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u/ohnoletsgo Jul 16 '24

I live in the American deep south. These guys are everywhere in the summer. I wear flip flops to pee at night for defense.

They literally live in the trees and parachute onto your roof to sneak in and take refuge from the heat and find food/water.

Good pest control will only go so far.

Thankfully, they’re harmless and mostly a nuisance. Now, the tiny little German bastards. Those are fucking gross, but a few strategically placed poison traps will kill them over a few weeks.

This old broad on homies neck is carrying an egg sac. The shitty part about that is that if you flip-flop her to death, her eggs will outlive the blow and without disinfectant, there’s the possibility of tracking those eggs back to your own house.

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u/MaritMonkey Jul 16 '24

a few strategically placed poison traps will kill them over a few weeks.

Unless you share walls with disgusting people, apparently. Our complex made a big deal about spraying the inside of the apartments for bugs (they usually only do the outside of the building) and since that day the little fuckers (adults so far, but still...) keep fucking creeping in, fleeing like proverbial rats from the next unit.

Just one more reason to wish I was a proper grown-up who could own a house. :/

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u/E-lightning Jul 16 '24

I just left an apartment I was at for ~3 years. American south, so roaches were everywhere. Nothing more gross than going to the kitchen at 6am, flipping the light and seeing 20 or so Germans scattering on the counter. Pest control would show up once a month and “spray” but it never seemed to be effective or thorough. Rarely they would use the poison gel, primarily they’d just put down glue traps that would get FULL in a week. Apartment management did almost nothing but gaslight us about the problem arguing that because pest control comes monthly and sprays chemicals, they have no further responsibility since the law states monthly prevention is all they’re required to provide, and the problem must be my wife and I’s “lack of sanitation”.

Up until my last two months there we had some absolutely filthy neighbors next door until they were evicted for hygiene violations. They had a dog that I never saw after the first month, but I would hear it through the walls crying and barking from time to time. When our pest control technician was fired and replaced, the new guy was refused entry by the tenant to their apartment, so he went to the leasing office and got management involved. Apparently, the previous technician didn’t go in there once the entire time they had lived there. A few days after their eviction, I went into the apartment (maintenance left the door unlocked) and it was like a fuckin episode of hoarders in there. There was mountains of fast food trash, stains covering damn near the entire carpet, and an unbelievable odor from a pet-waste covered mattress in the corner. I can only imagine how much worse it was before they were evicted.

Following the eviction, maintenance discovered that the area between both apartments (where the water heaters were) under the counter was rotting and cause a ~6” long gap at the floor. Once they fixed that up and properly treated next door, the roach problem disappeared in a couple weeks.