[BWNLV]

After almost a year, I landed a new job where I get off work at 10pm. When I got home, in the garage I saw several dark brown colored roach like bugs that were about 1" long that I didn't notice last year. I then took my dog for a walk and saw a lot of these roach like bugs. Based on my description, does someone know what type of but this might be? Are they new this year? Besides spray, some way to get rid of them? Thanks for any help.

[macgeek]

I have this stuff I bought at Lowes, for the bugs.
It doesn't kill them, but fills them full of self doubt that they are in the right house.

Jonathan

[lvoc]

Originally Posted by BWNLV

After almost a year, I landed a new job where I get off work at 10pm. When I got home, in the garage I saw several dark brown colored roach like bugs that were about 1" long that I didn't notice last year. I then took my dog for a walk and saw a lot of these roach like bugs. Based on my description, does someone know what type of but this might be? Are they new this year? Besides spray, some way to get rid of them? Thanks for any help.

Roaches....brown ones are the Germans...though Bug Bully will know for sure. All you need for roaches in the desert is to add water and they appear. Call Bug Bully - Spray once a month in the heat.

[ScoopLV]

Originally Posted by BWNLV

After almost a year, I landed a new job where I get off work at 10pm. When I got home, in the garage I saw several dark brown colored roach like bugs that were about 1" long that I didn't notice last year. I then took my dog for a walk and saw a lot of these roach like bugs. Based on my description, does someone know what type of but this might be? Are they new this year? Besides spray, some way to get rid of them? Thanks for any help.

Remove their water and food supply. Usually this is recycling and trash being stored in the garage.

Also, those roaches want to get in the house. When we first moved here, my mother in law warned me to watch for roaches trying to enter the house when opening the door to the garage. I thought this was a ridiculous idea. That assumes some sort of higher intelligence. Sure enough, I have found roaches waiting at the threshold like [censored] sprinters at an Olympic event. They try to dash in, and I stomp 'em. They'll also try to find a way in through the walls. Look for their droppings and caulk any openings -- around the moulding at our house, for instance.

And roaches love two things more than anything else -- beer and cardboard. Keep that in mind when making your garage less bug friendly.

[observer53]

If you don't have pets around, make a combination of baking powder and boric acid crystals, put it along the edge of the doorway from the garage, or, if there's a little step up to the door, along the edge of the step. You can sometimes buy that mixture already made, I've even seen it at Walgreens.

[newopty]

Originally Posted by ScoopLV

Remove their water and food supply. Usually this is recycling and trash being stored in the garage.

Also, those roaches want to get in the house. When we first moved here, my mother in law warned me to watch for roaches trying to enter the house when opening the door to the garage. I thought this was a ridiculous idea. That assumes some sort of higher intelligence. Sure enough, I have found roaches waiting at the threshold like [censored] sprinters at an Olympic event. They try to dash in, and I stomp 'em. They'll also try to find a way in through the walls. Look for their droppings and caulk any openings -- around the moulding at our house, for instance.

And roaches love two things more than anything else -- beer and cardboard. Keep that in mind when making your garage less bug friendly.

I understand the beer but can't figure out the cardboard

[anvilpw]

Originally Posted by newopty

I understand the beer but can't figure out the cardboard

Maybe it reminds them of college when they ate a lot of frozen pizza along with their beer.

[crazy_bd]

Originally Posted by BWNLV

After almost a year, I landed a new job where I get off work at 10pm. When I got home, in the garage I saw several dark brown colored roach like bugs that were about 1" long that I didn't notice last year. I then took my dog for a walk and saw a lot of these roach like bugs. Based on my description, does someone know what type of but this might be? Are they new this year? Besides spray, some way to get rid of them? Thanks for any help.

You have what I have as well, I bet: Oriental cockroach.

They don't multiply as fast as the German kind which is a good thing. They look a bit gnarly though.

[ElleTea]

Originally Posted by newopty

I understand the beer but can't figure out the cardboard

Roaches are attracted to the advesive that holds packaging together. In the days when wallpaper border was popular you also find them behind that...eating the glue.

My ex did pest control for many years, and I heard lots of really gross roach stories. Ugh.

[BUGBULLY]

Those are oriental roaches, outside roaches, or water bugs some people call them because they do not like the name roach. The are very normal all over Vegas this time of the year, especially with this heat.