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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. -- Peace! Om "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch" -- Jack Nicholson |
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You went to college in Temple?
With hope and heart, Kathleen -- You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life or death to you. ~ C.S.Lewis "OmManiPadmeOmelet" wrote in message ... In article , 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. -- Peace! Om "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch" -- Jack Nicholson |
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"Kathleen" wrote: You went to college in Temple? With hope and heart, Kathleen -- You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life or death to you. ~ C.S.Lewis Just my Senior year... I graduated from Texas State here in San Marcos but at that time, the senior clinical rotation for BS-MT's was at the hospitals in Temple so I had to move there for that last year. -- Peace! Om "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch" -- Jack Nicholson |
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"OmManiPadmeOmelet" wrote in message
... In article , 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. -- 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. -- Mike Harris Austin, TX |
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* Steve Wertz wrote, On 7/24/2006 10:32 AM:
I figured they were probably Palmetto Bugs - a somewhat glamorous name for a huge, ugly cockroach. They don't hang out in the kitchen any more than they do any other area of the house, it's just that I find them in such odd spots (like flinging off the ceiling fan in my room when I turn it on, or under paperwork next to the computer). I went out and got a 25lb bag of something to spread around the foundation, and some Ortho stuff for inside around vent/pipe/door openings. I couldn't find any of the stuff you mentioned at either Home Depot or Lowes. I did find some Sevin powder, but that required a duster (which they didn't have, and I probably wouldn't have invested in anyway). -sw I haven't been seeing any lately, except a dead one on the floor. My weiner dog got it. She's a roacher! |
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"Steve Wertz" wrote in message
... I couldn't find any of the stuff you mentioned at either Home Depot or Lowes. I did find some Sevin powder, but that required a duster (which they didn't have, and I probably wouldn't have invested in anyway). -sw Big box store? Well, there's your problem right there! G Insecticide duster - old nylon stocking and a stick... -- Mike Harris ....who HAS been known to frequent Lowes Depot on occasion Austin, TX |
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"Mike Harris" wrote: 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. -- Mike Harris Austin, TX Good advice. That works for scorpions and rodents too. -- Peace! Om "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch" -- Jack Nicholson |
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Steve Wertz wrote: On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:19:44 -0500, OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote: In article , 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. I figured they were probably Palmetto Bugs - a somewhat glamorous name for a huge, ugly cockroach. They don't hang out in the kitchen any more than they do any other area of the house, it's just that I find them in such odd spots (like flinging off the ceiling fan in my room when I turn it on, or under paperwork next to the computer). lol I can empathize! When I lived in Temple, I'd generally see them running across the ceiling when I got home from work and turned on the light in my Apt. Once I started using the roach tablets, I started finding dead ones in the middle of the livingroom and kitchen floors instead. ;-) I went out and got a 25lb bag of something to spread around the foundation, and some Ortho stuff for inside around vent/pipe/door openings. I couldn't find any of the stuff you mentioned at either Home Depot or Lowes. I did find some Sevin powder, but that required a duster (which they didn't have, and I probably wouldn't have invested in anyway). -sw The nice thing about the Echols roach tablets is that they are not very toxic. All they are is a Boric Acid bait tablet. You can also make your own boric acid baits. Those can be googled. :-) I get mine at HEB. The home improvement centers don't carry them. They are cheap and are pretty effective... but not as effective as cats. G -- Peace! Om "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch" -- Jack Nicholson |
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Cindy wrote: * Steve Wertz wrote, On 7/24/2006 10:32 AM: I figured they were probably Palmetto Bugs - a somewhat glamorous name for a huge, ugly cockroach. They don't hang out in the kitchen any more than they do any other area of the house, it's just that I find them in such odd spots (like flinging off the ceiling fan in my room when I turn it on, or under paperwork next to the computer). I went out and got a 25lb bag of something to spread around the foundation, and some Ortho stuff for inside around vent/pipe/door openings. I couldn't find any of the stuff you mentioned at either Home Depot or Lowes. I did find some Sevin powder, but that required a duster (which they didn't have, and I probably wouldn't have invested in anyway). -sw I haven't been seeing any lately, except a dead one on the floor. My weiner dog got it. She's a roacher! Pets seem to think that Palmetto bugs make great toys eh? lol My cats love the damned things. -- Peace! Om "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch" -- Jack Nicholson |
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"Mike Harris" wrote: "Steve Wertz" wrote in message ... I couldn't find any of the stuff you mentioned at either Home Depot or Lowes. I did find some Sevin powder, but that required a duster (which they didn't have, and I probably wouldn't have invested in anyway). -sw Big box store? Well, there's your problem right there! G Insecticide duster - old nylon stocking and a stick... -- Mike Harris ...who HAS been known to frequent Lowes Depot on occasion Austin, TX You can also use a quart jar with holes poked in the lid...... QED. -- Peace! Om "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch" -- Jack Nicholson |
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