Cockroaches

irishguitarlad

Just after finding two cockroaches, what should I do?could there be a nest of them?bastards fled into the wall.

Atlantic Dawn

If your in Ireland I'd suspect your neighbours are dirty as feck and I'd consider moving/selling out.

irishguitarlad

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

If your in Ireland I'd suspect your neighbours are dirty as feck and I'd consider moving/selling out.

Nah im in spain.

cumulonimbus

Check your luggage before you go home in case they decide to hitch a ride back to Ireland with you.

irishguitarlad

cumulonimbus wrote: »

Check your luggage before you go home in case they decide to hitch a ride back to Ireland with you.

Haha i doubt they'd survive in the harsh climate of easht kerry

seamusk84

irishguitarlad wrote: »

Haha i doubt they'd survive in the harsh climate of easht kerry

Those bastrads can survive and multiply anywhere. 100% check your bags fully before coming home.
Then check them again in your back yard before unpacking in the house.

Canis Lupus

irishguitarlad wrote: »

Just after finding two cockroaches, what should I do?could there be a nest of them?bastards fled into the wall.

Not much you can do really. We have them here in Australia. Naïve but I never realised the f*ckers could fly... If you've no fly screens on the windows they'll come in that way.

Auldloon

Borax from the pharmacy. Mix it with flour or cocoa powder and put a bit in corners of room.

Alf Stewart.

irishguitarlad wrote: »

Nah im in spain.

When it rains there, does it stay mainly on the plain?

Grandeeod

irishguitarlad wrote: »

Nah im in spain.

Perfectly normal there and they are not a sign of dirt.

Speedwell

Auldloon wrote: »

Borax from the pharmacy. Mix it with flour or cocoa powder and put a bit in corners of room.

Seconding this. Worked on Texas cockroaches too. Don't use too much of the "food" type additives or it will attract ants and other pests. Treat all cracks and crevices, including around drains, where the roaches might be entering. Clean well and treat inside kitchen cabinets. Ideally the roaches will take the powder back to the nest, where it will continue its work. A picnic ketchup bottle (the kind with the pointed nozzle) works well.

Powdered diatomaceous earth (that is what it is called) is also effective and non-toxic. It has a mechanical, not poisonous, mode of action, though it may make roaches more vulnerable to other poisons.

Don't leave food or drink crumbs or spills around, and wash all dishes immediately after you eat. Keep all of your food closed inside bugproof containers. Don't let moisture sit around, either. Check the pet dishes frequently. You may be spotlessly clean on the whole but the roaches will find a way.

HalloweenJack

Are they the flting variety?

If not, consider yourself lucky.

SuperTortoise

irishguitarlad wrote: »

Just after finding two cockroaches, what should I do?could there be a nest of them?bastards fled into the wall.

1. Hire 200T crane for the day
2. Knock house to the ground
3. Buy one of these http://colitz.com/site/4608967/fig1.gif


On a more serious note buy a trap for them? Don't they make some of those fly traps but for cockroaches?

It's not that true that once you see one, you're feked. Killed a big feker a few days ago and haven't seen anything since.

I miss the days when I thought they didn't fly.

irishguitarlad

I said it to my flatmates but they dont seem too fussed, i think we should chip in and buy the borax as two means there is more. Thank **** im moving out of this flat in september.

paleoperson

Have sex with them.

suicide_circus

paleoperson wrote: »

Have sex with them.

That's cockPOACHERS youre thinking of

Could be worse. You could have come back from a long-established restaurant and then googled it and the first word to appear after the restaurant's name in the helpful Google suggestions was "cockroaches", and a decidedly sickly feeling upon reading a newspaper report of what health inspectors found there in 2014, the “extensive infestation of cockroaches.... Many dead cockroach bodies were noted throughout the premises . . . A live cockroach was observed walking across the over-counter refrigeration unit..."

For this, they were closed down for two weeks, two paltry weeks.

Hunchback

Not going to lie, I didn't even know that you could get cockroaches in Ireland. Or can you? I know the OP said they were in Spain, but the other posters?

Hunchback

Well, I'll be damned <http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056058315>

I've never seen one in Ireland though

policarp

irishguitarlad wrote: »

Just after finding two cockroaches, what should I do?could there be a nest of them?bastards fled into the wall.

There is a product called "Zum" which can be bought in a lot of fereterias or supermarkets that are good for keeping cockroaches at bay. It is applied at doors, windows, kitchen, bathroom and anywhere the beggars might appear.
It's smelly, so might want to do it in the morning and go to the beach for the day. It works.

the evasion_kid

Can of lynx and a lighter...though last time i did that it shot out a load of eggs from its back passage..

policarp

the evasion_kid wrote: »

Can of lynx and a lighter...though last time i did that it shot out a load of eggs from its back passage..

There is an urban myth which suggests that if you stomp on a female pregnant cockroach you will carry the eggs into your house.

the evasion_kid

policarp wrote: »

There is an urban myth which suggests that if you stomp on a female pregnant cockroach you will carry the eggs into your house.

This was freaky,it was in some fleapit in Bangkok,a place were cockroaches are near the size of cats.the instant the flame touched it,it ejaculated it eggs and keeled over and died

entropi

Burn the house down. Fire, and lots of it...it's the only option.

Rothmans

I've never come across a cockroach thankfully. But more than once cockchafers have flown into the house frightening the life out of me. They fly extremely fast!! They look similar to cockroaches .

Also AFAIK Cockchafers aren't pests like cockroaches.

SuperS54

Big spray bottle of alcohol (>75%) and spray it on when they appear, it seeps through their shell and poisons them. Should also be able to buy sticky traps that you can place on likely runs. As already pointed out they tend to drop their young when close to death so avoid stamping or squishing them if possible, often times the sticky trap will have a large cockroach and 10's of babies...

Tenorio

I have a small property in Spain and had a huge problem with cockroaches which I resolved conclusively by laying a couple of Bosque Verde "Trampas Matacucarachas"bought in Mercadona supermarket-I presume these are available in any Mercadona supermarket for a couple of euros.Simply place on ground,cockroaches imbibe,carry back to nest,end of problem for me,have not seen one since.Not to be used with children around;safety instructions are in Spanish as you would expect,nothing too heavy really but best get a Spanish speaker to assist if you dont read Spanish.Other supermarkets/ferretarias should offer something similar;simply say or proffer note "Busco algo para matar a cucarachas" ("I am looking for something to kill cockroaches")if you dont speak Spanish.Safety instructions have no reference to pets(except fish)but common sense would suggest caution in this regard.if relevant.While I found this product effective,cannot guarantee would work for you or indeed accept any responsibility as a result of this recommendation offered in an attempt to be helpful-you should familiarise yourself with safety instructions and follow as required if you decide to try product or something similar

cowboyBuilder

I f*cking hate the c*nts, we keep the place spic and span - havent seen one in a year untill yesterday saw a dead one in my sons room.

I gave him a dignified burial (flushed down the jacks)

I must re bait the place - there is always an explosion of them in the summer months here.

It's funny, cos a beetle wouldn't bother me in the slightest, he just plods along - but a cockroach :mad::mad:

Don't know is it cos the skitter about the place or those freaky antennae ..

Winterlong

Move out and burn the house and everything in it before you leave. No point in taking any chances with them.
I hate those bastards. Especially when you can hear them walking across a wooden floor. Freaks me out!

cowboyBuilder

Think of this, in 4-5 billion years when the sun grows into a red giant, the last living thing on this baked about to be destroyed rock will be a cockroach..

Speedwell

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

Think of this, in 4-5 billion years when the sun grows into a red giant, the last living thing on this baked about to be destroyed rock will be a cockroach..

In 4-5 billion years, cockroaches will probably be following the Prime Directive.

jimgoose

It's a common misconception that cockroaches will survive the upcoming thermonuclear holocaust and outlive us all. They aren't exceptionally tolerant of radiation as insects go, such as the common fruit-fly. They also have a certain amount of bad press - they're not particularly dirty either. Except Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches, they be some bad muddafukkas. Ever seen "Alien"? Like that only with germs.

Duggy747

Eat it, they're really crunchy and gooey

2smiggy

blast them with piss ?

ScumLord

The only insects left in my house are spiders. Industrious feckers so they are. I go around taking down cobwebs about once a week, sometimes I'll wake up in the morning and they'll have webbed the doors so I get covered in cobwebs walking through them. We've reached a compromise now, they've promised to stop trying to eat me and take over the kitchen and I've promised to stop destroying their civilization once a week. They keep the place clear of everything else though.

Kimbot

Just tell them to pay up some rent of come back in september when your gone

jamesbere

ScumLord wrote: »

The only insects left in my house are spiders. Industrious feckers so they are. I go around taking down cobwebs about once a week, sometimes I'll wake up in the morning and they'll have webbed the doors so I get covered in cobwebs walking through them. We've reached a compromise now, they've promised to stop trying to eat me and take over the kitchen and I've promised to stop destroying their civilization once a week. They keep the place clear of everything else though.

Yeah I've the same arrangement with the spider's in my place, they leave me alone, I'll leave them alone. There can be some tense stand offs at times the peace is still lasting.

Cee-Jay-Cee

No other option but to burn all your possessions including what your currently wearing along with the entire house and any adjoining buildings.

arayess

al pacino says cockroach in a wonderful way in scarface

josip

Squash them with a hurley OP.
That's what we did in Australia when we had a small cockroach infestation.

Olishi4

Went away to Spain on holiday when I was a teen and there were a few. We saw one or two in the apartment.

My parents and aunt were wrecking my head because they kept speaking in awful broken Spanish a bit like Del Boy's French, to annoy me. I was in a bit of a moody teenage stage so they were trying to wind me up. Every time they saw a cockroach, they'd say in a very bad attempt at a Spanish accent "a La Cucaracha".

We met a lad there who had actually been bitten by one on his eyelid. He was sleeping and woke up with it on his eye! His eye was in bits.