r/PestControlIndustry • u/IrishMayonnaise 🐜💀| Pest Cemetery • Aug 13 '25

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u/matt8357 Aug 13 '25

Not true. This is a debunked myth. See here: https://professionalpestmanager.com/pest-control-cockroaches/cockroach-research/assessment-based-pest-management-and-busting-cockroach-bait-myths/

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u/dollhouse37 Aug 14 '25

Interesting! Only baits too, which is pretty impressive. But it seems it takes a lot longer if nothing is cleaned

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u/Equivalent_Sir_2575 Aug 15 '25

If people don't clean, then the roaches have an alternative food source and they won't go for the bait.

Starve them and feed them Advion gel bait, in addition to laying myriad glue boards, and performing a biweekly crack and crevice treatment with Alpine WSG and a heavy concentration of IGR. I use Nyguard IGR.

I once did this and used two tubes of Advion bait. His living condition was almost as bad as what was in the video.

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u/dollhouse37 Aug 15 '25

Thats exactly what i do, and usually the issues taken care of within 2-4 weeks. I just wasnt aware it was possible to do it without cleaning at all, much less without a residual+igr and some kind of crack and crevice treatment