Tenant wants a new fridge. We had exterminators come in the past and they all say the place is dirty. It’s been a few months she has not let a exterminator in
Now this….
Is this treatable? I really don’t want to buy another fridge we just got a new rubber casket and repaired the cooling 6 months ago. It still works fine.
hi, does this look like a German nymph? I am really struggling to tell. found on my work desk after 2 weeks away. sorry, it was so small that this was the best photo I could get.
location is Perth WA
Been seeing 2-4 of the bad boys a day for a while now but my landlord insists they’re all water bugs not cockroaches. Are they right or just unwilling to pay for an exterminator?
I’m torn somewhere between German and Asian
The only reason I slightly consider Asian is because when I was cleaning up the mulch, I saw a couple that ran like towards the porch, maybe two days ago. It’s been nice weather so I have been leaving the doors open so I’m hoping that this is just an Asian that’s walked in.
Hi! So I live in a ground floor studio apartment in New Mexico and when the weather warmed I started getting Turkestan roaches (catching maybe 5 - 6 a week).
I tried bait and all that but eventually I bought Alpine WSG and that stuff is amazing! Activity dropped and I caught like 2 nymphs and found 1 dead adult over the last 3 weeks.
However last night, THREE adults appeared in my kitchen. Two were in traps and one dead on the floor. Three in one night?? How does that even happen?
I checked the weather and last night we seemed to have like an overnight freeze? It got to 40°F overnight.
Is this worth panicking over or was it because of the cold? Is this normal? Should I retreat everything or is it too soon?
Found this morning in Louisiana. Another subreddit identified it as possibly a Bilunate Cockroach. Would like a second or third opinion before I start to really panic.
So to make an extremely long story short me and my gf moved into a house with the owner, kitchen is infested and the first night they were crawling on my gf’s face while we were trying to sleep so we left to her grandparents place. Fairly certain they’re German roaches by the ooth’s I’ve seen. But I am a collector of vintage clothes, and boots. I have a lot of 100% denim jeans and a large collection of old doc martens ranging from the 80’s into the 2000’s and I’m concerned about accidentally having hitchhikers. We plan to go back to the house Tuesday (all our possessions have been there since Wednesday the 15th) and grab all the expensive clothes and boots and a few other items, but I’m stressed about bringing the evil things with me. The Alpine and IGR won’t arrive till 21st-22nd. What’s the best course of action to make triply sure I don’t bring them with me while we stay at my gf’s grandparents house
We live in a small RV. Just saw a baby roach after months of no activity. I’m reordering Alpine, gel bait, and glue traps. I cant pull our fridge out, and there’s a breaker under it that has crevices around it as well. I can’t spray in there, so what’s the best course of action? I used gel bait all around it in the past, but it dried before it caught anything. Also, would it be worth it to remove our mattress and spray where our bed is, and in our mini closets? I’ve never seen any activity there.
Additionally, how often should I spray? Since we’ve gone weeks without seeing any before, I don’t know if no activity for a while is a good sign for me to stop, or if I should keep up maintenance. Thanks.
Very small sitting on a seam of a pillow
Found walking around on the ground while all our lights were on. It's been raining a lot here lately. I've been leaning towards Asian, but I also spent 2 hours last night trying to talk myself into that.
Well, I had a ton of amazon boxes pile up over the course of a week doing some minor home projects, and I unfortunately let the cardboard sit in the kitchen for about a week before moving everything to the garage. Next day after finally getting all the boxes broken down and into the recycling bin, I found about 2 adults, and 8 nymphs all mysteriously dead in my garage by my hot water heater. Also, two empty oothica. They appeared literally overnight. I had looked the day before for unrelated reasons, and there was nothing there. I immediately called HomeTeam Pest Defense, who I pay for anyway to come out.
Please help me rate their treatment:
Whole house (minus one bedroom)'s baseboards were sprayed with Phantom
Baited Sticky Traps placed in all rooms
IGRs under all sinks, and near the garage hot water heater where roaches were first discovered.
I was still counting my lucky stars that I hadn't seen them in the main house, but that all changed during spring cleaning when I found 4 dead roaches behind the fridge about two weeks after HT sprayed. Then it became, "at least I haven't found a live one yet." And tonight (3 weeks after HT) around sunset, outside on the patio, while I'm grilling up some burgers, the nymph in the image above shows up. I had to shine a flashlight on the nymph to get the picture, and he did not scatter or run.
Having been majorly infested in an apartment complex from a long time ago, this is something we're seriously dreading. How serious is this? How is hometeam's treatment plan?
Could really use some reassurance or advice if it's serious. I literally tripled my housing expenses and bought a house because I was sick of dealing with roaches from apartment complexes. Also, screw Amazon. This is not the first time in my life they've mailed me a live German roach, but this is by far the most serious.
Edit: Forgot to mention sticky traps haven't pulled anything yet. The bait on them has been disturbed, according to HomeTeam, but they haven't caught anything. HomeTeam has said that these traps aren't perfect, and some roaches can get away.
NEED URGENT HELP
I know this is extremely long but i seriously need urgent help & advice. Im going to lay out ALL the details & background but I’ll highlight where it actually gets important.
TLDR: Can’t move into apartment a week after move in date because of clear cockroach/ possibly mite infestation even after multiple treatments along with everything breaking and landlady says we can’t break the lease. $2,150/mo not including electricity or internet, Bay area california.
BACKGROUND: Im 19F & my bf is 20m. we’ve been living at my parents house for a long time & they’re great but we obviously want to move out cuz independence & wtvr. We’ve been searching for about a year but this is the first apartment we have ever rented. We found this place months ago, and it took a very long time with a lot of back and forth for approval and all that. We got approved eventually then were told after the fact they couldn’t verify my income correctly so we didn’t qualify. My father ended up co-signing for us and we were then fully approved. When we initially toured the place the room we were shown looked fine, it was clean, pretty spacious etc. One of the neighbors came out and seemed very nice and overall everything was fine. Side note this place is in a more “ghetto” area of a city that’s mostly known to be very expensive and fancy (everyone says this, we found out after signing as well that apparently it’s the trenches but whatever) but the place itself didn’t look bad it had a nice courtyard the surrounding area seemed normal etc but this all isn’t the issue. After touring and some of the application process the woman tells us that the room we were shown isn’t going to be the room we’re given, it’s the same layout just in a different building. Okay that’s fine. We come back again later to tour the actual room we’ll get and we’re told that they’re in the process of moving things out of it/cleaning because it’s used as an “example room”. It was a little confusing because it looked lived in, couch, tv, bed with sheets, appliances in closets, brooms, bins, etc and none of that is shown in example photos online which is what i thought she meant. It has all the same stuff as the last apartment though so we were like alright looks fine. I’ve told this woman previously that i’m allergic to roaches. I’ve asked her if they have a bug problem. She’s said no, they treat every month, all the surrounding rooms, okay cool. She tells us it was just treated, and they’re doing another treatment at the end of the month before the discussed move in date so there will be absolutely no bugs. There looks to be 1 or 2 dead ones on the floor during this walk around but to be fair they looked more like beatles than roaches.
Everything seemed fine and normal despite the furniture, so we sign the lease. Our move in date was about 3 weeks out- April 11th.
Move in day: We come in to pay the first months rent (1,433 due to the date) we’re given the keys and she takes us to the room- first time we’ve seen it fully empty.
There’s a very strong chemical smell and she says that they had just glazed the bathtub and we can’t use it until the next day when it’s dry. She gives us our inspection papers and leaves us to check everything out and when we’re done drop them off in the mailbox. We start inspecting everything again, and this time when we open the drawers in the kitchen, one of them is filled with a bunch of utensils, large cooking spoons and tongs, another is filled with medicine, pills, children’s motrin, bandaids, another one is filled with food, noodles, and every cupboard has loose uncooked rice everywhere. Another one of the drawers caves in and breaks when we open it. Odd. She apologizes and says the “cleaning lady” must not have cleaned up her stuff? That’s weird. After the inspection we note down everything that’s wrong with the place including:
-Basically everything is dirty (not like grease on the stove but like there was actually 0 cleaning of any kind done)
-Living room blinds don’t work
-Bathroom sink is completely plugged because the lever you use to open and close the drain doesn’t work and completely snapped off when we tried to open the drain
-2 lights in the bathroom are missing covers so it’s just a bulb in a huge hole in the ceiling
-A drawer handle in the bathroom snapped off when we tried to open it
-Top of the toilet is loose and toilet makes a very loud running water noise randomly
-Closet rod is loose and coming off
-No garbage disposal (dk if this matters)
-Fridge drawers get stuck and are loose (she mentioned she swapped the fridge for us so it wasn’t the one we saw before)
-Handle on kitchen cupboard loose
-Ceiling & tiles have cracks
We realize the glaze is making us really sick and lightheaded so we’re like okay we need to leave, drop the form off, go home.
Come back like 2 days later to do a deep clean because it needs it. Still smells like glaze, check and glaze is not fully dry yet. Find a tiny live roach. I spray it and the rest of the place with poison. We clean as much as we can. Leave. Come back couple days later with my parents. Do a deep clean. Wipe everything down with bleach. Sweep, mop. End up finding like 3 more live roaches. Spray them. Caulk & steel wool all cracks. Spray the entire place, every corner, the door, outside the door, everything, with poison. Leave. My boyfriend goes a couple days after to check it out. Says he checked top to bottom and there’s no bugs, and the drawer that fell apart has been replaced (i was not notified anyone had come in, didn’t know when or who replaced it) nothing else on the list has been fixed. He sweeps and mops every room again for about the 3rd time now. We go back together a few days later. First thing i see is a live roach. We find 14 total in like the 30 minutes we’re there. 2 of them in the fridge. 3 of them after i had killed every one i found, checked that place TOP TO BOTTOM, every single corner, curve, lip, im talking every f****ng inch. 3 more appeared out of f****g nowhere. When i looked in the fridge, where we had left a britta filter, one of them is inside the handle. I’m obviously f*****g pissed, i take the britta filter out and when i do that the glass shelf of the fridge breaks and drops out of the frame. Not to mention that shelf had tons and tons of tiny black specks, which i’m assuming is roach shit. I’m literally shocked and i’m like let’s f****g leave. Not to mention that still nothing else we had written on our form had been fixed. Our move in day was April 11th. This was on April 16th. Every time we go into the apartment, it stinks more and more like mold and the floor has dust and dirt everywhere. At first we didn’t notice the smell because the glaze stunk, but i had sprayed air freshener multiple times and every time it absolutely stinks. I’m convinced someone is coming in because the amount of dirt and dust and random specks that are on the floor even after continuously sweeping and mopping and random hairs in drawers that we had already wiped down multiple times. Other things to note that we noticed is: every time i go in there i feel extremely lightheaded, the last time i went in before i had sprayed anything i almost passed out on the floor im talking lost feeling in my legs hit the ground. And paint over Everything. Paint going from the closet under the door onto the floor. Multiple LARGE wads & strings of hair, a coin, a kernel, a roach, tape, and the fridge plug painted over. We leave. As we’re walking through the hallway of the building to leave that, i swear to god was not this dirty before, we find well over 6 dead roaches and i kid you not an army of little white mites crawling around in a group. I call the lady the next day and say that i would like to break the lease because it has been about a week and we have not been able to move in because there’s a clear roach infestation in the entire building and literally everything is breaking. She tells me we can’t break the lease because it’s a year lease and she’s sending maintenance in immediatley to treat for bugs. She’s mentioned multiple times during this phone call and previously that “we have our own way of treating” and has shown me before what they use, it’s like diomactious earth and says on the tub it’s an ant killer. She said the bugs will be completely gone in a week and it MAY take 2 weeks but they will definitely be COMPLETELY gone. Yeah, that’s great and all despite the fact she said this originally and the place was treated once around the middle of the month before we moved in, a second time 1 week & 4 days before we moved in, a 3rd time when i sprayed myself the first time, a 4th when i sprayed the whole place a second time, and it’s only gotten 10x worse despite 4 different treatments with about 3 different poisons. This place costs 2,150 a month not including electricity or internet.
End: Ive been so stressed ive had like a complete mental unraveling lmfao I haven’t got out of bed in 2 days. I would threaten legal action if she absolutely refuses to let us out of the lease or give our deposit back hoping that might make her realize it’s not worth the fight especially because they’re already involved in another lawsuit but in reality i don’t have money for a lawyer. I’m scared most of all of ruining my dad’s credit since he’s the co-signer, but i will never feel comfortable living there if it’s f*****g infested. Idk what to do. The lease states they’re responsible for pest control & bugs (aside from bedbugs) and i’ve seen online that this violates the safe housing law. Please give me advice on what to do. It’s just honestly embarrassing for me and completely crushed my spirit.
I know the pic isn’t great, it was decently large
Hi all. I recently moved into a flat, only to learn not too long later that it has had a german roach infestation 'on and off' for the past two years. The only treatment prior to my moving in has been the head tenant using gel bait with boric acid as the main ingredient. I've started using a gel bait with indoxocarb, but we dont have any non-repellent sprays available in my country. I've also been pushing heavily for pest control to get involved, but I'm worried both that they'll only get one treatment and that only control will be achieved rather than fully eradicating them. Either result has me wanting to move house before they can get into my belongings.
I intend to follow the stickied advice where I can, primarily using plastic bins with foam tape to seal them off for about a month, but I'm not sure how much to keep. The room I'm staying in is the furthest from any food or water source in the house, with the current active infestation being present in the kitchen. I've seen two roaches in the hallway outside my room the night after baiting the kitchen, but none on the monitors I've set up in the hall or in my room. Is it worth chucking out items like my tv and bed to be safe if the monitors stay clean? Im likely discarding anything in the living room as its attached to the kitchen and ive seen roaches there, but I'm not sure how 'safe' to consider my room. Would more monitors give me a better idea, or should I just assume the worst and that most of my infest-able belongings have to go?
I am in the UK.
Got a 20 yo pc from a friend. He hasnt opened it for like 7 years+. But i discovered it has german nymphs . All are dead , no sign of eggs. Is it still dangerous? I got some parts from it that i wanted and cleaned em with some wet wipes but still im not sure if it is safe. And as a curiosity, could these bastards get inside a old hdd?
I’m in an apartment that’s been treated with IGR and other chemicals by a pro. What are these small bugs on this these are only a bout the size of a poppy seed. glue board? This apartment unit has pretty low activity (1-2 easily identifiable roaches per week), though some of my neighbors have a lot of german roaches.
Sorry for pic quality :(
Area is Rockville, MD, found it dead by my front door (there's a bathroom nearby). First one I've seen, but I did have exterminators spray (interior & exterior) for Ants about 5 days ago
I found this cockroach today in the kitcken after 2 weeks away. I put gel before leaving every corner of the kitchen
