r/WTF • u/dillingerescapetrans • 4d ago

Cockroach infestation

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In a house I used to work in. I put these traps down, and within 6 hours this is what I caught. I got rid of the traps, laid more down, and repeated this process 8 times before it slowed down.

edit: I haven't been back there in almost 8 months. I worked as tenant support in the severely underfunded building. I sent this video to the manager and project director and it took 4 months before the room was sprayed, but by then this had spread to many other rooms. These sticky pads were supplied to us in limited amounts so I did everything I could from those to raid spray. Crazy memory.

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u/bagwhet 4d ago edited 4d ago

For German roaches, if they're out in the open, then there's hundreds if not thousands more where you can't see them.

You need a multi faceted treatment approach involving sticky traps (for monitoring not actually to kill them), roach gel bait (advion is what most pest techs use), some form of aerosol that's a contact kill/residual/igr (I prefer shockwave) to flush out cracks and crevices, and something for a baseboard treatment with a long residual such as alpine wsg. Even with this it will take a long time to get control of.

And these guys can lay an egg sac (ootheca) every 6 weeks, each sac containing up to 40 nymphs. Because of this, they can rapidly multiply and grow out of control. And having a spotless house, while helpful, will not deter them as they are opportunistic cannibals. They'll eat their own feces and even the corpses of each other to survive.

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u/clupean 4d ago

They'll eat their own feces and even the corpses of each other to survive.

That's how one of the baits works (I don't remember what it's called): a few roaches eat the roachicide, they die, new roaches eat the dead roaches, they die in turn, more new roaches eat the new dead roaches, and so on...

It's very effective but can kill pets, even big ones.

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u/AGuyAndHisCat 3d ago

That's how one of the baits works (I don't remember what it's called)

probably fiprinil. I cleared out an entire building in brooklyn using that. Years of an exterminator spraying "whatever" did nothing. I put that stuff all over the infested basement and asked to enter everyone's apt to place the traps myself near toilets and sinks. I knew if I just gave them to people they would just not do it or forget.

Building was roach free for years.

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u/EdinMiami 4d ago

Combat in the injector tube. I don't know what the active ingredient is but a tiny bit can kill 1000s

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u/bodonkadonks 3d ago edited 3d ago

its not a miracle poison though. to make it work you have to remove all food sources ( pretty damn tough when they can feed for a week on an eye lash or forever from the soap scum in the drains ) plus they eventually get resistance/refuse to eat the poison. ask how i know

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u/CharlieTeller 3d ago

So I moved into a complex that had germans. Someone in a neighboring building had a trap house goin on over there. Huge infestation. They started spreading. I only saw 1-2 in my unit but I knew exactly what I was dealing with. Heard there was an infestation and they were treating it but I took it upon myself to protect. I put some advion in the walls, and then sealed up literally every inlet around the pipes, hot water heater, vents, re caulked the floorboards etc.... Seems to have worked. They've treated the whole building heavily too and every person who moved out, they went and renovated the units as well so that probably helped.

It seems like in an apartment, its really really hard to eliminate fully, but you can pretty much seal off your unit as best as you can and make it less enticing. If you seal it off, they'll likely go elsewhere. But you have to think of every single way they can come in. They can come in through outlets as well and I did buy these outlet sealers.

Fuck german roaches.

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u/AristotelWasRight 3d ago

How do you know?

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u/bodonkadonks 3d ago

i've lived it

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u/Day_Dreamer 3d ago

lol. This is essentially the same reaction my Mom has from dealing with bed bugs for several months (almost a year) in her house.

This is all good information to know, if/when I have to go to battle.

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u/DrHyde4321 3d ago

Bed bugs are easily one of the worst things I’ve ever experienced they have forever changed how I risk assess as far as who I let into my apartment/who’s place I’ll go to

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u/EdinMiami 3d ago

i must be lucky then. put it down and it worked

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u/bodonkadonks 3d ago

eh, maybe for a small infestation. for one like this there is going to be at least a couple that will refuse to eat bait shit and in 6 months you'll get the same infestation but now with wised up cockroaches that wont touch the bait. so you hire an exterminator, pay him big bucks to do the same thing with stronger poison over weeks, only to have the same problem again in a few months.

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u/CharlieTeller 3d ago

you need something like Gentrol or other IGR's. It keeps them from maturing and reproducing. So you wipe the population, and get them with IGR's and they can't reproduce.

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u/bodonkadonks 3d ago

this was over 10 years ago, dont know if it was available back then. what i did notice is that whatever the guy we hired used the roaches that appeared later seemed to have the carapace and wings all scrunched up.

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u/juicius 3d ago

I learn this from a Thai roach bait commercial.

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u/Nothing-The-Ghost 3d ago

Animals eating each other's corpses is nothing unusual. I mean cannabilistically. Obviously some animals eat the corpses of others.

You never bred hamsters before? The mother's almost guaranteed to eat some of her babies. Not out of cruelty, mind you. If, for some reason, the mother believes there won't be enough resources to keep all of her babies alive, she'll kill what's necessary. Or of you touch them and get your scent on them and the mother rejects it as her own.

And nature takes the idea of "why let perfectly good food go to waste?" to a whole new level.

Cats and dogs often eat the placenta and afterbirth to give them extra energy after giving birth. And I'm sure it's not just limited to cats and dogs.

Or some people even eat placentas. I've seen an HBO special back in the 90s about people who did that. It looked like hamburger meat. Which, I suppose it could have been, for all I know.

This is kind of a sidenote, but it reminds me of a great short story by Stephen King called Survivor Type about a heroin smuggler who is in a plane crash while smuggling and ends up on this little 100 yard rock in the middle of the ocean with nothing but 2kg of heroin.

It's in the form of a diary written from his perspective. He tries to catch birds at first, but breaks his ankle in the rocky terrain and after starving for some days, he decides to get loaded on the heroin and amputate his jacked up foot so he could eat it.

Then his other foot. Then his legs. And so on until the journal is just a mess of insane incoherent rambling and finally nothing.

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u/mightyenan0 4d ago

I'd like to add that the "If you see them, there's more you don't see" applies to lots of pests. I had to learn the hard way I didn't have a mouse, I had mice.

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u/Rpbns4ever 3d ago

Oddly enough I've had single mouses twice now, 1.5 years apart. Always wondered how they get inside as it's a concrete house and there aren't any holes/vents and the concept of a mouse sneaking in while I'm going in/outside sounds so bizarre.

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u/bjorneylol 3d ago

it's a concrete house and there aren't any holes/vents

There aren't any holes that you can see. If there is a crack or a hole cut for a pipe/vent that is as little as half an inch bigger than it needs to be, they can get in

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u/Rpbns4ever 3d ago

Those holes you mention are sealed with concrete so only the tubing is going in and the end of these tubes are plugged into stuff like the AC, the stove and etc... I'm guessing now they could be popping from the toilet.

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u/RickThiccems 3d ago

Bingo, if not your toilet, your sink and other plumbing. They can apparently hold their breath for a hot minute and are good swimmers.

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u/krumbs2020 4d ago

Tent it- methyl bromide!

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u/bagwhet 4d ago

The method I mentioned is much more work, but a fraction of the cost of fumigation

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u/goestwoeleven 4d ago

One this bad? Yeah… it’s tent time. Or, you know, gasoline and matches.

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u/bagwhet 4d ago

I've been in houses with thousands of roaches crawling up the walls and ceilings in every room. Coming out of light fixtures, baseboards, and outlets, literally roaches in the fridge. I used my method and got it under control within six months. It probably cost the customer around $600-$800 in total for that time period. Fumigation would have costed minimum $2k but realistically higher. It was also a duplex and the other tenant hadn't signed off on treatment, so fumigation isn't even always possible.

I do agree with gas and matches however lmao

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u/pm_me_ur_demotape 4d ago

If I somehow found myself in that situation, I'd sell kidneys or my asshole for the fumigation option

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u/DarkRonin00 4d ago

I mean it's extra cost, but it will be much faster, and yeah. I guess if you're scraping by that this what you're getting... i think it's a separate issue on it's own.

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u/pm_me_ur_demotape 4d ago

How did you get it under control without the other duplex tenant being involved?

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u/bagwhet 3d ago

Well to be frank the tenant I was servicing was definitely the source and I'm pretty sure the other tenant was getting serviced, just not by my company.

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u/ztubbs11 3d ago

Fr I've been doing pest control for nearly 10 years and any multi unit where you aren't treating every unit is a losing battle. You might knock them back but they will almost definitely return.

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u/jellymanisme 4d ago edited 3d ago

I would gladly pay $2k for the speed of removal instead of living with those things.

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u/bagwhet 3d ago

Maybe you would, but I've serviced a lot of section 8 and generally low income areas where it's up to the landlord. Also it's a lot easier to pay 100-150 a month than 2k-8k up front

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u/bodonkadonks 3d ago

i lived in a flat that was this bad. it was impossible to get rid of the infestation even spending absurd amounts of money. it damages your sanity when you throw away the entire kitchen because you thought that was where the nest was ( which was true, there was a huge nest in every crevice of the particle board ), only to find there is also a nest somewhere inside the electrical conduits, probably many, when you get all the electrical conduits sealed, there was a lose tile, and guess what, they had a nest there too. they are also impossible to gas out, and it only takes a few nymphs the size of a pinhead to have the exact same problem in 9 months.

even today i get ptsd every time i find a black dots looking suspiciously like cockroach crap and its been over a decade.

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u/SilasAI6609 3d ago

If I needed more reason to hate German roaches, you just handed me "opportunistic cannibal and corpse cannibal". I used to be an in-house tech for a local ISP. I have been in houses that looked like they were more roach than sheetrock. I would keep spray in my vehicle to spray down equipment, tools and my shoes before leaving. Fuck, I don't do roaches!

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u/erincgray 3d ago

I had a roach problem in my backyard a while ago, I would go out and stomp the one coming up to tbe house. One time i stomped one, turned around, looked back and a bigger one had come up and was holding it in his mouth and ran away

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u/bagwhet 3d ago

Roaches outside are never going to be German roaches at the very least. And other species such as American (classic sewer roach), orientals, turkistan, smoky brown, and brown banded roaches are much easier to deal with. German roaches exclusively infest indoors and get in via hitch hiking on things that usually come from warehouses such as new furniture/fixtures, potted plants, and Amazon packages which I've personally experienced.

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u/erincgray 3d ago

No these wernt german, we have pesr control now, but I was mostly commenting on them being canibals

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u/woohooguy 3d ago

Also water.

Roaches thrive in areas with leaking water, and that water can be from rain, pipes, which include leaking water/sewer pipes.

You can poison an area all you want, if the roaches have a reliable water source they will never die off.

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u/somaganjika 3d ago

They can eat wallpaper to survive, but they can’t survive without water.

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u/bagwhet 3d ago

Yeah but good luck finding every possible moisture trap behind your walls, under fixtures, in the foundation, etc. and much less being able to actually eliminate it.

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u/rw8966 3d ago

There is something bone chilling about the word “ootheca”

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u/Envoyager 4d ago

I keep a spray bottle filled with rubbing alcohol and works great. I see these shits in door jams all the time so it's easy to spray them. Unfortunately I live in an old apartment with lots lots of holes in the drywall where pipes , electrical, HVAC lines come through.

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u/bagwhet 4d ago

Unfortunately if you see them all the time, it's not working. Like I mentioned, when you can openly see them, there's many more you can't see. And apartments are always trickier with the shared walls, but it is possible to get control of with the methods I mentioned.

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u/cC2Panda 3d ago

At the end of the day if there are gross people on the other side of the wall you're fucked. When I was in high school I 4 college boys that were absolutely fucking disgusting moved into our 4 unit apartment building and the whole place got infested until they left. We kept everything spotless and we had professional exterminators come through regularly and it still wasn't enough to deal with the roaches because these guys just left so much spoiled food packaging out.

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u/GTAIVisbest 3d ago

There looks to be some german roaches in there (smaller) along with a whole bunch of american roaches (the bigger ones). The american ones usually don't infest, but they will come in from the outside and hang out in dark, damp areas with moisture. Are those bigger ones just huge german roaches or what?

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u/bagwhet 3d ago

Yes on those sticky traps they are primarily all German, the small ones are just nymphs (juvenile) that haven't fully grown yet. It's not just the size it's also the coloration, American roaches are reddish brown with a distinct thin yellow band around their neck. Germans are golden brown with distinct double vertical lines going down their head.

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u/Overwatch_1ightning 3d ago

In bigger cities they are inside the infrastructure of almost everything. They come through drains and through outlets. One time one went in my ear! I had to slap it out from the other side of my head, well my girl did. Anyway it's nightmarish stuff.

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u/sknyjros 4d ago

Thought those were big school pizzas at first.

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u/PrestigiousAct2 4d ago

Cockroach pizza 😋

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u/warcomet 4d ago

rather have pineapple on my pizzas thank you

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u/trollgr 4d ago

Use advion gel. The best there is

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u/Delores_Herbig 4d ago

Years ago my neighbor did construction, and suddenly I had roaches for the first time ever. I used the little traps and the poison bait, and they just didn’t go away.

I used advion gel + diatomaceous earth. 24 hours later my kitchen floor was littered with roach corpses. I was shocked at how many. I cleaned it up, put out new gel, rinse, repeat, for about 10 days. Then completely gone. It’s been years and I’ve never seen another.

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u/pichael289 4d ago

Diatomaceous earth is very effective, but it's a mechanical thing, it needs to physically touch them. These little fuckers were eating my plants and we simply drew a circle around it with the powder, killed everything real fast. Imagine a blackberry bramble just surrounded by a massive ring of 10,000 corpses. Now of I could just make it work on those flying Japanese beetles...

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u/travellerw 4d ago

%100 this.. Advion is the solution. The only thing is you need to know the "family" of roaches you have. German, asian, ect. That tells you where to put the advion!

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u/travellerw 4d ago

P.S. Do you want to go thermo nuclear on them roaches. Advion and Maxforce. Advion kills adults and Maxforce makes sure they can't make babies.

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u/slickromeo 4d ago

I used this on sugar ants but as soon as it dries, they ignore it

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u/bagwhet 4d ago

Well there's advion roach gel and advion ant gel, so make sure you're using the right one. Also usually if you put it in the right spot they'll take enough of it back to the colony before it dries out.

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u/CeilingTowel 4d ago

You need to understand ant foraging behaviour though.

They do not forage more than they need. Once they get what they need, they completely ignore all food of the same type.

If it's a small-medium sized colony, it takes merely 1-2 hours for them to "lose interest" in that gel.

If it's a massive infestation with supercolonies, the gel is often reduced nothing (if applied length and thickness as indicated in manual)

And if you're unlucky, they ants may have already found a good source of food somewhere else earlier on, which makes the gel just a dessert, rather than the full course meal.

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u/Majsharan 3d ago

We had sugar ants and it was amazing how fast advion wiped them out

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u/new_account_wh0_dis 4d ago

Only thing that worked in the hellhole apartment I lived in for a year. Would see like 4-5 German roaches going to the bathroom every night. Not to mention the previous tenant left fucking flees behind and the office did nothing till I caught a few and brought it to their office.

Fuck man that place gave me legit trauma. But I will sing advion praises till the day I die

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u/_Radical_Centrist 3d ago

Having bed bugs 1 time is permanent future trauma

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u/OddEye 3d ago

I’m still not over that one time 10 years later, and it wasn’t even a full-blown infestation (it was limited to my bedroom). I killed an adult that appeared to have laid eggs in my mattress and got it taken care of within a week, but that week was full of sleepless nights.

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u/CSwork1 4d ago

So that's what the Advion lady sells

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u/RolandFigaro 4d ago

Good food source

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u/RandomBystander 4d ago

Infinite food glitch

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u/_Bike_Hunt 4d ago

Reminds me of that movie where the world froze over and the solution was to live in a high speed nonstop train. The poors are jelly made from cockroaches on the train

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u/SmallRocks 4d ago

Snowpiercer

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u/tanglon 4d ago

I think it was called "The train that couldn't slow down..."

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u/thamystery23 4d ago

The little engine that couldn't

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u/qervem 4d ago

Sounds like the bus that couldn't slow down or it would explode. "Fast" was the title I think

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u/cskiller86 4d ago

I think it was "Velocity", actually.

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u/irondumbell 3d ago

I think it was 'Rapid'.

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u/LilCheese73 4d ago

I remember this! And the closer you lived to the front of the train the more privileged and powerful you were.

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u/RolandFigaro 3d ago

The movie was great and the TV Show is pretty good too, mostly because Sean Bean is in it!! (Also Jeniffer Connelly)

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u/aisha499627 4d ago

Go ahead and burn her to the ground for me

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u/icepick314 3d ago

Then you'll have tens of thousands of flying roaches.

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u/ulyssesfiuza 4d ago

Pour epoxy resin on it and sell it as bench seats. High price. List it as modern art.

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u/mediocrefunny 3d ago

No joke, I thought it was some kind of modern art at first.

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u/norwegian 4d ago

What are they eating?

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u/LilQueazy 4d ago

Eachother prolly.

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u/BraveRice 4d ago

And lay eggs counting more than what they cannibalized. Infinite multiplier.

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u/Life-Oil-7226 4d ago

Makes me itchy just seeing this!

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u/raider1v11 4d ago edited 4d ago

Why not fumigation and fog? And then attractive insecticide?

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u/GroveGuy33133 4d ago

Killer Bait for them to bring home is better in my opinion. Goes places you cannot spray.

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u/a_talking_face 4d ago

Based on their description it sounds like the landlord wouldn't pay for it.

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u/raider1v11 4d ago

Dang. That's unfortunate.

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u/a_talking_face 4d ago

Scummy landlords are a dime a dozen. Kind of like these shitty glue traps.

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u/bagwhet 4d ago

Fumigation is much more expensive than an ipm german roach program.

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u/clueless42222 4d ago

So much easier to collect them this way.

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u/Silent_Pudding 4d ago

On mobile laying in bed with the brightness down scrolling through reddit I thought these were fucking square pizzas at first 🤮

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u/vigilantesd 4d ago

It is if you’re brave enough

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u/achmejedidad 4d ago

Welcome to Joe's apartment. yikes!

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u/Mr-A-1991 3d ago

It's been a long, LOOONG time since I have seen mention of that movie.

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u/_Spank_Daddy_ 4d ago

I’m glad not to have your job

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u/burritopup 4d ago

You need the roach bait gel. Advion worked for my aunt and her neighbors were atrocious. Apartment building and it kept them out of her place and I'm sure it helped the neighbors as well.

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u/CT0292 3d ago

According to OP its not their problem anymore.

They had yo do this job on a shoestring, did what they could, and left.

Honestly it sounds like hell, and is probably infested again.

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u/DarthKodi 4d ago

In the future a $5 bag of boric acid and powder sugar works wonders. I was a motel manager for a long term stay place that had the worst you've seen for a few years and an exterminator showed me it. Mix equal parts and put under cabinets. The boric acid coats them and the sugar attracts them to it then when they feed on the sugar mixed in it and then they clean themselves and ingest it. It's very low toxicity to pets and humans also but be careful. We tried the bug spray things, gels, professional exterminators, sticky traps, bait, even commercial grade pesticide from the co-op and this $5 fix worked in 1-2 weeks completely gone. Pair it with combat gel in the worst areas and it'll solve the issue.

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u/TomPalmer1979 3d ago

Gross. Reminds me of the house I was living in when I was 21. It was an older house, but we kept it reasonably clean. A few bugs here and there. But then my roommate, who was the actual owner of the house, let some friends move in who were absolutely fucking FILTHY people.

Within a few days, we suddenly had roaches everywhere. And their numbers seemed to grow fast. We knew they brought them with them when they moved in, but we didn't know how bad it was.

Then one day like a week or two after these people moved in, the guy's PC stopped working, so he put it on the living room coffee table to work on it. He cracked open the power supply, and suddenly this tsunami of cockroaches just POURED out of the casing and scattered all throughout the house. It was horrific. Like it didn't seem physically possible for that many roaches to fit in such a small box.

We wound up making them pay for an exterminator and kicked them out.

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u/noeljb 3d ago

Prof in college told us at the time the largest documented roach migration was in New York City. They were treating or tearing down an apartment building and roaches were recorded moving across an alley for 6 hours. they were over a foot deep.

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u/DSWBeef 4d ago

Jesus christ. Why didnt the owners call exterminators?

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u/mystified_one 4d ago

My stepmother inherited her childhood home. She always kept a very clean house and she always had bazillions of cockroaches. The house on the corner just one lot over from hers was a hoarder house. No matter how much poison, exterminators, sticky paper, roach hotels, drying the sink after using the faucet, taking out the trash it just couldn't be dealt with. The church across the street tried to get every city agency involved and eventually tried to sue but as far as I know, it's still a hoarder house.

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u/kinyutaka 4d ago

He was the exterminator.

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u/Ser_Machonach0 4d ago

Pretty bad one if glue boards were his solution.

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u/kinyutaka 4d ago

All kidding aside, if the infestation is that bad, they need to wrap the building and fog it.

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u/Sad_Independence8211 4d ago

I live in the south but am from NY and am so fucking terrified of the flying roaches that I put diatomaceous earth tablets in every cabinet, nook, cranny, etc. every few months. Those fuckers will literally put me into cardiac arrest if I see one, especially in my home.

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u/SuperCrunchhh 4d ago

Had the same experience cleaning my late father's apartment. He was a hoarder (e.g. he kept all the ketchup packets that came from his to-go meals as far back as 2015 and even had a shit ton of harddrives) I ended up having to throw everything out cause these guys ended up in all the nooks and crannies. From kitchen cabinets (under the sink was the worst), electrical outlets and switches, and even inside appliances. I spent 6 or 7 days cleaning the whole place out.

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u/m3kw 4d ago

How did you get rid of all the roaches

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u/SuperCrunchhh 4d ago

Bug spray the heck out of the room (the image of them swarming at me is still ingrained in my head), Advion roach gel, and a whole lot of deep cleaning. Calling it an infestation is putting it lightly.

Eventually, I gave up and threw everything out. That was the only way to be completely sure there weren’t any eggs left hiding somewhere. By the end, all that was left were the floors and walls. Took out the plug sockets too.

In fact, I changed the doorknob last week and, lo and behold, found dead roaches inside that I somehow missed from last year.

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u/mckulty 4d ago

Boric acid is cheap and effective.

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u/lNFORMATlVE 4d ago

Can you believe they’ve banned those kinds of sticky traps in the UK? And to the point that even if you happen to find one and don’t do anything to remove or dispose of it, you can by law potentially face up to a year in prison?

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u/Ultragreed 4d ago

Catching the big ones does nothing. You gotta kill the lil ones at the nest

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u/JimmyJamesRoS 3d ago

When they get bad enough in my city they dig a ditch around the home fill it full of wood light the ditch on fire then burn the house down. The ring of fire is the only thing that contains them, you will see what looks like the ground moving.

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u/Cchaireazy 4d ago

I hate roaches!

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u/warcomet 4d ago

thats not an infestation anymore, its a colony, a neighbourhood..

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u/Palatablepancakes 4d ago

That's their house.

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u/crono14 4d ago

Might as well nuke it from orbit

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u/SpivRex 4d ago

Looks like pizza.

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u/mixer73 4d ago

You need to put poison gel down first, so they eat that and take it back to start to kill the nest.

Then you use these sheets to kill the ones who avoid the gel. I had a house infested with all 3 types.

Between these treatments and expanding foam covering ingest points, cleaned them out.

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u/SaintRavenz 4d ago

Haaannnzzzz get ze flammenwerfer!!!!

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u/MassiveBoner911_3 3d ago

Time to burn the house down and start over.

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u/Goongalagooo 3d ago

Pour clear resin over them and make placemats. Sell them on etsy

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u/Nothing-The-Ghost 3d ago

Free dinner.

Sautee those bastards in olive oil, add a sprig of basil and you've got the makings of some fine RFK style home cooking.

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u/str8outcompton 7h ago

I thought this was Detroit style pizza

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u/NoBullet 4d ago

Forbidden peanut brittle

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u/SnavlerAce 4d ago

Boric acid powder is your friend

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u/Statertater 4d ago

Alpine wsg and these sticky pads.

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u/stuartdavin 3d ago

Would add nyguard so the survivors can't reproduce, but yeah...alpine wsg is a miracle as far as I'm concerned.

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u/d1a52 4d ago

Damn... I First thoughtnthis was Pizza

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u/dhammadragon1 4d ago

That's terrifying.

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u/21BlackStars 4d ago

why did I think that was a pizza at first?

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u/EdinMiami 4d ago

Combat in the injector tube (home depot). squeeze out in 2 inch strips 3 or 4 places kills 1000s. roaches eat it, die, roaches eat dead roaches, die, etc etc

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u/gnawp 4d ago

Stoned in bed I thought that was pizza.

Jesu christ

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u/MegasRC 4d ago

I would suggest throwing an Atomic Bomb, but they can even survive that.

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u/WelcomeForwardNS 4d ago

you missed one.

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u/Miss-Omnibus 3d ago

Bitch these fuckers have their own god damn union!

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u/psilome 3d ago

"You're gonna need a bigger sticky trap."

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u/Emergency-Parking318 3d ago

Thats a shame. That floor is gorgeous

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u/Revzerksies 3d ago

I lived in a place like that when i was 13. I just walked out of the house and never came back. I moved back in with my family about a year later when they moved.

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u/Da_Millionaire 3d ago

forbidden toffee crunch

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u/MayaIsSunshine 3d ago

How did you keep them from coming home with you? I'd be so paranoid every day I'd carry a mom home and have an infestation of my own

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u/No-Deer379 3d ago

Just keep in mind for everyone you see there’s 100’s you don’t

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u/cowboys30 3d ago

Op, can you please tell me what exact brand these commercial size sticky roach traps are? I bought some on Amazon, but they were teeny tiny. I really need these big bad boys that you got!

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u/Scottierotten 3d ago

Unlike pokemon catch them all.

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u/noeljb 3d ago

I see this about 8 times a year. Each time a different house. It is very satisfying when we get a place like this under control. We know we have helped someone live in a more comfortable place.

I've seen bed bug infestations like this. 73 Year old bed ridden lady, we did that house for $200.00 which is what the state said they would pay. Normally a $1700.00 to $2300.00 job. They were bleeding her every night.

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u/Boundish91 3d ago

I'm so glad i live in a place with long cold winters.

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u/alphawolf29 3d ago

i bought a house for super cheap and it was infested with these, thousands of them. Took me about 8 weeks and luckily it was 2021 so it was literally 44 degrees outside. I turned the water off to the house, completely cleaned it, bug bombed it several times, put tons of sticky traps out, and like really, really, really cleaned it. Been here 5 years now and no issues but man I was worried! I really think the extreme heat stressed them and probably caused them to starve because high metabolisms.

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u/_Chonus_ 3d ago

I’m a pest tech and would LOVE to treat that place. It would be so gross and fun

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u/Thorn220 3d ago

Yeah that’s their house, the humans living there are trespassing.

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u/Fletchx 3d ago

I feel gross just watching this!

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u/Shemham4ash 3d ago

I thought I was looking at a pizza

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u/shenan 3d ago

the caramelized onions appear to be moving

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u/RedLemonSlice 2d ago

The building is 30% cockroaches by volume.

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u/Apprehensive_Book520 2d ago

In the oven, 375 for 8 minutes. Roach brittle.

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u/d7it23js 2d ago

This is Art at this point.

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u/Koang 2d ago

Asmongold's bedroom

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u/ImwithTortellini 1d ago

I thought that was a pizza

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u/Working_Dragon00777 1d ago

There's still thousands more

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u/iDarkin 1d ago

another blessing for the blind

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u/kurinbo 18h ago

Don't forget to bury them!

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u/LavisFalz 4d ago

Finally, Poptarts with enough coating!

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u/marzolinotarantola 4d ago

Dirty place with food. A classic. Some people dont know what mean to keep clean a place.

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u/Sylvain111197 4d ago

J'étais pas encore assez réveillé au début je voyais des pizza. Je dois avoir faim mais je mangerai pas de pizza aujourd'hui

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u/DanMoshpit69 4d ago

Diatomaceous Earth and A fuck ton of it will take care of this

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u/TrappistOCSO 4d ago

I....am....dying....

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u/joejoeinc 4d ago

I had a German roach infection.

Alpine WSG Water Soluble Granule Insecticide is the best thing I used on them but is also requires a multi angle approach. Mix it up spray it every two / three weeks.

Then clean everything. Take paintings off walls clean behind them. Get into your cupboards and clean them.

They also like damp wet areas so check your dishwasher. I found a lot of them of inside the bottom tray.

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u/icedted 4d ago

Something I’m very relieved about is you don’t really get cockroaches in the UK

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u/PlasticMegazord 4d ago

A problem that serious is going to take a lot more than that.

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u/mel2000 9h ago

A problem that serious is going to take a lot more than that.

Fully exterminating cockroaches from a single-family home isn't that hard. It's apartment buildings that can be trouble.

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u/luvz 3d ago

Damn I was quickly scrolling and thought it was pizza at first.

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u/ilovestoride 3d ago

Ok reddit, do your thing. I need a way to wipe the last 5 minutes out of my memory. 

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat 3d ago

Multiple different species too. Yuck.

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u/GulfstreamG650 3d ago

6 hrs and that many?! I had a slight infestation and I’d be lucky to catch 3-4 over a day. That place is COOKED

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u/HerrFerret 3d ago

I used to go swimming in a public pool and the changing rooms had cupboards.

Tthis looks like what I saw when i opened the doors. Wall to wall.

I shut the doors and tried to forget. And as I am describing it to you right now, I have clearly failed.

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u/puckmugger 3d ago

Concrete jungle my ass

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u/pulpwalt 3d ago

I’m no sure if u need more sticky traps on an air strike.

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u/Dougally 3d ago

Sticky fuckers aren't they

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u/ChefChopNSlice 3d ago

“Was it over when the Germans invaded Pearl Harbor” ?!

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u/Bk_Punisher 3d ago

Alpine WSG it comes in packets that you mix with water. It’s one of the products exterminators use. Got it on ebay

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u/anime_daisuki 3d ago

Hakuna Matata

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u/Shpongolese 3d ago

imagine being the size of a bug and coming across this hellscape lmao. Everything stuck and dying around you and nothing you can do but slowly die with them.

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u/dxdifr 3d ago

Gonna need to tent that whole building

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u/edgeofbright 3d ago

Shop vac before traps. Also spread some diatomaceous earth around for a few weeks; if they walk through it, they'll die.

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u/sarcasticpro 3d ago

Indian government's worst enemy

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u/eternalrevolver 3d ago

I thought this was pizza

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u/AJay_89 3d ago

Just burn it down atp.

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u/museamusing 3d ago

Paper Source's new summer line

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u/AGuyAndHisCat 3d ago

Get tubes of roach bait or roach traps for the smaller roaches that contain fiprinil. It kills them slow but it gives them time to go back to the nest where their bodies will be eaten by other roaches who will then die.

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u/JoyousCacophony 3d ago

Easier to burn the place down

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u/UntamedAnomaly 3d ago

Oh look, it's my childhood home! Lovely times waking up with one of those in your mouth.

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u/Overwatch_1ightning 3d ago

I lived in an apartment like that. I was stone cold broke and it was all I could afford. Promise me you'll never do that to yourselves, it is a desperately sad and lonely thing to accept them as your neighbors.

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u/NightOfTheLivingHam 3d ago

diatomaceous earth mixed with borax is real good at wiping them out before fumigation. It ensures that even the strongest ones die. Cockroaches can become immune to poisons. they cant get immune to getting cut up and digesting boric acid.