Roaches In My Bedroom

[gyopsy]

I just moved into this new apartment complex. I'm a college student so the whole place is geared towards us. The place is nice and is only a few years old.

Last night, three nights after moving in I saw three or four roaches scurry across my bedroom floor. First one at about eleven, and then two more moving in the same direction about two hours later. Later, I saw all three of them on my computer desk.

I'm a really clean person and I highly doubt the roaches are my doing since I've been here so short a time. Now, I sleep in the living room. I'm afraid those bastards will be crawling all over me at night when I sleep! In fact, they already may have been.

[THUNDER HANDS]

1. hey

as long as they're paying rent, what's the big deal?

:)

[Skittles]

2. Contact the management

and request that your entire bulding get an extermination treatment. And don't think if you're super clean you won't have roaches. You'll just have super clean roaches.

[JHB]

3. Buy traps, call your landlord.

Put the traps in places you've seen them, and tell the landlordabout the problem.

Check with your neighbors, and have them do the same.

Thoroughly clean your place, lok for where they may be getting in & out, and keep your food sealed and/or in the fridge.

[maveric]

20. The traps (roach motels), dont work, save your money.

Home depot sells some super roach killer that you have to put in a pump can. Its a little pricey but you wont have to use it too often. It works!

[ThorsteinVeblen]

4. You won't have to worry about starving

Roaches roast rather nicely over candles. They taste good with a little tabasco or mixed in with Top Ramen - an exellent, lowfat, source of protein.

Since you are a college student, I would suggest using a spare mechincal penicl to skewer them.

[IADEMO2004]

5. Get a roach clip

Everyone had them in the 60's-70's and you won't drop them or burn your fingers

[gyopsy]

9. Good Idea

Spice them up with some tabasco sauce and cajuin spices. And after pour chocolate on them for dessert. :crazy:

[LynneSin]

6. Insist the entire building get exterminated

I'm fighting that with my management and it seems they'll end up doing one apartment at a time. Roaches will just move to another apartment until that one is done.

Mine stick to the kitchen so I've been fine. I did a semester of entomology ( the study of insects) so some reason I haven't been overly phased!

[radwriter0555]

7. Lemme Guess: Florida State University?

Biggest roaches you've ever seen?

[gyopsy]

8. University of Central Florida actually

but close. :-) The whole state of Florida is infested with those things!

[radwriter0555]

11. Yep, I knew it. Well those are PALMETTO bugs, and not really roaches

per se, in the traditional manner of genuine, nasty little cockroaches. They're more of a beetle.

They're the unofficial mascot of Northern and Central Florida.

You can use bug spray or traps. 3 isn't much actually, and they're rather friendly critters, but they MAY take the toaster oven if you aren't careful.

Honestly, it's a part of life there in the sub-tropics. There really isn't much you can do other than as suggested. They have nothing to do with sanitary conditions unless there is a genuine infestation. You just have some houseguests. It's not you or the landlord, it just IS.

We used to put glow in the dark paint on their backs and throw darts at them at night. Good sport.

[phatkatt]

10. If you have enough of them, break them up and roll a new one!

Easy ...

[sangh0]

12. Don't worry

Roaches are actually pretty clean (they don't transmit any adiseases to humans) and even better, they don't eat much.

They just pick!

[TSIAS]

13. That's really bad

Just imagine waking up with one of them on top of you. :scared:

[coda]

14. Get some Insecto

Not the fastest gun in the West, but effective.

[OrdinaryTa]

15. Put Down Boric Acid

Put down a trail of boric acid where they have to walk over it. It sticks to their legs, and they lick it off. In a short time you will have no roaches. Trust me on this.

I should mention that you never have three roaches. The roaches you see are the volunteers, the ones who take it for the team. You have at least 100 base camp roaches for every member of the reconnaissance squad.

There are objections to boric acid, but I'm not sure what they are. Roach powder is mostly boric acid anyhow.

[MissMarple]

17. I've heard of mixing boric acid with a little sugar.

The best you can do is keep them at bay with it, though. Monthly, professional pest control is the best way to get rid of them. I hate roaches. Also, keeping them out of the kitchen cabinets and the dresser drawers may be a thought.

[gyopsy]

16. Just got the Exterminator to come over

Thanx for everyone's help!

Boric Acid and Insectico aren't bad ideas at all. Nor is anyone else's. If the roaches show up again, believe me I'll be trying them. Thanks again.

[-..__...]

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[leftofthedial]

19. I had an apartment in college

and the first night in the joint, I went to the bathroom. I didn't turn on a light so I wouldn't wake the now Mrs. leftofthedial.

I'm sitting there in the dark, taking care of business and I hear this rustling sound and then something falls in my lap. I reach over to flip on the light and the overhead light fixture is black and crawling with roaches, to the point they are falling out over the edges of the glass dome. That's what landed in my lap.

I then went into the kitchen/living room area, where most of my stuff was still sitting in boxes and there must have been a million roaches on the walls, on the floor, fricking everywhere.

It looked like a scene from an Indiana Jones movie. I moved out the next day, got my rent and deposit back.

Now I live in Colorado, where the only bugs we get are West Nile mosquitos.

[Changenow]

21. You need good advice.

Go to the hardware store and buy Combat roach bait. Those little things are putting exterminators out of business. Buy about one box for every room. You will experience increased activity for a day or two and then the bugs will be history. My sister lived in a co-op in NYC and said they were her salvation.

[dazzle]

22. I can sympathize

Even after living in New Orleans for 6 years I still flip when I see one- I've learned that 409 kills them easily and other trick is to put a thin coating of bleach where the floor meets the wall. Good luck- you'll never get used to them!