Rid Yourself of Roaches, Once and For All

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Wanted: Dead

This weeks Target!

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Roaches

 

One Stop Bug Shop Roach Treatment Supplies

(valid only during the Roach targeted pest week)

 

  • Demon WP
  • MaxForce Roach Gell Bait or Avert Dry Flowable Roach Bait
  • Gentrol Point Source
  • Hi-Yield Turf Ranger 20 lb. Bag

If you purchase all the above products during the Roach target week, you will be entitled to $5.00 your total purchase. This offer is not valid at any other time than the time of the targeted specified pest featured for that time period. No substitutions allowed.

Dealing with A Roach Problem at the Home

All life forms evolved through the same cycles, infancy, adolescence, parenthood, and death. Insects are a life form. Roaches are an insect. To completely cure a roach infestation, we need to stop the cycle. The process outlined here is to interrupt that cycle and eradicate the problem and keep it from re-occurring. There are four steps to follow in order to do this and a brief, to-the-point instruction and product reference.

#1. Eliminate the adult and emerged infant Roaches. For this we recommend Demon WP (wettable powder). This product comes either by the 1 lb. jar or a packet of 4 individual portions. To use this product, you will need a pump sprayer. You will fill the pump sprayer half with water and place either 2 tablespoons or 2 of the individual portions (the wrapper will dissolve in the water) into the half-full sprayer and then continue to fill the sprayer up the rest of the way. Re-fasten the lid and shake the sprayer vigorously. This powder will not dissolve in the water, but, rather suspend or hang. Therefore, as you spray, you will need to occasionally shake the sprayer in order to keep the powder suspended rather than let it settle to the bottom. Now, you will want to spray the baseboards and toekick all around the inside perimeter of the home, paying special attention not to puddle the sprayed product, but, instead, to mist it lightly. Be sure to get behind the refridgerator and the dishwasher. When this product dries, it will turn into a fine powder that should be left down as long as possible. The roaches will crawl throught the powder and then take it back to the next where they will groom themselves and others, thereby, cosuming the pesticide and dying. Roaches are cannibals so they in turn will eat the dead ones and inturn contaminating themselves. This should resolve the problem with the existing roaches in a very short period of time. You should also spray around the outside of the home as well creating a barrier to keep them outside. Pay attention to the doors and windows, and the eaves as well as this product is also effective against most other household pests as well. You shouldn't have to retreat with this product for close to three months, and, then you will use only 1 tablespoon or packet for maintenance.

#2.  Since you probably won't want to remove all the dishes and cookware from the cabinets to spray the Demon WP in there, you should consider a good roach bait that has an attractant in it. We recommend the Avert or the Maxforce Roach Gel Bait. You will need to put just a pea-sized drop on each of the hinges in each of the cabinets. The attractant will attract the roach to it and roaches, like birds, will eat the bait and then take it back to their nest and regurgitate it to their baby roaches, thereby eliminating the remaining living roaches in the home.

#3.  Now we've taken the necessary steps to eliminate the existing live roach population in the home. But in order to keep the re-infestation from re-occurring again soon we will have to eliminate the babies that are about to hatch out from the eggs that will be lying out of site. Each egg can produce between 25 and 35 babies. You do the math! How long will it take for the re-infestation to occur! For this, we recommend the Gentrol Point Source. Gentrol Point Source contains what is called an Insect Growth Control. What this does is mutate the hatchling roach early on in his post egg development and sterilizing him and/or her. Now the couple can no longer reproduce. No more eggs. No more roaches!  The easy to use patches are activated by cracking the tube encased in the patch to release the chemical into the fiber part of the patch and then attach it to the side of the area (out of sight, as it doesn't make a great conversational piece) where the control is desired. It is recommended that one patch be placed in each enclosed area throughout the house. If cabinets are being treated, you will want one patch in each enclosed cabinet.

One important note to make here is, if you find a dead roach, get it down the toilet or out of the house. Even dead roaches can carry eggs and sucking them up in the vacuum cleaner or dumped in the garbage can will still hatch out and begin trying to re-establish their infestation.

#4.  Now that we've ridden ourselves of the infestation in the home, we need to complete the treatment by exorcizing them from the vicinity of the home. We recommend Turf Ranger granular lawn pesticide for treatment of the entire yard. The further you push them from the home, the better your chances become of being pest-free in the future! This treatment will take care of most lawn and garden pests such as chinch bugs, fleas, grubs, and ants, as well as the pests that will eventually enter the home as well!