But yet ever time I visit to do work, I find roaches all over the place.

Why are they coming in to the house when there is no food to be found???

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There are several reasons why this happens. First, roaches don’t do much except look for food and nest sites. When food is scarce, they are forced to forage more than they’d like. I suspect this is happening at your second house. When food is plentiful, roaches are able to get their fill when they feel most secure and will spend more time hiding out of sight. But if the local food supply is limited, they’ll have to come out more and forage more so in the end, there is a greater chance of them being seen. Clearly this is happening at your location.

Second, as explained in our GERMAN ROACH CONTROL article, roaches can live 6 months or longer without food. So even if you removed all there was for them to eat, you would still expect to see them foraging around for a good 6-12 months under normal conditions expected life spans.

Third, roaches are cannabilistic. They love to eat other roaches. I’m sure there are lots of dead roaches hidden behind walls and under things which are providing ample nutrition and food for the local population. These carcasses can conceiveably sustain an active roach population indefinitely.

Fourth, roaches will commonly feed on things people don’t consider to be food. These items include fabric (furniture, drapes, carpets, etc), paper products (boxes, paper plates, paper), wall paper, wall paper glue, insulation and basically most any construction component found in most homes these days.

In summary, roaches are great survivors. They’re both adaptable and persistent. They’re able to survive on material commonly found around most any house that most people don’t consider to be “food”. With this in mind, it’s no wonder they can remain active in an abandoned house indefinitely. So if you wish to get rid of them, you’ll need to do some baiting and the ROACH GEL is ideal for this type of problem. Since it’s so much more attractive to what they’ve been forced to feed on, the gel will readily be accepted and in most cases, the population will be knocked out in 3-6 weeks once it works it’s way into the bulk of the population.

German cockroaches can be persistent as explained in our GERMAN COCKROACH CONTROL ARTICLE. The good news is that we now have several products that work well at controlling this pest and it’s really just a matter of what you want to do: spray or bait.

Personally, I’d recommend the baiting process when treating an RV. It’s both easier and less time consuming. More importantly, it seems to work just as well when done properly compared to spraying.

If you set out some MAXFORCE MAGNUM GEL and ADVION ROACH GEL, any german cockroaches in the area will surely find your offering and start to feed on it. Expect these roaches to die in a day. Over the next 2-5 weeks, more will hatch out of egg sacks that have undoubtedly been planted so expect to see them for the next two months. As these young ones mature they’ll actively feed and die so if you keep the bait fresh and unspoiled, you should be able to control this population in less than 2 months time.

One of the great benefits of using the bait is that you really don’t have to do much preparation. It can be applied with most everything left in place so the amount of effort needed to control the problem will be minimal compared to spraying. And as our article explains, roaches will seek out your bait which leads to their death. When it comes to spraying, they typically will avoid the spray so you have to be very thorough and cover everything if you treat that way. With the bait, it’s not nearly as important and yet you still can take care of the problem.

There are many types of bait available these days for roaches. Baiting is both easy and effective. The key is making placements where the roaches are active so they’ll quickly find it and start to feed. Fortunately the latest formulations do a good job of combining active ingredients with attractants that most any roach cannot resist.

The best bait’s we’ve seen work are the MAXFORCE GEL and the PT-300 AVERT GEL listed in our ROACH CONTROL ARTICLE. These two products combined will many times wipe out a roach population in as little as a week. Remember to make placements as explained in our article and I’m sure you’ll get the kind of results you want.

Here are direct links to the products mentioned above:

http://www.germanroaches.com/german/best-roach-killer-bait.html

http://www.bugspray.com/catalog/products/page222.html

http://www.germanroaches.com/roach-control

jonathan

www.bugspray.com

The Roach Gel is a great tool for sensitive or hard to reach areas because it uses food as the attractant that gets the roaches to feed. Remember, roaches are motivated by the need to eat. This drive for food is what make the gel so effective. They’ll easily find your placements and once they eat some they’ll die. Roach Gel is about as easy of a product to use since it doesn’t require you to empty your cabinets nor do you need to spray exactly where the roaches might be hiding. You just have to get it close the roaches will find it as explained in our roach control article. And the featured video in our article shows roaches climbing out of the cabinet to get some as we’re applying it! That’s how much they love it.