RE: Moving and Leaving The Cockroaches Behind
Terdralynn is correct. Boric acid kills 100% of roaches and it's cheap. You can mix in a little powdered sugar if you want or even add some flour and make balls out of it.
The plain powder works really well because the roaches are like cats and clean themselves so they will ingest it and the rest of the colony will eat the dead body and kill themselves from the contamination. It is dangerous to pets and children so keep it away from them.
Posted on 11/04/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse
RE: Moving and Leaving The Cockroaches Behind
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By Jonathan. (Guest Post)
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UGH, I'm so frustrated. I recently moved from a roach infested apartment. I went from living alone to having 4 roommates in a big house. I took all the precautions I could, we bombed my apartment the day before I moved. Got rid of everything I didn't need (couches,microwave etc) I put my computer in a vacume suctioned bag and left it in there for a week after moving...set it up, and since then I have seen 5 roaches. 4 of them were small, and I killed them, but one of my roommates found a full size one in the kitchen last night!!! I don't know what I have to do now to alleviate this problem, I did put out some roach motels and some borax stuff...I'm screwed.
Posted on 09/16/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse
RE: Moving and Leaving The Cockroaches Behind
I have roaches and were moving in one week to a roach free apartment and I'm scared of bringing roaches through my computer and x-box 360, but there to expensive to leave behind. What would I have to do to make sure there safe to bring with us.
Posted on 02/24/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse
RE: Moving and Leaving The Cockroaches Behind
I am moving from a cockroach apartment to a cockroach-free place in a few weeks. Our bugs arent bad...yet. We usually see two or 3 a night in the bathroom or kitchen. Our plan, since my roommate and I are only moving across town, is to place boxes in my truck AS WE PACK THEM, checking every item carefully for roaches, and then drive them across town as soon as we have a truckload. i.e. get everything bug free out of the house as soon as its ready to go. Hopefully this works.
We're throwing out the toaster and the microwave.
Editor's Note: They also hide in other electronics, radios, tvs, etc. We moved once from a cockroach house and watched the babies hatch from the radio for about a month afterward.
Posted on 10/10/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse
RE: Moving and Leaving The Cockroaches Behind
Bomb before you pack, after, and a third time in you're in the new place. Open up and check everything! Especially electronics!
Posted on 02/02/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse
RE: Moving and Leaving The Cockroaches Behind
Roaches and more importantly roach egg capsules are usually successfully transported to new living quarters inside of electrical appliances; toasters, microwaves, electric can openers, computers, TV's, the cable box. And you can't clean inside of those. So do all of the common sense things but in most cases you will transport some of them with you. Most people don't realize that pesticides do not kill the egg capsules that roaches produce. So best to use Maxforce or Combat every where and keep it fresh every 30 days. Good luck
Posted on 10/15/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse
RE: Moving and Leaving The Cockroaches Behind
When we moved into our first home I got up in the middle of the night, turned on the light and black things went everywhere. I used several professional companys with no luck. I asked my Daddy what to do and he said "Sister the only way to get rid of them and keep them gone is to put out Combat every 90 days."
I did and it's been 17 roach free years. I like the fact that they are also safe around my babies. (my dogs lol)
Good Luck
Posted on 09/06/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse
RE: Moving and Leaving The Cockroaches Behind
they love stacks of newspapers and paper grocery bags, so toss your collection, and start fresh.
Posted on 09/05/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse
RE: Moving and Leaving The Cockroaches Behind
When I moved from a place that was crawling with cockroaches, I sprayed an ant and roach killer along the sides on the inside of the boxes, then packed them. I made sure that all my food was placed in plastic containers, and I didn't spray the boxes it was going into. I surrounded the outsides of all the boxes with boric acid powder, and I left the boxes in the middle of the floor until we could move them the next morning. We didn't take one cockroach with us, and I haven't had cockroaches in 23 years. I also wouldn't take anything I didn't have to take, to reduce your chances of carrying anything. You may also want to put some boric acid powder in your new home (cupboards, where you'll put the fridge and stove, bathroom cabinets, etc.) just in case any escape your original efforts. Boric acid is the only thing I trust to get rid of roaches, and it's cheap.
TerryfromChilliOH
Posted on 09/02/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse
RE: Moving and Leaving The Cockroaches Behind
Nope, it wasn't borax, it was boric acid.
I was going to suggest you bug bomb the new place, too, but I would warn you there is a limit you will reach of the toxicity generated if you bomb the moving van and also the new place.
Posted on 09/01/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse
RE: Moving and Leaving The Cockroaches Behind
After you've packed your truck, set off a "bug bomb" or two and seal the truck up overnight (don't drive the truck with a "bomb" going off!). That should kill any bugs that may be hiding in furniture or boxes. You'll probably have to repeat the process at your new place about a week later to take care of any new bugs that may hatch afterwards.
Posted on 09/01/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse
RE: Moving and Leaving The Cockroaches Behind
When we moved years ago, we had problems, also with a bug, NOT cockroaches. In order not to carry them with us, I washed everything and immediately packed it and took it out of the house NOW. It worked. Food... took cereal out of containers, put into new ziploc bags I had just bought....canned goods, washed the containers.
Tupperware worked great. I knew what was inside and it was good so I just washed the container and packed it immediately and got it out of our home ASAP.
Could you do something like that?
Posted on 08/31/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse
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