Cockroach....in the house....in DECEMBER???

MichaelLaSiesta wrote on Mon Dec 14, 2020 11:58pm:

Flying?  They fly??????  God almighty, I can’t stand it!  I was paranoid every day last July expecting to see one every time I moved up or down stairs but was nice and relaxed this time....until now!

After breakfast in the morning the floors are getting disinfected and those Mercadona traps are going down.  How do they work by the way?  Is there some kind of poison inside them?...

Read more...

...

Can I deduce from your name that you have a cat by the way?  If so, are they any good as a deterrent?  Presumably not.  This kind of thing gets me thinking more and more about paying the estate agent a call and bailing out.  Extreme reaction, I know, but the way things are going it might be worth considering .  I have been considering it these last few weeks, definitely 😟

warty99 wrote on Tue Dec 15, 2020 10:34am:

I havnt seen a cockroach in over 3 yrs but i did get bitten by a mozzy last week

unfortunately it died !!

Madcatwoman wrote on Tue Dec 15, 2020 9:42am:

Hi,

Yes the traps have a poison in them so when they walk through the trap it poisons them and they die :)

Read more...

No we don't have a cat.......we have several! Lol! Yes , they are a good deterrent as they kill lots but obviously torture them before they do.

Selling up is extreme and cockroaches are part of living in a warm climate but you can keep them to a minimum with what you are doing. Do you have any empty properties near you as theses would attract them? If you're still worried after you've laid your traps,etc call in a pest control company.

elinspain wrote on Tue Dec 15, 2020 10:51am:

Hello Michael

I'm not sure that cockroaches know what time of year it is ha!  Like madcatwoman, I still get one in  every couple of weeks during the colder months. I know where they come in ( inaccessible to me) so have a thin dusting of boric acid in that area & often they are dead when I find t...

Read more...

...hem though some still manage to side step the powder .They walk in the powder, clean their feet & die - brilliant! & yes they do  fly....

Good Luck with your deterrents

Cheers

Elinspain

MichaelLaSiesta wrote on Mon Dec 14, 2020 10:14pm:

How can this happen?  I have just been scared to death (I know, totally irrational) by the appearance of a very lively cockroach next to my pedal bin in the kitchen.  It had better be the only one, a leftover from last summer, because I can't abide them in the house.  Last July, wh...

Read more...

...en I was here for a week, I found at least one a day, mostly downstairs but one or two upstairs.

This trip has lasted just over six weeks so far and there have been none at all, no ants, no mozzies, no cockroaches - until now.  I'm a nervous wreck again.  I know it's stupid but it really did catch me unawares.  I had just finished washing up and was putting something in the pedal bin which caused me to move the bin slightly and it just shot out, at speed, did a circuit around the bin and back under it.  Needless to say I grabbed something solid, moved the bin again and luckily this action tipped the blighter onto its back.  It had no chance then and one cockroach was despatched quick time.

I really don't understand what it is doing in my house at this time of year and, of course, I will, in the morning, go over the floors carefully with the special cleaning fluid and then will put some of the traps down that I bought not expecting to need them until next summer.  Has anyone else had a visit in recent weeks?

Michael (heart rate just about back to normal now!)