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Cockroaches

  • 06-06-2016 04:00AM
    #1
    irishguitarlad
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    Just after finding two cockroaches, what should I do?could there be a nest of them?bastards fled into the wall.


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  • #2
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,596 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


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


  • #3
    irishguitarlad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭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.


  • #4
    cumulonimbus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 344 ✭✭cumulonimbus


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


  • #5
    irishguitarlad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭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


  • #6
    seamusk84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 898 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #7
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭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.


  • #8
    Auldloon
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    Borax from the pharmacy. Mix it with flour or cocoa powder and put a bit in corners of room.


  • #9
    Alf Stewart.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,789 ✭✭✭Alf Stewart.


    irishguitarlad wrote: »
    Nah im in spain.

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


  • #10
    Grandeeod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    irishguitarlad wrote: »
    Nah im in spain.

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


  • #11
    Speedwell
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    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.


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  • #12
    HalloweenJack
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    Are they the flting variety?

    If not, consider yourself lucky. :(


  • #13
    SuperTortoise
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    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?


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • #15
    irishguitarlad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭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.


  • #16
    paleoperson
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    Have sex with them.


  • #17
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    paleoperson wrote: »
    Have sex with them.

    That's cockPOACHERS youre thinking of


  • #18
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,094 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • #19
    Hunchback
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    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?


  • #20
    Hunchback
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    Well, I'll be damned <http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056058315>

    I've never seen one in Ireland though


  • #21
    policarp
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    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.


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  • #22
    the evasion_kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭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..


  • #23
    policarp
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    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.


  • #24
    the evasion_kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭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


  • #25
    entropi
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    Burn the house down. Fire, and lots of it...it's the only option.


  • #26
    Rothmans
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    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.


  • #27
    SuperS54
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    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...


  • #28
    Tenorio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭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


  • #29
    cowboyBuilder
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    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 ..


  • #30
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭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!


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  • #31
    cowboyBuilder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭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..


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