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The presence of roaches in my home is worsening my addiction

tryptakid said:
That Diatomaceous Earth stuff is no joke. We used it to deal with an army of carpenter ants marching right into the foundation of our house. Stopped 'em dead. Also good to keep out other types of pests as well.

Sounds like you got some good solutions to deal with what you've got going on. I am really glad I don't have to deal with bugs like that, sorry you're going through it.

Keep us posted on your progress with the debuggification!
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So far, my fiance bought some stuff to spray the outside and inside perimeters of the hous and we bought some bug traps. He said when he sprayed outside, the started to scatter and crawl all over him. I've been seeing less of them, but we'll be getting the diatomaceous earth for good measure.
 
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Ds said:
I got these bigass water bug roaches. They come in between the bricks and honestly I have no clue. They are the big fucking roaches too. You can even put a saddle on everyone of them. I don't see any eggs or babies, just big ass flutter bots I like to call them. Sometimes I'll hear them fly around, and even though they are harmless, I like to aim the shower head at them while I'm in the shower. Give em a little splash of H2O. I know they are thirsty, but for what? I'm assuming it's water. Hense the water bug name. They don't seem to mind. Later in the day I'll find them upside down and dead as fuck. Like they are trying to live their best 30 minutes of life before they go to the upsidedown place.
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I hear the big ones aren't as bad about infesting houses. People usually call them water bugs because they're usually seen when the weather is humid and rainy. I think it's the little German cockroaches that are more problematic, but yes those big ones are fucking scary. I've only seen a couple of the big ones. The ones I've been seeing mostly are the little brownish, copper colored ones.
 
somnilicious said:
I had this problem but a lot worse. When I was in Highschool my mother decided to become a T.V quality hoarder. This also coincided with my heroin addiction. The house was so piled with shit that there were only tunnels to move from room to room. The roaches became an absolute infestation. You couldn't even get to the sink because of all the shit. There were dirty, moldy food, dishes everywhere. We had one bath for 5 people which we also had to wash the dishes in so everytime you wanted to take a shower you had to move the dishes out onto the floor first. Forget eating anything out of the fridge because it was so full of moldy food and roaches. My mom had a little chiwawa that ran out of the piles of garbage only to shit and piss on the floor and scurry back to another hiding spot. I got so strung out on heroin and Xanax that I could never make it past the withdrawal, PAWS and depression to get out. My mom was also extremely physicslly abusive. A bunch of other stuff was going on. Previous sexual abuse stuff. I tried to commit suicide so many times. I didn't think I'd ever get out. I still don't think I have.
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That kind of experience would leave me with severe PTSD. I'm sorry you had to endure that trauma.
 
jsinger said:
I can definitely relate to your fear of cockroaches. They used to paralyze me and hate missing when i attempt to kill ‘em usually with a shoe. The aftermath of smashing em is pretty gnarly too. However if I miss and it disappears I wont be able to do anything until it reappears and hopefully meets its demise
I think it’s a phobia bc it’s so much different from any other insect I’ve ever seen. I don’t like spiders but would much prefer a spider over a cock roach.
The antennas are a bit much too. Plus they fast and I just know it’s gonna go up my nostril or earhole if I don’t kill it.
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When I miss and they hide somewhere (and they hide well), I lose sleep just thinking it might come back to scare the shit outta me once I get comfortable.
 
Sweet Jane78 said:
Ugh 😩 I’m so sorry you’re having to deal with those disgusting things. They are the worst!
I’ve had them in my current house a few times. They took over the bathroom for a summer once. It was so scary to go in there and sit on the toilet and have to remove them from the shower before getting in. One time I was taking a shower and one fell down from the shower head on me! I screamed so loud and then smashed it about 10 times with a shampoo bottle.
I can barely even handle picking them up with tissue when they’re dead, thinking somehow they’ll come back to life.

I live in a house that was built in the late 1800s and it has a lot more cracks and crevices for them to get in through.
Also, we would only really get them in the summer when it was hot and they were looking for water.
Besides the shower incident, the worst was when I was sleeping and felt one crawling on me in bed/. I shot up and sent it flying, turned on the light and of course it had scurried away to hide. I was seriously panicked and started searching frantically for I don’t know how long.
Also when I’ve been high and awake in the middle of the night I’d get freaked out by any little thing and am on super high alert. In fact, I’m kinda starting to feel that way now.
Anyway, enough of my ramblings…

The happy ending is that I haven’t seen one in a couple of years, since discovering the diatomaceous earth! It really works!!!
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One landing on me while I'm sleeping is my worst fear. I'm definitely getting some diatomaceous earth. So far, I haven't seen near as many since we've sprayed everywhere and laid traps, but you never know. Those fuckers are resilient. People don't say "at the end of the world all that will be left are cockroaches and Mick Jagger" for no reason. They really are next to indestructible. Bedbugs are probably the only thing that's worse.
 
CFC said:
They're just cute little insects, think of them like fluffy cats or something, pet them and build them little playgrounds to have fun in. Admittedly I wouldn't really want them crawling all over me or anything, but they don't eat you.

Now bed bugs, on the other hand, are the Devil's spawn, and for them you may have to torch down your house.
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Nope. I want my home to be a very unwelcoming place for all bugs. But yeah, bedbugs are way worse. I've dealt with it once and they were way tougher to get rid of. The cockroaches already budged a bit since we treated the house and put up traps. The bedbug issue I dealt with didn't end until we called 2 exterminators and washed all our clothes on high heat and put them in sealed bags. That was a fucking nightmare.
 
paranoid android said:
They dont make drugs strong enough for me to tolerate roaches fuck sakes. I am scared shitless of bugs to so i feel your pain. Can you maybe get enough money for pest control?
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My fiance will have to pay for an exterminator if the diatomaceous earth doesn't end the problem. My money is for utility bills and drugs. He pays for the mortgage, homeowners insurance, and everything else. But yeah. They really don't make drugs strong enough to ignore the creepy crawly little bastards. It helps me not feel so anxious and scared, I suppose, but overall my entomophobia isn't going anywhere, unfortunately.
 
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4meSM said:
Have you called the exterminator already? If you're serious about getting rid of them, that's the only solution. Don't wait too long...
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If the diatomaceous earth doesn't help, I definitely will. Calling an exterminator is the last resort, unfortunately, since they aren't cheap.
 
FunctionalJnkieGrl said:
We have traps set out that are designed to infect any roach that approaches it and from there the whole colony becomes infected and dies once it returns. Or I think that's how it works.
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Have you tried just using sticky traps.. I'm a northern guy so I don't deal with roaches.. but I'm a master CC so I battle the fuck out with insects. sticky traps work surprisingly well. Sticky traps and make friends with them.. silly bugs that don't hurt you in any way?
 
neversickanymore said:
Have you tried just using sticky traps.. I'm a northern guy so I don't deal with roaches.. but I'm a master CC so I battle the fuck out with insects. sticky traps work surprisingly well. Sticky traps and make friends with them.. silly bugs that don't hurt you in any way?
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Couldn't hurt. I'll get some of those too. I found 1 sticky trap in the living room that was left here from the previous owner. There were bugs on it, so that's a plus that it's at least catching some here and there. On a more aggravating note, that tells me that he had a pest issue that he didn't bother mentioning to us, which pisses me off. That was kinda shitty of him, if you ask me. He could've been like "the guest-room plumbing is a little janky, the water heater needs to be replaced, and oh yeah, there's a roach problem". Just putting that out there could've saved us some trouble. We would've taken deterrent measures ASAP when we first moved in March, had we known. But no, we had to wait for the ugly little fuckers to make themselves known once the weather warmed up before we realized we had a problem. By now, the number of roaches we had then vs now might've doubled or tripled for all we know.
 
FunctionalJnkieGrl said:
If the diatomaceous earth doesn't help, I definitely will. Calling an exterminator is the last resort, unfortunately, since they aren't cheap.
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If you're seeing roaches on a regular basis then it most likely means that you have hundreds or even thousands more hidden, and they reproduce extremely quickly. These "home remedies" are cool and all... But they're not going to fix your problem unless you also got rid of all the potential food sources and fixed every single entry point to your house.
As I said, don't wait too long before calling the big guns (aka exterminator), even that won't always work if you got a major infestation.
 
i fuckin hate bugs


that's why i like where i live - not too many bugs


@somnilicious - palmetto bugs my ass - that's a nice name for a huge cockroach - one time, i was at a friend's house in FL and he had one in the kitchen that you could hear running across the floor, that's how big that thing was

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and im doubtful on the diatomaceous earth bacause that's like glass for bugs that don't have a shell - you pour it on top of where they come out of


i'd go with the sticky traps and nuke the house with No-Pest strips
 
Mr. Krinkle said:
and im doubtful on the diatomaceous earth bacause that's like glass for bugs that don't have a shell - you pour it on top of where they come out of


i'd go with the sticky traps and nuke the house with No-Pest strips
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Diatomaceous earth kills a variety of insects, including cockroaches, fleas, ticks, bed bugs and more.
As both a preventative measure and an insecticide, it’s a fantastic home remedy for killing roaches. It seems too good to be true… but diatomaceous earth really works!

How Does Diatomaceous Earth Kill Cockroaches?​


Diatomaceous earth powder is abrasive and breaks down the waxy layer of the cockroach’s hard exoskeleton, killing it through dehydration. When they walk through diatomaceous earth, roaches carry away some of the DE that clings to the tiny hairs on their legs. They typically die later, back at their nest.

Cockroach facts
 
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