roach update….
i bought 18 more combat traps to accompany the 18 i already have all over the house and blair witch cellar. as i went down in to the cellar to place the bait stations and spray the perimeter with bugspray, i noticed even more roaches tits up all over the floor, apparently something’s killing them, which is a good thing, but what do i do with the little carcasses? do i need to clean them up?, if so how?
this morn when i left the house there were three of the little fuckers, on the porch, with jagged little legs pointing toward the newly risen sun. (wow, i sound very deadwood, don’t i…cocksuckers?)
what’s really freaking me out is that urban legend which states something to the effect of “for ever roach you see there are a 100 you can’t” thus implying we have about 20k of roaches running around in the crawl space. i’ve dealt with bigger and uglier roaches in bklyn, but for some reason the sheer number of these fuckers is really starting to whig me out….
at least it seems like the combat traps are working…for……now
2 responses so far ↓
1 rcg // Apr 27, 2004 at 11:57 pm
Yep. I think you have to gather and burn those roach-corpses. Otherwise you risk their coming back to life as zombie-roaches, at which point only a wooden stake through the heart’ll kill ‘em.
Plus, I hear that once they become zombie-roaches, they multiply spontaneously, like amoebas, some sort of exoskeletal mitosis.
Freaky. But true.
2 J. Sargent // Apr 28, 2004 at 10:21 am
Just hire a professional exterminator…it costs more but I promise that it works. No roaches, no termites, nothing at all. They will kill and prevent future issues….its one of the best 60 bucks i spend bi-monthly.
JS