Looking for the BEST "bug bomb"

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Full scuba gear mask and all if I would visit you! I remember them from visiting family in Florida years ago and I was freaked out over like a dozen in a week! You are describing a level of hell! Good luck and be careful the propellant in the cans is flammable!
 

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*feels something crawling on face*
Yeah.
I've taken 3 showers already this evening.
Found another, upside down and kicking in the kitchen a few minutes ago.
My wife sprays each already dead roach with half a can of Raid. So I mopped the whole house again with the Swiffer.
Itll be a late night.
 

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Yeah.
I've taken 3 showers already this evening.
Found another, upside down and kicking in the kitchen a few minutes ago.
My wife sprays each already dead roach with half a can of Raid. So I mopped the whole house again with the Swiffer.
Itll be a late night.
For sale lol
 

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The internet is full of warnings about using bug bombs indoors. Technically I'm not.
And reasons why bug bombs are not effective at killing roaches. But they are!

Now I'm thinking.....
SUPER SOAKER watergun full of bug killer!
Those things shoot like 25 feet!
You've been in quarantine too long...lol...Trade your cockroaches for some rats...lota rats...
 

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I strongly dislike roaches ?.
We used this in conjunction with a bait called InVict Gold at my parent’s house. It stops the roaches from being able to reproduce. It took a few months but eventually they were all gone.
 

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I strongly dislike roaches ?.
We used this in conjunction with a bait called InVict Gold at my parent’s house. It stops the roaches from being able to reproduce. It took a few months but eventually they were all gone.
His roaches are the size of small dogs though lol
 

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I haven't seen one in about half an hour.
The bombs didn't kill all of them. Some of them just fled inside the house and the garage.
It's dark now. I'm just going to leave some lights turned on.

I am not usually the creepy crawly kinda person, so please...when I say this with all due respect...I'll keep my freakin rats...I forgot you live in the state of bug hell...I delivered and picked up a lot in Florida...biggest damn bugs I EVER saw, and I been in Texass....some kind of gigantic beetle lookin thing that climbs under the door in swarms...my 30 pound cat was on the truck with me, he walked on a leash, I stayed in 1 motel, 1 time and even the cat was afraid of the bugs. lol
 

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Try to find products with Insect Growth Regulator hormone in them. This prevents eggs and nymphs from developing to reproductive age. Ask at your hardware or garden shop.



They work a trick on fleas, South Jersey's super-bug.

*is glad to not live in a state where DE won't work against ants and roaches...yet...*
 

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Hey @ZEROPILOT , how far back in your crawlspace do you need to reach.? Can you mount/fasten/glue the “bomb” on a 12 or 16 ft 2x4, and move it back into place attached the 2x4?
Something like that might work.
I'll take a photo or 2 when I've got my head up in there tomorrow
 

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It's been about a week?
I went back up the ladder into the crawlspace hatch. But because I have a lot of crap in the way, I couldn't really look inside. I just reached around and pulled out some old bug bombs. Set off 4 more and closed the hatch.
A few hours later now and I've found 3 large adult and 4 small juvenile roaches, dead.
I'll do this again in another week or 2 then maybe once a month and see how it goes.
 
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