By ellisjrosen

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 hours ago

      Obviously you need to keep things clean and food put away, but the less obvious thing is that you need to eliminate their access to water. That alone will almost resolve the problem. They can’t live without water. 2 weeks without access and they’ll all die, or migrate away. So fix any leaks, don’t leave water dishes out, and dry your sinks and shower after use. Create an inhospitable environment and they stop using it as a home. Of course none of this matters at all if you live in an apartment and they’re coming over through the walls from the neighbor’s house.

      • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        8 hours ago

        Not my house. I’m still a college-aged dependent. I have a cat, cat’s water bowl is always gonna be accessible. And sinks always have tiny pockets of water and never dry completely. I mean, I just shrug it off let someone else deal with it. My parent are too cheap to get exterminators. Whatever. I’m not dealing with it, I got my depression that I have to manage.

  • Diddlydee@feddit.ukEnglish
    5·
    13 hours ago

    I’ve never seen a cockroach in my life, so I’m not sure what this is telling me.

      • pageflight@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        12 hours ago

        What’s worse is the ones that don’t scatter when you turn on the lights. Just sit there waiting for you to get out of their territory.

        • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
          1·
          2 minutes ago

          When I lived down in Houston I made the disturbing discovery that cockroaches in the south of the us are much much larger than the frozen north.

          I also learned that they can fly (Texas has FOUR flying varieties), and will in fact fly right in your balcony door if you leave it cracked for the cat and have a light on inside… they also don’t care about you.

          With a phobia of roaches, let’s just say Texas wasn’t the right state for me…