Do I have a cockroach problem?
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June 24th, 2013
About three weeks ago, I saw a large cockroach on the outside of my house at night. I killed it and I never saw another one. We have been in our house for about three years and have never seen roaches or signs of roaches before.
I just finished spring cleaning (I did everything – wiped out cabinets, moved furniture, refrigerator, and stove, etc. and our house is very clean in general) I didn’t see any signs of roaches and didn’t see any in the cabinets or when furniture was moved. I wiped underneath the hot water base board behind the refrigerator with bleach and water and again didn’t see any signs of roaches except one dead one (although I’m not sure if it was a roach or not – my husband said it looked a little small and round to be a roach, but the body looked a little flat to be beetle?) I know this sounds a little crazy, but I just couldn’t handle it if we had a roach infestation. Should I be concerned that we have the beginning of a roach problem?
If this info helps, we live in the central Jersey Shore area in a single home, not an apartment.
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If you haven’t seen them while hunting for them, count your blessings and consider yourself lucky.
Doesn’t sound like it. If there was a problem I’m sure it would be very noticeable.
It does not sound like it. If you had a roach problem you would see live ones and dead ones scattered here and there.
Around here, if they’re outside we call them “water bugs.”
I don’t know if there’s a difference. Ar you on septic or sewer?
Was your home flooded by Superstorm Sandy? What happened to your property or nearby with the storm?
In NJ, we’ve have also had a ton of rain these past couple weeks, and the ground is saturated, and now the summer heat is upon is… that makes the critters come out.
I’ve lived in Central NJ (not near the beach, though) all my life, and have only seen roaches a couple times – such a as when the street was dig up and they put new sewers in. I don’t think you have a roach problem.
I’m betting not. You would have seen them by now.
However, just to be safe they make some awesome stuff. It’s some sort of paste that you swipe on the wall with a calking gun. You put it behind refrigerators, under sinks, places that people don’t but roaches like to live. It’s nasty looking and stays forever, so you don’t want people to see it. We got hit with roaches about 9 years ago. We put that down and within a couple of days they were gone and haven’t see one since.
I know how you feel. I saw one outside the other day and I was going OMG! OMG! OMG! I HATE roaches. It blows my mind that they’re related to cute little lady bugs.
No. Where do you live? I vote for waterbug/palmetto bug if it was a large roach outside of your home.
It was outside. I’d be more concerned if they were inside and doing the ‘dying cockroach’ on your kitchen floor.
They fly here. Big things. It’s part of living in Australia. Baits under the fridge, spraying of cupboards etc. Yucky things.
If you can turn your kitchen light on at night without seeing hundreds of scurrying cockroaches, you don’t have a problem. There is no such thing as a slight cockroach problem. When they arrive they do so en masse.
You’re right, you are sounding a little crazy. You would see more of them if you were infested. To be on the safe side spray some roach spray along the baseboards inside and outside and you should be fine. That will kill whatever else you might have seen that might not be a roach. Roaches like water and they sometimes hide in areas where you store paper bags or boxes, things like that.
They like wiring too. OMG….that time I pulled out the iron to iron something. Plugged it in… and as it got hot must have been 100 cockaroaches came POURING out of my iron. I almost frew up!
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