Since your landlord said he would do it and never did it yet, I would call him again and tell him you are asking him a second time but now it is an urgency. Tell him over the last month they have multiplied and they are out of control. It may have been an oversight on his part so there is no need to be angry since you do need him for a place to live. However, I would demand nicely that he take care of it immediately.

Here is what I would tell him. Your child is at risk of illness from it as your child is very young and vulnerable since kids put everything in their mouths. If he does get sick then you will send him the bills from the medical services that will be required at that time. Heavens forbid it would come to that. So tell him due to the urgency of the matter, if he doesn’t send an exterminator out right away that you will have no choice but to report it to the State health Dept.

I actually just called the state health department where I am to inspect a unit infestation at a high rise building that doesn’t do any pest control. They came out within a week of my call and did an inspection and they became involved. I’m sure that between the risk of your child’s health, and the reality of it becoming an issue where he will have to deal with the state health department rather than you as his tenant, it should shake him into action. If it doesn’t, then call the health department and follow thru with the inspection. The risk of monetary loss to him of your son’s medical bills and going up against state for a health violation is way greater than the money it will cost to exterminate.

Good luck. Let me know what happens.
gabrielle

Boric acid can be purchased from home supply stores like Home Depot, Lowes, or Ace Hardware. The white/bluish compound usually comes in a rubber squirt bottle…like the mustard or ketchup bottles you find at restaurants. After cutting off the plastic tip, you use the plastic squeeze bottle to poof out boric acid powder into cracks and crevices to slowly kill off those pesky roaches.

There’s a picture of a boric acid bottle in this blog post btw.

Dora Renee’ Wilkerson

The best treatment I found for the big “flying ace bomber” species of roaches is Combat large roach bait stations in the GOLD BOX. Why the Gold Box? Because it is satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. Combat always had a decent product but when they came out with the gold box with the satisfaction guarantee I was convinced it would work. No company in their right mind would want their customers returning bait stations after those nasty critters and their friends dined there. I gave them a try and have been recommending them ever since. Many other crawling bugs will also dine there so you often will see varieties dead in the near vicinity of that picnic spot. I don’t ever buy the little combat traps because the flying ace bombers won’t fit in there so I get the big traps and it is so effective that even with a colony of them, you will see less and less within a very short amount of time, and then gone.

I think however that Combat has even outdone itself by making their fabulous feast formula too quick kill for its own good. I don’t think too many of the roaches are even making it back to the nest to feed the little ones and so it seems to be taking longer to eliminate the colony. That’s unfortunate and I may talk to the company about it. It used to be that you would not even see them dead in the house, because they would die out of sight. When you’d see another roach months later, you knew it was time to get new bait stations. Lately in the homes I’ve declared battlezones in, I come in after a couple of days and see the ace bombers upside down, and some are even half comatose but yet still seem to be running wildly on their backs if you know what I mean. Ugh! Too quick kill is not allowing the nest to be easily fed and destroyed as easily as it did before.

I always keep handy one or two cans of spray and the only one I use is: Fragrence free Raid. Wow, fragrence free, how’s that! Finally. For all the people who can’t stand the smells of pesticide, and they chew you out if you even think of spraying a chemical within a mile of them, and then there are people who have phobia’s like Ray and myself who require ammunition to be always at hand, . . . now nobody can tell that you sprayed at all. Fragrance free, what genius. My Mom’s husband has a pest control company and yet I often see flying ace bombers come in for a landing at their house and they have not had the pleasure of dining on poison yet so they are agressive. But at my house, they are always on their backs, thank you very much.

If you have plenty roaches, make sure you get more boxes so you can get them under control. I put them at every entry point inside and outside so they are welcome to bring their friends to my patio to share their last meal. That way we can control the travelers of the neighborhood also. I live in Hawaii so you can imagine with all the palm trees that my phobia has been a real problem. And I scream too.

I’ll end with a funny story. I was at a friend’s house one night renovating a gas range on their patio and using black spray paint so we had to be outside of course. His ex wife was inside the house and he lived in a separate unit he made for himself off the main house. She tolerated him but that’s how they lived. He kept telling me to keep the noise down so she doesn’t get upset that I’m there. Then out of nowhere came the hugest bug I had ever seen and it was totally hauling butt faster than I had realized they could go. I didn’t know what it was because it was huge and long and just horribly huge and fast. It looked bigger than a centipede really. I jumped on the bench and was screaming my head off, and it was about 10:00 Pm. The ex wife came out and was so angry at who was screaming from their property. She ended up totally hating me, not just for spending time with her ex husband but because my fear of roaches was a loud one. I was so freaked out by the size of the creature that my addrenaline got the better of me. When we got a good look at the creature, it turned out to be two huge ace bomber cockroaches doing their sex thing, trying to make more of the same. Yuck! I never ever saw anything like that before. That impression it made in my mind still lingers to this day. It was dark and my friend let them get away so that took care of my fun for that evening. I couldn’t wait to get out of there.

Good luck in your own battles of the bugs. My heart goes out to all you brave fighters.
Try the Gold Box Combat if you need a sure fire cure. It does work.

Aloha, Gabrielle

I applied the Dupont Advion Roach Gel on the corners of the kitchen, in the cracks of appliances (refrigerators, microwaves, stove fans, etc.), under counters, cabinets, and sinks, and other small openings where cockroaches can enter.

Also just because you treat the inside of your home doesn’t mean that roaches can still come into your home. So I treated the outside as well. Demon WP was amazing for outside application! I used Demon WP and sprayed it using a hand sprayer around the foundation of my home and around utility pipes where roaches might come into my home.

Believe me, from my experience, I never thought I could be free of roaches but it happened. Pestmall.com was a TREMENDOUS help to me because they give really simple directions for the application and made it easy to understand. They really did help me alot! Go check them out if you want to be roach free!

Instead of killing them with sprays, foggers, or talking about suffocating them with soap suds why not try some type of live trap….I’ve seen them before…

Live and let live!!!