Huge bugs, tree roaches or water bugs? (River Oaks: motels, house)

[tabloodsaw]

I am in desperate need of a remedy to abolish these unsightly creatures. I see at least a bug each day and it's annoying. I live on the first floor in the Galleria/River Oaks area and the exterminator comes but nothing. I need help on how to best get rid of them.

[TFW46]

I've posted so many times about BENGAL GOLD DRY ROACH SPRAY that some people here think I work for that company. (I dont but I wish I had stock in it.) I get mine at walgreens.com but you can probably get it elsewhere cheaper. Be sure to get the GOLD, though. It's awesome:

Gold Roach Spray | Walgreens

[Oildog]

Bengal makes good bug killing stuff

[Grunn]

Another vote for Bengal- screw the 'pest guy' who just comes sprays some half hearted sheet and buggers off again with your money.

Buy some bengal and a sprayer, safety gear on and kill those mfers for good. If a job is worth doing then it's worth doing well and doing it yourself.

Alternatively carry on paying some clown to do nothing like all my idiot neighbours who seem to have severe pest infestations while I have none.

[openedskittles]

Stop eating crunchy foods. You will make less crumbs and they will have to move out or starve. Problem solved.

[bamba_boy]

Roach Proof works for me. Very fine milled Boric Acid is the key (there are generics out there too). It doesn't kill immediately but clings to the microscopic hairs on their body, which they drag into the nest to eventually kill other family members through slow suffocation. I know it sounds like inhumane genocide of the cuddly creatures but it'll pretty completely rid your house of vermin for months at a time. Just have to give it 3 or 4 days to become effective.

[sharon bee]

we moved into this house 3 months ago, and although there were quite a few 'roaches at first, after i hadcleaned thoroughly and laid 'roach motels, sprayed daily, laid those things that they carry food to the nest and it kills the rest, AND used powder poison in my cupboards, not to mention caulking every gap and hole i could find, they seemed to lessen a lot, i still se one every 4-5 days but i can just about cope with that, but tonight, i got up to get a glass of milk as i couldn't sleep, turned the kitchen light on and omg! i saw a 'roach the size of a frog scurrying under the water heater! i feel sick that i am sharing my home with these monsters! all the others i have seen have been medium sized brownish ones, some a little larger than medium too, but i have NEVER seen any the size this one that i saw tonight was! HELP ME.... we dont have a lot of money and we haven't had any spare for a professional bug sprayer yet, but, i can't go on like this, any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[glorplaxy]

Originally Posted by openedskittles

Stop eating crunchy foods. You will make less crumbs and they will have to move out or starve. Problem solved.

A roach can live off of a greasy thumbprint for over a week. I don't think it's just crumbly foods that are the problem.

[Willsson]

As some others posters have said, boric acid is what you need. It can be found in tablet form or Home Depot has the powdered stuff. It's about a quart size plastic bottle, less than ten bucks.

Put the tablets in cabinets, back in the corners, in place where woodwork edges don't touch. Use the powder the same and anywhere one of the mo fo's can slip thru a crack.

Keep the stuff away from children and pets.

[HoustonRonnie]

Those are just Texas fleas. Y'all scared of Texas fleas? Sheesh!