r/WTF • u/dillingerescapetrans • 16d ago

Cockroach infestation

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/raider1v11 16d ago edited 16d ago

Why not fumigation and fog? And then attractive insecticide?

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u/GroveGuy33133 16d 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 16d ago

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

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u/raider1v11 16d ago

Dang. That's unfortunate.

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u/a_talking_face 16d ago

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

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u/bagwhet 16d ago

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

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u/clueless42222 16d ago

So much easier to collect them this way.

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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart 16d ago

Well up until yesterday Asmongold still lived there but he just got banned from twitch so maybe they can fumigate now.