by the neighborhood slumlord -
who only rented to illegals as he knew they wouldn't complain. In addition
to living with no hot water and faulty electric wiring, it was apparently
news to the tenants that the city of Austin came by once a week to collect
the trash. They'd been stacking it on the service porch for months (!)
Needless to say we had plenty of unwanted housemates. We concentrated on
cleaning & repairing the interior of the house at first; so didn't start to
see a decline in the large roaches coming in from outside until after we
started on the yard and cleaned the trash and debris from near the
foundation.
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Mike Harris
Austin, TX