Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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About 4,300 miles.
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The palmetto bug is huge, dark glossy brown and can be shot and killed with a BB gun, which my husband once did in Texas. The German cockroach is small and skittish and a lot of them come home from the from the supermarket with the groceries. I don't know about any other kinds of roaches and I hope I never do!
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I am so glad no one said that German Cockroaches are stubborn. I wouldn't be surprised. Ja.
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Thanks, Carl. One of the pest control companies I used removed some switchplates in order to put gel inside the walls in addition to the interior locations such as under the sinks. Is that something you recommend?
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I love Massey too (for so many reasons) almost as much as Gracie Loves the Morses. LOL Seriously, I have annual contracts with Massey for irrigation, landscaping and pest control. I cannot sing their praises enough. However --- when it comes to extermination, my philosophy is keep the exterminator and give me a carpenter! I think the secret is to constantly SEAL, SEAL, SEAL all the cracks, crevices and other points of entry. Although the bugs can get through the smallest spaces, they can not pass through matter. So start with keeping them out. Then the exterminating will probably be limited to the occasional stray (or its egg) who may have come in with a box or something. Or the bugger who slipped in under your garage door, etc, etc. And don't forget to spray your perimeter whenever you or your neighbors have the palms pruned since the bugs have been known to inhabit the leaves. It is a battle but we can win the war! I learned this when, as a young woman I lived in a 60-unit apartment building in New York City 59 apartments were overrun with roaches and 1 (mine) was roach free. I sealed that apartment so well that although I refused the services of the monthly exterminator that the building provided, I lived roach free for years at a time.
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When I moved out of OKC to county on hails two acres the house was infested with brown recluse spiders. The older people that lived there was almost blind I was very surprised they didn't get bit? The spiders were everywhere. In the attic, under the everything behind beds, under the sinks. Bug bombing wiped them out. The problem with wondering spider same for cockroaches they hid during the day and wonder at night. The spiders would come down for the attic, so I had to bug bomb the attic. Took three sections to wipe them out and any eggs that hatched Bug bombing is the same as the house in bag gassing. It kills anything that breath air. Cost me about 100 bucks for the three gassing and yard treatment.
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New appliances come with German cockroaches ? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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No. Just Germans. They ARE pretty good cooks.
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How can u tell they are German?
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They march well ? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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I see nothing!
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Use the gel.
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They do not recommend putting gel inside switch plates or other electrical connections. I think they are concerned about liability issues if they make such a recommendation, but it is also not necessary. The insects who walk through or eat the gel take some of it back to the nest, which is soon destroyed. There is something about the gel as food that attracts the roaches. Remember: no applications of the gel where small children or pets can get to it. I'll say it again: there is nothing better for killing German Roaches.
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