No More Roaches

Step 7 How and where to use it

Using the popsicle stick, put a dab of the bait where roaches like to go - up high and near water. They also like to live in your home's walls so undo all of your switch plate covers and outlet covers and smear some on the back of the outlet cover itself. The bait is not sticky so I find it easier to put it in areas where it can sit so it won't fall off. After it dries out it becomes hard and stuck to where you stuck it.

Roaches like to bring food back to their colony and when they bring this food back it will kill lots and lots of roaches, roaches who never even scurried over to your house. This is disgusting but even if he's a greedy roach and just eats and does not share with his buds, when he poops back at the colony and his buds eat that poop they will die.

It took me most of a day to go all around my home looking for out-of-the-way places to place the bait, undoing all the switch plate covers took the longest. Pulling out the drawers in the kitchen was really easy because most of the time you can access the back of the drawer from the cabinet underneath. At my former house it used to take a crew of 2 guys, 4 hours to do the whole house.

The most important places are the pipes coming into your home either for your sinks or you washing machine and dishwasher. Attics and crawl spaces are prime roach habitat. Roaches have no bones so they can slip through the smallest sliver of space. It's gross.

Comments

[stripedstarfish]

 my  roach bait turned out extremely sticky - I probably used too much syrup... i am going ahead and placing it about the house... I'll let you know if it seems to work or if i just get many more roaches from feeding them and not killing them.  here's hopin' it works :) thanks!

[Ninzerbean]

It's going to work, but let me know anyway. I LOVE being roach free. But, wait, can't you just add more boric acid powder to un-sticky it?

[Ivriniel]

Um, roaches aren't social insects so they don't form colonies.

[Ninzerbean]

I just did a Google search on roaches being social and there were many hits - too many to just list one, but really you can look there if you want proof. I put as the headline "roaches are social?" I hope this will convince you. It's one of the reasons they are easy to kill. If you had to kill one at time without their help in bringing poison back to the colony you would never make a dent.

[Ninzerbean]

Yeah they are and yeah they do. Being that I saw a colony move one night I know this is true - a river of roaches - millions? Who knows. But check out LittleWolf's comments and some others, they attest to the social and colony stuff.