Cockroach

My dad's place got infested with them and he had to have an exterminator come in twice to get rid of them. They are so gross looking.

We use the traditional method: stepping on them. I haven't seen any of these chemical tablets in our supermarket... I wonder where I can get them..

There is Baygon spray which we use. Cockroaches breed in sewage pipelines. Therefore, one should close the WCs, wash basin naini traps, all openings leading to water and sewage lines everyday night before one gets into bed. Cockroaches also breed in dark places, in the cabins below the countertop of kitchen. Also one should take care not to drop the food particles om the floor.

Dear friend.. Personally i am against killing anything.. be it a cockroach or any other insect or an animal whatever it may be.. and so, use of artificial chemical tablets i never thought of. If at all i am compelled to a situation as you have experienced, i would try to find what is the root cause of huge number of cockroaches coming to the flat,probably accumulated dusts in the shelves, or bad odour from the drianage or a pungent smell from the toilets, or something like that would have caused the cockroaches to come. And therefore i will try to find out the reasons and will remove this, once if this is done, the problem get solved.

I use the insect spray.

I hate cockroaches. There was a time I smashed one of it and it's still alive. I chop its head off but it's still moving. I think they are some kind of zombie thing. Days after, I bought some rat glues, not to fight the rats, but cockroach. They usually hid at the corner and the beside the wall. So, I stick the glue to some thick papers and placed it at the corner. To my surprise, it worked! I just throw the paper away with the cockroach. I think the cockroach will be lucky if it can survive after stucked with the glue. Hahaha... :) Btw... I feel glad to be back after my long holiday.. :) It's been very long since I replied your discussion, william. :) Thanks!

My neighbour used some chemical tablets...which are apparently safe even if a pet or a child swallows it. The person who put it actually swallowed one and showed her. In a few months, there were no cockroaches in her house. Even the eggs were ineffective. I think she continued with the treatment for a year (just to be on the safe side) and then stopped.

It has always been controversial to decide whether to kill the innocent creatures as they are going just for food. We could only blame them that they are so stupid that they couldn’t be able to distinguish between right or wrong lol... I normally don’t kill them with poisonous baits or chemicals. Other than for religious respect one practical reason is that I worry that the creatures might carry the poison along with their bodies especially their legs and contaminate our food consequently. I try to keep no food for them, hopping that they would migrate to other environment. Oh, jisir, why killing cockroaches with such effective weapon? One day they might alert you of earthquakes (you had experienced twice) and tsunami lol... (Do kindly take the above as a joke. Jokes always make life joyful.)

I'm blessed, we don't get Cockroaches very often here where I live. If we do, they aren't usually very big. We just use Borax Crystals or leave our home with the heat off for 2 or 3 days in the winter. I wouldn't want to spray anything or burn anything to kill them. I would worry that it could make my family or I sick. I'm glad you got rid of them, I hope they don't come back.

I don't have big cockroaches at home. Here occasionally we have very small cockroaches at home. However, I think they are worse than the big ones. People say these cockroaches are from overseas. It's hard to remove them. The medical chalk can't get rid of them. I bought a special medicine which looks like a needle to kill them. Just squeeze a little bit medicine from this needle and put it to the drawer corner. Then your home will be silent for some time. But it seems you will never get rid of this kind of small cockroaches completely. After a season, they will be back. I love China

i hate cockroach hehehe. we use spray to kill them. then in the morning we will see lots of cockroach lying on the floor hehehe.

Hi williamjisir! We don't have chemical tablets here and I do heard that when insects or cockroaches are sprayed regularly with the same chemical, they tend to develop some immunity over the sprays, I really don't know for sure but I am using insecticides/sprays with different brands alternately to confuse them(LOL!) and so to avoid cockroaches from mulitplying. Haha...Have a nice day and take care.

Wow,too many cockroaches!I saw one or two occasional in front of my doorstep dying!I believe they're killed the kinda chemical tablets just as you mentioned put by the admin of our garden.It was the end of Aug,I killed one in my kitchen using my baboosh!So,I've bought the tablets from supermarket,however,never caught one from the moment the tablets on...Just wonder if they've the function to detect chemical smell?Funny!!

I wish I could have the name of the tablets if you allow me to know it. I want to buy that tablet as I hate also the cockroaches and sometimes drop to my shoulder. Then after it flew the area that it drops so itchy . I am sure there are many germs came from it. Hope you will also share me the exact name of it I did not hear this in our place so far.

in my old apartment same thing we got lot of cockroach, but we go & buy like a chewing gum, i cannot remember the name they just out in each corner in my apartment, just suddenly they all gone. in that time we just pay one time little bit expensive but it work,

I use mothballs, I dont know that some tablets can do it. If I see cockroaches around I will either hunt them down or just spread mothballs around the house they won't show up anymore. I never see cockroaches here though, but once I saw a tiny mouse trying to get in when the river bank reached high time and destroyed its home. That's it. I guess my cat needs more toys.

Unlike many people, I'm not afraid of cockroaches. In fact, my youngest sibling even gave me a name being the "roach killer" because I kill them everytime I have the opportunity. The only time I get afraid of them is when do they fly and land or crawl over my skin. Honestly, there are plenty of roaches inside the house. They easily multiply even if you kill them regularly. I guess this is due to the fact that whenever they lay their eggs, these contain more than ten offsprings. I learned this from watching shows in the National Geographic channel. But now that you've mentioned it, I discovered from you that they do come to life again if they are not stepped down. I'm a bit confused because some say that stepping them down isn't adviseable because this will only make the germs from the cockroaches spread, thus spreading disease all over. But admittedly, I do step on them or kill them with slippers sometimes. When I do a general cleaning when I'm in the mood or have much energy and time, I make it a point to check up on areas in the house which are rather dark and crowded, because I know they are hiding there and laying their eggs there, too. And I do flush their eggs in the toilet bowl, hatched or unhatched. I believe that somehow, I could kill these unborn roaches by drowning them. We rarely buy chemical sprays but it's partly because I don't want to use them regularly as there are studies that these chemicals do some damage to our environment. We refrain from using these specially if our daughter is with us in the house. Also, they are costly or expensive.

I suggest you try my secret weapon against cockroaches. Instead of using harmful sprays or smokes, I use the magic chalk. This chalk does not only kills cockroaches, but also other insects like ants, etc. Cockroaches often take some time to die. If you find them still alive, try to leave them alone. If you can't help your self from killing them, try pouring on them boiling hot waters. Hehehe very brutal for the cockroach.