Can I just get gummy roaches instead?  You do know that roaches will eat the corpse of a dead roach so they might decide to help me. 

Edited June 21, 201511 yr by shellylh

I suggest releasing frogs in the house as a natural enemy of the roaches. If the frogs get out of control add snakes. If snakes take over bring in the mongooses. Etc.

When I was little, we went on vacation in the Bahamas. There was a huge roach in the shower, so I picked up my brother's shoe and threw it at it. I missed, of course, but the roach ran right into the shoe to hide -- problem solved.

Ric:  I have heard that you are supposed to release geckos.  They are cute but frogs are cute too.  Oposums also each roaches (as well as rats and mice) - they can be cute.  

 

Edited June 21, 201511 yr by shellylh

you should definitely release a bunch of opossums in your house

Due to information on Google / YouTube, and a delivery from Amazon today,

Replaced this

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With this

And this

Thanks internets!

EDIT: and yes I did remove the plastic bags, first

Edited June 21, 201511 yr by Grahame

Speaking of killing - came close to doing so to a drone whose pilot evidently thought he'd improve his remote piloting skills (was several hundred yards away and obviously using a camera) flying low under, over and around play structures in a populated childrens park. Dude?

Also had fun at a park.

Had an awesome father's day weekend and I am taking today off.

Spent the day at and around Caltech (Shelly jealous).  

 

Today is the first day of a week long fencing camp run by an impressive (for me) list of fencing coaches. Two Caltech fencing team coaches,the former Notre Dame head coach and former Olympic foil coach, and another former Notre Dame foil coach.  Very nice caring people who all share a genuine love for the sport. Color me impressed and grateful.

I miss tops burgers near cal tech, their "Kobe" burger made me gain silly amounts of weight over the course of 3 months

While I do like visiting Caltech Greg, I was an undergrad at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

I know, but the Cali crew wants you to be jealous and move to Pasadena to be close to the hugging source.  

 

I will look for Tops burgers but Burgers and Pies might win out, we heard they are numba' one.

Edited June 24, 201511 yr by Augsburger

I have found a few of those around the house lately (and also some live millipedes).  It's probably because of all the rain we've had this year. 

 

You really sprayed after finding one earwig?  Except for bed bugs, it takes quite a few before I take action.  Also, rats and mice, if I found one, I would not be happy. 

Edited June 24, 201511 yr by shellylh

I thought you loved Phantom. 

Which is safer?  I'm guessing Alpine? 

I guess yes, I meant for mammals, large mammals. 

I wonder how well the Alpine Gel bait work on cockroaches. 

Crap.  I just went in my bedroom to go to bed.  There was a giant cockroach on the ceiling.  I tried to get it with the flyswatter and it just flew onto my neck/back.  I was crawling around looking for it and felt something crawling on me.  I couldn't get it off.  Fuck.  I guess they aren't all dead yet.  They one was very alive and healthy.  

Wait, you have vampire cockroaches?

Bug Spray?

Demon Max was used which I thought worked pretty quickly. Perhaps the roach had just come directly out of the wall and had not reached the area with the poison. I did realize that the electrician had done a poor job putting the wall plate back on the wall when he was here a few weeks ago. There was certainly enough room for cockroaches to come through that area. I've fixed that so hopefully it will help.

Isn't dust only supposed to be sprayed in cracks and crevices or under carpet. We did have Alpine dust put under the carpet and in light fixtures when we had the bed bugs. That stuff is no longer working I'm sure.

I have this slight fear that the roaches have become resistant to the Demon Max.... That wouldn't be fun.

We've been having the same guy spray 4 times a year for 9 years. He's probably been using the same stuff the entire time. They can't become somewhat resistant in that time?

Just came back from going to a beach with the family. Great time was had by all (including myself and I don't like beaches).

We've been having the same guy spray 4 times a year for 9 years. He's probably been using the same stuff the entire time. They can't become somewhat resistant in that time?

I would think so.  Ask him (not the roach, the pestilencectomy guy), it'd be interesting to see what he says, first in response to your question, then once you tell him that people on the internet are telling you "yes they can".