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Speaking of New York—everyone’s story with roaches is that they get them when a new neighbor moves in. You can’t get rid of roaches in your apartment as long as
by klodolph 3y ago
Speaking of New York—everyone’s story with roaches is that they get them when a new neighbor moves in. You can’t get rid of roaches in your apartment as long as your neighbors contribute the steady stream of new roaches.
- lbotos 3y agoIts... wildly accurate. Neighbors decided they were tired of tenants and roach problems so they removed the kitchen from their rented apartment. Roach problem went away for them and me. I will randomly get a few waterbugs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_cockroach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_cockroach) which are alarming but it's usually when temps are dramatically changing.
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- dylan604 3y agoThese are one of the favorite hunting conquests for my two cats. They are fast and change directions quickly and can fly. They are tough to catch to throw back outside, but not as fun as a cicada that is flying around and your cat(s) are jumping off of the furniture trying to catch them again. There are times where the cat and I are trying to catch the waterbug before it gets somewhere hard to get, but for very different reasons.
- jghn 3y agoI lived in a large building that developed a roach problem. They were able to identify the original culprit. It turned out that when they mapped the complaints about roaches in units, it was radiating outwards over time from a single unit. Not that that made life any easier once the buggers took over the building, but hey
- henrikschroder 3y agoIt is also unfortunately rather common that the person living in the source apartment never complains about having roach problems, never admits to having a roach problem, and certainly don't want to let people in to check or fix it. Which leaves everyone else angry and in a perpetual loop of infestations.
- trgn 3y agoYep. Prolonged vacancy is bad too. Usually pest problems are highest when moving in, and then keeping a place clean and occupied is the best way to maintain pest-free apartment.
- wincy 3y agoInteresting, that makes sense. I lived in an apartment with 8 units back in my exterminator days, and my landlord was more than happy to let me in to all 8 of them to do a thorough spray. It was much harder to spray apartment complexes with hundreds of units and treating for roaches in every single unit was prohibitively expensive (or my boss was a cheapskate, I don’t know), so we’d only do targeted treatment where we had seen roaches and surrounding units. Single family homes were much easier to treat. I strongly suspect we got roaches in our single family house when a home care nurse brought them with her, along with a bed bug! I almost died when I saw that monstrosity, luckily we avoided an infestation, those are 10x worse than any cockroach. You do not want bed bugs.
- _a_a_a_ 3y agoCockroaches can be imported by a person? How on earth does that happen.
- j4yav 3y agoAll it takes is one pregnant cockroach in a box somewhere. They will often hide in electronic devices.
- danielbln 3y agoStep on one, eggs stick to the shoe and voila.
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- mountainofdeath 3y agoCoffee makers. I once picked up a nice, high-end Keuring machine for free from a neighbor. Later than evening, I noticed something moving around it. It was full of roaches. I put it in a trash bag and ran to put it in the garbage outside. The exterminator and landlord both said the warmth and moisture of coffee machines is a magnet for roaches and coffee is their favorite snack.
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- CTDOCodebases 3y agoI lived in an apartment that had the kitchen redone. Once that happened no more roaches. Now whenever I move into a new apartment I use space filler foam and silicon to seal around all the possible entrencences bugs could use to enter my apartment internally. So far so good.
- throwaway81523 3y agoMy own memory of New York is that if noticed an absence of roaches in your apartment, that meant you had mice, and the mice were eating the roaches. I told a friend that (she had happily commented about not having roaches) and she looked rather alarmed. I should have kept quiet.
- klodolph 3y agoThere is a secret third option, which is to have a cat in the apartment :3
- milsorgen 3y agoAnd when the cats get out of control introduce a bear? Or is it an alligator? ;)
- alexvoda 3y agoYou need to eventually make this ecology circular.
- tomcam 3y agoJust ate our apartment cat—-thanks for that advice. Wait now I need a new one
- moron4hire 3y agoI don't think NY has a native bear population (well, it does, but it's the wrong kind of bear), but you could get the alligator from the sewer.
- throwaway81523 3y agoI will have to ask the old lady who swallowed the fly.
- Verdex 3y agoAlligator. When winter comes they freeze to death.
- saghm 3y agoEvery month or so, my apartment building sends someone to knock on every door of the (admittedly small) building to offer to spray a few places (like behind the stove) to keep out pests. I hadn't thought of it from this perspective before, but it makes sense from the perspective of trying to solve the problem you mention; the only way to keep them out is to handle it uniformly across all the units, and having someone come around to offer it every so often makes sure that new people moving in get it treated and no one will forget due to having to remember on their own.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agothis is why bombing a house doesn't work, the roaches flee to the neighbors, they then bomb and they flee back to your house (or migrate back over time). I absolutely refuse to live in houses with roaches, too many horror stories. I once moved out of a house and left everything I owned in it due to the roaches.
- KennyBlanken 3y agoIt's the activity of the move that disturbs them. Same thing with mice/rats. Happens when nearby buildings are under construction, as well.