Are bugs a problem? (Hilo: hotel, house, purchase)

[PacificFlights]

You have three type of bug you will see

1. Permenant Resident. These bugs are setting up their home in your place. they have water, food, mates and places to hide. Your place is their small community with all the shops they need to raise their family and raise and family they will be a making!!!!! You will need to do some form of urban renewal to get rid of them from a full cleaning, pesticides treatments, sealing hioles and just plain evicting them and fencing it off so they don;t come back.

2. Transient Vistiors. Theyse atr the most common and they are simple just going from one place to another and you happen to be in their route. You see them cause they are on the move going from their house to their work to the stores. Not a lot you can do about them since the one you saw today is not the same ones your seeing everyother day. You just happen to be located alongt he interstate of bug travel

3. House Hunter. These are the ones you really need to watch out for. They are looking to move and they are scouting locations. It may be a family affair and Joe checks on place, Jane checks another, Little mikey check a third and sister Sue a fourth. When they all get back they report on their findings and the family moves to the best spot. You want to make darn sure that the report on your place is bad. Too Clean, Little food, No creepy hiddy places and that awful insecticide all over the place.

But you will never, nio matter what you do avoid the Transient Visitor because after all, its hawaii and is the PERFECT location for them. So you can live 2 years without any bugs and suddenly one day, your place looks like a B rated insect science fiction movie. This is the tropics, its a close ecological system and bugs are just a fact of life. If you hate fish, would be pretty dumb to worry about them if you live on an atoll. If you hate field mice, moving to the country farm would be questionable. If you hate seagulls and pigions, buying next to the shoreline landfill would be crazy. If you Hate bugs, Hawaii is not the place you want to be.

[Jeepers Creepers]

Originally Posted by relocater2HI78

I don't want a place with roaches or bug infestation.

Is this a big problem?

Only if you are not a bug. All of them do not necessarily come due to you NOT being clean, either. Multi dwelling units can have them IF your neighbors are NOT clean and they (bugs) migrate seeking other scents . So, empty trash, close containers , keep sugar etc in closed containers, and put boric acid tablets (size of aspirin) available at drug stores - a small box and cheap, in all cabinets . Roaches eat the tablets (put a few tiny drops of sweet on it) and take grains back to their groups and share. They then explode later with ingestion of water. Death ensues. Insects come up DRAINS and out air vents too. Get a few geckos and place in your home and they eat insects. When using boric tablets, no kids or pets please! Finally, do not allow any of nature being nature, bug you.

[kaupani]

Originally Posted by relocater2HI78

I don't want a place with roaches or bug infestation.

Is this a big problem?

Bugs? In the tropics? Heck no!

Say, do they have snow in Alaska? I don't want a place with snow or cold.

Say, do they have corn in Iowa? The mere scent of the stuff makes me wheeze.

Hey, have you heard if there are people in CA? Can't stand the lot of 'em.

Do I have to worry about alligators in Florida? Deathly afraid.

:-)

[MovingAloha]

Originally Posted by Snikt

Dunno about everywhere, I don't think I've even see a roach of any kind in over a year

WOW, that's a plus for CO. Maybe they aren't into the high altitudes! I do recall not having a lot of issues with roaches and mosquitos in San Diego.

[Jeepers Creepers]

Originally Posted by MovingAloha

WOW, that's a plus for CO. Maybe they aren't into the high altitudes! I do recall not having a lot of issues with roaches and mosquitos in San Diego.

Likely, since they heard that roaches "weed" was easily available in Mexico.

[Snikt]

Originally Posted by MovingAloha

WOW, that's a plus for CO. Maybe they aren't into the high altitudes! I do recall not having a lot of issues with roaches and mosquitos in San Diego.

Well I moved from FL so I know what they are like, I think the german ones are worse actually. I imagine Hawaii is worse than FL since it's actually tropic and not sub-tropic.

Don't really have many bugs of any kind here that you see. We have pine beetle that kill pine trees, but you don't see them outside or in your home

[MovingAloha]

Originally Posted by Jeepers Creepers

Likely, since they heard that roaches "weed" was easily available in Mexico.

Funny!

[Ford Beebe]

Originally Posted by relocater2HI78

I don't want a place with roaches or bug infestation.

Is this a big problem?

Don't move to Hawaii.

You will have bugs. Guaranteed.

You may be able to control them somewhat, but they were here before man was. You learn to live with them.

[whtviper1]

Originally Posted by Snikt

Well I moved from FL so I know what they are like, I think the german ones are worse actually. I imagine Hawaii is worse than FL since it's actually tropic and not sub-tropic.

Don't really have many bugs of any kind here that you see. We have pine beetle that kill pine trees, but you don't see them outside or in your home

We don't have near the mosquito issue FL has.

[winkosmosis]

Just live on the dry side of whichever island. I haven't seen a cockroach since I moved to Kihei 1.5 years ago. Just ants, one centipede, and lots of geckos.

You'll also get the benefits of much less rain, few cloudy days, and lower humidity.

It also helps to have a new house that's sealed well, and bug screens on every window.