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I live in south Florida. It's been mostly in the 70s to the 90s all Winter and into the spring.
My house is and has always been a hotspot for American cockroaches. The big ones that run very fast and can also fly.
Years ago, an exterminator applied a heavy dusting of Diatomaceous Earth in my attic/crawl space after finding that there was a colony in the crawlspace and in two walls. It did little to nothing and after about 6 months of treatments, I fired him.
Over the years, it's not uncommon to find a dead roach or two per week inside the house or in the garage. Always a large, winged adult. And almost always dead. I assume from the house being treated once a month by myself.
For two days in a row, a fully live cockroach has made it's way into the living room unleashing its creepiness in full glory. So today, I went up into the access panel of our crawlspace and placed 4 small bug bombs inside and another 1 inside the garage.
For the next 30 to 45 minutes, roaches of ALL sizes (all American cockroaches) came into the house. Seemingly from different directions. All in serious distress and dying.
A small and lasting victory? Maybe.
I've done this before and it does work for a while.
However, those bug bombs must sit upright. So I'm limited as to how far inside the area I can place them. And I can't stay up there long farting around with them because of the poison fumes.
If they tip over on their sides, they stop spraying.
I want a bug bomb that is A: Very large capacity.
And B: Can be tossed across the ceiling like a grenade and will fully discharge even laying on its side.
Does anyone know if such a product exists?
War has been declared!!
My house is and has always been a hotspot for American cockroaches. The big ones that run very fast and can also fly.
Years ago, an exterminator applied a heavy dusting of Diatomaceous Earth in my attic/crawl space after finding that there was a colony in the crawlspace and in two walls. It did little to nothing and after about 6 months of treatments, I fired him.
Over the years, it's not uncommon to find a dead roach or two per week inside the house or in the garage. Always a large, winged adult. And almost always dead. I assume from the house being treated once a month by myself.
For two days in a row, a fully live cockroach has made it's way into the living room unleashing its creepiness in full glory. So today, I went up into the access panel of our crawlspace and placed 4 small bug bombs inside and another 1 inside the garage.
For the next 30 to 45 minutes, roaches of ALL sizes (all American cockroaches) came into the house. Seemingly from different directions. All in serious distress and dying.
A small and lasting victory? Maybe.
I've done this before and it does work for a while.
However, those bug bombs must sit upright. So I'm limited as to how far inside the area I can place them. And I can't stay up there long farting around with them because of the poison fumes.
If they tip over on their sides, they stop spraying.
I want a bug bomb that is A: Very large capacity.
And B: Can be tossed across the ceiling like a grenade and will fully discharge even laying on its side.
Does anyone know if such a product exists?
War has been declared!!