Using sticky traps AND baits together is completely counter-productive. You either kill them, or get as many as possible to take the poison back as quickly as possible. 

vacuum cleaners are great for getting rid of small bus, spiders, and other arthropods.  The wand gives you reach, the suction makes it easier to “catch” something quick moving like a fly or hornet, and there is no mess to clean up.

They’re as wild as the New York Sewer Rats that are actually Norwegian, and as wild as Starlings. I get it.

You’re probably right, but my point is that my family didn’t buy geckos and bring them in. They just eat the bugs in the house, and my family doesn’t bother chasing them out because it’s a lot easier than bug spray and having to worry about killing centipedes. :)

Boric acid and about a week is all you need. Costs about $6 from your local pharmacy. Just sprinkle a barely-visible layer in a dust-like form in any affected rooms. My families house was infested.. Hundreds in every room. Took maybe 4 days and not a single living cockroach in site.

I am honestly curious. Just how monstrous is this?

an entomologist at the University of Florida, had heard of people releasing banana spiders in their houses to eat the roaches

My aunt and cousins in Hawaii have geckos that they let run through the house, eating bugs.

So, back in the 80's, my parents had a trash compactor that they kept out in the garage. They kept it right next to an upright freezer, which, for some reason, the roaches loved. They never got INSIDE the freezer, but they’d hide behind or underneath it.

Also, do not get a Keurig.

Which did it look like?

Im gonna get hate for this but the gecko idea is brilliant!! By releasing Geckos in your home/apt you are completing the circle of life. Roaches are bred to feed the geckos, geckos breed to keep killing the roaches.The simplicity of this plan is straight up brilliant.

The pet store I worked at as a teen was in a shopping mall, they couldnt spray the store for roaches because of the animals. We released Tokay geckos in the store that ate the roaches and eventually had a healthy sustainable breeding gecko population. The would occasionally do a mating call that would remind you they…

Plaster of Paris around the perimeter and small dishes of water. They will eat the plaster and drink the water because it makes them thirsty. It dries in their stomach and kills them. Safe and chemical free.

Hoy-hoy traps - cheap, effective, chemical free. Comes with a bait attractant that’s very effective the first few days. Sticky trap does the rest.

Just the other day I opened my apartment door and there was a cockroach there on the mat. When I went to stomp on it, it of course ran into my apartment and under the couch. I had to get the vacuum out and suck it up.

Living in a more northern climate where creatures like cockroaches and rats do not exist -okay they may exist but are rare enough that they are talked about in the same breath as unicorns- thanks to our deep cold winters, this reads like an amazing work of fiction. Do these creatures actually exist? are these methods…

...cockroaches eat people’s skin when they’re sleeping and crawl into their ears.
 

I used to work in a public library, and it was just a give in that at some point you’d open a book, or a DVD case to find a (likely dead) roach inside. I believe they are specifically drawn to the glue used in books.

“But how often do you need to look at your map or GPS while you’re driving? Only “a lot” when you’re navigating an unfamiliar urban area, which is not a typical driving experience.”