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Old 06-13-2007, 06:29 AM
 
Location: Downtown Raleigh, NC
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ew. feel like things are crawling on me just reading this.

do you have to vacate the premises for a little while after extermination? we have a baby and several indoor cats.
Usually the extermination is more in the way of a monthly service call, rather than a whole-house fumigation. My parents in FL have the exterminator come once a month to spray for all sorts of the creepy crawlies they have down there. They can spray while you are at home, as it is not a fumigation (which I think is only necessary for infestations, rather than preventative maintenance). I think they just recommend that you keep children and pets away from the sprayed areas - usually around baseboards, etc. - until the spray is dry, probably a couple of hours. It's relatively painless and keeps the bugs at bay!
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Old 06-13-2007, 06:47 AM
 
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ah ok, then locking the cats up in the 2nd floor and taking the baby out of the house for a shopping trip should suffice.
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Old 06-13-2007, 06:53 AM
 
Location: Austin TX
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Eww, we found a baby cockroach a few days ago in an upstairs bathroom I'm assuming it came in from outside through the plumbing.
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Old 06-13-2007, 07:48 AM
 
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Eww, we found a baby cockroach a few days ago in an upstairs bathroom I'm assuming it came in from outside through the plumbing.
babies are not good. Keep an eye out for a family populating in that area...
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Old 06-13-2007, 12:26 PM
 
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ew. feel like things are crawling on me just reading this.

do you have to vacate the premises for a little while after extermination? we have a baby and several indoor cats.
Absolutely, because the roaches hide from the pesticide and get really irritated by it all. In retaliation, they will probably carry off the child and at least one of the cats..... Shopping extensively should give them time to calm down.
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Old 06-13-2007, 12:35 PM
 
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chaining my cat to the house.......

Honestly I have never seen a roach in any of our houses. And some of them have been in the most rural areas. Now we did see some spiders. But we are on an extermination plan and they come quarterly or in between if we want them to. When we first moved into this house we had them spray everywhere in the house before we moved in. And now it is like I said just quarterly. And no wasp nests behind our shutters, nothing. And I guess having tons of frogs from the pond helps alot outside,
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Old 06-13-2007, 03:46 PM
 
Location: Austin TX
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babies are not good. Keep an eye out for a family populating in that area...
UGH. I really HOPE there's not some cockroach mom hanging out in our house somewhere We do have a lot of woods nearby, and a lot of trees immediately around us so I figured I might see a cockroach at some point
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Old 06-14-2007, 08:07 AM
 
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UGH. I really HOPE there's not some cockroach mom hanging out in our house somewhere We do have a lot of woods nearby, and a lot of trees immediately around us so I figured I might see a cockroach at some point
I would REALLY investigate that area that you saw the baby. keep the room dark for an hour and then turn on the lights and search quickly with a flashlight. Also usually in a home they will be by baths and kitchens. Unders sinks ect. They love dark spaces and water more than anything.
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Old 06-14-2007, 09:55 AM
 
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This is all very funny. Coming from NYC, I knew roaches, but in Florida they were roaches on steroids!!! (euphemistically called palmetto bugs). I signed on to a household exterminator contract the first year. Nowadays, I just spray as needed. Now if I could just get rid of the frogs that jump out of my toilets...The South is definately different
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Old 06-14-2007, 09:58 AM
 
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This is all very funny. Coming from NYC, I knew roaches, but in Florida they were roaches on steroids!!! (euphemistically called palmetto bugs). I signed on to a household exterminator contract the first year. Nowadays, I just spray as needed. Now if I could just get rid of the frogs that jump out of my toilets...The South is definately different
Hey, I want frogs in my apartment!

Maybe not jumping out of the toilet.
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